Comment Re:I install the only one worth installing (Score 1) 896
Another vote for Avira here.
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Another vote for Avira here.
You may wish to have a look at these sites to help you decide:
The central limit theorem holds only when some strict conditions are met -- like finite variance of the contributing probability variables.
There are other stable distributions than the normal. Check this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_(probability)
"Important special cases of stable distributions are the normal distribution, the Cauchy distribution and the Levy distribution"
The Cauchy has neither variance neither expected value. Levy distributions also do not have higher moments.
AVG 8.5 installed on a co-worker's computer didn't catch a WONDERFUL webpage spoofing attack that asked for her pin number. Luckily she called me. I went to try Avast, but now it was harder to register and they took out the options to make the program operate silently (ie it forces you to use a dialog box for restart or force a restart, whereas in 4.8 there was an option for "Update on Next Restart", an awesome feature).
Just heard a good review the day prior of MSE and installed it, updated definitions, did a quick scan which found 3 other things, and then a full scan which found the main culprit. It also apparently cleaned (not deleted) a Windows Backup file with the virus on an external drive, ensuring that their backups are actually working properly. I've had Avast delete these on me in the past, losing vital backups.
It takes up little resources, is free for ANYONE (ie, most are only free for Home AND non-commercial use...which means non-profits are shit outta luck), and JUST WORKS.
I heart it. so. hard.
If a product even bothers to tell you about tracking cookies, it's more about religion than security,
That would be why I dumped AVG, actually, which is what I used before trying Avast.
Spy-bot will throw up some cookie warnings once in a blue moon too, but nowhere near as often as AVG did.
If I want to run a UNIX app
If I want to run a UNIX app, I can do it on Cygwin, MSYS, or any of the UNIX or UNIX-clone operating systems you mentioned. But what do I do if I want to run a UNIX driver? The point of ReactOS is that it runs not only NT 5 apps but also NT 5 drivers.
The only modern OS that hasn't been based one way or another on the UNIX API is VMS. Windows NOT excluded.
Especially when you consider that Windows NT is based on concepts that Dave Cutler brought with him from VMS.
Perhaps it gets overlooked so much because it's difficult to create a car/road traffic analogy that expresses it.
It's not that difficult:
It's like living in Nevada and having an 80 mph speed limit on I-80 if you're going to California and a 40 mph limit if you're headed to Utah because California payed to have the speed limits changed to benefit themselves.
The iPhone doesn't do secure email because not enough people want that feature, not because Apple can't do it, or because Apple thinks they know better than you or I (which is the expected response to this post).
You should get modded down, for being an idiot.
Solaris and BSD have linux binary compatibility layers, they work fine. Wine is coming along nicely and the pay for version supported LFD2 the night that game shipped. Bloat can come from many things but merely implementing another API ain't gonna be it.
Can they make gold?
If they can place atoms with 100% accuracy, could they not then assemble molecules into any chosen configuration?
That wouldn't help you make gold, since gold is an atom, not a compound.
I can perfectly see 'unobtanium' becoming the jargon term for it amongst the subset of the population that we saw on screen. Heck, the proper name for the material is probably something like hexagermanium qunitofullericarsenide... crystallosulfate. Or something equally mouth-bending.
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