That's what I though too, 12% seems a bit low. I've observed a lot of users who really can't tell you which stuff in their inbox they actually signed up to recieve versus which are just spam. Half the stuff they sign up to receive looks as shady as spam anyway...
I just had a conversation this morning where I tried to teach a user to tell the difference between sales hype and legitimate information. He just couldn't get it, it was too much for him. He constantly forwards me things like "AMAZING NEW DISCOVERY...!!!", asking "what do you think of this, should I order it?".
With what we currently know, the Google Chrome OS is as much a competitor to Windows as Google Docs and Gmail is to Microsoft Office and Outlook/Exchange.
Oh, please. Google OS is a glorified web browser tailored to netbooks. It won't even make a scratch on Windows' entrenchment in the desktop market.
Considering the huge number of users who know nothing but how to use a web browser, I think you're quite mistaken. I think it's very likely that Chrome OS will replace Windows for most non-geek consumers -- and because it's going to be open source, a lot of geeks will probably adopt it too.
Recently, I spent some time reviewing real and rumored technologies to lay out my predictions about a possible Apple Mac Tablet or MacPad. My predictions are mostly just for fun and I am making no bets as to their accuracy.
I can believe someone was foolish enough to submit this, but putting it on the front page is freaking absurd.
The majority of European scientists used to agree that the earth was flat, and at the center of the universe. The Mayans, Incas, Egyptians, and Indians knew better, evidently well before Galileo.
BTW, the general gist of TFA can correctly be summarized as "average modern human still a superstitious boob, status quo maintained".
I just don't believe in that whole "victim-of-the-modern-diet" argument so many fat people like to use as an excuse. I live in the same society, shop in the same stores, and I'm not fat. It's called self-control.
My mother has been at least 100 lbs overweight for many years. She insists she "hardly eats anything at all and just can't lose weight", but having been raised by her, I know better -- life with her is a non-stop cavalcade of food. Like all addicts, fat people lie.
The day that I, as a nontechnical software user, can meaningfully participate in an open-source project...
...will be one cold day in hell. Seriously, I don't mean to be harsh, but coding takes knowledge of coding. All the well-meaning non-coding critics in the world will never be able to offer anything but suggestions and testing until they learn to code. Most people can't even file a bug report properly.
Trojan horse program that overwrites the data on the hard drive with a message that reads "memory of the independence day," followed by as many "u" characters as it takes to write over every sector of every physical drive attached to the compromised system
Wow, and I thought only 0 and 1 could actually be written to the hard drive.
But the second, more interesting feature of this malware, the investigator said, is that it creates a direct connection between the infected Microsoft Windows system and the attackers, allowing the bad guys to log in to the victim's bank account using the victim's own Internet connection.
Actually, if you root a *nix box, this part looks kinda trivial.
Yet we don't see much of that, do we? In spite of the massive *nix share of the server market, it's windows systems that prove easiest to compromise.
Convenient how governments and businesses continue to spend other people's money on insecure systems which allow even more money to vanish. Microsoft Windows --because plausible deniability can come in mighty handy!
No, the captain only commands one ship -- the head of the whole pirate bay would be a commodore. Fat lot of good watching all those pirate movies did you...
Yeah, my experience is is doesn't work "as advertised". But if you type "sudo mkdir/Volumes/foo && sudo fuse-ext2/dev/disk0s3 -o force"/dev/disk0s3 will be mounted rw on/Volumes/foo, and writing a script to do that at boot time is trivial.
Not true at all; I've been using ext2/ext3 partitions with OS X for quite some time now via macfuse and fuse-ext2. I still don't really use it for my usb sticks though. Much as I dislike FAT it is the one fs I can use with any computer I end up at without having to download anything.
Next, the team will work to increase the amount of time the qubits maintain their quantum states so they can run more complex algorithms. They will also work to connect more qubits to the quantum bus. The processing power increases exponentially with each qubit added, Schoelkopf said, so the potential for more advanced quantum computing is enormous. But he cautions it will still be some time before quantum computers are being used to solve complex problems.
"We're still far away from building a practical quantum computer, but this is a major step forward."
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That's what I though too, 12% seems a bit low. I've observed a lot of users who really can't tell you which stuff in their inbox they actually signed up to recieve versus which are just spam. Half the stuff they sign up to receive looks as shady as spam anyway... I just had a conversation this morning where I tried to teach a user to tell the difference between sales hype and legitimate information. He just couldn't get it, it was too much for him. He constantly forwards me things like "AMAZING NEW DISCOVERY...!!!", asking "what do you think of this, should I order it?".
You seem to be a bit behind the times on this issue.
Considering the huge number of users who know nothing but how to use a web browser, I think you're quite mistaken. I think it's very likely that Chrome OS will replace Windows for most non-geek consumers -- and because it's going to be open source, a lot of geeks will probably adopt it too.
Maybe for 10 year olds, but certainly not for the rest of us.
FTFA:
I can believe someone was foolish enough to submit this, but putting it on the front page is freaking absurd.
[citation needed]
The majority of European scientists used to agree that the earth was flat, and at the center of the universe. The Mayans, Incas, Egyptians, and Indians knew better, evidently well before Galileo.
BTW, the general gist of TFA can correctly be summarized as "average modern human still a superstitious boob, status quo maintained".
I just don't believe in that whole "victim-of-the-modern-diet" argument so many fat people like to use as an excuse. I live in the same society, shop in the same stores, and I'm not fat. It's called self-control.
My mother has been at least 100 lbs overweight for many years. She insists she "hardly eats anything at all and just can't lose weight", but having been raised by her, I know better -- life with her is a non-stop cavalcade of food. Like all addicts, fat people lie.
...will be one cold day in hell. Seriously, I don't mean to be harsh, but coding takes knowledge of coding. All the well-meaning non-coding critics in the world will never be able to offer anything but suggestions and testing until they learn to code. Most people can't even file a bug report properly.
Virtualbox running windows does it for me. Not sure how you'd set that up on a PVR, but I watch netflix in using Linux on a desktop that way.
Wow, and I thought only 0 and 1 could actually be written to the hard drive.
Yet we don't see much of that, do we? In spite of the massive *nix share of the server market, it's windows systems that prove easiest to compromise.
Convenient how governments and businesses continue to spend other people's money on insecure systems which allow even more money to vanish.
Microsoft Windows --because plausible deniability can come in mighty handy!
It's the internet -- the cat never goes back in the bag.
No, the captain only commands one ship -- the head of the whole pirate bay would be a commodore. Fat lot of good watching all those pirate movies did you ...
Silly goose -- it's impotent swine with the flu.
Exactly. The incompetent prosecuter screwed this one up big time, and ultimately did everyone a disservice by not knowing the law.
Ooops, should have been "sudo mkdir /Volumes/foo && sudo fuse-ext2 /dev/disk0s3 /Volumes/foo -o force".
Yeah, my experience is is doesn't work "as advertised". But if you type "sudo mkdir /Volumes/foo && sudo fuse-ext2 /dev/disk0s3 -o force" /dev/disk0s3 will be mounted rw on /Volumes/foo, and writing a script to do that at boot time is trivial.
Not true at all; I've been using ext2/ext3 partitions with OS X for quite some time now via macfuse and fuse-ext2. I still don't really use it for my usb sticks though. Much as I dislike FAT it is the one fs I can use with any computer I end up at without having to download anything.
Google: "Googlee-uh penis-ah vely smarr. Amelican Govelnment penis-ah so big... sooo big."
Oh yeah, smart guy? What about about Jack Klompus's astronaut pen? It writes upside down...
In fact by further inconveniencing their customers such a scheme would likely increase what they like to call "piracy".
Woops. :)