There are many problems with using instant messaging - You can't leave a message for a user that's offline (unless the message gets stored on a server, which defeats the purpose). You generally are subjected to a limit on how much text you can transfer in one message. File transfer doesn't work a lot of the time if someone is behind a router or firewall. Companies won't IM you instead of e-mailing you.
While that is pathetic, most people who buy a computer with a Celeron in it probably wouldn't notice much of a difference. Even a 1GHz processor is enough for what most people do - web browsing, word processing, listening to music, playing solitaire, etc.
Nearly every time you install something? Now, by "something", are you referring to system updates, or are you including applications in there?
I can't remember the last time I had to reboot because I installed an application in Windows. Funnily enough, at work the other day I installed a small application on an OSX machine and it asked me to reboot. If I tried to run the application without rebooting, it crashed the machine.
There are people out there that could say that their belief structure says that promiscuity is "right" and that monogamy is "wrong". So what, exactly, makes the Christian standpoint the right one? You can't define what's right and wrong for everyone based on your personal beliefs, since so many different belief structures exist in this world.
Obviously, since there are so many people playing these games, many people don't view them as "wrong". Why should your opinion matter to them?
It should be noted that the IIS hole was patched a while ago and this only affects servers which haven't been patched. Lets hope those servers get patched up.
Hopefully an IE patch will come out soon, although we all know how many users actually go to Windows Update...
Generally, though, the set of people who know how to change their MAC address and the set of people who keep their computer virus/worm-free intersect pretty well.
I fail to see how this is going to help them very much
Well, say Joe User goes and picks out a computer from BBY. They give him a nice Napster CD with, say, 100 free downloads. Joe User gets hooked on downloading music and decides to keep the Napster service for a while. If Napster gets enough people to keep the service, it could be a quite large influx of users. A lot of people (unfortunately) still buy their computers at Best Buy.
Not really. There's nothing wrong with the RIAA in theory. It's just that in practice, things didn't go so well. If the RIAA cared more about the artists and consumers, it could be an excellent organization.
Yes, I'm sure that's it and not the fact that people try to overclock their chips, burn them out, and then RMA them. If you look around at various message boards, you'll actually see people BRAGGING about how many CPUs they've RMAd until they found one that overclocks as well as they wanted it to.
If the PS3 plays PS2 and PS1 games, definitely. There are at least a couple groups of people that this feature is important to:
- People whose PS2 broke who never got around to buying a new one (especially if they still have the games). - People who never bought a PS2 in the first place.
Think about it. If all the next-next-gen consoles came out together, you could buy an XBox2 or GameTetrahedron and have only the release games to play, or you could buy a PS3 and not only have the PS3 release titles, but also the entire PS2 library and the entire PS1 library! And, as we all know, it's all about the games.
Also, think of it from a Japanese point of view - Many Japanese have little free space in their houses. Not having to keep their old consoles is a pretty good selling point to them.
Telling Joe User to run Windows Update once in a while (or just keep auto-update on), stop installing things they're unfamiliar with (spyware/trojans), and keep a virus scanner updated and running should take care of any problems they have. This should NOT be too difficult for anyone that is actually willing to listen.
I realize that IE/Windows isn't the most secure combination ever in its default form, but properly configuring the browser and OS and patching religiously will take care of most things. A firewall, virus scanner, and some creative proxomitron filters will take care of anything else that presents itself.
I've been using Windows/IE my entire life (well, not counting the C64 days), and haven't once had a virus, worm, trojan, or spyware.
It's not IE's fault - it's the fault of stupid users. I use IE exclusively and haven't EVER had a spyware program on my computer because I'm not dumb about it.
The problem is that the computer-illiterate have somehow gotten it into their heads that clicking "yes" to any window that pops up is a good thing. I'd be willing to bet that a good portion of them don't even read the window before clicking "yes". Of course, if they did read the window, they'd most likely be all excited to have an "AWESOME NEW PROGRAM that remembers their passwords!" and click "yes" anyway.
The only way this will stop is by educating users. Even this law probably won't help, since people will just say okay to the installer anyway. Take your average user and tell them to install a program - chances are they'll just click "next" furiously until the installer is done. Do they have any idea what was on those previous pages? Nope. Do they care? Nope. Just putting an extra screen in there saying "Hey, we're installing these spyware programs, k?" isn't likely to change much.
Are you sure it was actually 4600 different programs? I find that hard to believe - It seems that the computer wouldn't run at all with that many programs running in the background.
Could the "4600" number have been the total number of spyware programs running, files found, and registry keys found?
Due to sloppy code-monkeys, far more pages show correctly in IE than show correctly in any alternative browser. I don't have to worry about the base functionality of a website not working, since EVERYONE makes sure it works in IE.
I can't tell you how many times I'm reading discussions and people say "the page didn't work in FireFox, I had to open IE to view it".
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There are many problems with using instant messaging - You can't leave a message for a user that's offline (unless the message gets stored on a server, which defeats the purpose). You generally are subjected to a limit on how much text you can transfer in one message. File transfer doesn't work a lot of the time if someone is behind a router or firewall. Companies won't IM you instead of e-mailing you.
The list goes on and on...
Snopes usually comes in handy when people are being difficult about believing hoaxes.
They have a few articles which may help you.
... and now Jenny.com is flooded with pings from slashdot users curious to see if its IP really is 86.75.30.9.
:(
(It's not)
Sure, but the sattelite internet access you'll need negates the savings.
While that is pathetic, most people who buy a computer with a Celeron in it probably wouldn't notice much of a difference. Even a 1GHz processor is enough for what most people do - web browsing, word processing, listening to music, playing solitaire, etc.
Nearly every time you install something? Now, by "something", are you referring to system updates, or are you including applications in there?
I can't remember the last time I had to reboot because I installed an application in Windows. Funnily enough, at work the other day I installed a small application on an OSX machine and it asked me to reboot. If I tried to run the application without rebooting, it crashed the machine.
There are people out there that could say that their belief structure says that promiscuity is "right" and that monogamy is "wrong". So what, exactly, makes the Christian standpoint the right one? You can't define what's right and wrong for everyone based on your personal beliefs, since so many different belief structures exist in this world.
Obviously, since there are so many people playing these games, many people don't view them as "wrong". Why should your opinion matter to them?
It should be noted that the IIS hole was patched a while ago and this only affects servers which haven't been patched. Lets hope those servers get patched up.
Hopefully an IE patch will come out soon, although we all know how many users actually go to Windows Update...
Generally, though, the set of people who know how to change their MAC address and the set of people who keep their computer virus/worm-free intersect pretty well.
I fail to see how this is going to help them very much
Well, say Joe User goes and picks out a computer from BBY. They give him a nice Napster CD with, say, 100 free downloads. Joe User gets hooked on downloading music and decides to keep the Napster service for a while. If Napster gets enough people to keep the service, it could be a quite large influx of users. A lot of people (unfortunately) still buy their computers at Best Buy.
Not really. There's nothing wrong with the RIAA in theory. It's just that in practice, things didn't go so well. If the RIAA cared more about the artists and consumers, it could be an excellent organization.
Or mount it on the ceiling and lay in bed and watch it.
Yes, I'm sure that's it and not the fact that people try to overclock their chips, burn them out, and then RMA them. If you look around at various message boards, you'll actually see people BRAGGING about how many CPUs they've RMAd until they found one that overclocks as well as they wanted it to.
Possibly, but it takes a lot of responsibility off of MS's shoulders.
"Hey, don't blame us for your security problems. We fixed them in SP2. What? Well it's not OUR fault you're running outdated software..."
If the PS3 plays PS2 and PS1 games, definitely. There are at least a couple groups of people that this feature is important to:
- People whose PS2 broke who never got around to buying a new one (especially if they still have the games).
- People who never bought a PS2 in the first place.
Think about it. If all the next-next-gen consoles came out together, you could buy an XBox2 or GameTetrahedron and have only the release games to play, or you could buy a PS3 and not only have the PS3 release titles, but also the entire PS2 library and the entire PS1 library! And, as we all know, it's all about the games.
Also, think of it from a Japanese point of view - Many Japanese have little free space in their houses. Not having to keep their old consoles is a pretty good selling point to them.
You forgot the tentacles and schoolgirl uniforms.
Just make sure it's not the self-sticking kind... Ow.
They're nice for someone with no space for a TV set who already has a nice computer setup. For instance, someone moving into a dorm.
Yes, but I'm taking it to an extreme.
Telling Joe User to run Windows Update once in a while (or just keep auto-update on), stop installing things they're unfamiliar with (spyware/trojans), and keep a virus scanner updated and running should take care of any problems they have. This should NOT be too difficult for anyone that is actually willing to listen.
I realize that IE/Windows isn't the most secure combination ever in its default form, but properly configuring the browser and OS and patching religiously will take care of most things. A firewall, virus scanner, and some creative proxomitron filters will take care of anything else that presents itself.
I've been using Windows/IE my entire life (well, not counting the C64 days), and haven't once had a virus, worm, trojan, or spyware.
Once again, though, that can be blamed on the users who don't patch their systems and/or have poor security.
It's not IE's fault - it's the fault of stupid users. I use IE exclusively and haven't EVER had a spyware program on my computer because I'm not dumb about it.
The problem is that the computer-illiterate have somehow gotten it into their heads that clicking "yes" to any window that pops up is a good thing. I'd be willing to bet that a good portion of them don't even read the window before clicking "yes". Of course, if they did read the window, they'd most likely be all excited to have an "AWESOME NEW PROGRAM that remembers their passwords!" and click "yes" anyway.
The only way this will stop is by educating users. Even this law probably won't help, since people will just say okay to the installer anyway. Take your average user and tell them to install a program - chances are they'll just click "next" furiously until the installer is done. Do they have any idea what was on those previous pages? Nope. Do they care? Nope. Just putting an extra screen in there saying "Hey, we're installing these spyware programs, k?" isn't likely to change much.
Are you sure it was actually 4600 different programs? I find that hard to believe - It seems that the computer wouldn't run at all with that many programs running in the background.
Could the "4600" number have been the total number of spyware programs running, files found, and registry keys found?
Actually, it's Latin. The French (along with the other Latin-based languages) just inherited it.
Fine, I'll put it this way:
Due to sloppy code-monkeys, far more pages show correctly in IE than show correctly in any alternative browser. I don't have to worry about the base functionality of a website not working, since EVERYONE makes sure it works in IE.
I can't tell you how many times I'm reading discussions and people say "the page didn't work in FireFox, I had to open IE to view it".