In the meantime, I'll carry on promoting Firefox and others so that eventually IE becomes the NS4 of the browser world and I can stop dealing with a minority product. And this would make Firefox... IE? Something doesn't seem quite right.
No, but they shouldn't be making mistakes like these. They're supposed to be good at marketing, right? I'm sure the job is a lot harder than I think it is, but even as a marketing director you shouldn't make statements you are unsure about without verifying it first.
Good thing though, Obama seems to have some sort of grasp about the concept of computers and the interwebs. Or just a good grasp of what his advisors tell him to say, in order to get the vote of the "Slashdot crowd."
The main problem I see with Vista was that it failed to deliver to the hype. I remember back in '03 or so (when I didn't know very much about computers) reading in Newsweek an interview of Bill Gates about Longhorn, and all the amazing stuff that they were going to put into it. This was 2003, and by 2005, barely any of it was implemented at all--and this was something that was stated in Newsweek, not some "obscure" tech journal. Microsoft was telling average people about the new features in Vista, and they didn't do it. Vista isn't an extremely bad product, but it fails from a marketing standpoint. It didn't meet the hype that Microsoft put out for it, and consumers were disappointed. Most people probably don't know much about the DRM, just like they don't know about the rewritten parts of Vista. However, they will notice if their operating system is slow (not everyone knows how to install RAM) or incompatible with hardware (would they care whether or not it's MS's fault?) or if software is written badly and UAC prompts keep popping up. They just want to use a computer that works.
Encrypted RAM is pointless. If you want to read it, you have to unencrypt it anyways, so the key has to be stored somewhere that can be read by the computer. If your computer is subpoenaed, you would have to provide it's contents anyways. As if you could.
The summary says that the users are self-selected. I get the feeling that people who chose to use Linux as a desktop OS are more likely to vote in such a poll than those who use Linux servers for their work.
My Vista laptop comes out of standby in a couple of seconds (less than 5). I highly doubt your computer boots in less than that time, hell, it probably doesn't even POST in that time.
It also takes craploads of computing power to do though, which means more expensive hardware. I know Google has many servers, but they don't buy servers for fun... upconverting video at the rate it is being uploaded to YouTube at would be an insane task.
If the cars had a 1% chance of getting into an accident, they'd be worse than most humans... and the last thing the Pentagon wants to do is sponsor a race that causes car accidents.
I highly doubt that home chemistry sets cause terrorism... little kids aren't going to go make bombs and blow people up, and people who want to make bombs can easily obtain the materials from elsewhere. I think a bigger problem is the fear that children would hurt themselves accidentally by ingesting chemicals and such.
Basically, if packets are routed through the USA, the NSA can depend on other countries help to get the information, and they in turn can get the data. If the packets are not routed through the USA, the NSA can get the data themselves. This is true for other countries as well. It doesn't matter where the Internet packets are routed through; either way, security will get the data.
Solution? Encrypt all data you send. Not feasible, but there isn't really any option if you want to keep your data private.
What does lack of DRM cause?
If there is no DRM, would people all of a sudden decide to go buy stuff instead of pirating it? Doesn't seem very likely to me.
Actually the same goes for people using MS Office. Microsoft can decide not to patch some flaw that essentially makes MS Office unusable for certain people (due to security reasons, for example). Microsoft can also raise the prices for updates to where it isn't cost-effective for many of their clients. They can 'push' updates that reduce functionality. In theory. I got the idea that even if you don't upgrade MS Office at least you still have your files on your hard drive? Which means that you could look up the document specification and theoretically still access the data in your files without using Office at all... whereas the idea is that Google can shut you out from your data to the point that the only way you can access it is if you hack into Google servers.
Because the public schools don't teach a bloody thing anymore unless you live in a rich district.
Agreed... but the reason isn't because the district has money; the district is good because of the same reason that it's rich. People from rich districts tend to come from well-educated parents (hence the affluence), which results in people who value education and brings a high quality educational program to the district. That results in more well-educated parents brining their children into the district... and the cycle continues. Meanwhile in poor districts, the students have bigger problems to worry about than education, and an atmosphere that doesn't value education as much.
Now, the previous paragraph probably comes from the brainwashing that I got from my economics teacher after watching a video about different school districts. But can you really blame the students in the poorer districts for not being able to learn? When the first thing a student from a poor district comes to my school and the first thing he says is, "you can actually use the bathrooms here"? I don't know about you, but I wouldn't give a crap about learning something when all the bathrooms are vandalized to the point where they are unusable.
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Now I understand how Yahoo! Answers is the perfect reference tool. Ask it any question you want, and some guy might come and give an answer to you...No, but they shouldn't be making mistakes like these. They're supposed to be good at marketing, right? I'm sure the job is a lot harder than I think it is, but even as a marketing director you shouldn't make statements you are unsure about without verifying it first.
... your own marketing director has no clue about the product he is actually trying to market. Who comes up with those stickers, anyways?
The main problem I see with Vista was that it failed to deliver to the hype. I remember back in '03 or so (when I didn't know very much about computers) reading in Newsweek an interview of Bill Gates about Longhorn, and all the amazing stuff that they were going to put into it. This was 2003, and by 2005, barely any of it was implemented at all--and this was something that was stated in Newsweek, not some "obscure" tech journal. Microsoft was telling average people about the new features in Vista, and they didn't do it. Vista isn't an extremely bad product, but it fails from a marketing standpoint. It didn't meet the hype that Microsoft put out for it, and consumers were disappointed. Most people probably don't know much about the DRM, just like they don't know about the rewritten parts of Vista. However, they will notice if their operating system is slow (not everyone knows how to install RAM) or incompatible with hardware (would they care whether or not it's MS's fault?) or if software is written badly and UAC prompts keep popping up. They just want to use a computer that works.
Encrypted RAM is pointless. If you want to read it, you have to unencrypt it anyways, so the key has to be stored somewhere that can be read by the computer. If your computer is subpoenaed, you would have to provide it's contents anyways. As if you could.
The summary says that the users are self-selected. I get the feeling that people who chose to use Linux as a desktop OS are more likely to vote in such a poll than those who use Linux servers for their work.
My Vista laptop comes out of standby in a couple of seconds (less than 5). I highly doubt your computer boots in less than that time, hell, it probably doesn't even POST in that time.
It also takes craploads of computing power to do though, which means more expensive hardware. I know Google has many servers, but they don't buy servers for fun... upconverting video at the rate it is being uploaded to YouTube at would be an insane task.
Driver problems on a processor compatible with current motherboards?
I don't think that's a news story. Why was your post modded informative, and not funny?
Ironically, Windows Vista is the first version to ship with automatic autorun disabled by default.
Companies provide incentives for you to buy their products. What's new?
If the cars had a 1% chance of getting into an accident, they'd be worse than most humans... and the last thing the Pentagon wants to do is sponsor a race that causes car accidents.
psh, $200? You should go for the expensive stuff. And those are just the interconnects; speaker cables run you 50% more.
I highly doubt that home chemistry sets cause terrorism... little kids aren't going to go make bombs and blow people up, and people who want to make bombs can easily obtain the materials from elsewhere. I think a bigger problem is the fear that children would hurt themselves accidentally by ingesting chemicals and such.
It's not the end 2008 yet. Apparently their standards haven't changed. Still, I would've expected them to put up a version in odf format.
Apparently MC Hawking's string theory isn't good enough to account for the Slashdot effect.
Basically, if packets are routed through the USA, the NSA can depend on other countries help to get the information, and they in turn can get the data. If the packets are not routed through the USA, the NSA can get the data themselves. This is true for other countries as well. It doesn't matter where the Internet packets are routed through; either way, security will get the data. Solution? Encrypt all data you send. Not feasible, but there isn't really any option if you want to keep your data private.
What does lack of DRM cause? If there is no DRM, would people all of a sudden decide to go buy stuff instead of pirating it? Doesn't seem very likely to me.
Or maybe it could mean that they haven't written a patch yet, hence why it's a Zero-Day attack.
Agreed... but the reason isn't because the district has money; the district is good because of the same reason that it's rich. People from rich districts tend to come from well-educated parents (hence the affluence), which results in people who value education and brings a high quality educational program to the district. That results in more well-educated parents brining their children into the district... and the cycle continues. Meanwhile in poor districts, the students have bigger problems to worry about than education, and an atmosphere that doesn't value education as much.
Now, the previous paragraph probably comes from the brainwashing that I got from my economics teacher after watching a video about different school districts. But can you really blame the students in the poorer districts for not being able to learn? When the first thing a student from a poor district comes to my school and the first thing he says is, "you can actually use the bathrooms here"? I don't know about you, but I wouldn't give a crap about learning something when all the bathrooms are vandalized to the point where they are unusable.