It seems that their products are complelty unstable and useless, and are outragously expensive for what they are... crapware:)
It seems m$'s problem is ALL THEY CARE ABOUT NOW IS $$$, not the quality or stability of their products.
Windows XP: Okay. Although I found Linux to be much better, at least XP was usable. Only 2 versions.
Windows Vista: Outragously expensive with 6 DAMN VERSIONS, all of them give you the same shitty operating system. Constant nag screens, Cancel/Allow dialogs, horrible performance for gaming and media playback (Any games older than 2005 screw up on my system with my new nVidia 8600GT graphics card)... it goes on and on.
And it's not just OSes. Even their games suck.
Xbox: Good system, doesn't blow up, 1 version, good online play, best system on the market in it's time
Xbox 360: Horrible system, huge risk of blowing it up and getting an RRoD, 4-6 DAMN VERSIONS (notice the trend here, we go from 1 to 4 versions of the Xbox 360, and 2 to 6 versions of Windows Vista), now useless HD-DVD, outragously pathetic attempts to rip off the consumers ($50 a year just to play games online with Xbox Live, $10 DLC thats FREE on the PC and PS3), targeted at kids so they don't understand they're being scammed.
Halo 3: Overhyped, mediocre, 3 DAMN VERSIONS (again, notice the trend with versions and editions), low quality, rushed just to make $$$, $10 DLC every few months (3 damn maps for $10, what a ripoff), aimed at kids because of how much of a ripoff it is, etc.
Notice the trend here? Over capitalism, a complete loss of quality and performance, and they just rip you off.
m$ is going down soon. Like every company, they can't last forever.
I'm in the same situation your in. In my neighborhood, half of us can get FiOS but half of us cant (including me). I've been waiting for 2 years to get off Comcast so I can actually use my service for what I want to!
What idiots, Comcast are so desperate to save their own dumb asses from a federal investigation that they rely on a law passed in 1946! They didn't even have computers back then (besides the ones that take up a whole building and have as much memory as my cell phone), let alone the Internet!
When they passed that act, I'm sure they could have never guessed we would have the Internet, let alone guess that corporations would be sooo evil like they are now that they would use censorship and dirty politics to violate our civil liberties...
AV Software has the tendency to annoy the shit out of the user (constant nagging to be updated or upgraded, scanning your entire hard drive every time you turn the computer on, ruining your computer's Internet connection because of false attacks, etc...
The Internet allowed any journalist to publish a story, even serous ones that some people may not want you to read.
Before the Internet, you had all media controlled by a few billionaire corporate fascists that always take a political point of view (Fox especially), so certain stories would never get there (Would you see a story saying something bad about the War on Terror on Fox News, for example?). So stories could be censored if they made serious implications or accusations, or were negitive to a specofic person.
Suddenly, we have the Internet. Now we are all free! Anyone can be a journalist, and you don't have to fear being censored or prosecuted. No one can censor a story.
Ultimately, the Internet revolutionized journalism, changing it from a 1 sided, biased, and controlled system to a free and open ssytem where everyone knows what is going on.
Linux vs Windows flame wars always remind me of a quote I heard once:
"Remember, amatures built the Ark, professionals built the Titanic!"
I always think of that as "Remember, amatures built Linux, professionals built the Ark":)
I've been using Linux for the past year and a half because it actually runs perfectly, and is very fun to experiment with:)
I could NEVER run a complete server on a Windows PC, but on Linux I can run Apache, MySQL, and PHP, which are SO much better than the $1,000+ Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft ASP.NET.
I've been following all the Scientology stories for a while now, and I've arrived at the conclusion that Scientology wants to be the new Bush, destroying civil liberties and scaring everyone into doing stuff (and not doing stuff, like expressing their First Amendment right to freedom to protest).
They got control of E-bay for a day??? Wtf? Then they try to violate American's First Amendment rights just to prevent a group from expressing their opinion about Scientology? BS!
I guess CoS learned from Bush and his PATRIOT Act:)
MySpace is notoriously insecure and a hacker or spammer's playground. The first thing I noticed when I created an account 10 months ago is that there was no HTTPS logon. Even Facebook has that!
But even if they were to use HTTPS, that still wouldn't solve MySpace's issues. A lot of the people on my Friends List were not very tech savvy (like a lot of users), and, since most of them were teens, they easily fell for phishing scams and hacks. And then I get punished for their poor security practices by having my message board filled with ads for the "free, HoTtEsT ringtones!!!!" and "see girls naked!!!!" (btw all of those sites had viruses or malware on them). I stopped using MySpace after 2 months, I got tired of all the insecurity.
If I were to run this attack on the computers at my high school, I could cripple a lot of kid's social lives (and get expelled when the admins see:) I see SO many of my classmates using proxies to get on MySpace at school (even though it's against school rules, which I don't blame after seeing some of my classmate's MySpace pages). They just don't understand how easily I could get their password (or whoevers running the proxy, or even the admins). And it's worse when you wonder how many kids use the same user name and password for everything...
Kids these days are just not educated enough on good security practices, or show a lack of common sense with this stuff...
I have been waiting for years to get Verizon Internet. 2 years ago, when the whole thing started, my aunt, who lives down the street from me, was telling me how good Verizon is and how it's about the same price as dial-up during their introductory period. So I called up the Verizon office and asked if I could get it. They said no, and gave me a strange reason. So I called again a month later, and they gave me a different reason. Finally, I talked to some people, and it seems my aunt lives close enough to Verizon, but my house, just a few houses away, is "too far away" from the Verizon central offices.
I waited 6 months and called again. Nope! They told me they expect us to be ready to hook up in about 3-6 months, and we shuold get Comcast while we wait (that's right, the Verizon people recommended Comcast, a competitor, while we wait), so we got Comcast. It has been 20 months since that, STILL NO VERIZON INTERNET!
I have lost hope, and am not even bothering asking anymore. Any ISP that has the nerve to SEND ME ADS FOR THEIR INTERNET IN THE MAIL even though I can't even get the damn service is not worth paying. (I called them and asked if they could stop sending me ads, I still get them. They got sneaky and put FiOS ads on the back of my phone bills).
WTF? A "Global hosting sytem", wouldn't that be considered the Internet? So now every website in the woruld is infringing a stupid patent from a patent trool?
Wow, forget a nuclear war or global warming, theres how the world could end (for me at least): Scamming lawyers suing the Internet and shutting it down...
You have got to be kidding me? Now we have 3 ripoffs of the same show? Wow, Fox is getting desperate to make up for EVERY SINGLE TV SHOW it cancels...
Fox made the Family Guy as a cheap Simpsons clone, and it became popular with teens (why teens? Because they will watch ANYTHING, look at horrible movies like Meet The Spartans). Then came American Dad, a ripoff of the Family Guy.
I love The Simpsons, but it is HARDLY ON anymore because stupid Fox feels the best show on their network should take back seat to a cheap ripoff show. I get 2 Fox channels, one from RI and one from MA. On the RI channel, the new lineup is: 6:30 and 7:30 Family Guy, and 1 Simpsons episode. Wtf??? It's a good thing I don't live in RI, then that would be my only option...
Fox is getting desperate to put out anything not reality related, the Terminator show is a golden example. They ran out of ideas, so they just copied from a dumb 90s movie!
This show will be canned after a few episodes (unless Fox goes after the teens that watch anything).
I bet that's why the wiretaps are here. So the government can read the forum posts, IM conversations, IRC chat logs, and even Slashdot posts, of liberals that oppose the government. I bet all liberals could find themselves on one of those "Watch Lists" soon, just for expressing their 1st Amendment rights!
Spying to find "terrorists" is just the pretext the government is using to wiretap the homeland (and why FISA, it should have been called HISA, Homeland Intelligence Surveillance Act), so they can find not terrorists, but rather innocent people who criticize the government on the Internet through blogs, IM, IRC, etc.
So that's where our tax money is going: paying the NSA to read all the rants on the government (most of them are the real truth to, how ironic!)
LOL are you serious??? I've seen a LOT of sad attempts to woe the little kids into stupid things, but MICROSOFT?
I started using Linux when I was 13, so I guess thats what they are doing. Making sure Microsoft seems like "heros" to kids so they won't use Linux!
I can only imagine what Linux is portrayed as. Most likely a super villain whose hellbent on taking over the world with his uber cool OS:(
So how many editions are these action figures coming in? Basic, Professional, Premium, etc? Or just one pack of very expensive stuff that you need to upgrade your entire action figure collection to use?
I find it VERY hard to believe that the government actually thinks that terrorists would be dumb enough to still use a medium of communication they KNOW the NSA is listening in on. So that leaves the logical question: Who REALLY are the targets of the warrantless wiretapping program?
The answer is simple: civil rights advocates, right wing conspiracy theorists, and computer geeks. The NSA want to listen in to IRC chats, instant messages, and blogs of people who oppose the governments sick and twisted practices, and stand up for their rights. Now anyone who commented on this post could be arrested under the USA PATRIOT Act...
They could have been bribed by many people, including:
Microsoft, to stop Linux and OSS software from running them out of buisness
The RIAA and MPAA, to make sure the singers and movie stars can have the money they "deserve" to buy their 5th Lamborghini, 3rd Lear jet, more drugs to get high on, more alcohol to drink and drive with
The government, to prevent independent documentaries that expose the truth of recent high-profile attacks and controversies from getting to BitTorrent
The ISPs themselves, so they can destroy the Internet to avoid paying money to upgrade their systems
So now EVERY ISP will destroy the Internet! Damn, I was just going to switch to Verizon...
It's called Linux, GCC, G++, Eclipse, PHP, MySQL, Apache... the list goes on and on.
I know what will happen here. Visual Studio 2008 will be free, but what about the next version of VS? besides, LInux is much better for programming. I just hope the collage people realize this.
I have Comcast (unfortunately), and I have noticed that same thing. Whenever I download a large file, like a 700mb Linux ISO image, I will get a super fast download rate for 5 seconds, then it will go down.
I think Comcast uses this to cheat and say "our internet is the fastest ever!". A lot of good it's doing them.
I just heard Verizon DSL is coming to my city in the next 2 months (after I called them up and asked them NOT to send Verizon FiOS ads to me because we can't even get it). The SECOND Verizon is available I am canceling Comcast and getting Verizon
Surely we will see, due to a "technical mistake", that the missile will just coincidently hit a Chinese, Russian, or Middle Eastern satellite. Or perhaps they will use this to draw everyone to Hawaii and shoot off a 2nd missile at an enemy satellite while everyone is busy.
What will they blame this on? Since they have already used "a ship dropped it's anchor on the wire" for the Middle East Internet blackout, so here's some good excuses for our classic government:
"Our technician split coffee on the launch computer during the 3 second countdown"
"All these damn satellites all look the same, we just picked the wrong one"
"The launch computer ran Windows"
"It's not our fault, China launched that missile!!!!!!!"
"A renegade computer hacker changed the missile's target during the last second of the countdown"
"We forgot to mention that there were 2 broken satellites. Don't mind the Chinese symbols all over the other one"
"The RIAA and MPAA told us the second satellite was owned by The Pirate Bay"
Or some ways to cover the whole thing up:
Keep denying it
Give Fox News $1 million to tell America we did take down the broken satellite
Arrest anyone who tells people about the conspiracy under the USA PATRIOT Act
So, is anyone planning on getting this on tape? I'd love a DivX video of the launch:)
A few days ago I was chatting in a Freenode IRC channel, and a person was asking if he downloaded the right Linux install ISO. He downloaded the 64 bit version, so when someone told him that, he said:
"Damn, I wasted 700mb out of my 6gb allotted bandwidth on that!"
I asked him why he would give $ to an ISP who does that, and he said he lived in the UK and every ISP does it.
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It seems that their products are complelty unstable and useless, and are outragously expensive for what they are... crapware :)
It seems m$'s problem is ALL THEY CARE ABOUT NOW IS $$$, not the quality or stability of their products.
Windows XP: Okay. Although I found Linux to be much better, at least XP was usable. Only 2 versions.
Windows Vista: Outragously expensive with 6 DAMN VERSIONS, all of them give you the same shitty operating system. Constant nag screens, Cancel/Allow dialogs, horrible performance for gaming and media playback (Any games older than 2005 screw up on my system with my new nVidia 8600GT graphics card)... it goes on and on.
And it's not just OSes. Even their games suck.
Xbox: Good system, doesn't blow up, 1 version, good online play, best system on the market in it's time
Xbox 360: Horrible system, huge risk of blowing it up and getting an RRoD, 4-6 DAMN VERSIONS (notice the trend here, we go from 1 to 4 versions of the Xbox 360, and 2 to 6 versions of Windows Vista), now useless HD-DVD, outragously pathetic attempts to rip off the consumers ($50 a year just to play games online with Xbox Live, $10 DLC thats FREE on the PC and PS3), targeted at kids so they don't understand they're being scammed.
Halo 3: Overhyped, mediocre, 3 DAMN VERSIONS (again, notice the trend with versions and editions), low quality, rushed just to make $$$, $10 DLC every few months (3 damn maps for $10, what a ripoff), aimed at kids because of how much of a ripoff it is, etc.
Notice the trend here? Over capitalism, a complete loss of quality and performance, and they just rip you off.
m$ is going down soon. Like every company, they can't last forever.
I'm in the same situation your in. In my neighborhood, half of us can get FiOS but half of us cant (including me). I've been waiting for 2 years to get off Comcast so I can actually use my service for what I want to!
What idiots, Comcast are so desperate to save their own dumb asses from a federal investigation that they rely on a law passed in 1946! They didn't even have computers back then (besides the ones that take up a whole building and have as much memory as my cell phone), let alone the Internet!
When they passed that act, I'm sure they could have never guessed we would have the Internet, let alone guess that corporations would be sooo evil like they are now that they would use censorship and dirty politics to violate our civil liberties...
AV Software has the tendency to annoy the shit out of the user (constant nagging to be updated or upgraded, scanning your entire hard drive every time you turn the computer on, ruining your computer's Internet connection because of false attacks, etc...
I've been getting auto-scripts lately on my Linux web server that are trying to explot a file called xmlrpc.php...
So now my fancy new graphics card that lets me run all my PC games at high settings is "obsolete"?
I guess the UK got tired of the United States government's fancy spy stations spying on the rest of the world :)
The Internet allowed any journalist to publish a story, even serous ones that some people may not want you to read.
Before the Internet, you had all media controlled by a few billionaire corporate fascists that always take a political point of view (Fox especially), so certain stories would never get there (Would you see a story saying something bad about the War on Terror on Fox News, for example?). So stories could be censored if they made serious implications or accusations, or were negitive to a specofic person.
Suddenly, we have the Internet. Now we are all free! Anyone can be a journalist, and you don't have to fear being censored or prosecuted. No one can censor a story.
Ultimately, the Internet revolutionized journalism, changing it from a 1 sided, biased, and controlled system to a free and open ssytem where everyone knows what is going on.
Linux vs Windows flame wars always remind me of a quote I heard once:
:)
:)
"Remember, amatures built the Ark, professionals built the Titanic!"
I always think of that as "Remember, amatures built Linux, professionals built the Ark"
I've been using Linux for the past year and a half because it actually runs perfectly, and is very fun to experiment with
I could NEVER run a complete server on a Windows PC, but on Linux I can run Apache, MySQL, and PHP, which are SO much better than the $1,000+ Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft ASP.NET.
I've been following all the Scientology stories for a while now, and I've arrived at the conclusion that Scientology wants to be the new Bush, destroying civil liberties and scaring everyone into doing stuff (and not doing stuff, like expressing their First Amendment right to freedom to protest).
:)
They got control of E-bay for a day??? Wtf? Then they try to violate American's First Amendment rights just to prevent a group from expressing their opinion about Scientology? BS!
I guess CoS learned from Bush and his PATRIOT Act
MySpace is notoriously insecure and a hacker or spammer's playground. The first thing I noticed when I created an account 10 months ago is that there was no HTTPS logon. Even Facebook has that!
:) I see SO many of my classmates using proxies to get on MySpace at school (even though it's against school rules, which I don't blame after seeing some of my classmate's MySpace pages). They just don't understand how easily I could get their password (or whoevers running the proxy, or even the admins). And it's worse when you wonder how many kids use the same user name and password for everything...
But even if they were to use HTTPS, that still wouldn't solve MySpace's issues. A lot of the people on my Friends List were not very tech savvy (like a lot of users), and, since most of them were teens, they easily fell for phishing scams and hacks. And then I get punished for their poor security practices by having my message board filled with ads for the "free, HoTtEsT ringtones!!!!" and "see girls naked!!!!" (btw all of those sites had viruses or malware on them). I stopped using MySpace after 2 months, I got tired of all the insecurity.
If I were to run this attack on the computers at my high school, I could cripple a lot of kid's social lives (and get expelled when the admins see
Kids these days are just not educated enough on good security practices, or show a lack of common sense with this stuff...
I have been waiting for years to get Verizon Internet. 2 years ago, when the whole thing started, my aunt, who lives down the street from me, was telling me how good Verizon is and how it's about the same price as dial-up during their introductory period. So I called up the Verizon office and asked if I could get it. They said no, and gave me a strange reason. So I called again a month later, and they gave me a different reason. Finally, I talked to some people, and it seems my aunt lives close enough to Verizon, but my house, just a few houses away, is "too far away" from the Verizon central offices.
I waited 6 months and called again. Nope! They told me they expect us to be ready to hook up in about 3-6 months, and we shuold get Comcast while we wait (that's right, the Verizon people recommended Comcast, a competitor, while we wait), so we got Comcast. It has been 20 months since that, STILL NO VERIZON INTERNET!
I have lost hope, and am not even bothering asking anymore. Any ISP that has the nerve to SEND ME ADS FOR THEIR INTERNET IN THE MAIL even though I can't even get the damn service is not worth paying. (I called them and asked if they could stop sending me ads, I still get them. They got sneaky and put FiOS ads on the back of my phone bills).
WTF? A "Global hosting sytem", wouldn't that be considered the Internet? So now every website in the woruld is infringing a stupid patent from a patent trool?
Wow, forget a nuclear war or global warming, theres how the world could end (for me at least): Scamming lawyers suing the Internet and shutting it down...
You have got to be kidding me? Now we have 3 ripoffs of the same show? Wow, Fox is getting desperate to make up for EVERY SINGLE TV SHOW it cancels...
Fox made the Family Guy as a cheap Simpsons clone, and it became popular with teens (why teens? Because they will watch ANYTHING, look at horrible movies like Meet The Spartans). Then came American Dad, a ripoff of the Family Guy.
I love The Simpsons, but it is HARDLY ON anymore because stupid Fox feels the best show on their network should take back seat to a cheap ripoff show. I get 2 Fox channels, one from RI and one from MA. On the RI channel, the new lineup is: 6:30 and 7:30 Family Guy, and 1 Simpsons episode. Wtf??? It's a good thing I don't live in RI, then that would be my only option...
Fox is getting desperate to put out anything not reality related, the Terminator show is a golden example. They ran out of ideas, so they just copied from a dumb 90s movie!
This show will be canned after a few episodes (unless Fox goes after the teens that watch anything).
Now it can't even play new movies in HD!
I'm glad I went with the PS3, Xbox 360 is looking more and more like a cheap overpriced ripoff!
I bet that's why the wiretaps are here. So the government can read the forum posts, IM conversations, IRC chat logs, and even Slashdot posts, of liberals that oppose the government. I bet all liberals could find themselves on one of those "Watch Lists" soon, just for expressing their 1st Amendment rights!
Spying to find "terrorists" is just the pretext the government is using to wiretap the homeland (and why FISA, it should have been called HISA, Homeland Intelligence Surveillance Act), so they can find not terrorists, but rather innocent people who criticize the government on the Internet through blogs, IM, IRC, etc.
So that's where our tax money is going: paying the NSA to read all the rants on the government (most of them are the real truth to, how ironic!)
Isn't that the free AV program?
This is looking like a scam to get people to pay for AV software...
It's called The GIMP! I use that program all the time, it does most of the stuff Photoshop does. First post :)
LOL are you serious??? I've seen a LOT of sad attempts to woe the little kids into stupid things, but MICROSOFT?
:(
I started using Linux when I was 13, so I guess thats what they are doing. Making sure Microsoft seems like "heros" to kids so they won't use Linux!
I can only imagine what Linux is portrayed as. Most likely a super villain whose hellbent on taking over the world with his uber cool OS
So how many editions are these action figures coming in? Basic, Professional, Premium, etc? Or just one pack of very expensive stuff that you need to upgrade your entire action figure collection to use?
I find it VERY hard to believe that the government actually thinks that terrorists would be dumb enough to still use a medium of communication they KNOW the NSA is listening in on. So that leaves the logical question: Who REALLY are the targets of the warrantless wiretapping program?
The answer is simple: civil rights advocates, right wing conspiracy theorists, and computer geeks. The NSA want to listen in to IRC chats, instant messages, and blogs of people who oppose the governments sick and twisted practices, and stand up for their rights. Now anyone who commented on this post could be arrested under the USA PATRIOT Act...
What next? A government controlled Internet?
- Microsoft, to stop Linux and OSS software from running them out of buisness
- The RIAA and MPAA, to make sure the singers and movie stars can have the money they "deserve" to buy their 5th Lamborghini, 3rd Lear jet, more drugs to get high on, more alcohol to drink and drive with
- The government, to prevent independent documentaries that expose the truth of recent high-profile attacks and controversies from getting to BitTorrent
- The ISPs themselves, so they can destroy the Internet to avoid paying money to upgrade their systems
So now EVERY ISP will destroy the Internet! Damn, I was just going to switch to Verizon...It's called Linux, GCC, G++, Eclipse, PHP, MySQL, Apache... the list goes on and on.
I know what will happen here. Visual Studio 2008 will be free, but what about the next version of VS? besides, LInux is much better for programming. I just hope the collage people realize this.
I have Comcast (unfortunately), and I have noticed that same thing. Whenever I download a large file, like a 700mb Linux ISO image, I will get a super fast download rate for 5 seconds, then it will go down.
I think Comcast uses this to cheat and say "our internet is the fastest ever!". A lot of good it's doing them.
I just heard Verizon DSL is coming to my city in the next 2 months (after I called them up and asked them NOT to send Verizon FiOS ads to me because we can't even get it). The SECOND Verizon is available I am canceling Comcast and getting Verizon
What will they blame this on? Since they have already used "a ship dropped it's anchor on the wire" for the Middle East Internet blackout, so here's some good excuses for our classic government:
Or some ways to cover the whole thing up:
So, is anyone planning on getting this on tape? I'd love a DivX video of the launch
A few days ago I was chatting in a Freenode IRC channel, and a person was asking if he downloaded the right Linux install ISO. He downloaded the 64 bit version, so when someone told him that, he said:
"Damn, I wasted 700mb out of my 6gb allotted bandwidth on that!"
I asked him why he would give $ to an ISP who does that, and he said he lived in the UK and every ISP does it.
What a ripoff!