I see that you check the User Agent string for Mobile Safari to serve HTML5 video to my iPhone. But why am I getting served crappy Flash with Safari 5 on Mac OS X? That's not nerd-like. I had expected more from/.
The savings are not about PCs that break, but those that don't do. While those perfectly running machines would have to be written off and replaced with new hardware for a Windows 7 install, while with Linux their lifetime can be extended, which saved €1.2M so far.
Just 4 weeks after the release of their latest AAA title, SimCity 2013, EA today complained about millions of downloads of the illegal, but DRM-free version of the game from P2P sites after a server malfunction made playing the game impossible for hours. Hackers had removed the need to be always online from the game earlier this week. "They are stealing our intellectual property!", a unnamed EA spokesperson said.
I'm talking about surfing the web, reading/writing e-mail, listening to music. Agree on the lack of a PDF reader on Windows but I'd consider this already on the border to what most people need. Video codecs, naah. Spreadsheet program is totally off the line.
If I try creating a CD by adding files in Brasero then buring directly to disk (using defaults all the way through) brasero creates coasters every time.
I destroyed several cd's before finding the workaround...for new ubuntu users it is deterrent that you cannot burn cd's...
This bug has been reported months ago and nothing happened since.
Something I haven't read in the comments so far is the fact that M$ is allowed to more or less force PC vendors to ship new machines with Windows. What would politicians say if Daimler-Benz demands every new car on this planet ships with a Mercedes engine?
To break a monopoly, either some political changes must happen, or a competing product covers a niché feature that the monopolist product lacks. On servers, the niché is the pricing. But desktop Windows doesn't seem to lack something that is big enough of a niché so that a competitor could live in it.
My conclusion is that as long as every PC ships with Windows pre-installed we'll never see real competition in the desktop OS market.
Why not? It simply works, I can do whatever I want.
That's not my experience. First off, I'm a UNIX sysadmin. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on a low-power Atom box at home. Recently I wanted to quickly burn some data on a DVD. But all programs I tried either produced a coaster or crashed. The problem was that the/tmp partition couldn't hold the intermediate image file that every program created. So we have like 20 GUI frontends to the cdwrite framework, but every single one produces an intermediate image, during my quick search I couldn't find a single one that burns data on the fly. I had to copy the data over the network to my iMac.
And that is the proble with Linux. While Apple and Microsoft ship their OSes with a set of working apps that cover most of the average user's needs, Linux distros come with a gazillion number of "My first app" quality software that does one particular thing better than all the other apps but fails in 90% of the rest.
What's needed is a concerted effort to develop a set of feature-complete apps that cover the basic functionality, and not waste resources into yet another mp3 player. It's nice to be able to choose between Gnome and KDE etc. but the average user prefers one set of feature-complete apps over choosing between a dozen varieties of the same functionality that all lack features.
We know that Apple is able to make some special deals with their suppliers due to them paying in advance or something like that, what I'd like to know: is anything known if (I suspect no, cause Mac prices seem stable) and if not, why they aren't affected by this?
NASA has limited funds these days, and there isn't much to gain for them in a mission which they can't even take full credit for or get much PR out of.
My thoughts exactly. Whereas NASA usually lets us europeans pay and take all the PR and credit to themsleves, this one is ESA-lead so as soon as budgets get tight this one is the first to get abandoned. The saved money is much better spent on a new war, I suppose.
They do this in order to game the metrics on how reaction time to exploits is measured. They delay patches until a bug is widely exploited and the media reports on it so it looks as if they responded immediately. In their minds, this creates more positive media echo than silently fixing a bug nobody knows about.
Man I can't understand why your reply has been modded 'Insightful' when it is just a piece of PR guy rationalising poor design decisions, while the parent is at score 2 right now. Too bad I spent my last mod point yesterday.
At least, that allows me to comment on you.
Firstly, you can't explain why LoadLibraryEx wasn't used in XP and later when it was already available in Win 2000. Backwards compatibility would mean that applications were relying on the fact that code was executed when an icon was loaded? Bull crap, Mister.
Secondly, the CRC32 problem wasn't the root cause, but the fact that the XML file where the Task Scheduler stores its data in, is world writeable and contains the user name that it should run the task as. I mean how stupid is that? Following your argument that this was kept for the sake of backwards compatibility, this would mean that applications were expecting to write into the XML file and would then adapt the CRC32 hash? Bull crap, too.
Lastly, if I understood this correctly, the print spooler vuln works like this: due to the lack of a guest user on the target system, the print spooler assigns system privileges to a printing job coming in from an external 'guest' and stores the file under sytem32\spool. Another thread is constantly monitoring this directory and, assuming that only the system user can write there, executes code in some MOF file - whatever that is - with system privileges. This is wrong in so many aspects that not even the best PR person in the world can argue that this has been kept for the sake of backwards compatibility.
I don't know what Microsoft fanboys have modded you Insightful, but these are all bad design decisions and in no way justified by a need for backwards compatibility. Also the fact that the solution they came up with to fix the CRC32 issues was to use SHA256 and not fix the world writeable file issue, is telling the true story. I'm not saying that any UNIX is free of bugs, but this kind of security design does not exist in any UNIX flavour I know. Microsoft engineers or management seem to lack the fundamental security motivation all UNIX programmers have.
This project uses the Wireless Extensions Library to interact with the Wifi hardware, i.e. iwconfig and stuff, which is completely incompatible with OS X.
...since Nipplegate, the US delays live shows by a few seconds in order to enable censorship should a stray nipple appear on screen.
The technologies might differ, but the end result is the same. And what's with putting alcoholic beverages in brown bags? It is easy from a western cultural point of view to critisise the Taliban as being culturally retarded, but and least they don't have double standards.
Disclaimer to the CIA: I don't support the Taliban please don't raid my IP Address.
The Chines language is made of thousands of symbols and there is a translation table to map those symbols to the 26 western characters. "xiazhili" might be chinese for 'swordfish'.
As the 'consumerization of IT' phenomenon grows, such IT people are increasingly clashing with users, who bring in their own smartphones, use cloud apps, and work at home on their own equipment.
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I agree. MS needs these patents to enable a revenue stream past their current cash cows into the post-PC aera.
Yup. Just deleted the app. I also recommend doing this.
I see that you check the User Agent string for Mobile Safari to serve HTML5 video to my iPhone. But why am I getting served crappy Flash with Safari 5 on Mac OS X? That's not nerd-like. I had expected more from /.
The current budget is €11M, and it is estimated to be €15M if they had upgraded to Windows 7. That's where the €4M in savings come from.
The savings are not about PCs that break, but those that don't do. While those perfectly running machines would have to be written off and replaced with new hardware for a Windows 7 install, while with Linux their lifetime can be extended, which saved €1.2M so far.
Just 4 weeks after the release of their latest AAA title, SimCity 2013, EA today complained about millions of downloads of the illegal, but DRM-free version of the game from P2P sites after a server malfunction made playing the game impossible for hours. Hackers had removed the need to be always online from the game earlier this week. "They are stealing our intellectual property!", a unnamed EA spokesperson said.
Windows 8 tablet freezes in Microsoft keynote demo
I'm talking about surfing the web, reading/writing e-mail, listening to music. Agree on the lack of a PDF reader on Windows but I'd consider this already on the border to what most people need. Video codecs, naah. Spreadsheet program is totally off the line.
You're trolling. The default on Ubuntu is brasero, which gives you the option to burn on the fly right in the dialog.
Next time, pick a less transparent lie.
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Well and because it gives you the option automatically means it works 100% and has no bugs?
Quoting from Ubuntu Bug #774203:
If I try creating a CD by adding files in Brasero then buring directly to disk (using defaults all the way through) brasero creates coasters every time.
I destroyed several cd's before finding the workaround...for new ubuntu users it is deterrent that you cannot burn cd's...
This bug has been reported months ago and nothing happened since.
Something I haven't read in the comments so far is the fact that M$ is allowed to more or less force PC vendors to ship new machines with Windows. What would politicians say if Daimler-Benz demands every new car on this planet ships with a Mercedes engine?
To break a monopoly, either some political changes must happen, or a competing product covers a niché feature that the monopolist product lacks. On servers, the niché is the pricing. But desktop Windows doesn't seem to lack something that is big enough of a niché so that a competitor could live in it.
My conclusion is that as long as every PC ships with Windows pre-installed we'll never see real competition in the desktop OS market.
Why not? It simply works, I can do whatever I want.
That's not my experience. First off, I'm a UNIX sysadmin. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on a low-power Atom box at home. Recently I wanted to quickly burn some data on a DVD. But all programs I tried either produced a coaster or crashed. The problem was that the /tmp partition couldn't hold the intermediate image file that every program created. So we have like 20 GUI frontends to the cdwrite framework, but every single one produces an intermediate image, during my quick search I couldn't find a single one that burns data on the fly. I had to copy the data over the network to my iMac.
And that is the proble with Linux. While Apple and Microsoft ship their OSes with a set of working apps that cover most of the average user's needs, Linux distros come with a gazillion number of "My first app" quality software that does one particular thing better than all the other apps but fails in 90% of the rest.
What's needed is a concerted effort to develop a set of feature-complete apps that cover the basic functionality, and not waste resources into yet another mp3 player. It's nice to be able to choose between Gnome and KDE etc. but the average user prefers one set of feature-complete apps over choosing between a dozen varieties of the same functionality that all lack features.
Just write a text message saying "I'll destroy the US" and wait for the DHS.
It's so groundbreaking! So visionary! No one else had ever thought to do something like this before!!
You mean like putting a touch interface over Windows 7?
Could be interesting for Amateur Astronomers?
We know that Apple is able to make some special deals with their suppliers due to them paying in advance or something like that, what I'd like to know: is anything known if (I suspect no, cause Mac prices seem stable) and if not, why they aren't affected by this?
NASA has limited funds these days, and there isn't much to gain for them in a mission which they can't even take full credit for or get much PR out of.
My thoughts exactly. Whereas NASA usually lets us europeans pay and take all the PR and credit to themsleves, this one is ESA-lead so as soon as budgets get tight this one is the first to get abandoned. The saved money is much better spent on a new war, I suppose.
then that's probably the reason why we have Siri only on the 4S (yet).
Couldn't have said it better. Too bad I have no mod points right now.
They do this in order to game the metrics on how reaction time to exploits is measured. They delay patches until a bug is widely exploited and the media reports on it so it looks as if they responded immediately. In their minds, this creates more positive media echo than silently fixing a bug nobody knows about.
Man I can't understand why your reply has been modded 'Insightful' when it is just a piece of PR guy rationalising poor design decisions, while the parent is at score 2 right now. Too bad I spent my last mod point yesterday.
At least, that allows me to comment on you.
Firstly, you can't explain why LoadLibraryEx wasn't used in XP and later when it was already available in Win 2000. Backwards compatibility would mean that applications were relying on the fact that code was executed when an icon was loaded? Bull crap, Mister.
Secondly, the CRC32 problem wasn't the root cause, but the fact that the XML file where the Task Scheduler stores its data in, is world writeable and contains the user name that it should run the task as. I mean how stupid is that? Following your argument that this was kept for the sake of backwards compatibility, this would mean that applications were expecting to write into the XML file and would then adapt the CRC32 hash? Bull crap, too.
Lastly, if I understood this correctly, the print spooler vuln works like this: due to the lack of a guest user on the target system, the print spooler assigns system privileges to a printing job coming in from an external 'guest' and stores the file under sytem32\spool. Another thread is constantly monitoring this directory and, assuming that only the system user can write there, executes code in some MOF file - whatever that is - with system privileges. This is wrong in so many aspects that not even the best PR person in the world can argue that this has been kept for the sake of backwards compatibility.
I don't know what Microsoft fanboys have modded you Insightful, but these are all bad design decisions and in no way justified by a need for backwards compatibility. Also the fact that the solution they came up with to fix the CRC32 issues was to use SHA256 and not fix the world writeable file issue, is telling the true story. I'm not saying that any UNIX is free of bugs, but this kind of security design does not exist in any UNIX flavour I know. Microsoft engineers or management seem to lack the fundamental security motivation all UNIX programmers have.
And telephone lines. Turn off the phone network, now!
This project uses the Wireless Extensions Library to interact with the Wifi hardware, i.e. iwconfig and stuff, which is completely incompatible with OS X.
...since Nipplegate, the US delays live shows by a few seconds in order to enable censorship should a stray nipple appear on screen.
The technologies might differ, but the end result is the same. And what's with putting alcoholic beverages in brown bags? It is easy from a western cultural point of view to critisise the Taliban as being culturally retarded, but and least they don't have double standards.
Disclaimer to the CIA: I don't support the Taliban please don't raid my IP Address.
The Chines language is made of thousands of symbols and there is a translation table to map those symbols to the 26 western characters. "xiazhili" might be chinese for 'swordfish'.
As the 'consumerization of IT' phenomenon grows, such IT people are increasingly clashing with users, who bring in their own smartphones, use cloud apps, and work at home on their own equipment.