Their user base is raising, so virus makers are now on track.
On the university I work for, a whole data lab was infected with what was identified as OSX.Trojan.PokerStealer, which turns on SSH access attack from outside. How the computers were infected, I really don't know, but next week every mac in the lab was proudly running a new copy of Norton Antivirus for the Mac.
Sure, they are differences, but I use so many systems daily (as a programmer for a multi-platform product), that I don't longer care about system's idiosyncrasy. I dislike Mac OSX with all my heart, but that is a subjective thing. Even all those little things that are so irritant for me on OSX are things I have learned to live with, and after some time, it's even OK work on a mac.
So yes, Vista is overall a superior system to XP, with some annoyances, but annoyances are everywhere, and XP is a very good system as well...
not Vista. The problem is: why upgrade?. I am running XP and I'm EXTREMELY happy with it. One of my server is running 2003 and I don't see any need to upgrade to 2008 at all. It is a great server system.
My mac is still running Tiger and I don't see the need to upgrade to some other cat and I'm still running Mandriva 2007.
The days where I had to have the last are gone. And I consider myself a nerd. Normal users care even less.
Note, well I lied , I do have one laptop running Vista and it's OK. But I don't see the need to upgrade to W7 when it comes.
More than 13 000 special trained persons worked with encryption/decryption related tasks in WWII (and that's allies only). Yes, there were no computers then the way we know them now, but 13 000 people working shifts day and night was a significant force as well.
OTOH Asimov should be a helluva lot easier to adapt to the screen than Ray Bradbury's books. The only one big screen adaptation of Bradbury's books I know off (Fahrenheit 451 was IMO mediocre). And the problem with Bradbury's books is that all the implicit poesy and human philosophy of his books are just unfilmatizable (if that's a real word). Asimov's style is more to the point, and thus, easier to translate into images.
While it sounds good in theory: how much can you possibly upgrade a laptop? From the article you cannot say exactly what is considered to be an upgrade. Memory: you can only upgrade up to the limit the current motherboard supports, 4 Gb or whatever. After that, a new main board is needed and I really doubt that will be considered an upgrade.
Laptops have integrated graphic cards, sound cards and NICs, so no upgrade is possible here, other than changing the whole main board...
The screen, sure can be changed, but not upgraded to a new size easily...
The catch is that a laptop cannot be easily "upgraded" as a desktop computer.
Unfortunately, speed is not everything. Chrome lacks a lot of functionality (and addons). Raw speed is nothing in this case. We aren't talking about 30 seconds difference here.
And the point is? Microsoft have never used it's patent portfolio for profit(directly anyway). Those are in almost all cases defensive patents, which, unfortunately, are a necessary evil for large enterprises these days, no matter how the economy situation is.
Last computer I bough came with Google toolbar, Google Earth and google Picassa installed. Last time I downloaded IrfanView, it came with Google toolbar bundled. When mu girlfriend (yes I DO have one) downloaded Adobe reader, it installed the freaking toolbar again... What's happening with this world? What's next, Apple installing Safari bundled with iTunes? oh wait...
Sure, cry me a river. Typical for the Linux Community. If you are late, then it's bad. If you don't do a thing about Linux, then it's bad. If you are first on Linux, the you are trying to embrace and dominate. When Adobe releases the first Flash player 64 bit on Linux (before doing it on other platforms), then they are using Linux users as beta testers and don't care about quality there...
When, oh when will the majority of the Linux community grow up their inferiority and superiority (yes, contradictory, I know, but nothing but the truth) complexes?
Yes, I have a Mac. Yes I have 3 "PCs" (XP, Vista, Suse). I work with all four machines regularly. I really, really cannot understand why this generalization about the greatness of MacOs, like, everyone must like it. Yes, it's a good system but so are the other three as well. And actually OSX annoys the hell of me with it's mannerisms (well, MacOs 7, 8 and 9 used to annoy the hell out of me as well).
Off all 4 OS I must say I like OSX the less. I may be a strange bird.
It's a well known fact that comic books (or, as Marx and Engels would say: escapism) are always more popular in times of crisis. After all, the golden age of comics was in the 30s.
Of course EVERY SINGLE person here on Slashdot would participate. After all, it's Open Source and thus, it must be good...We at/. have no double standard and like everything to be OS, inclusive our own business software, etc. Or...?
I mean, it's like if an icecream maker would like to make icecream on an refrigerator inside an oven. Hell, I am a Windows developer, so I develop on Windows. But, hey, whatever move your train....
Now seriously, the problem are NOT the submitters. I can submit whatever shit I want. The problem is the "person" that selects the article without even checking the facts. In this case, Mr. kdawson is infamous for just picking up any MS bashing article just for the sake of it. Seriously, if Slashdot has any decency left, I really don't know how they just keep this guy.
The war exists in sites like this where people has nothing better to do than to discuss "what's better"
Both systems work. And work well. What is better? Keep your opinion for yourself and use whatever you want. Keep evangelism foryourself as well, thank you very much.
Doesn't that mean the fire was caused by an idiot who didn't realize that a power brick weighing 5 pounds with a fan on it kinda needs to have airflow? Not only that but it was probably a old-school one that wasn't registered and didn't get the replacement cables. How dare you!!!! You need to blame MS for this!!!!! Quick! What an opportunity!
Sure they are serious. Illogical critic of MS products. Illogical praising of Abble's products. No need to research, sir, if you want to be politically correct these days.
Come on...This is/. We can do better. It's about MS so we need some bash... Lets see... maybe it's an old idea? Or maybe it's all about money and a big fuck to the OS community? Naaah.. Ohh I know, maybe it's a conspiration to get a monopoly in the market of memories (TM)? Nahhh.. Oh maybe they are trying to destabilize Linuzzz ?... Come on people, maybe some jokes about chairs, monopolies or rotten Abbles can help? After all, we are better than "them" aren't we?
Abble were (kind of) forgiven by the Beatles Apple company. Now they won't forgive anyone else, even the Beatles themselves. They are the only posible Abble. Look ma, shiny!!!!!
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On the university I work for, a whole data lab was infected with what was identified as OSX.Trojan.PokerStealer, which turns on SSH access attack from outside. How the computers were infected, I really don't know, but next week every mac in the lab was proudly running a new copy of Norton Antivirus for the Mac.
I LOVE to use open Source projects. More Open Source is needed. My project? Open Source? Are you mad????!!! I need to eat too.
So yes, Vista is overall a superior system to XP, with some annoyances, but annoyances are everywhere, and XP is a very good system as well...
My mac is still running Tiger and I don't see the need to upgrade to some other cat and I'm still running Mandriva 2007.
The days where I had to have the last are gone. And I consider myself a nerd. Normal users care even less.
Note, well I lied , I do have one laptop running Vista and it's OK. But I don't see the need to upgrade to W7 when it comes.
More than 13 000 special trained persons worked with encryption/decryption related tasks in WWII (and that's allies only). Yes, there were no computers then the way we know them now, but 13 000 people working shifts day and night was a significant force as well.
OTOH Asimov should be a helluva lot easier to adapt to the screen than Ray Bradbury's books. The only one big screen adaptation of Bradbury's books I know off (Fahrenheit 451 was IMO mediocre). And the problem with Bradbury's books is that all the implicit poesy and human philosophy of his books are just unfilmatizable (if that's a real word). Asimov's style is more to the point, and thus, easier to translate into images.
Laptops have integrated graphic cards, sound cards and NICs, so no upgrade is possible here, other than changing the whole main board...
The screen, sure can be changed, but not upgraded to a new size easily...
The catch is that a laptop cannot be easily "upgraded" as a desktop computer.
Unfortunately, speed is not everything. Chrome lacks a lot of functionality (and addons). Raw speed is nothing in this case. We aren't talking about 30 seconds difference here.
And the point is? Microsoft have never used it's patent portfolio for profit(directly anyway). Those are in almost all cases defensive patents, which, unfortunately, are a necessary evil for large enterprises these days, no matter how the economy situation is.
Last computer I bough came with Google toolbar, Google Earth and google Picassa installed. Last time I downloaded IrfanView, it came with Google toolbar bundled. When mu girlfriend (yes I DO have one) downloaded Adobe reader, it installed the freaking toolbar again... What's happening with this world? What's next, Apple installing Safari bundled with iTunes? oh wait...
Sure, cry me a river. Typical for the Linux Community. If you are late, then it's bad. If you don't do a thing about Linux, then it's bad. If you are first on Linux, the you are trying to embrace and dominate. When Adobe releases the first Flash player 64 bit on Linux (before doing it on other platforms), then they are using Linux users as beta testers and don't care about quality there...
When, oh when will the majority of the Linux community grow up their inferiority and superiority (yes, contradictory, I know, but nothing but the truth) complexes?
Yes, I have a Mac. Yes I have 3 "PCs" (XP, Vista, Suse). I work with all four machines regularly. I really, really cannot understand why this generalization about the greatness of MacOs, like, everyone must like it. Yes, it's a good system but so are the other three as well. And actually OSX annoys the hell of me with it's mannerisms (well, MacOs 7, 8 and 9 used to annoy the hell out of me as well). Off all 4 OS I must say I like OSX the less. I may be a strange bird.
It's a well known fact that comic books (or, as Marx and Engels would say: escapism) are always more popular in times of crisis. After all, the golden age of comics was in the 30s.
Of course EVERY SINGLE person here on Slashdot would participate. After all, it's Open Source and thus, it must be good...We at /. have no double standard and like everything to be OS, inclusive our own business software, etc. Or...?
I mean, it's like if an icecream maker would like to make icecream on an refrigerator inside an oven. Hell, I am a Windows developer, so I develop on Windows. But, hey, whatever move your train....
Now seriously, the problem are NOT the submitters. I can submit whatever shit I want. The problem is the "person" that selects the article without even checking the facts. In this case, Mr. kdawson is infamous for just picking up any MS bashing article just for the sake of it. Seriously, if Slashdot has any decency left, I really don't know how they just keep this guy.
Both systems work. And work well. What is better? Keep your opinion for yourself and use whatever you want. Keep evangelism foryourself as well, thank you very much.
Sure. Abble will listen. They always do. Haha.
2006 will be the year of Linuzzz on the desktop!
Sure they are serious. Illogical critic of MS products. Illogical praising of Abble's products. No need to research, sir, if you want to be politically correct these days.
Yes, sir, the reality depends on the color of the glasses your are using to see the world thru'. Keep your glasses on if that makes you happy.
Come on...This is /. We can do better. It's about MS so we need some bash... Lets see... maybe it's an old idea? Or maybe it's all about money and a big fuck to the OS community? Naaah.. Ohh I know, maybe it's a conspiration to get a monopoly in the market of memories (TM)? Nahhh.. Oh maybe they are trying to destabilize Linuzzz ?... Come on people, maybe some jokes about chairs, monopolies or rotten Abbles can help? After all, we are better than "them" aren't we?
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/07/2052251, come on. It's not so hard to look 5 posts back in time.
Abble were (kind of) forgiven by the Beatles Apple company. Now they won't forgive anyone else, even the Beatles themselves. They are the only posible Abble. Look ma, shiny!!!!!