That is phenomenally bass-ackwards. Run Linux as the core, and run Windows in a VM for they very few apps that you need that don't run on Linux.
Very few!? Try MOST. None of my professional software runs natively on Linux. I won't even go into games.
I would love to permanently dump M$ but Linux isn't quite there yet to be my primary operating system. Still, I will keep playing with Linux.
Maybe you like the constant danger of a system wide crash that doing it your way provides
I have had Linux crash where a reboot was required the same as windows. It is a rarity but definitely possible. Windows doesn't crash on me all that often.
Whenever I ask people why they use Windows instead of Linux, they always cite backwards compatibility with obsolete applications.
What makes an application "obsolete"? The answer usually is the publisher turned the crank to force everyone to buy their new stuff. A lot of times, the new stuff is crap. I still use Quicken 2005 because the new versions are not any better.
Incidentally, one of the apps that just does not have a Linux equivalent is Quicken. Last time I looked, this app doesn't run in Wine.
If I could run all of my critical apps in Linux, I would permanently switch. For now, I either run Linux in a virtual machine or swap hard drives.
If you're talking plain Java vs Python [debian.org], Java looks to be quite a bit faster
The first link above refers to Java used with "Hotspot" and it is really fast. If you select the Java Xint, they are a lot closer although Java is still faster. But that "Hotspot" option looks to me to provide about a 10x speed improvement over plain interpreted Java. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=javaxint&lang2=java&box=1
If Python were to do something similar, I would expect a significant improvement in its performance too.
Exactly how many fucking many processes does Norton need to have running at one time???
So many that they are running out of Process ID numbers. There is a move afoot to ditch the old PIDv4 standard and adopt the new PIDv6 standard. This will a LOT more Norton processes to run, thus enhancing security.
I never got in trouble as a kid. but then I was aware of my location and had a scanner in my pocket with a earphone in all the time. Friends learned that if I left a party or gathering, they need to as well.
I saw this thing today while trying to fix an ailing Vista laptop. WTF!? And I couldn't get rid of it. I was thinking that my GF's son somehow got this thing installed but maybe it wasn't his fault afterall.
God, I hate Microsoft.
The Great Underground Empire has recently fallen and the land is in disarray. The Royal Treasury has been sacked. The stock market has collapsed, leading even mighty FrobozzCo International to fire employees from throughout its subsidiaries. A craze of treasure-hunting has swept through the remnants of the Great Underground Empire...
Maybe this is like those stings where the police dupe some idiot criminals to show up somewhere under the guise of getting some free stuff, then slap the cuffs on 'em. Are they logging the IP of people who go to that website which in turn is compared against a list of people they want to talk to? Why else would they do something like this?
No because he claims it is 12 times more efficient. If that is true, you would have work 12 times harder to listen to what would get radiated anyway. This guy has figured out a way to patent a matching network.
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That is phenomenally bass-ackwards. Run Linux as the core, and run Windows in a VM for they very few apps that you need that don't run on Linux.
Very few!? Try MOST. None of my professional software runs natively on Linux. I won't even go into games.
I would love to permanently dump M$ but Linux isn't quite there yet to be my primary operating system. Still, I will keep playing with Linux.
Maybe you like the constant danger of a system wide crash that doing it your way provides
I have had Linux crash where a reboot was required the same as windows. It is a rarity but definitely possible. Windows doesn't crash on me all that often.
Whenever I ask people why they use Windows instead of Linux, they always cite backwards compatibility with obsolete applications.
What makes an application "obsolete"? The answer usually is the publisher turned the crank to force everyone to buy their new stuff. A lot of times, the new stuff is crap. I still use Quicken 2005 because the new versions are not any better.
Incidentally, one of the apps that just does not have a Linux equivalent is Quicken. Last time I looked, this app doesn't run in Wine.
If I could run all of my critical apps in Linux, I would permanently switch. For now, I either run Linux in a virtual machine or swap hard drives.
If you're talking plain Java vs Python [debian.org], Java looks to be quite a bit faster
The first link above refers to Java used with "Hotspot" and it is really fast. If you select the Java Xint, they are a lot closer although Java is still faster. But that "Hotspot" option looks to me to provide about a 10x speed improvement over plain interpreted Java. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=javaxint&lang2=java&box=1 If Python were to do something similar, I would expect a significant improvement in its performance too.
It is like these guys are trying to patent strcat
Something just isn't right.
Exactly how many fucking many processes does Norton need to have running at one time???
So many that they are running out of Process ID numbers. There is a move afoot to ditch the old PIDv4 standard and adopt the new PIDv6 standard. This will a LOT more Norton processes to run, thus enhancing security.
Note, by the way, that Ms, like pretty much all the States (and unlike the Federal government), are required to balance their budgets.
Only up to the point that the person doing the counting runs out of fingers and toes.
For some reason my 3 char password just isn't enough anymore.
Would that be "CTRL+ALT+DEL"?
That is why I favor the 'hitman" option rather than the 'bounty' option. That pretty much cancels out #5.
I never got in trouble as a kid. but then I was aware of my location and had a scanner in my pocket with a earphone in all the time. Friends learned that if I left a party or gathering, they need to as well.
But I bet you didn't leave with any GIRLS.
5 bucks? That's the best you can do?
And you can steal his CC info.
I saw this thing today while trying to fix an ailing Vista laptop. WTF!? And I couldn't get rid of it. I was thinking that my GF's son somehow got this thing installed but maybe it wasn't his fault afterall. God, I hate Microsoft.
By that logic Bush senior is windows 2000. I don't think you thought this through.
No, Bush #1 was WindowsME
Nope Dan Quayle was Windows ME.
Well, by that logic (if we are going into vice-presidents), Dick Cheney would have to be Vista Home Basic.
By that logic Bush senior is windows 2000. I don't think you thought this through.
No, Bush #1 was WindowsME
It is just like Vista but with some improvements that should be in Vista that M$ is going make people pay for.
It seems that Windows 7 is still a lot like Vista to me.
5% of all music downloads are overpriced.
The Great Underground Empire has recently fallen and the land is in disarray. The Royal Treasury has been sacked. The stock market has collapsed, leading even mighty FrobozzCo International to fire employees from throughout its subsidiaries. A craze of treasure-hunting has swept through the remnants of the Great Underground Empire...
Sounds a bit too much like reality to me.
Best to drop out now.
Didn't some guy that "invented" an operating system after learning BASIC do that?
Maybe this is like those stings where the police dupe some idiot criminals to show up somewhere under the guise of getting some free stuff, then slap the cuffs on 'em. Are they logging the IP of people who go to that website which in turn is compared against a list of people they want to talk to? Why else would they do something like this?
just another log on the fire.
No because he claims it is 12 times more efficient. If that is true, you would have work 12 times harder to listen to what would get radiated anyway. This guy has figured out a way to patent a matching network.
I think this joker hit the '+' button when he meant to hit the '-' button. 12 times. I don't think so.
I think I want a leisure suit made out of this crap!
Ballmer: Perhaps you would be interested in this "Vista Capable" computer?