Let's look at linux, OSX and a few of the other open source based operating systems. All of these systems share a bit of code. So when a bug is found, it's a plus 1 for each of these operating systems. Bugs are found because between all of these operating systems, there is quite a high aggregate number of users(it's pretty stupid to count them as completely separate install bases) - many of these users fit well into the venn diagram for: IT informed & technical persons who are able to find such flaws and bugs in software.
A bit of code is not the same as all the code. Not all (nor most, nor even a lot) of bugs are found in that shared code, as it really only makes up a small percentage of the entire OS.
So even though Microsoft can easily cook the numbers. Let's look at a few more realities. In the world of open source, there is no hiding your vulnerability tally - because everyone sees the code and can check it. There is no such thing as the creative multiple patching of entire subsystems which are counted as a sole vulnerability. Which is very easy to do when you hide your source code from the public.
Not saying this is necessarily done, though it probably is, but there is nothing stopping the online community from lying about bug counts to make more people switch to another OS.
Now since Windows recycles so much code, you can also argue that of course Vista would have less vulnerabilities than XP, after all the entry-level security bugs should all be caught by now, with only newer features having the baptism of fire. This is why userbase makes a difference.
So what you're saying is that other OS'es don't do this exact same thing? That would make sense, it's why it's a new version and not a completely new software.
...you tend to convey more from the data than what it factually states.
No joke. Not only have you totally argued without logic, but you haven't even argued the point. The article was mainly comparing Vista to XP, not Vista to other OSes. It throws them in there to say "haha I'm better" (while I disagree with your post a whole, I do agree that MS blows) but the main point of the article was to say "look, we did better than we did with XP! Upgrade!"
Does no one else realize how much money he has given away? I'm not saying that his company's practices are right by any means, but don't act like he simply makes boatloads of cash and then hordes it all. He has many mutli-billion dollar donations under his belt, and while you may say "but he has so much to spare", it's his money. If he wanted, he could keep it. That's what's great about America, you can do what you want with your money.
So no, I'm not saying that MS has the greatest practices in the world in regards to monopoly, and their software mostly sucks, but at the same point don't act like Bill is an evil money-hording pirate.
That's absolutely asinine. Just because Microsoft screwed up by not making their browser standards compliant, doesn't mean you should punish a majority of the users of it's browser. A lot of people haven't even heard of other browsers that are better, so why should they be punished?
Meh, it's your loss. When you have fewer customers because only a certain percentage of them can view your website, you'll realize that your OMGWTFBLAMEEVERYONE attitude was truly the one at fault, not MS.
Those of us who have processors faster than 300MHz. Which, sad to say for your philosophy, is most of us.
Don't get me wrong, I know my way around the command line and definitely use it much faster and easier than some gui applications, but a lot of the time it's just easier and more convenient for it to be in GUI form.
A simple script that prompts the user to keep the computer on, else shuts down automatically at a certain time would do the trick. You could even get more into it and add the ability to detect if they have been idle for so long, so people that just stepped away from the station are saved.
Indycar some-version-or-other on windows 3.1!!!
It was crazy back then, games these days aren't anywhere near as amazing as they were. Then it was pinball (yes, the same one that still comes with windows). Then risk on a board. Risk owned all others for like a solid year.
Absolutely not. I think personally it's kind of fucked up for a company to not hire you based on smoking habits, but then if you think it's wrong just don't work for that company. Honestly, racism is absolutely stupid to me but if a company doesn't want to hire someone based on race, that's their choice. This is the land of choice. If you want to be racist, that's fine as long as it doesn't infringe on others. I'd say your own business doesn't necessarily infringe on others; They choose to deal with you or not. If I'm paying you, you're damned right I'm going to take EVERYTHING about you into account. It's my money, why should the government have a say in how I spend it?
Well USB 2.0 is faster than IDE. I'm honestly not sure, I thought about this before but I'm sure it makes sense. I figured why not make hard drives use USB as well. I was thinking that USB should be use for all sorts of connections, basically everything in the computer but the LAN.
I know exactly what you mean. I wanted to buy some MS product a long time ago (who KNOWS what I was thinking) and I couldn't find it on their own site. A quick Google, and the first result was the product. Luckily the poor searching and browsing abilities turned me off to the product.
Not really. I work in a retail store and the few that actually could afford to do so can't because the store has limits. Any major retail store will limit it to 1 per customer...like ever. This includes employees.
I do know that at least some of these contractors are just employees that retired and NASA hired back as contractors. My uncle and a group of people he worked with did exactly this.
You people are never happy. Write it more efficient. Ok, it's more efficient, now make it prettier. Now it's sluggish, make it faster. Now it's ugly, make it prettier. You can't have it be both efficient and breathtaking, and when you've got high end hardware you go for breathtaking. If you want it to run at an acceptable FPS, lower the video settings or upgrade your hardware. Don't blame the developers for trying to make the best game they can.
It's not like anyone would buy a machine to use it more than once =S
Your logic is flawed, if someone were to purchase a shrinkwrap machine then they would use it multiple times, and those multiple times would more than make up the 300 of initial capital required for such a venture. It's like any other business, initial capital is required to make money.
It's not always how fast you can download a single file. Even at today's average connection speeds to any given server, this would be extremely useful for those who download multiple files at once, or with the help of a download manager to open several connections to the server (if the server doesn't limit this, some do some don't). It'd also be useful for multiple people using the connection. I personally use a 6.4 (average) mbps connection via cable, but split it with 3 others. I pay 40 a month for it, so I think 25 more a month, especially between the 4 of us, would be well worth it.
See, there's a problem with this. None of these solutions on this page is good enough. The only way to have truly secure anything is to have no reliability on anyone else. This has yet to even be thought of. This means that you and only you knows your password, not even stored on some other server, and there's no way for someone else to guess it or to steal it from you short of forcing you personally to put it in.
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A bit of code is not the same as all the code. Not all (nor most, nor even a lot) of bugs are found in that shared code, as it really only makes up a small percentage of the entire OS.
Not saying this is necessarily done, though it probably is, but there is nothing stopping the online community from lying about bug counts to make more people switch to another OS.
So what you're saying is that other OS'es don't do this exact same thing? That would make sense, it's why it's a new version and not a completely new software.
No joke. Not only have you totally argued without logic, but you haven't even argued the point. The article was mainly comparing Vista to XP, not Vista to other OSes. It throws them in there to say "haha I'm better" (while I disagree with your post a whole, I do agree that MS blows) but the main point of the article was to say "look, we did better than we did with XP! Upgrade!"
Does no one else realize how much money he has given away? I'm not saying that his company's practices are right by any means, but don't act like he simply makes boatloads of cash and then hordes it all. He has many mutli-billion dollar donations under his belt, and while you may say "but he has so much to spare", it's his money. If he wanted, he could keep it. That's what's great about America, you can do what you want with your money.
So no, I'm not saying that MS has the greatest practices in the world in regards to monopoly, and their software mostly sucks, but at the same point don't act like Bill is an evil money-hording pirate.
That's absolutely asinine. Just because Microsoft screwed up by not making their browser standards compliant, doesn't mean you should punish a majority of the users of it's browser. A lot of people haven't even heard of other browsers that are better, so why should they be punished?
Meh, it's your loss. When you have fewer customers because only a certain percentage of them can view your website, you'll realize that your OMGWTFBLAMEEVERYONE attitude was truly the one at fault, not MS.
Those of us who have processors faster than 300MHz. Which, sad to say for your philosophy, is most of us. Don't get me wrong, I know my way around the command line and definitely use it much faster and easier than some gui applications, but a lot of the time it's just easier and more convenient for it to be in GUI form.
The drunk college kids are the best kind. Who else would be willing to have a threesome with 2 random people (you and some other chick)?
A simple script that prompts the user to keep the computer on, else shuts down automatically at a certain time would do the trick. You could even get more into it and add the ability to detect if they have been idle for so long, so people that just stepped away from the station are saved.
Indycar some-version-or-other on windows 3.1!!! It was crazy back then, games these days aren't anywhere near as amazing as they were. Then it was pinball (yes, the same one that still comes with windows). Then risk on a board. Risk owned all others for like a solid year.
Absolutely not. I think personally it's kind of fucked up for a company to not hire you based on smoking habits, but then if you think it's wrong just don't work for that company. Honestly, racism is absolutely stupid to me but if a company doesn't want to hire someone based on race, that's their choice. This is the land of choice. If you want to be racist, that's fine as long as it doesn't infringe on others. I'd say your own business doesn't necessarily infringe on others; They choose to deal with you or not. If I'm paying you, you're damned right I'm going to take EVERYTHING about you into account. It's my money, why should the government have a say in how I spend it?
Well USB 2.0 is faster than IDE. I'm honestly not sure, I thought about this before but I'm sure it makes sense. I figured why not make hard drives use USB as well. I was thinking that USB should be use for all sorts of connections, basically everything in the computer but the LAN.
I know exactly what you mean. I wanted to buy some MS product a long time ago (who KNOWS what I was thinking) and I couldn't find it on their own site. A quick Google, and the first result was the product. Luckily the poor searching and browsing abilities turned me off to the product.
Yet we'll still only get 2kbps upload for our torrents.
Nonsense, it won't be a bad day at Scrabble until it's HHDDVVDDBVD!
Why not just use 2 copies of FireFox? They can be installed in parallel. I've currently got 1.4, 2.0.0.10, and the beta 2 installed.
We should sue the database. It's the American way!
If it bothers you that much, then you're looking for something to bug you. Get over it, act your age.
When I'm stuck in a plane, I don't want to be forced to listen to you nag about my phone call.
Get over it, it's someone talking. It's really not gonna bother you that much, you're just being selfish and immature.
Not really. I work in a retail store and the few that actually could afford to do so can't because the store has limits. Any major retail store will limit it to 1 per customer...like ever. This includes employees.
Nonsense, on my Chevy Optiplex, it runs on pure gasoline. Boy I'll tell ya, I wanna go shoot me some animals right about now.
I do know that at least some of these contractors are just employees that retired and NASA hired back as contractors. My uncle and a group of people he worked with did exactly this.
You people are never happy. Write it more efficient. Ok, it's more efficient, now make it prettier. Now it's sluggish, make it faster. Now it's ugly, make it prettier. You can't have it be both efficient and breathtaking, and when you've got high end hardware you go for breathtaking. If you want it to run at an acceptable FPS, lower the video settings or upgrade your hardware. Don't blame the developers for trying to make the best game they can.
It's not like anyone would buy a machine to use it more than once =S
Your logic is flawed, if someone were to purchase a shrinkwrap machine then they would use it multiple times, and those multiple times would more than make up the 300 of initial capital required for such a venture. It's like any other business, initial capital is required to make money.
It's not always how fast you can download a single file. Even at today's average connection speeds to any given server, this would be extremely useful for those who download multiple files at once, or with the help of a download manager to open several connections to the server (if the server doesn't limit this, some do some don't). It'd also be useful for multiple people using the connection. I personally use a 6.4 (average) mbps connection via cable, but split it with 3 others. I pay 40 a month for it, so I think 25 more a month, especially between the 4 of us, would be well worth it.
See, there's a problem with this. None of these solutions on this page is good enough. The only way to have truly secure anything is to have no reliability on anyone else. This has yet to even be thought of. This means that you and only you knows your password, not even stored on some other server, and there's no way for someone else to guess it or to steal it from you short of forcing you personally to put it in.
We could use a series of connected tubes to do so. Ask Ted Stevens, or even Al Gore, the inventer or this series of tubes.