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Microsoft To Construct iPod/DS/PSP Killer
Karsten writes "According to The Mercury News Microsoft is developing a PSP/DS/GBA/iPod-killer. J. Allard is leading the project." J. Allard is the man behind the Xbox, and from looking at the article it sounds like it's at least a year before this device, if it hits daylight, would be coming.
Dammit, can't they make a Windows killer?
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Why can't they just make something that goes around hugging everything
like trees
If you're interested in facts I'll tell you what they are and I'll give you sources - Chomsky on The Big Idea
Slashdot makes money through ad impressions. They're not here to uphold high journalistic standards and create intelligent, competent discussion threads, they're here to make money by getting as many goobers to click on a story as they can. In fact, they never claimed the former, not even before they were purchased and started focusing on the latter.
To that end, all that matters here is that the word "Microsoft" paired with a controversial claim is right in the headline. They're betting you'll click through and up their ad revenue.
Guess what? They were right.
That said, I have nothing relevant to the article to post, because the article wasn't really relevant to anything...
From now on, I buy only Intel.
How do you mean Linux is more secure then Windows? Is it because I have almost no options on controlling the permissions on my files in Linux compared to Windows? Or is it something else?
One advantage to Microsoft in the security department is the NTFS file system. Unlike any of the file systems I've tried on Linux I can set permissions for more then just three groups & I have options other then just read, execute, & write. I know the owner, root & everyone else are the only groups I can change, while with the NTFS file system on Windows NT & newer I can configure several different groups, I can even deny permissions (a deny permission takes precedence over an allow permission, it you didn't already know) (I can't remember if you can deny permissions in Windows NT, I know you can in Windows 2000 & newer). If there was some way to add this feature into Linux I'd be much happier with Linux.
I'm just curious why everyone says Linux is more secure when I can't even set permissions to the same level of complexity that I can with Windows. Also from what I've seen most viruses now take advantage of people being naïve or stupid about using a computer so please don't rant about the lack of viruses for Linux & that fact that Windows has a ton more. I'm quite sure if Linux had the market share that Windows has now it would become the target of virus writers instead of Windows. This is because it is a larger target & thus more likely to spread your virus.