What sort of crapware could you put on Linux? A time-limited version of Open Office? A version of Clam AV with automatic updates turned off? A three-level version of Bubble Bobble?
Why would you bother?
You can install Windows Vista along with Linux, and make the user pay to get rid of Vista.
I'm pretty sure he knows more methods to compromise the OS through these browsers. Most likly he'll use those methods at next years' pwn2own. Same could be said about Charlie Miller.
And also consider - ext4 is relatively new, so it will improve over time. If you want stability stick to ext3 or ext2.
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The filesystem was first released sometime towards the end of December 2008. The Linux distros that incorporated it, gave it as an option, but the default for/root and/home was always EXT3.
In addition, this problem is not a week old like the article states. People have been discussing this problem on forums ever since mid-January, when the benchmarks for EXT4 were published and several people decided to try it out to see how it fares. I have been using EXT4 for my/root partition since January. Fortunately I haven't had any data loss, but if I do end up losing some data, I'd understand that since I have been using a brand new file-system which has not been thoroughly tested by users, nor has it been used on any servers that I know of.
Whenever there is a talk about superconductors, the first question that gets asked is at what temperature would we get resistance free material. Its application in gadgets, or even the funding for in depth study of Type 1.5 superconductors would hinge around that question.
Deadly thing a bribe is, and burned will you be by it. Your cabinet position you will lose and charged for corruption you shall be. Your ally is the force, but abusing it will make the dark side grow stronger. Consume you, it will.
And you won't have to imagine someone without their clothes. You can just turn on the mode which shows everyone like they would sans theirs clothes. And if you get caught doing that, you also risk getting killed, in which case you will not only be able to see dead people, you'll become one with them. Yippie.
The purpose of putting the term "sixth sense" in quotes tells you that it clearly isn't a sixth sense in literal terms. They are just calling it so because they couldn't find any other term which would make people sit through the whole demo, which btw was ultra-sleek.
Aw come on now. If you call this childish, what would you say to that Cat Agreeing to an EULA story that got nearly 1000 replies. Internet forums aren't the top priority for anyone seeking highly intellectual arguments or discussions.
Once the records update after the survey, the couple would be watching ads for assault rifles for the next few months.
"Did the TV show you ads for baby products after your baby just died? Would you like to blast the crap out of it? Why not try our.xx caliber automatic which fires 200 rounds per second...."
Schools are not run based on scientific principles, they don't take into account the students interest or student feedback
There is no proven scientific principle of school running. There have been several suggestions, psychoanalysis of students/teachers, reward systems, etc., but the state of schooling doesn't seem to show any dramatic change.
One thing I can say for sure is that level of comprehension among students who are actually interested in the subjects has gotten much better because of the availability of simulation demos. I'd have understood conics much better in school if I had easy access to graphing programs (back in 94).
Although Gamestop already "ruffled features" in the dev and distribution communities...
Forget about the ruffled feathers in the developers and distributors' community - Amazon folks should be more worried about the Furious Girlfriends Association who would hate to see their bf get cheaper versions of games they would play for the next 2 months.
Oftentimes there are patents that cover several technologies - a patent in medical imaging can cover the field of medicine, engineering and sometimes even natural sciences. There will always be an uncertainty in deciding the shelf life of any technology and even more difficult in determining how long before it gets obsolete in a given discipline.
The duration of a given patent is an issue best left alone. However it would be nice if we make the process a little faster and have some way to filter out patents that are in no way innovative.
There will be need for high clock speeds in some applications, while there will be a need for low power consumption in other applications. There will always be a competition in both those areas. But at present it seems that there is more requirement for power efficient processors because of rise in cell phones and hand held devices like internet tablets and PSPs and so on. The demand for high speed is in fields that are computationally intensive and oftentimes memory intensive.
Bloody KDE users, blaming everything on Terminal. This article explicitly states that its caused by a gaming Konsole. Don't blame Gnome by calling it a Terminal disease;-)
From economics, lets turn our attention to optimizing this toy of ours. The thing with SSDs is that they don't have a read/write head to worry about. This means that no matter where the data is stored in the device, all we need to do is specify the fetch location and the logic circuits select that block to extract the data from desired location. From what I've heard, the SSDs have an algorithm to actually assign different blocks to store the data so that the memory cells in a single locations aren't overused.
The more people buy it the sooner it will get under $50. But considering the recent financial conditions, people would rather let others buy the SSD so that they can get it for $50 in August 2010. I'm afraid this time its gonna take longer than that to see a tenfold reduction in storage device costs.
I can see why companies would want to support browsers whose compatibility issues they are knowledgeable about. it now seems like the known issues in IE6 are way too many to keep their sites compatible with IE6.
IE7 and FF(2 and 3) are quite a significant improvement over IE6. And then there are companies that build some web interfaces using Java and VB and mix up several technologies which makes their sites to malfunction regardless of which brower or OS you choose. The payroll system in our university has such a site.
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What sort of crapware could you put on Linux? A time-limited version of Open Office? A version of Clam AV with automatic updates turned off? A three-level version of Bubble Bobble?
Why would you bother?
You can install Windows Vista along with Linux, and make the user pay to get rid of Vista.
You are trying to rationalize something that is clearly nonrational. Saying Pi=3 is certainly not rational.
That's what I meant :) Thanks for clarifying.
I'm pretty sure he knows more methods to compromise the OS through these browsers. Most likly he'll use those methods at next years' pwn2own. Same could be said about Charlie Miller.
And also consider - ext4 is relatively new, so it will improve over time. If you want stability stick to ext3 or ext2.
QFT
The filesystem was first released sometime towards the end of December 2008. The Linux distros that incorporated it, gave it as an option, but the default for /root and /home was always EXT3.
In addition, this problem is not a week old like the article states. People have been discussing this problem on forums ever since mid-January, when the benchmarks for EXT4 were published and several people decided to try it out to see how it fares. I have been using EXT4 for my /root partition since January. Fortunately I haven't had any data loss, but if I do end up losing some data, I'd understand that since I have been using a brand new file-system which has not been thoroughly tested by users, nor has it been used on any servers that I know of.
Whenever there is a talk about superconductors, the first question that gets asked is at what temperature would we get resistance free material. Its application in gadgets, or even the funding for in depth study of Type 1.5 superconductors would hinge around that question.
If you use ReiserFS, won't need a knife. You can chop everything to pieces, including your ...
A KDE app?
Deadly thing a bribe is, and burned will you be by it. Your cabinet position you will lose and charged for corruption you shall be. Your ally is the force, but abusing it will make the dark side grow stronger. Consume you, it will.
And you won't have to imagine someone without their clothes. You can just turn on the mode which shows everyone like they would sans theirs clothes. And if you get caught doing that, you also risk getting killed, in which case you will not only be able to see dead people, you'll become one with them. Yippie.
The purpose of putting the term "sixth sense" in quotes tells you that it clearly isn't a sixth sense in literal terms. They are just calling it so because they couldn't find any other term which would make people sit through the whole demo, which btw was ultra-sleek.
Aw come on now. If you call this childish, what would you say to that Cat Agreeing to an EULA story that got nearly 1000 replies. Internet forums aren't the top priority for anyone seeking highly intellectual arguments or discussions.
Once the records update after the survey, the couple would be watching ads for assault rifles for the next few months.
"Did the TV show you ads for baby products after your baby just died? Would you like to blast the crap out of it? Why not try our .xx caliber automatic which fires 200 rounds per second...."
Schools are not run based on scientific principles, they don't take into account the students interest or student feedback
There is no proven scientific principle of school running. There have been several suggestions, psychoanalysis of students/teachers, reward systems, etc., but the state of schooling doesn't seem to show any dramatic change.
One thing I can say for sure is that level of comprehension among students who are actually interested in the subjects has gotten much better because of the availability of simulation demos. I'd have understood conics much better in school if I had easy access to graphing programs (back in 94).
Although Gamestop already "ruffled features" in the dev and distribution communities...
Forget about the ruffled feathers in the developers and distributors' community - Amazon folks should be more worried about the Furious Girlfriends Association who would hate to see their bf get cheaper versions of games they would play for the next 2 months.
Translate "Rodent Guided Missiles" into Norwegian and you would have a name for a death metal band as well.
Oftentimes there are patents that cover several technologies - a patent in medical imaging can cover the field of medicine, engineering and sometimes even natural sciences. There will always be an uncertainty in deciding the shelf life of any technology and even more difficult in determining how long before it gets obsolete in a given discipline.
The duration of a given patent is an issue best left alone. However it would be nice if we make the process a little faster and have some way to filter out patents that are in no way innovative.
Its got what market craves. Its got electrolytes.
There will be need for high clock speeds in some applications, while there will be a need for low power consumption in other applications. There will always be a competition in both those areas. But at present it seems that there is more requirement for power efficient processors because of rise in cell phones and hand held devices like internet tablets and PSPs and so on. The demand for high speed is in fields that are computationally intensive and oftentimes memory intensive.
Feature 1: It uses kernel 2.6.28.x....
No? Dammit!
... and claim it's a terminal desease.
Bloody KDE users, blaming everything on Terminal. This article explicitly states that its caused by a gaming Konsole. Don't blame Gnome by calling it a Terminal disease ;-)
Wow. That's a rather quick relative displacement in 20 minutes.
From economics, lets turn our attention to optimizing this toy of ours. The thing with SSDs is that they don't have a read/write head to worry about. This means that no matter where the data is stored in the device, all we need to do is specify the fetch location and the logic circuits select that block to extract the data from desired location. From what I've heard, the SSDs have an algorithm to actually assign different blocks to store the data so that the memory cells in a single locations aren't overused.
The more people buy it the sooner it will get under $50. But considering the recent financial conditions, people would rather let others buy the SSD so that they can get it for $50 in August 2010. I'm afraid this time its gonna take longer than that to see a tenfold reduction in storage device costs.
I can see why companies would want to support browsers whose compatibility issues they are knowledgeable about. it now seems like the known issues in IE6 are way too many to keep their sites compatible with IE6.
IE7 and FF(2 and 3) are quite a significant improvement over IE6. And then there are companies that build some web interfaces using Java and VB and mix up several technologies which makes their sites to malfunction regardless of which brower or OS you choose. The payroll system in our university has such a site.