AFAIK, suggested results are generated by going through what users have already searched for. It's quite likely that a pre-beta search engine, which has so far been prominently used by Microsoft employees or partners would have a "bias" towards Windows.
Looks like most of these people have been looking for Linux and Windows comparisons instead trying to download Linux.
the day the majority become people like you who see even a complaint about business practices of a few companies as a sign of dissent and unpatriotic (maybe un-American) behavior and recommend complainer to be banished.
Maybe I shouldn't rely on any sort of Library? Bundle my own browser, GUI toolkit, Shell? audio/video codecs? Hell, how about my own HAL?
Do you know a how long it takes to get permission to use or even link users to download a piece of software? So many potential liability issues that a multibillion dollar product has to deal with?
Idealist heaven for you as it might be, it's pure hell for the developers.
Why remove the core libraries? We develop several applications which rely on it, and users will blame us if app doesn't work out of the box. FWIW, I don't care what browser comes with Windows as long as it comes with one.
Microsoft's apologists have been saying for years that this was only because Windows' market share made it the more attractive target. But Apple's share of the desktop market has skyrocketed recently to 15% without any outbreaks of viruses targeting the Macintosh.
20000 infections that fast is not a small number. The bad guys are just beginning to discover this new "market" and adapting to it. The biggest threat to security have always been users, a cross-platform element. I just upgraded a friend's Macbook to Leopard, he has never installed Apple updates, security patches or otherwise. Same for Office for Mac updates. Was he in trouble? Not yet. Could he be if the bad guys wanted? Of course. And there are millions out there like this friend of mine.
If Adobe is finally taking Linux seriously, it's because they are afraid of Microsoft. Best outcome we can have is Adobe and MS each taking a 50% share of this market. We'll reap the benefits, regardless of OS of choice.
Why are we cutting sciences yet throwing hundreds of billions of dollars towards the military still...
Because the military industry has lobbyists working 24/7 trying to pass legislation in their favor. Maybe us scientists (or those who care for science) should get our act together and hire our own lobbyists. No, I'm not kidding. Since it seems like we fail to bring substantial "change" to the system, let's just play their game.
A CNBC report out today appears to put to rest continued rumors of significant Microsoft layoffs coming this month.
In recent weeks, two blogs -- Mini-Microsoft and Fudzilla -- have both reported that Microsoft is preparing to lay off large numbers of employees before the company announces its second quarter earnings on Jan. 22.
Neither blogger quoted inside sources and both later backtracked on their reports.
This is probably more than Windows booting up and includes the time to fire up the relevant applications (email, office, all custom apps, etc.) and the time these applications take to sync with the server which could take a while due to mass of clients connecting at the beginning of the workday.
1. Send husband's hard-earned money to your own foreign account
2. Ignore warnings and claim you're helping a Nigerian prince
3. Play victim and make it public
4....
5. Profit!
If you bother to read the report (yeah I know this is Slashdot) you'd get the answer:
We divided reported malfunctions into the following problem categories:
Software / Features. Includes operating system lockups, frozen applications, voice
recognition software, etc.
Battery Problems. Primarily batteries that fail to hold a charge.
Bluetooth / Camera / Accessories. Includes functional components that are part of the
handset.
Antenna / Hardware / Casing. Includes all physical integrity issues.
Screen / Keypad / Touchpad. Includes burn-in, screen spots, dead pixels, and touch
screen dead spots.
Call Issues. Includes outbound calling, call reception, poor call quality, dropped calls
and microphone issues.
Power Issues. Includes power connectors, powering on/off, and inability to stay on.
Other. Other issues, not categorized above.
And, regarding the level of care, and how accident prone iPhones are:
As it turns out, an iPhone user is more than twice as likely to experience an iPhone failure due to
accidental damage than through a handset malfunction. An astounding 12% of iPhone owners
have reported a failure due to accidental damage at the 1 year mark, and nearly a quarter of all
iPhone owners can be expected to have their phone fail from an accident by the end of 2 years.
This accident rate is higher than the 9% accident rate reported on all other phones by one-third...
Personally, I see and use the iPhone as an appliance, not as a platform, which is what a real Smartphone is. iPhone is not in the same league, and comparisons of this kind, while informative to some extent fail to provide any significant insights.
It wasn't that long ago that all of those things you mention were un-Christian.
And the un-Christian part has not changed much. What has changed is Christianity being separated from Government. Put them in charge and they'll bring back the dark ages.
Yes, and China is threatening the USA with weapons handed to them by Nixon [washingtonpost.com], right?
I did not link to the famous happy handshake picture of Rumsfeld and Saddam. If you only took a few minutes and read the article I linked to, FTA: But it was Donald Rumsfeld's trip to Baghdad which opened of the floodgates during 1985-90 for lucrative U.S. weapons exports--some $1.5 billion worth-- including chemical/biological and nuclear weapons equipment and technology, along with critical components for missile delivery systems for all of the above. According to a 1994 GAO Letter Report (GAO/NSIAD-94-98) some 771 weapons export licenses for Iraq were approved during this six year period....not by our European allies, but by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Russians sold weapons to both Iran as Iraq, as they always do profit from both sides of a conflict (like current situation of threatening veto of the UNSC sanctions against Iran to get points from US and at the same time selling reactor tech for 5 times the price to Iran).
Muslim religious principles are very mixed, they don't have a Pope to declare what is acceptable or not.
Actually, in Iran there is an ultimate power (representative of God on earth) and that's the leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, who already issued a Fatwa against development of nuclear weapons, and since he has the final word on every matter nobody dares to fuck with him.
The Quran has both commandments that can be interpreted as "death to Israel" and commandments that say that Jews and Christians should be respected because they worship the same God as Muslims.
If Iran really wanted to kill Jews, they would have begun by thousands of Jews who live in Iran, probably the Jewish MP would be first. When I lived there, we had Jewish neighbors, and nobody treated them any differently. We did talk and make jokes about money sometimes, but we all laughed it out in a friendly manner! There is MUCH MORE hate between Sunni and Shia than between Islam and other Abrahamic religions. If Jews want to be worried about Islam, it's the Wahhabi Sunnis of Saudi Arabia (eg. Bin Laden) that they should watch.
Actually, the second most sacred Islamic religious site is Medina, but I guess you are right, they wouldn't bomb Jerusalem, their third holiest site. Can't say the same about Tel Aviv and a number of other Israeli cities, though...
True, though in Iranian view (Shia vs Sunni) many consider Hijaz (Mecca, Medina, etc.) to be first and Palestine to be second.
Also, Israel is not big enough to nuke small parts of it (Jerusalem-Tel Aviv is what? 70Kms?), and Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious monuments are spread all across the place.
For several years Saddam bombed Iran (military and civilians) with Chemical weapons, handed to him by Rumsfeld. Iran demonstrated the capability to make similar weapons but emphasized that use of WMDs even in retaliation to enemy's action is against religious principals.
Now you are suggesting that Iran would nuke the second most sacred Islamic religious site after Mecca in a suicidal mission?!!
I also argued against the existence of any suicidal tendencies among Iranian leaders in previous comments which hopefully will shed some light on your distorted view of reality.
Slashdot Mirror
That is all.
If an alien race should contact Earth, I think our best bet would be to at least assume that they have peaceful intentions.
Or they could just be assholes.
AFAIK, suggested results are generated by going through what users have already searched for. It's quite likely that a pre-beta search engine, which has so far been prominently used by Microsoft employees or partners would have a "bias" towards Windows.
Looks like most of these people have been looking for Linux and Windows comparisons instead trying to download Linux.
the day the majority become people like you who see even a complaint about business practices of a few companies as a sign of dissent and unpatriotic (maybe un-American) behavior and recommend complainer to be banished.
time to exact a settlement from the Canadians.
Um... how about a new White House paint job?
ASCAP has been in this much much longer than RIAA.
I know of a 100% guaranteed method. :)
Why not do the behavior detection on first instance a floppy disk was used?
More of a POC at the moment, but at least there's hope.
Maybe I shouldn't rely on any sort of Library? Bundle my own browser, GUI toolkit, Shell? audio/video codecs? Hell, how about my own HAL?
Do you know a how long it takes to get permission to use or even link users to download a piece of software? So many potential liability issues that a multibillion dollar product has to deal with?
Idealist heaven for you as it might be, it's pure hell for the developers.
Why remove the core libraries? We develop several applications which rely on it, and users will blame us if app doesn't work out of the box. FWIW, I don't care what browser comes with Windows as long as it comes with one.
the kind of pet I'll happily adopt and care for with "love".
But Apple's share of the desktop market has skyrocketed recently to 15%
Inaccurate, close to 10%.
Microsoft's apologists have been saying for years that this was only because Windows' market share made it the more attractive target. But Apple's share of the desktop market has skyrocketed recently to 15% without any outbreaks of viruses targeting the Macintosh.
Really?!!
20000 infections that fast is not a small number. The bad guys are just beginning to discover this new "market" and adapting to it. The biggest threat to security have always been users, a cross-platform element. I just upgraded a friend's Macbook to Leopard, he has never installed Apple updates, security patches or otherwise. Same for Office for Mac updates. Was he in trouble? Not yet. Could he be if the bad guys wanted? Of course.
And there are millions out there like this friend of mine.
If Adobe is finally taking Linux seriously, it's because they are afraid of Microsoft. Best outcome we can have is Adobe and MS each taking a 50% share of this market. We'll reap the benefits, regardless of OS of choice.
Why are we cutting sciences yet throwing hundreds of billions of dollars towards the military still...
Because the military industry has lobbyists working 24/7 trying to pass legislation in their favor. Maybe us scientists (or those who care for science) should get our act together and hire our own lobbyists. No, I'm not kidding. Since it seems like we fail to bring substantial "change" to the system, let's just play their game.
is looking out her window with anxiety, 'perparing' to obtain her PhD in Igneous petrology.
A CNBC report out today appears to put to rest continued rumors of significant Microsoft layoffs coming this month.
In recent weeks, two blogs -- Mini-Microsoft and Fudzilla -- have both reported that Microsoft is preparing to lay off large numbers of employees before the company announces its second quarter earnings on Jan. 22.
Neither blogger quoted inside sources and both later backtracked on their reports.
Here is source of the trouble.
This is probably more than Windows booting up and includes the time to fire up the relevant applications (email, office, all custom apps, etc.) and the time these applications take to sync with the server which could take a while due to mass of clients connecting at the beginning of the workday.
1. Send husband's hard-earned money to your own foreign account ...
2. Ignore warnings and claim you're helping a Nigerian prince
3. Play victim and make it public
4.
5. Profit!
We divided reported malfunctions into the following problem categories:
And, regarding the level of care, and how accident prone iPhones are:
As it turns out, an iPhone user is more than twice as likely to experience an iPhone failure due to accidental damage than through a handset malfunction. An astounding 12% of iPhone owners have reported a failure due to accidental damage at the 1 year mark, and nearly a quarter of all iPhone owners can be expected to have their phone fail from an accident by the end of 2 years. This accident rate is higher than the 9% accident rate reported on all other phones by one-third...
Personally, I see and use the iPhone as an appliance, not as a platform, which is what a real Smartphone is. iPhone is not in the same league, and comparisons of this kind, while informative to some extent fail to provide any significant insights.
It wasn't that long ago that all of those things you mention were un-Christian.
And the un-Christian part has not changed much. What has changed is Christianity being separated from Government. Put them in charge and they'll bring back the dark ages.
Yes, and China is threatening the USA with weapons handed to them by Nixon [washingtonpost.com], right?
I did not link to the famous happy handshake picture of Rumsfeld and Saddam. If you only took a few minutes and read the article I linked to, FTA:
But it was Donald Rumsfeld's trip to Baghdad which opened of the floodgates during 1985-90 for lucrative U.S. weapons exports--some $1.5 billion worth-- including chemical/biological and nuclear weapons equipment and technology, along with critical components for missile delivery systems for all of the above. According to a 1994 GAO Letter Report (GAO/NSIAD-94-98) some 771 weapons export licenses for Iraq were approved during this six year period....not by our European allies, but by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Russians sold weapons to both Iran as Iraq, as they always do profit from both sides of a conflict (like current situation of threatening veto of the UNSC sanctions against Iran to get points from US and at the same time selling reactor tech for 5 times the price to Iran).
Muslim religious principles are very mixed, they don't have a Pope to declare what is acceptable or not.
Actually, in Iran there is an ultimate power (representative of God on earth) and that's the leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, who already issued a Fatwa against development of nuclear weapons, and since he has the final word on every matter nobody dares to fuck with him.
The Quran has both commandments that can be interpreted as "death to Israel" and commandments that say that Jews and Christians should be respected because they worship the same God as Muslims.
If Iran really wanted to kill Jews, they would have begun by thousands of Jews who live in Iran, probably the Jewish MP would be first. When I lived there, we had Jewish neighbors, and nobody treated them any differently. We did talk and make jokes about money sometimes, but we all laughed it out in a friendly manner! There is MUCH MORE hate between Sunni and Shia than between Islam and other Abrahamic religions. If Jews want to be worried about Islam, it's the Wahhabi Sunnis of Saudi Arabia (eg. Bin Laden) that they should watch.
Actually, the second most sacred Islamic religious site is Medina, but I guess you are right, they wouldn't bomb Jerusalem, their third holiest site. Can't say the same about Tel Aviv and a number of other Israeli cities, though...
True, though in Iranian view (Shia vs Sunni) many consider Hijaz (Mecca, Medina, etc.) to be first and Palestine to be second.
Also, Israel is not big enough to nuke small parts of it (Jerusalem-Tel Aviv is what? 70Kms?), and Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious monuments are spread all across the place.
For several years Saddam bombed Iran (military and civilians) with Chemical weapons, handed to him by Rumsfeld. Iran demonstrated the capability to make similar weapons but emphasized that use of WMDs even in retaliation to enemy's action is against religious principals.
Now you are suggesting that Iran would nuke the second most sacred Islamic religious site after Mecca in a suicidal mission?!!
I also argued against the existence of any suicidal tendencies among Iranian leaders in previous comments which hopefully will shed some light on your distorted view of reality.
Time to invade
Time to Liberate(TM).