Computer Talk
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Its not the same really. What Microsoft did was to give low level access from the Internet Explorer browser. The whole idea was to allow (Microsoft) some control over your operating system through the web, so they can make your desktop space, some form of paid advertising space they can control remotely. Kind of like pop ups without the browser. As a matter of fact, Microsoft also allowed operating system access through Microsoft Word scripts. The whole idea backfired. Hence the Trojans, worms and viruses that infect IE and Microsoft Word.
Its not the same really. What Microsoft did was to give low level access from the Internet Explorer browser. The whole idea was to allow (Microsoft) some control over your operating system through the web, so they can make your desktop space, some form of paid advertising space they can control remotely. Kind of like pop ups without the browser. As a matter of fact, Microsoft also allowed operating system access through Microsoft Word scripts. The whole idea backfired. Hence the Trojans, worms and viruses that infect IE and Microsoft Word.
RedMercury
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Microsoft operating systems' security was outdated until Vista, one big hole being the default admin privileges of users. That's why I think Vista is so great (for a version of windows) and how I laugh at the ignorant masses who hate the administrator privilege prompts.
I'm no fan of Apple, I think Jobs is a dick and his crap is marketed towards idiots. That said, he makes his stuff idiotproof and pretty, which plays right into marketing for idiots. I doubt Apple software is any less buggy than Microsoft software, software bugs increase predictably with complexity, and you can't have software that does many things without having complexity and hence bugs. I can tell you that Microsoft is no slouch in software engineering. I have a feeling that Apple just hides their problems better or handles problems more gracefully (part of the idiotproofing or making the OS pretty), and, because of lower market share, fewer bugs and exploits are found. One good thing I would say about MacOS is that it is based on Linux, though far from open sourced.
Of course, that's me talking from a computer science background. The average person who switch to MacOS will claim reliability and security, which are valid complaints, but I suspect they are just seduced by the shiney user interface. You hear about Windows exploits all the time, but they get fixed. That is far more comforting than silence, because the bugs are there, finding them and getting them fixed is better than not.
Microsoft operating systems' security was outdated until Vista, one big hole being the default admin privileges of users. That's why I think Vista is so great (for a version of windows) and how I laugh at the ignorant masses who hate the administrator privilege prompts.
I'm no fan of Apple, I think Jobs is a dick and his crap is marketed towards idiots. That said, he makes his stuff idiotproof and pretty, which plays right into marketing for idiots. I doubt Apple software is any less buggy than Microsoft software, software bugs increase predictably with complexity, and you can't have software that does many things without having complexity and hence bugs. I can tell you that Microsoft is no slouch in software engineering. I have a feeling that Apple just hides their problems better or handles problems more gracefully (part of the idiotproofing or making the OS pretty), and, because of lower market share, fewer bugs and exploits are found. One good thing I would say about MacOS is that it is based on Linux, though far from open sourced.
Of course, that's me talking from a computer science background. The average person who switch to MacOS will claim reliability and security, which are valid complaints, but I suspect they are just seduced by the shiney user interface. You hear about Windows exploits all the time, but they get fixed. That is far more comforting than silence, because the bugs are there, finding them and getting them fixed is better than not.
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MacOS 10 isn't made from Linux. Its made from NeXTOS. If you remember NeXT, it was the company Jobs created after he was kicked out of Apple by John Sculley. Jobs brought in a lot of other visionary people whose objective is to plan and create a true next generation OS. Hence the name NeXT. When Jobs came back into Apple, he brought NeXT technologies with him and that was worked to produce MacOS 10.
NeXTOS is certainly a lot cleaner than any Windows or even Unix design. While it has an Unix layer on it, the OS is based on a microkernel concept. It means you have a very small and simple kernel in it that does all the basic functions. It does few functions, but what it does, it does very fast and very reliably. Its size and simplicity makes it easy to document and optimize. Everything else is added on top of the kernel like layers, and whole OS is very modular and easily adapted from one system to another. The testimony of the OS modularity can be seen by the fact that the OS in the iPhone and iPod Touch is in fact, the same MacOS 10, ported to a different processor, with a new interface layer.
As an note, too, the NeXT interface layer uses an object oriented design. Again, this was inherited by MacOS 10.
The current Windows Vista can be traced in a long way like this:
Visa -> XP -> NT -> Prism. Prism is the next generation operating system meant for DEC minicomputers to succeed after the OS for VAX. Microsoft hired David Cutler off DEC for that purpose. Think about it, under windows, you got an OS whose roots goes back to an old minicomputer OS.
MacOS 10 isn't made from Linux. Its made from NeXTOS. If you remember NeXT, it was the company Jobs created after he was kicked out of Apple by John Sculley. Jobs brought in a lot of other visionary people whose objective is to plan and create a true next generation OS. Hence the name NeXT. When Jobs came back into Apple, he brought NeXT technologies with him and that was worked to produce MacOS 10.
NeXTOS is certainly a lot cleaner than any Windows or even Unix design. While it has an Unix layer on it, the OS is based on a microkernel concept. It means you have a very small and simple kernel in it that does all the basic functions. It does few functions, but what it does, it does very fast and very reliably. Its size and simplicity makes it easy to document and optimize. Everything else is added on top of the kernel like layers, and whole OS is very modular and easily adapted from one system to another. The testimony of the OS modularity can be seen by the fact that the OS in the iPhone and iPod Touch is in fact, the same MacOS 10, ported to a different processor, with a new interface layer.
As an note, too, the NeXT interface layer uses an object oriented design. Again, this was inherited by MacOS 10.
The current Windows Vista can be traced in a long way like this:
Visa -> XP -> NT -> Prism. Prism is the next generation operating system meant for DEC minicomputers to succeed after the OS for VAX. Microsoft hired David Cutler off DEC for that purpose. Think about it, under windows, you got an OS whose roots goes back to an old minicomputer OS.
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I think I'm in the wrong business.
China's Online Game Sector Made CNY18.38 Billion Revenue In 2008
January 15, 2009
At the China Game Industry Annual Conference 2008, a report on China's game industry for 2008 was released with information that the actual sales within China's online game industry in 2008 was CNY18.38 billion, a year-on-year increase of 76.6%.
The report, which was jointly published by the Game Publication Working Committee of the Publishers Association of China and the international market research firm IDC, predicts that by 2013, the actual sales of China's online game industry will reach CNY39.76 billion and the compound growth rate from 2007 to 2013 will be 16.7%. The report shows that China's self-developed online games enlarged their competitive advantages over the past year and the actual sales of these games were CNY11.01 billion, accounting for 59.9% of the total sales and the sales increased by 60.0% compared with those of 2007.
At the same time, online games played an important role in promoting relevant industries in 2008. According to statistics, about CNY31.28 billion sales in China's telecom industry were directly brought by the online game industry, increasing 20% over the previous year; the number in the IT industry was CNY11.24 billion, increasing 15.0%; and that in the publication and media industry, mainly covering relevant magazines and books, was CNY5.32 billion, increasing 25%.
I think I'm in the wrong business.
China's Online Game Sector Made CNY18.38 Billion Revenue In 2008
January 15, 2009
At the China Game Industry Annual Conference 2008, a report on China's game industry for 2008 was released with information that the actual sales within China's online game industry in 2008 was CNY18.38 billion, a year-on-year increase of 76.6%.
The report, which was jointly published by the Game Publication Working Committee of the Publishers Association of China and the international market research firm IDC, predicts that by 2013, the actual sales of China's online game industry will reach CNY39.76 billion and the compound growth rate from 2007 to 2013 will be 16.7%. The report shows that China's self-developed online games enlarged their competitive advantages over the past year and the actual sales of these games were CNY11.01 billion, accounting for 59.9% of the total sales and the sales increased by 60.0% compared with those of 2007.
At the same time, online games played an important role in promoting relevant industries in 2008. According to statistics, about CNY31.28 billion sales in China's telecom industry were directly brought by the online game industry, increasing 20% over the previous year; the number in the IT industry was CNY11.24 billion, increasing 15.0%; and that in the publication and media industry, mainly covering relevant magazines and books, was CNY5.32 billion, increasing 25%.
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Anti-addiction system?
China Will Launch Real Name System For Online Games
January 19, 2009
According to Zhang Yijun, director for the Technology and Digital Publishing Division of the General Administration of Press and Publication of China, China's online game anti-addiction work has been progressing smoothly and a real name certification system will be launched soon.
Zhang says at the end of 2008, an anti-addiction test was implemented on 59 online games run by influential Chinese game companies and the pass rate reached 95%. Only four companies were closed for failing to meet the standards. In 2009, China will continue to promote the online game anti-addiction system and launch the real name certification system, hoping to raise online game companies' attention to accelerate the development of relevant software. The real name system will ensure that gamers register to play games using their real names and real identification.
Zhang emphasizes that GAPP will give special support to original Chinese games. For example, in an online game cooperation deal, if the legitimate rights of the Chinese party were harmed by the foreign party and the case was accepted by a Chinese court, China would suspend the approval of the game until the problem was settled.
In addition, the administration will enhance supervision over unhealthy contents added without authorization by online game operators while fighting illegal private servers to protect the intellectual property of online games and boost the business interests of Chinese companies.
Anti-addiction system?
China Will Launch Real Name System For Online Games
January 19, 2009
According to Zhang Yijun, director for the Technology and Digital Publishing Division of the General Administration of Press and Publication of China, China's online game anti-addiction work has been progressing smoothly and a real name certification system will be launched soon.
Zhang says at the end of 2008, an anti-addiction test was implemented on 59 online games run by influential Chinese game companies and the pass rate reached 95%. Only four companies were closed for failing to meet the standards. In 2009, China will continue to promote the online game anti-addiction system and launch the real name certification system, hoping to raise online game companies' attention to accelerate the development of relevant software. The real name system will ensure that gamers register to play games using their real names and real identification.
Zhang emphasizes that GAPP will give special support to original Chinese games. For example, in an online game cooperation deal, if the legitimate rights of the Chinese party were harmed by the foreign party and the case was accepted by a Chinese court, China would suspend the approval of the game until the problem was settled.
In addition, the administration will enhance supervision over unhealthy contents added without authorization by online game operators while fighting illegal private servers to protect the intellectual property of online games and boost the business interests of Chinese companies.
Re: Computer Talk!!
You are welcome!
Right now I'm at my step daughters home using their 2003 Dell with only 80gb hard drive...And not much ram.. This is our old computer. She really needs to replace this dinosaur. She can go to Wal-Mart and get a much better computer for $300-$400 bucks.. The main problem with this computer is that it is "clunky". Not a very smooth operating computer. And some sites it just cannot handle. Oh well I will just wait until I get home to do my thing..
You are welcome!
Right now I'm at my step daughters home using their 2003 Dell with only 80gb hard drive...And not much ram..
This is our old computer. She really needs to replace this dinosaur. She can go to Wal-Mart and get a much better computer for $300-$400 bucks.. The main problem with this computer is that it is "clunky". Not a very smooth operating computer. And some sites it just cannot handle. Oh well I will just wait until I get home to do my thing..
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Kind of like my wife. She stuck with her old computer for far too long. I myself stuck with the same computers for years even with widening obsolescence. I guess everyone has a lot of old files and various stuff we are either lazy or just plain unwilling to put the effort to migrate to a new system.
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Tidbit on hot Greater China tech companies.
What does all of them have in common?
Intel branded motherboard
Apple iPhone
Apple iPod
Xbox 360
Sony PS2
Sony PS3
Nintendo Wii
They all have motherboards made by the mother of all motherboard companies, called Hong Hai Precision Manufacturing. Better known sometimes as Foxconn. Hong Hai is typical of a Greater China tech company. Headquartered in Taiwan, it has plants all over the PRC. Certainly a company to watch in the future.
Kind of like my wife. She stuck with her old computer for far too long. I myself stuck with the same computers for years even with widening obsolescence. I guess everyone has a lot of old files and various stuff we are either lazy or just plain unwilling to put the effort to migrate to a new system.
====================================================
Tidbit on hot Greater China tech companies.
What does all of them have in common?
Intel branded motherboard
Apple iPhone
Apple iPod
Xbox 360
Sony PS2
Sony PS3
Nintendo Wii
They all have motherboards made by the mother of all motherboard companies, called Hong Hai Precision Manufacturing. Better known sometimes as Foxconn. Hong Hai is typical of a Greater China tech company. Headquartered in Taiwan, it has plants all over the PRC. Certainly a company to watch in the future.