Article is bullshit. Microsoft patched IE8 in under 24hrs. Pwn2Own targetted IE8RC1. The full IE8 was released the following day and was immune to the exploit used.
Say what? Even as a Linux hater, I have to admit they've got this sorted. My experience of a Huawei E220 with Ubuntu 8.10 was that I plugged it in, restricted driver manager got the driver, Network Manager then asked me what country I was using it in and then gave me a list of providers and configured it all correctly. I then merely had to click on the network manager icon and select the 3G connection from the list.
Admittedly Ubuntu prior to 8.10 was a nightmare involving having to disable automount and fannying around modprobing etc. Can't comment on other distros as I've not tried it with them.
You might want to check the hard drive load cycle count as my Compaq went through the roof with Ubuntu on it, increasing by 3 counts every few seconds.
Ummm I'm pretty sure thats the ability to act as a wifi access point, which windows can't do yet.
Eh? When was the last time you used Windows? Vista certainly has had the ability to be configured as an access point since the start so that's over 2 years.
You seem to think a developer would be going "dammit, my game is too popular, and the demos that cost my $0.20 are hardly offset by the $60.00 sale price that millions are forking over.
There speaks someone with absolutley no frakking clue about the retail chain. The developer sees maybe 25%-30% of that at best. Now factor in the development cost. COD4 cost an estimated $20,000,000 to develop and market. Bearing in mind the developer gets nothing for second hand sales, it needs to shift a million units just to break even on that one game. If you've got several games you've released which have all cost $20m each and some don't sell a million copies, then the more successful ones need to take up the losses of the unsuccessful ones so COD4 could have actually needed to make a couple of million sales for the company to break even as a whole.
Assuming this is true, I think it'll be the end for the PS3. The Xbox360 and Wii have far higher market penetration and are far easier to develop for. If you're now going to start charging software companies for DLC, which will included demos, then it's epic fail - it's not as if the PSN was any good to begin with from a user POV.
When times are tight, software developers will look to cut costs. If that means not developing on the one with the lowest market share which also happens to be the most difficult , and soon to be the most expensive content wise, they'll just dump it. If they do continue to release games on it, the PS3 version will always be the "lame duck" one as they'll just not bother releasing any new content for it. The PS3 could quite simply end up being a Japan only market.
Well I've managed to put 8.1GB on my iPod. It's all ripped from my CD collection at 320. Admittedly, I'm the thick end of 40 years old and I've got a 20+ year CD collection so it's quite feasible to do it and for anyone over the age of 20, probably not that uncommon.
You honestly know in your heart that most of the P2P traffic is illegal so throttle it BUT only implement the throttling between the hours of say, 8am to 10pm or midnight. Send out an email to all customers stating that due to the abuse of a minority of users, P2P throttling will take place between the hours of 8am to 12 Midnight to ensure a high level of service to other users.
The P2P boys will quickly figure out what is going on and they can set their clients to download from Midnight to 8am. That way, there's plenty of bandwidth when Joe Average wants to check their Facebook and when businesses are operating and the bandwidth through the night which is mostly unused is utilised better. Everyone wins.
There posts someone who hasn't been keeping up to things. Conficker now has over 50,000 new domains PER DAY and push technology is now being used as well so saying the C&C nodes are now blackholes and it's useless is just plain wrong. The only person 30 days late here is you.
Any idea as to how this machine got infected in the first place?
Like 99% of infections, user stupidity. Sadly, if these users were using Linux, the same would happen because the security prompt would come up and they'd shove in their password and you're off. With Ubuntu having massive popularity amongst Windows converts, it makes it more and more likely as targetting one distribution is fairly easy.
Between now and then, Apple will likely have released OS X 10.6, and there will have been two new release of Ubuntu.
And how much are Apple going to charge you for the latest OS X service pack? Are Ubuntu actually going to fix what they broke in the change from 7.10 to 8.04 which are still mostly broken 18 months later despite the release of 8.10 and 9.04 Alphas?
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China owns the USA to a large extent.
I would like to see how they intend to come over here and get it.
With their 3 million troops, 860 warships, 60 submarines, 400 nuclear missiles and 1400 fighter aircraft.
On Vista and Win7, I'd rather use IE as it runs in a sandbox.
Article is bullshit. Microsoft patched IE8 in under 24hrs. Pwn2Own targetted IE8RC1. The full IE8 was released the following day and was immune to the exploit used.
Not up to 24hrs ago. Yesterday I downloaded FF for a client and it was still punting Ver 3.0.7 on Mozillas website.
3g huawei modem have troubles,
Say what? Even as a Linux hater, I have to admit they've got this sorted. My experience of a Huawei E220 with Ubuntu 8.10 was that I plugged it in, restricted driver manager got the driver, Network Manager then asked me what country I was using it in and then gave me a list of providers and configured it all correctly. I then merely had to click on the network manager icon and select the 3G connection from the list.
Admittedly Ubuntu prior to 8.10 was a nightmare involving having to disable automount and fannying around modprobing etc. Can't comment on other distros as I've not tried it with them.
You might want to check the hard drive load cycle count as my Compaq went through the roof with Ubuntu on it, increasing by 3 counts every few seconds.
Considering Compiz-Fusion actually came out AFTER betas of Vista which had Window Preview, I think you'll find it's OSS that's copying MS again.
Microsoft hasn't stolen this feature from the Mac yet?
No because Vista implemented it 2 years ago and Mac has yet to. So if anyone is copying features, once again it's Linux and Mac OS X.
Ummm I'm pretty sure thats the ability to act as a wifi access point, which windows can't do yet.
Eh? When was the last time you used Windows? Vista certainly has had the ability to be configured as an access point since the start so that's over 2 years.
Not in the UK either. Mine have always defaulted to A4.
Dumbass. It's your ISP that implemets the caps and throttling, not BT Openreach. They merely provide the connectivity from the POP to the customer.
1 GB for a demo is huge.
Actually it's about the norm. On Killzone 2, it gives you about 5 minutes gameplay.
I tihnk you'll find Space Invaders is from the 1970's.
You seem to think a developer would be going "dammit, my game is too popular, and the demos that cost my $0.20 are hardly offset by the $60.00 sale price that millions are forking over.
There speaks someone with absolutley no frakking clue about the retail chain. The developer sees maybe 25%-30% of that at best. Now factor in the development cost. COD4 cost an estimated $20,000,000 to develop and market. Bearing in mind the developer gets nothing for second hand sales, it needs to shift a million units just to break even on that one game. If you've got several games you've released which have all cost $20m each and some don't sell a million copies, then the more successful ones need to take up the losses of the unsuccessful ones so COD4 could have actually needed to make a couple of million sales for the company to break even as a whole.
Assuming this is true, I think it'll be the end for the PS3. The Xbox360 and Wii have far higher market penetration and are far easier to develop for. If you're now going to start charging software companies for DLC, which will included demos, then it's epic fail - it's not as if the PSN was any good to begin with from a user POV.
When times are tight, software developers will look to cut costs. If that means not developing on the one with the lowest market share which also happens to be the most difficult , and soon to be the most expensive content wise, they'll just dump it. If they do continue to release games on it, the PS3 version will always be the "lame duck" one as they'll just not bother releasing any new content for it. The PS3 could quite simply end up being a Japan only market.
Oh and why does it try and change my default search provider? Thankfully IE8 picked this up and warned me.
And NoScript. And greasemonkey.
All and more available in IE7Pro
And GMail Manager.
One of the many IE Addons available...
Well as you're obviously feeling left out,
here's one that came out last week for you.
Well I've managed to put 8.1GB on my iPod. It's all ripped from my CD collection at 320. Admittedly, I'm the thick end of 40 years old and I've got a 20+ year CD collection so it's quite feasible to do it and for anyone over the age of 20, probably not that uncommon.
The P2P boys will quickly figure out what is going on and they can set their clients to download from Midnight to 8am. That way, there's plenty of bandwidth when Joe Average wants to check their Facebook and when businesses are operating and the bandwidth through the night which is mostly unused is utilised better. Everyone wins.
There posts someone who hasn't been keeping up to things. Conficker now has over 50,000 new domains PER DAY and push technology is now being used as well so saying the C&C nodes are now blackholes and it's useless is just plain wrong. The only person 30 days late here is you.
Any idea as to how this machine got infected in the first place?
Like 99% of infections, user stupidity. Sadly, if these users were using Linux, the same would happen because the security prompt would come up and they'd shove in their password and you're off. With Ubuntu having massive popularity amongst Windows converts, it makes it more and more likely as targetting one distribution is fairly easy.
I used that same tool on another virus. Haven't had an issue since!
I found that non of my games would work and my wifi is now broken too.
"Don't buy our competitor, we're working on a product which will blow theirs away!"
Every time, in every market, this is their script. When will people learn?
For a minute there, I thought you were talking about Linux.....
Between now and then, Apple will likely have released OS X 10.6, and there will have been two new release of Ubuntu.
And how much are Apple going to charge you for the latest OS X service pack? Are Ubuntu actually going to fix what they broke in the change from 7.10 to 8.04 which are still mostly broken 18 months later despite the release of 8.10 and 9.04 Alphas?