As others may have stated -- but I definitely want to underline -- the broken security model of Microsoft Windows causes significant potential for harm by this exploit. I guess if you run Windows you're accustomed to grabbing your ankles though.
I'm at the point where if you run Windows and have the audacity to complain about the exploits, bugs, worms, trojans, et al, you get no sympathy from me. The world has known about Microsoft's crappy security for decades, and Microsoft has done little to improve it. How many unscheduled patches have rolled out their door lately? Why do they have a "malicious software removal tool" updated monthly? (Hint: it's not because Windows is well-designed)
To use a car analogy, Microsoft produces cars, all of which have this huge hole in their roofs. Instead of redesigning the roof or putting something over the hole, they want you to buy a carpet replacement subscription. Each time, you dole out the money for a new copy of Windows, thinking "this will be the one!" and each time you are disappointed. When will you get smart?
I'm not quite ready to say that Microsoft chooses to have broken security, but it's obvious -- if that's not the case -- that Microsoft clearly doesn't understand security. But is that really better? How many people do you know who have been infested with viruses, trojans, etc on Windows operating systems? How many of those got infected despite installing antivirus software and keeping their machines up-to-date? Nowadays having only antivirus on a Windows machine is just asking to be rooted, and I don't think it's the new computer users' fault. It's getting worse every day.
I just got rid of a G3 400 iMac DV SE because it was too slow... but it still worked. It had some old version of FireFox on it.
I still have an eMac G3 800 running Safari and FireFox (again an old version) but it still works. One day I guess I'll throw it out too, but my teenage daughter uses it and it works for her sites.
You missed the point. GP was complaining that a certain solution didn't work, but wasn't willing to put forth the care or effort to find out if this solution was compatible before purchase. I know if I'm spending $1000 on something I check to make sure it works first, using any of the available online tools such as Google.
Another example of this type of fail would be buying a car that required diesel, then putting unleaded in it instead, and complaining that it didn't work. PEBKAC.
In other words, use whatever OS you want -- really, I don't care -- but don't complain later when you didn't bother to check for basic compatibility before purchase, only to discover it's incompatible or lacking features when used with the OS or accessories you selected.
Any kind of ability to load arbitrary files onto an iPhone (i.e. a generic "documents" folder)
Files Lite works great. If the file is supported you can view it also, otherwise you can use the iPod Touch / iPhone as a data storage device and access it via any web browser connected on the same LAN segment (in other words it's not a cloud storage app; I prefer my files to stay local). There's a paid version with more features. Works great for me.
The DOJ has already limited what Microsoft can and can't put in its OS. To the point that you do not instigate another legal battle with them, sure you could add whatever you want. But before you start releasing your Photoshop- or Quicken-killer along with Windows, you might want to rethink it.
Open source could not suffer from this because by definition it's never a monopoly.
For the same reason we share costs in infrastructure (that we all enjoy), costs in schooling (even for those who have no children), costs in social programs (in the form of taxes), costs in state-run programs (in the form of taxes), we require those who wish to live in and enjoy our society to join in its upkeep. Caring for our people is part of that.
That's not slavery, that's enlightenment. Maybe you have to be older to understand; many things I thought made no sense when I was younger make sense now. It could be a mellowing of my mind or perhaps I'm just senile.
"The moral test of a government is how it treats those who are at the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those who are in the shadow of life, the sick and the needy, and the handicapped." - Hubert Humphrey
And if you're religious (I'm not but this is a good lesson to teach people):
Matthew, Chapter 25
Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the world's foundation:
for I hungered, and ye gave me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;
naked, and ye clothed me; I was ill, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came to me.
Then shall the righteous answer him saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, and nourished thee; or thirsting, and gave thee to drink?
and when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in; or naked, and clothed thee?
and when saw we thee ill, or in prison, and came to thee?
And the King answering shall say to them, Verily, I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me.
Wrong forum. If you're serious about having FireFox issues, post in one of their forums where you might make some progress. Here you'll get nothing but scorn. Well, derision and scorn. Anger, derision and scorn... wait, let me start over...
I can't think of any reason to include this into a web browser. System-wide, I use Address Book (I'm on a Mac). For those on Windows, Thunderbird has an integrated address book.
Am I missing something?
Oh, and Mozilla, DON'T SCREW UP THIS BROWSER kthksbye
...settling for a lesser quality product because the OS you use on your computer is exploitable by just about any idiot out there is stupid.
As I explained, I do not feel downloadable music is in any way inferior to physical media, for the reasons I gave as well as I can't hear the difference. Maybe it's me, maybe it's my equipment (and far more likely it's me since I was a car audio enthusiast for my teenage years; I competed and placed in several IASCA events) but unless I'm listening to classical music I really can't hear 160KB vs 256KB vs physical CD anymore.
condemning a whole industry because one label was insidious enough to root people's (Windows based) computers is over reacting.
Huh? I switched delivery method for my music. That's hardly condemning a whole industry. They still get my money, but on my terms. Besides I'm still mad that I have to pay full price for new CD's that I bought and then lost / scratched / had stolen / etc. There's another reason for abandoning the physical media. Or are you referring to my move away from Windows -- the OS which allowed this to happen despite having paid antivirus installed/configured/running at all times? The Windows security model obviously was seriously flawed enough to allow this to happen, so I migrated away from it.
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My health care is renewing, and I have a choice to reduce my costs by $1000 per year for a disaster-only high deductible plan or raise them by $1000 by taking the HMO. The PPO is $2000 higher. That's after we switched health insurance companies to try and save costs. So the prices are up for everyone I assume.
The real question is do these changes provide a method to reduce individual costs by enlarging the pool and providing more power to the government to rein in these insurance companies? Recently I saw an ABC News article about some college kid who took out a health policy at the beginning of the school year and tested HIV positive later that year. The company dropped him on a technicality and after investigation it was found to have embraced that tactic for scores of others. It makes me sick that this is someone who did the right thing by paying for insurance and then had to go through this brouhaha. The stigma of the disease is one thing, not receiving care you need is heartless.
I think if you're going to compare prices, you need to also compare the cost of manufacturing. Yes, there is a lot more money spent on marketing -- but there are also many times more customers -- so I think that portion of the cost hasn't significantly changed. I am just pulling a WAG here but I'd think that selling CD's for $5 would still be as profitable as those vinyl records were then.
Actually I'm of the opposite mindset. Not only do the downloaded versions not have to be ripped, but they cannot contain trojans from Sony. That's been one of the reasons I haven't bought any physical CD's in a very long time.
For me, the whole Sony problem was not academic as I was one of the people who had the rootkit. I wasted a lot of time researching and removing it and finally just wiped the system and started over -- with a Mac.
I'm just curious why you went with Home Premium rather than Pro or Ultimate. I'd think those products would be more suited to the/. crowd. If you're going to use Windows, don't you want to use their "best"?
(And yes I'm really curious, I use XP Pro but not 7. The members of our MIS team who have tried 7 have run into some issues so we haven't adopted it yet. I'm holding out until they have time to pick it apart before I spend any real time on it.)
the "higher level" style of programming -- where you lose some control but can supposedly create more apps in the same unit time. I'm not convinced that this is a win for anyone. I'm a bit of a control freak though.
the insistence of cramming every conceivable options into a program. Yes, most software allows you to check and uncheck options but it's a tedious process and most people just do the "typical" install, resulting in GB of extra crap they will never use.
Programmers today have vastly improved storage, processors, bandwidth, etc and they aren't from the generation where you had to be crafty to shave time off the compilation / execution / memory requirements. I blame many of the current IDEs for this, see 1st point.
Programmers today don't regard their jobs as engineers -- and before I start a flame war let me say that I consider software engineers different from the programmers you see at the majority of places today. Software engineers thoroughly understand the implications of their decisions and aren't tapping in code chunks they found on the web.
The industry as a whole (not real-time OS's or some portable / embedded device programming -- most of them still "get it") has adopted the view that programmer time is expensive and hardware is cheap.
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What's the solution? I say to start, give the programmers a VM with very limited CPU / memory and let them feel the pain. They will understand better because their top-of-the line machine helps hides so much information including timing bugs. They will spend more time tweaking performance and this will prompt them to make some different programming decisions. I still see people coding all communications in XML because they can't imagine why you'd want the data in a compact format... if it's in-house and you control all interfaces, my view is to make things compact even if it sacrifices the tool- or language- or communication protocol-of-the-day. If you're an Amazon and many people need to communicate with you in an open way, XML makes more sense. </rant>
The plaintiff(s) would have been wise to just save their time and not bother bringing a lawyer into the matter, as in the end they will likely end up paying a lot more money to that lawyer than they will ever see form the company they just sued.
The important part is that a precedent has been set, so this guy's hiring a lawyer may not benefit him but will undoubtedly benefit many others. Sometimes you have to just go with the greater good, knowing that it will all work out in the end. Someone has to stand up and light the first match, so to speak, to get the fire going.
I have a similar setup so maybe some of the things I found may be helpful.
I use a MacBook Pro (with Tiger) running XP in a Parallels 4 VM. I'm a domain admin and it works very well for me. I use OpenOffice, Thunderbird and Lightning on both OSX and inside the VM. Every couple of nights I shut down the VM and copy its file (actually an OS X package) to an external drive; I keep 2 copies. For AV I use Trend Micro in the VM. It's all good.
I do not have the VM syncing to my iPhone / iPod Touch however -- I manually add events to iCal in OSX as they arrive in my email. Supposedly you can have it publish the info but it was a lot of bother and this works very well for me. My iPhone also syncs with our Exchange 2000 server; I use IMAP on both it and for Thunderbird and tell it to leave 7 day's email. The only thing I can't easily do is accept a meeting invite on the iPhone or for some Outlook 2007 requests people send to me that I receive in Thunderbird (the 2007 items have no ICS file, and the older ones with the ICS file won't open on the iPhone. Either way I have to open up webmail and handle it from there).
For my typical usage (FireFox, Thunderbird, Terminal, Preview / Acrobat, and a bunch of rdesktop and PuTTY sessions running) Tiger works best by having 4GB of memory and allocating just over 1GB to the VM.
My gods, man, what are you doing? Stop it! Stop it!
We cannot have intelligent discussion occurring here and I'm afraid your post is way too insightful for this place. Just think of the children! Before long they will get these funny ideas in their heads and then it's off to school or heaven forbid it, a career! Of all the shameful things! Then look what you've done!
Remember this is a silly place for silly comments, such as "In Soviet Russia, equations calculate you", or "it's equations, all the way down". If you have a pro- or anti- Linux stance now is the time to make it known. Kindly do us a favor and think before you post, but not too much.
The pasta is noticeably triangular, with mild hints of rhomboids and parallelograms. The finish is decidedly circular, which earns this dish a top rating. Four stars!
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As others may have stated -- but I definitely want to underline -- the broken security model of Microsoft Windows causes significant potential for harm by this exploit. I guess if you run Windows you're accustomed to grabbing your ankles though.
I'm at the point where if you run Windows and have the audacity to complain about the exploits, bugs, worms, trojans, et al, you get no sympathy from me. The world has known about Microsoft's crappy security for decades, and Microsoft has done little to improve it. How many unscheduled patches have rolled out their door lately? Why do they have a "malicious software removal tool" updated monthly? (Hint: it's not because Windows is well-designed)
To use a car analogy, Microsoft produces cars, all of which have this huge hole in their roofs. Instead of redesigning the roof or putting something over the hole, they want you to buy a carpet replacement subscription. Each time, you dole out the money for a new copy of Windows, thinking "this will be the one!" and each time you are disappointed. When will you get smart?
I'm not quite ready to say that Microsoft chooses to have broken security, but it's obvious -- if that's not the case -- that Microsoft clearly doesn't understand security. But is that really better? How many people do you know who have been infested with viruses, trojans, etc on Windows operating systems? How many of those got infected despite installing antivirus software and keeping their machines up-to-date? Nowadays having only antivirus on a Windows machine is just asking to be rooted, and I don't think it's the new computer users' fault. It's getting worse every day.
Grow some, kid. Posting as AC just makes you look even dumber.
I just got rid of a G3 400 iMac DV SE because it was too slow... but it still worked. It had some old version of FireFox on it.
I still have an eMac G3 800 running Safari and FireFox (again an old version) but it still works. One day I guess I'll throw it out too, but my teenage daughter uses it and it works for her sites.
You missed the point. GP was complaining that a certain solution didn't work, but wasn't willing to put forth the care or effort to find out if this solution was compatible before purchase. I know if I'm spending $1000 on something I check to make sure it works first, using any of the available online tools such as Google.
Another example of this type of fail would be buying a car that required diesel, then putting unleaded in it instead, and complaining that it didn't work. PEBKAC.
In other words, use whatever OS you want -- really, I don't care -- but don't complain later when you didn't bother to check for basic compatibility before purchase, only to discover it's incompatible or lacking features when used with the OS or accessories you selected.
Any kind of ability to load arbitrary files onto an iPhone (i.e. a generic "documents" folder)
Files Lite works great. If the file is supported you can view it also, otherwise you can use the iPod Touch / iPhone as a data storage device and access it via any web browser connected on the same LAN segment (in other words it's not a cloud storage app; I prefer my files to stay local). There's a paid version with more features. Works great for me.
Firefox 3.6.2 Mac does not work. Apparently it's another difference between the Windows version and the Mac version.
The DOJ has already limited what Microsoft can and can't put in its OS. To the point that you do not instigate another legal battle with them, sure you could add whatever you want. But before you start releasing your Photoshop- or Quicken-killer along with Windows, you might want to rethink it.
Open source could not suffer from this because by definition it's never a monopoly.
For the same reason we share costs in infrastructure (that we all enjoy), costs in schooling (even for those who have no children), costs in social programs (in the form of taxes), costs in state-run programs (in the form of taxes), we require those who wish to live in and enjoy our society to join in its upkeep. Caring for our people is part of that.
That's not slavery, that's enlightenment. Maybe you have to be older to understand; many things I thought made no sense when I was younger make sense now. It could be a mellowing of my mind or perhaps I'm just senile.
I only hope this bill can help you and it isn't too late. I've lost a lot of friends and family to cancer. Keep fighting it!
Ummm... no.
"The moral test of a government is how it treats those who are at the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those who are in the shadow of life, the sick and the needy, and the handicapped." - Hubert Humphrey
And if you're religious (I'm not but this is a good lesson to teach people):
Matthew, Chapter 25
Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the world's foundation:
for I hungered, and ye gave me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;
naked, and ye clothed me; I was ill, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came to me.
Then shall the righteous answer him saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, and nourished thee; or thirsting, and gave thee to drink?
and when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in; or naked, and clothed thee?
and when saw we thee ill, or in prison, and came to thee?
And the King answering shall say to them, Verily, I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me.
Too true! Kudos to whomever came up with this.
... Because the first impression is the most important.
Wrong forum. If you're serious about having FireFox issues, post in one of their forums where you might make some progress. Here you'll get nothing but scorn. Well, derision and scorn. Anger, derision and scorn... wait, let me start over...
I can't think of any reason to include this into a web browser. System-wide, I use Address Book (I'm on a Mac). For those on Windows, Thunderbird has an integrated address book.
Am I missing something?
Oh, and Mozilla, DON'T SCREW UP THIS BROWSER kthksbye
...settling for a lesser quality product because the OS you use on your computer is exploitable by just about any idiot out there is stupid.
As I explained, I do not feel downloadable music is in any way inferior to physical media, for the reasons I gave as well as I can't hear the difference. Maybe it's me, maybe it's my equipment (and far more likely it's me since I was a car audio enthusiast for my teenage years; I competed and placed in several IASCA events) but unless I'm listening to classical music I really can't hear 160KB vs 256KB vs physical CD anymore.
condemning a whole industry because one label was insidious enough to root people's (Windows based) computers is over reacting.
Huh? I switched delivery method for my music. That's hardly condemning a whole industry. They still get my money, but on my terms. Besides I'm still mad that I have to pay full price for new CD's that I bought and then lost / scratched / had stolen / etc. There's another reason for abandoning the physical media.
Or are you referring to my move away from Windows -- the OS which allowed this to happen despite having paid antivirus installed/configured/running at all times? The Windows security model obviously was seriously flawed enough to allow this to happen, so I migrated away from it.
My health care is renewing, and I have a choice to reduce my costs by $1000 per year for a disaster-only high deductible plan or raise them by $1000 by taking the HMO. The PPO is $2000 higher. That's after we switched health insurance companies to try and save costs. So the prices are up for everyone I assume.
The real question is do these changes provide a method to reduce individual costs by enlarging the pool and providing more power to the government to rein in these insurance companies? Recently I saw an ABC News article about some college kid who took out a health policy at the beginning of the school year and tested HIV positive later that year. The company dropped him on a technicality and after investigation it was found to have embraced that tactic for scores of others. It makes me sick that this is someone who did the right thing by paying for insurance and then had to go through this brouhaha. The stigma of the disease is one thing, not receiving care you need is heartless.
I think if you're going to compare prices, you need to also compare the cost of manufacturing. Yes, there is a lot more money spent on marketing -- but there are also many times more customers -- so I think that portion of the cost hasn't significantly changed. I am just pulling a WAG here but I'd think that selling CD's for $5 would still be as profitable as those vinyl records were then.
Actually I'm of the opposite mindset. Not only do the downloaded versions not have to be ripped, but they cannot contain trojans from Sony. That's been one of the reasons I haven't bought any physical CD's in a very long time.
For me, the whole Sony problem was not academic as I was one of the people who had the rootkit. I wasted a lot of time researching and removing it and finally just wiped the system and started over -- with a Mac.
I'm just curious why you went with Home Premium rather than Pro or Ultimate. I'd think those products would be more suited to the /. crowd. If you're going to use Windows, don't you want to use their "best"?
(And yes I'm really curious, I use XP Pro but not 7. The members of our MIS team who have tried 7 have run into some issues so we haven't adopted it yet. I'm holding out until they have time to pick it apart before I spend any real time on it.)
Why have programs grown so bloated.
My guess is these factors all play a role:
<rant>
What's the solution? I say to start, give the programmers a VM with very limited CPU / memory and let them feel the pain. They will understand better because their top-of-the line machine helps hides so much information including timing bugs. They will spend more time tweaking performance and this will prompt them to make some different programming decisions. I still see people coding all communications in XML because they can't imagine why you'd want the data in a compact format... if it's in-house and you control all interfaces, my view is to make things compact even if it sacrifices the tool- or language- or communication protocol-of-the-day. If you're an Amazon and many people need to communicate with you in an open way, XML makes more sense.
</rant>
The plaintiff(s) would have been wise to just save their time and not bother bringing a lawyer into the matter, as in the end they will likely end up paying a lot more money to that lawyer than they will ever see form the company they just sued.
The important part is that a precedent has been set, so this guy's hiring a lawyer may not benefit him but will undoubtedly benefit many others. Sometimes you have to just go with the greater good, knowing that it will all work out in the end. Someone has to stand up and light the first match, so to speak, to get the fire going.
...why $1000?
Maybe they're trying to assign a cost according to the RIAA per-song tariffs.
I have a similar setup so maybe some of the things I found may be helpful.
I use a MacBook Pro (with Tiger) running XP in a Parallels 4 VM. I'm a domain admin and it works very well for me. I use OpenOffice, Thunderbird and Lightning on both OSX and inside the VM. Every couple of nights I shut down the VM and copy its file (actually an OS X package) to an external drive; I keep 2 copies. For AV I use Trend Micro in the VM. It's all good.
I do not have the VM syncing to my iPhone / iPod Touch however -- I manually add events to iCal in OSX as they arrive in my email. Supposedly you can have it publish the info but it was a lot of bother and this works very well for me. My iPhone also syncs with our Exchange 2000 server; I use IMAP on both it and for Thunderbird and tell it to leave 7 day's email. The only thing I can't easily do is accept a meeting invite on the iPhone or for some Outlook 2007 requests people send to me that I receive in Thunderbird (the 2007 items have no ICS file, and the older ones with the ICS file won't open on the iPhone. Either way I have to open up webmail and handle it from there).
For my typical usage (FireFox, Thunderbird, Terminal, Preview / Acrobat, and a bunch of rdesktop and PuTTY sessions running) Tiger works best by having 4GB of memory and allocating just over 1GB to the VM.
My gods, man, what are you doing? Stop it! Stop it!
We cannot have intelligent discussion occurring here and I'm afraid your post is way too insightful for this place. Just think of the children! Before long they will get these funny ideas in their heads and then it's off to school or heaven forbid it, a career! Of all the shameful things! Then look what you've done!
Remember this is a silly place for silly comments, such as "In Soviet Russia, equations calculate you", or "it's equations, all the way down". If you have a pro- or anti- Linux stance now is the time to make it known. Kindly do us a favor and think before you post, but not too much.
All right, now get on with it!
The pasta is noticeably triangular, with mild hints of rhomboids and parallelograms. The finish is decidedly circular, which earns this dish a top rating. Four stars!