I won't cough up a citation but I can say from personal experience that the current generation of iMacs will flat-out refuse to allow anything earlier than 10.7.
This is what Canonical does, though. They like to be experimental and "break the mold," so to speak, and they're no stranger to incorporating strange and new things (Unity), in some cases before they're ready (Pulse Audio and KDE4). And they'll drop projects/libraries/DE's if they like something else better.
I wouldn't be surprised to see them throw Unity out the window on a whim if they found something they liked better. But curmudgeons like me can still slap XFCE on a LTS release and just stay outside of the storm.
Perhaps they mean, as a viable alternative to whatever package management system (or "app store") is unique to your given OS/distro? If that's the case, then my answer would be, no.
True. But I have to ask the same question again: Who's to say that users will be competent enough to know the difference? Users should be smart enough not to reuse passwords, and it's within reason to expect them to recognize when that little green HTTPS padlock is present, but the technical details of how this is handled internally by a legitimate company cannot and will not be understood by the average user.
It does raise an interesting question about where the responsibility of these things lie, and given the fact that you should never give the user the benefit of the doubt, I'm with the OP on this one: the service provider should be bound by a legal responsibility to protect their clients' information. Storing cleartext passwords should've been the first no-no taught on day one of "Web Databases 101."
Of course, there is no "Web Databases 101" (or no employers look for it) so that is why we have self-taught PHP/MySQL scrawlers come in off of the street and pull shit like this.
Also, having a web browser submit a hashed password without SSL would do nothing to protect your account. It could still be intercepted and used by a malicious third party. They just wouldn't know right out in the open what the original password is.
Milking money might be part of it, but there comes a point where it's no longer worth the investment to have technicians developing and supporting legacy software. Eventually, you need to pool your resources with more pressing and current things. I think they've already given XP plenty of extensions and plenty of warning far in advance that its support will officially end.
I don't even think hardware vendors have shipped computers with XP for half a decade, but maybe I'm wrong?
Joke all you like, but optical media are still very relevant. Netflix is nice but it doesn't have everything available, nor at 1080p.
All that aside, this is not a deal-breaker for me when deciding to buy a console since I already own a dedicated Blu-ray player. I don't think the lack of this capability ever killed a console.
Agreed. Every kiosk I have seen was not actually playable. So I would flip through the list of game teasers using the touch screen, find Assassin's Creed 3 in the list, and tap "Play Video" to at least see what the game looks like running on the system.
But guess what? The "video" was just a slide show of a few screenshots.
Needless to say, my curiosity about the console is not piqued if they don't even want their demo machines to be playable.
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I won't cough up a citation but I can say from personal experience that the current generation of iMacs will flat-out refuse to allow anything earlier than 10.7.
You know, like, in the beginning, the Intelligent Designer created the Heavens and the Earth, and then He wanked off all over them.
I'll have you know I just spilled my drink. Thanks for the laugh. =)
What a painful stone that would be to pass.
For some reason, the captcha that followed that comment made me laugh.
We can't, though. You're anonymous.
...but what OS is he running on it?
This is what Canonical does, though. They like to be experimental and "break the mold," so to speak, and they're no stranger to incorporating strange and new things (Unity), in some cases before they're ready (Pulse Audio and KDE4). And they'll drop projects/libraries/DE's if they like something else better.
I wouldn't be surprised to see them throw Unity out the window on a whim if they found something they liked better. But curmudgeons like me can still slap XFCE on a LTS release and just stay outside of the storm.
Perhaps they mean, as a viable alternative to whatever package management system (or "app store") is unique to your given OS/distro? If that's the case, then my answer would be, no.
True. But I have to ask the same question again: Who's to say that users will be competent enough to know the difference? Users should be smart enough not to reuse passwords, and it's within reason to expect them to recognize when that little green HTTPS padlock is present, but the technical details of how this is handled internally by a legitimate company cannot and will not be understood by the average user.
It does raise an interesting question about where the responsibility of these things lie, and given the fact that you should never give the user the benefit of the doubt, I'm with the OP on this one: the service provider should be bound by a legal responsibility to protect their clients' information. Storing cleartext passwords should've been the first no-no taught on day one of "Web Databases 101."
Of course, there is no "Web Databases 101" (or no employers look for it) so that is why we have self-taught PHP/MySQL scrawlers come in off of the street and pull shit like this.
Also, having a web browser submit a hashed password without SSL would do nothing to protect your account. It could still be intercepted and used by a malicious third party. They just wouldn't know right out in the open what the original password is.
Can't tell what's being Slashvertised here...
But if web developers aren't even hashing up their password db's, who's to say they'll be competent enough to employ SSL?
It was also a planet in the fiction, so they're not basing it on much more than just the name.
Yeah, but this is astronomy and Star Trek, all rolled into one!
But how many computer games that explicitly rely on libraries from Vista/7/8 can even run on now-dated hardware from XP's era?
Milking money might be part of it, but there comes a point where it's no longer worth the investment to have technicians developing and supporting legacy software. Eventually, you need to pool your resources with more pressing and current things. I think they've already given XP plenty of extensions and plenty of warning far in advance that its support will officially end.
I don't even think hardware vendors have shipped computers with XP for half a decade, but maybe I'm wrong?
...isn't that exactly what this article is about?
Joke all you like, but optical media are still very relevant. Netflix is nice but it doesn't have everything available, nor at 1080p.
All that aside, this is not a deal-breaker for me when deciding to buy a console since I already own a dedicated Blu-ray player. I don't think the lack of this capability ever killed a console.
Agreed. Every kiosk I have seen was not actually playable. So I would flip through the list of game teasers using the touch screen, find Assassin's Creed 3 in the list, and tap "Play Video" to at least see what the game looks like running on the system.
But guess what? The "video" was just a slide show of a few screenshots.
Needless to say, my curiosity about the console is not piqued if they don't even want their demo machines to be playable.
Linus Torvalds has another childish temper tantrum. News at 11.
Not even Linus is chair-proof.
Yeah, I had a sizeable collection of half-songs there for a while...
...but will it blend?
Well... Earth effectively cleared that meteor, didn't it? ;)
Sounds like their aim needs some practice.