Comment Re:Not tooo worried about this one (Score 4, Informative) 213
The passwords were *cough* hashed. I suppose that's a kind of plain text.
The passwords were *cough* hashed. I suppose that's a kind of plain text.
What about all those contracts where the OEM had to pay Microsoft per machine shipped whether it ran Windows or not? That sounds a lot like a tax to me.
Compare linux server infections to Windows Server infections, and you have a viable comparison. Comparing Linux desktop viruses to WIndows would be a little more fair, but not really, since youre talking 0.1% of the market and there really isnt anyone who would want to spend time writing a virus for a heavily fragmented, highly technical userbase with a tiny percentage of the market.
Closer to 1.5% according to browser stats, not big in percentage terms but not so small as a absolute number in terms of the web user population. It's not just the writing of the virus, there are plenty of people angry enough about Linux to do that, but also the successful distribution and Linux makes that hard.
If you want a really stark illustration of the problem, ask any parent how many endangered species they would be willing to see go extinct if it would mean sparing the life of just one of their children. (and now multiple that by the number of parents in the world).
I'm not sure how the mapping between endangered species and child sacrifice works out? Is it a religious thing?
Actually, it's not. Science and faith can coexist quite nicely since they really consider two different questions - the how (science) and why (faith). One can be a good scientist regardless of one's views on faith. Some religions certainly are anti - science but that does not mean all are; as Haught's viewpoint illustrates.
Doesn't science cover how (observation) and why (theory)?
It's like the source coming with the software. You can enjoy the original work as it is, but you also have the freedom to adapt it, chop it up and change it into something else.
IE3 was the first bundled version, before bundling that version wasn't gaining quickly on anything. Netscape easily had the dominant share back then, and that's why MS grew concerned about Netscape's talk of creating cross-platform applications/services than run in a browser and make the OS irrelevant.
Historical evidence shows clearly expansions of humanity and ecosystems during warmer periods, even periods *much* warmer than today (for example, the Late Eocene with near tropical temperatures in Antarctica).
What was the size of the human population during that time? Anywhere near 7 billion?
The "rootkit-on-cd" thing just another broken DRM implementation designed to run on Windows. I'd like to be surprised at the naivety of those who boycott Sony over that while quite happily running Windows, but I can't say I am. People are quite happily voting with their feet in favour of DRM by buying Windows, a system designed to be friendly to DRM from the ground up, so aren't they pretty much getting what they've asked for?
Didn't Microsoft mumble so vague legal threats to begin with, back when the Linux drivers first came out, but then went quiet when they realised they didn't have a leg to stand on?
calm down jerry
It means I don't have to run Windows on my PC, along with all the baggage that goes with that. One big benefit in my book.
Just because you see a GameStop or EB games or similar on nearly every major strip mall in America doesn't mean that PC games are dead. Far from it, in fact. The number as of this last holiday season is 12 million paying subscribers. That means that they make enough money in 10 days to pay for the entire year's upkeep.
That's great if you're Blizzard, but what if you're trying to sell other non-subscription games? Or even an alternative subscription game? Those 12 million then become customers that are ignoring what you're putting out.
Why is Vorbis a casualty? I finally got an Android phone recently and it supported Vorbis right out of the box. My old Nokia never supported, not even the N800 tablet.
Dirty little secret: "rot" can happen to any OS if you add and remove enough things. Especially if you don't know or don't care exactly what you're adding and removing.
Have you ever heard of package managers? They seem to pretty much eliminate that rot.
The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.
