I don't know why you find it a surprise TBH. The ratio of honest paying customers to thieving scumbags is pretty much 1:5 for most software, music and videos.
Yes but maybe the argument that people who do it mainly do it because they want to try before they buy still hold.
Bullshit. If they've got a copy which seemingly works 100%, most of them won't bother buying it because whats the point? In a month or so, the stats will be even worse. Guaranteed. So already IN ONE SINGLE WEEK, Gas Powered Games and Stardock have lost 80% of the potential revenue of the game and had its reputation tarnished by the freeloaders because of the server load issue.
Judging by the number of 10 year olds kicking around plus the fact that I have personally known someone who actually made a bodywork warranty claim on a Focus that had a spot of rust appear on one door when it was 8 years old, I think Ford expect far more than 3 years.
For those who posted that they wouldn't be found guilty and are now bleating on about them being acquitted at appeal, remember that appeals do go two ways. It could actually end up that the appeals court or the high court finds that they weren't actually handed out a severe enough sentence and increases the jailtime and/or fine. With such an offence having a 2 year maximum sentence in Sweden and with TPB basically being the world no.1 site, there's a possibility that they could actually see a sentence increase.
Typical Ubuntu release then - breaking things which used to work just fine.
The problem with a rigid set in stone 6 month release schedule is that quality control increasingly goes down the shitter as release date gets closer. No other distribution is stupid enough to say that they will definitely release version x.xx in 12 months to the very day while releasing another version in that time. Doing so means that glaring bugs, such as the windows passworded share one, get released.
Point 1. Port filtering is still there. Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Windows Firewall with Advanced Security. Just because you're too fucking stupid to find it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Point 2. IE 7 runs in a sandbox. IE8 does as well as well as having inbuilt checking of known bad sites (Smartscreen filter), anti-phishing, popup blocker, blocking of add-ons etc. SO YOU DON'T NEED ANY OF THAT SHIT YOU'RE ON ABOUT which actually causes MORE trouble than its worth.
There are thousands of good reasons, literally, but here are the ones which might stick in your maw more readily:
* Conficker
* Sasser
* Bugbear
* Blaster
* Melissa
* Love Bug
* Code Red
* (insert next bug here)
It's not so much a matter of why they should use Linux (or OS X) but why they shouldn't be using Windows.
Virtually all of those had patches issued through Windows Update to address the flaw BEFORE the malware was in the wild and the only computers unaffected were unpatched ones. So you can't really go blaming Microsoft when they took PROACTIVE action to prevent exploits. And before you bleat on about Linux being holier than thou, it has its own fair share of vulnerabilites (as seen on Securityfocus.com) but the difference is the piss poor market share doesn't make exploiting them worth the effort.
There is still new hardware out there that Linux doesn't support out of the box with existing ones? What hardware is that? -- Serious question.
Epson Stylus SX405 scanner. Printer part of it works OK with generic PPD but the scanner is completely unsupported which suggests that many of the Epson multifunctions can only work as printers. Also, a lot of Belkin wifi cards/USB sticks aren't supported. Also on my Hauppauge WintV PVR1300 (analogue TV,DVB-T, FM Radio), its real fun trying to get everything to work.
I'm afraid they are all very relevant option once you understand them.
In the meantime, while you're still figuring out how to configure your Linux ripping program the Windows user has installed one, ripped the DVD, transferred it to their iPod/whatever and watched it.
Wow they've really raised the bar on that one. They've now managed to get where Windows gaming was a decade ago. Give it another 4 years and they might get up to the quality of a game released at the turn of the 21st Century.
And that's the problem with gaming on Linux. Its not seen as that important unlike server stuff so it gets very little developer attention so can basically only progress at the speed that a few people can work at with the time they have spare after work and family commitments. They're also forced to use woefully out of date game engines if they actually want to get something out the door at any point. Even if you use WINE or Cedega, you encounter such problems as Counterstrike: Source only running in DX8 or not being able to connect to Punkbuster enabled servers in Battlefield 2. On the whole, it's a mess.
I've often wondered why Microsoft just doesn't implement some sort of security in Windows like other OS's have. It might prevent this kind of thing.
You mean like patching the flaw MONTHS before Conficker was released?
What having something like an application which could scan for it and remove it? You could call it "Malicious Software Removal Tool" and get it to run when automatic updates are done which would be handy. You could also allow users to run it themselves if they wanted by, say, clicking on Start, Run and typing in mrt...
On Vista, other people can "wreck your installation" too.
Only if you're a stupid prick who actively changes their accounts from Standard to Administrator, you don't password protect the admin account or you give them the password.
If you buy cheap shit RAM, you'll get exactly the same as the OP. Get decent RAM and you'll not have an issue. For the last decade, I've bought nothing but Crucial and never had an issue with it. The odd time I've bought cheapass generic in that time, it's bitten me in the ass without fail.
The article seems to be written by a KDE user, since it mostly ignores important changes in gnome, for example the change from gnomevfs to gvfs: although it's not directly visible to the user, but mostly relevant to programmers,
New users don't give a shit What they do see though is that this supposed cutting edge OS looks virtually exactly the same as it did FOUR YEARS AGO
It's spot on about Gnome. If you take screenshots of Ubuntu from 5.10 and compare them to 8.10, apart from the wallpaper and some very minor changes, it looks virtually identical. Other Gnome based distros are pretty much the same. It's one thing that for me personally, gives the impression that Linux distros really haven't come on much since Gnome 2 came out.
KDE OTOH has changed massively but 4.x is basically broken and to be considered Alpha/Beta1 at best and IMO, can't really be counted.
Yeah sure, a massive amount has gone on under the hood with Linux but the bit that the user sees has barely changed whereas in Windows, there was a massive noticable change from Win2k to XP to Vista to Win7 so people "feel" they're getting a new OS.
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Sandboxing is NOT unique to Chrome. IE7 has been sandboxed in Vista since launch.
So you're telling me that most of those 100,000 people will go out and buy it? I've got a bridge for sale if you're interested.....
I don't know why you find it a surprise TBH. The ratio of honest paying customers to thieving scumbags is pretty much 1:5 for most software, music and videos.
Yes but maybe the argument that people who do it mainly do it because they want to try before they buy still hold.
Bullshit. If they've got a copy which seemingly works 100%, most of them won't bother buying it because whats the point? In a month or so, the stats will be even worse. Guaranteed. So already IN ONE SINGLE WEEK, Gas Powered Games and Stardock have lost 80% of the potential revenue of the game and had its reputation tarnished by the freeloaders because of the server load issue.
Judging by the number of 10 year olds kicking around plus the fact that I have personally known someone who actually made a bodywork warranty claim on a Focus that had a spot of rust appear on one door when it was 8 years old, I think Ford expect far more than 3 years.
Over in Europe, the Ford Fiesta can do 100,000 miles with nothing more than regular servicing.
I'd love to know WTF the author has done. It's never blocked Google on the three lappies its installed on here.
For those who posted that they wouldn't be found guilty and are now bleating on about them being acquitted at appeal, remember that appeals do go two ways. It could actually end up that the appeals court or the high court finds that they weren't actually handed out a severe enough sentence and increases the jailtime and/or fine.
With such an offence having a 2 year maximum sentence in Sweden and with TPB basically being the world no.1 site, there's a possibility that they could actually see a sentence increase.
The site itself is all the proof needed.
Ah, the typical rant of a Linux advocacy fucktard...
The problem with a rigid set in stone 6 month release schedule is that quality control increasingly goes down the shitter as release date gets closer. No other distribution is stupid enough to say that they will definitely release version x.xx in 12 months to the very day while releasing another version in that time. Doing so means that glaring bugs, such as the windows passworded share one, get released.
If Max OS X isn't full of holes, why are there several pages of them on Securityfocus.com? Hell, Safari had a big enough list on its own.
Point 1. Port filtering is still there. Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Windows Firewall with Advanced Security. Just because you're too fucking stupid to find it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Point 2. IE 7 runs in a sandbox. IE8 does as well as well as having inbuilt checking of known bad sites (Smartscreen filter), anti-phishing, popup blocker, blocking of add-ons etc. SO YOU DON'T NEED ANY OF THAT SHIT YOU'RE ON ABOUT which actually causes MORE trouble than its worth.
There are thousands of good reasons, literally, but here are the ones which might stick in your maw more readily:
* Conficker * Sasser * Bugbear * Blaster * Melissa * Love Bug * Code Red * (insert next bug here)
It's not so much a matter of why they should use Linux (or OS X) but why they shouldn't be using Windows.
Virtually all of those had patches issued through Windows Update to address the flaw BEFORE the malware was in the wild and the only computers unaffected were unpatched ones. So you can't really go blaming Microsoft when they took PROACTIVE action to prevent exploits. And before you bleat on about Linux being holier than thou, it has its own fair share of vulnerabilites (as seen on Securityfocus.com) but the difference is the piss poor market share doesn't make exploiting them worth the effort.
There is still new hardware out there that Linux doesn't support out of the box with existing ones? What hardware is that? -- Serious question.
Epson Stylus SX405 scanner. Printer part of it works OK with generic PPD but the scanner is completely unsupported which suggests that many of the Epson multifunctions can only work as printers. Also, a lot of Belkin wifi cards/USB sticks aren't supported. Also on my Hauppauge WintV PVR1300 (analogue TV,DVB-T, FM Radio), its real fun trying to get everything to work.
I'm afraid they are all very relevant option once you understand them.
In the meantime, while you're still figuring out how to configure your Linux ripping program the Windows user has installed one, ripped the DVD, transferred it to their iPod/whatever and watched it.
Your ISP is based in the UK and they're required to store what websites you visit. WTF do you think?
Wow they've really raised the bar on that one. They've now managed to get where Windows gaming was a decade ago. Give it another 4 years and they might get up to the quality of a game released at the turn of the 21st Century.
And that's the problem with gaming on Linux. Its not seen as that important unlike server stuff so it gets very little developer attention so can basically only progress at the speed that a few people can work at with the time they have spare after work and family commitments. They're also forced to use woefully out of date game engines if they actually want to get something out the door at any point. Even if you use WINE or Cedega, you encounter such problems as Counterstrike: Source only running in DX8 or not being able to connect to Punkbuster enabled servers in Battlefield 2. On the whole, it's a mess.
I've often wondered why Microsoft just doesn't implement some sort of security in Windows like other OS's have. It might prevent this kind of thing.
You mean like patching the flaw MONTHS before Conficker was released?
What having something like an application which could scan for it and remove it? You could call it "Malicious Software Removal Tool" and get it to run when automatic updates are done which would be handy. You could also allow users to run it themselves if they wanted by, say, clicking on Start, Run and typing in mrt...
Oh wait...
Let me guess. You're a stupid clueless cunt too thick to see that or you're blowing steam out your ass. What a surprise.
On Vista, other people can "wreck your installation" too.
Only if you're a stupid prick who actively changes their accounts from Standard to Administrator, you don't password protect the admin account or you give them the password.
I love the bit where you claim that you need to use IE7 to install IE8. What utter shit. Just about sums you up really.
If you buy cheap shit RAM, you'll get exactly the same as the OP. Get decent RAM and you'll not have an issue. For the last decade, I've bought nothing but Crucial and never had an issue with it. The odd time I've bought cheapass generic in that time, it's bitten me in the ass without fail.
The article seems to be written by a KDE user, since it mostly ignores important changes in gnome, for example the change from gnomevfs to gvfs: although it's not directly visible to the user, but mostly relevant to programmers,
New users don't give a shit What they do see though is that this supposed cutting edge OS looks virtually exactly the same as it did FOUR YEARS AGO
It's spot on about Gnome. If you take screenshots of Ubuntu from 5.10 and compare them to 8.10, apart from the wallpaper and some very minor changes, it looks virtually identical. Other Gnome based distros are pretty much the same. It's one thing that for me personally, gives the impression that Linux distros really haven't come on much since Gnome 2 came out.
KDE OTOH has changed massively but 4.x is basically broken and to be considered Alpha/Beta1 at best and IMO, can't really be counted.
Yeah sure, a massive amount has gone on under the hood with Linux but the bit that the user sees has barely changed whereas in Windows, there was a massive noticable change from Win2k to XP to Vista to Win7 so people "feel" they're getting a new OS.