I think abacuses (abacii?) might be more common in China than calculators. Especially outside of large cities, shops usually will use an abacus instead of electronic devices. It's pretty cool, they can do calculations on that thing way faster than I can on a calculator.
As pointed out earlier, apparently the source code won't be released but it is open-source. Interesting.
Anyways, also FTFA:
Still, around 1 percent of accepted articles contain manipulated images that do significantly affect the results, said executive editor Mike Rossner. Those papers get rejected.
This is because MS has been making more secure software. Vista will be bulletproof and completely hacker-proof, even more so than the ultra-secure XP.
*runs*
1 as an input value is one of those classic boundary conditions that developers should always specifically test against
Looking at it another way, I think it's likely that whoever wrote the code just innocently forgot to check that boundary case. Even Microsoft makes mistakes!
In the tests run in its lab, Microsoft found that most modern commercial Linux distributions could be installed successfully on systems with a Pentium processor, with 64MB of RAM and a minimum of 2GB of hard disk space.
It goes on to say that for multimedia on Linux, a Pentium II and 64MB of RAM is needed. A couple of lines below that, it says that Windows XP requires a minimum of 128MB. So Linux has less system requirements... what's the big deal?
Is there any mention made about unicode support? I know that WinZip is out of the question for me because I can't compress anything with Chinese filenames with it. They'll either not work at all, or become compressed but the filenames will turn into garbage. Even though the data stays intact, it doesn't help much if it's a binary and has no intelligible filename.
I've been using 7-Zip for this reason, and also because it compresses well while also working on Windows and Linux.
Ok, I'm Chinese and thus I'm supposed to hate Japs, but what you wrote is just ridiculous. What makes you think Japan has more socially inept people than the US? What enables you to make broad, sweeping generalizations like this?
When a Japanese person does not like you, they don't get angry at you and start an argument. Instead, they just shut you out and ignore you. For example:- Two coworkers in my department had a disagreement and instead of work through it like normal adults they sent hate mail to each other whilst they sat quiety in seats next to each other... pretending the other person didn't exist.
So... let's see. They (1) don't get angry (2) don't start an argument and (3) pretend the other doesn't exist. Yet they send hate mail to each other, which contradicts all three. Which am I supposed to believe?
There's no way they got that right. Maybe 10 Gbps? I had Windows running on a Pentium at 166 MHz easily pushing upwards of 50 Mbps on a Fast Ethernet link.
I installed the plugin from their site, and it crashed the browser. Firefox reported Rhapsody as having been installed when I opened it back up, though, so I kept going.
After installing the plugin, I went to the Rhapsody site to try to sign up. So I clicked the "Sign Up" button, which immediately lowered my system's volume to about half its original level (I was listening to music on amaroK).
Needless to say, I didn't sign up. Why should this stupid plugin mess with my volume settings?
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Clueless people like the grad students you mentioned are going to get owned no matter what they use, unless it's an unplugged doorstop. I think Linux does offer greater inherent security than Windows though: if I'm using Windows, after a couple of months I am bound to have at least a little bit of crapware installed, while on Linux, that's not going to happen. I'm pretty sure most of the/. crowd won't just give the root password to any dialog that requests it, so at least for this group of people (obviously not representative of people in general), I think that Linux/Mac OS offers greater security.
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It would be pretty funny if the Alexa crap didn't come with Windows and actually infected the machine before they could run the tests. I don't recall Alexa being installed with Windows when I used Windows 2000.
Windows 2000/XP windows drag smoothly for me. I've only seen a flicker when video drivers weren't properly installed, or when I used a ~1991 1 MB VGA card.
Fortunately, the developers of Firefox are proabably not going to run off next year and start working on a different product which will turn out to suck but somehow gain an obscenely large market share anyway.
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I think abacuses (abacii?) might be more common in China than calculators. Especially outside of large cities, shops usually will use an abacus instead of electronic devices. It's pretty cool, they can do calculations on that thing way faster than I can on a calculator.
I think it'd be more appropriate if he froze and then crashed.
And there are cases when there were MS security bugs known for years but... wait, never got fixed after public disclosure.
As pointed out earlier, apparently the source code won't be released but it is open-source. Interesting.
Anyways, also FTFA:
So do they get accepted or rejected?
Am I going to have to find my old MS-DOS 3.3 disks for this?
My Fedora system was patched around noon yesterday, a day before this article came out.
This is because MS has been making more secure software. Vista will be bulletproof and completely hacker-proof, even more so than the ultra-secure XP. *runs*
Is that Lynx or Linux?
Looking at it another way, I think it's likely that whoever wrote the code just innocently forgot to check that boundary case. Even Microsoft makes mistakes!
What's the point of this article? From TFA:
It goes on to say that for multimedia on Linux, a Pentium II and 64MB of RAM is needed. A couple of lines below that, it says that Windows XP requires a minimum of 128MB. So Linux has less system requirements... what's the big deal?
Is there any mention made about unicode support? I know that WinZip is out of the question for me because I can't compress anything with Chinese filenames with it. They'll either not work at all, or become compressed but the filenames will turn into garbage. Even though the data stays intact, it doesn't help much if it's a binary and has no intelligible filename.
I've been using 7-Zip for this reason, and also because it compresses well while also working on Windows and Linux.
Ok, I'm Chinese and thus I'm supposed to hate Japs, but what you wrote is just ridiculous. What makes you think Japan has more socially inept people than the US? What enables you to make broad, sweeping generalizations like this?
When a Japanese person does not like you, they don't get angry at you and start an argument. Instead, they just shut you out and ignore you. For example:- Two coworkers in my department had a disagreement and instead of work through it like normal adults they sent hate mail to each other whilst they sat quiety in seats next to each other... pretending the other person didn't exist.
So... let's see. They (1) don't get angry (2) don't start an argument and (3) pretend the other doesn't exist. Yet they send hate mail to each other, which contradicts all three. Which am I supposed to believe?
Looks like you have just Slashdotted yourself.
Also, your numbers don't mean a thing without the number of legit emails passed and the number of legit emails falsely identified as spam.
In Soviet Russia, games kill YOU!
Err...
There's no way they got that right. Maybe 10 Gbps? I had Windows running on a Pentium at 166 MHz easily pushing upwards of 50 Mbps on a Fast Ethernet link.
Win 98, not 95 =)
I installed the plugin from their site, and it crashed the browser. Firefox reported Rhapsody as having been installed when I opened it back up, though, so I kept going.
After installing the plugin, I went to the Rhapsody site to try to sign up. So I clicked the "Sign Up" button, which immediately lowered my system's volume to about half its original level (I was listening to music on amaroK).
Needless to say, I didn't sign up. Why should this stupid plugin mess with my volume settings?
You also misspelled "worse."
Clueless people like the grad students you mentioned are going to get owned no matter what they use, unless it's an unplugged doorstop. I think Linux does offer greater inherent security than Windows though: if I'm using Windows, after a couple of months I am bound to have at least a little bit of crapware installed, while on Linux, that's not going to happen. I'm pretty sure most of the /. crowd won't just give the root password to any dialog that requests it, so at least for this group of people (obviously not representative of people in general), I think that Linux/Mac OS offers greater security.
It would be pretty funny if the Alexa crap didn't come with Windows and actually infected the machine before they could run the tests. I don't recall Alexa being installed with Windows when I used Windows 2000.
I think a more appropriate name would be "Aussie Risk."
BOTH operating systems support killing and restarting MOST services without taking down the entire computer, as well as OSX.
You can kill and restart OSX from within Windows and Linux? That is so cool! =)
Windows 2000/XP windows drag smoothly for me. I've only seen a flicker when video drivers weren't properly installed, or when I used a ~1991 1 MB VGA card.
Fortunately, the developers of Firefox are proabably not going to run off next year and start working on a different product which will turn out to suck but somehow gain an obscenely large market share anyway.
Only a true /.er would spell "underwear" "underware."