Well and don't forget everyone has the ability to customize Linux to explicitly do what they need it to. It really isn't practically to pay the stipend for Vista and just use the API to make a customized shell interface and strip everything (bloat) out.
You still could but its not exactly cost effective especially considering how readily available the source is for Linux and its free.
Ya thats my experience too. To further this notion, the majority of MS advertising seems to have nothing technical instead it just uses cool token words and lots of colorful graphs and charts.
I agree. Ethanol made from corn via processing plants powered by coal is definitely the solution! Just think you can power coal mining equipment with the Ethanol and have created perpetual motion.
Politics needs to stay out of science. We have no clue what the truth is. Not only is the problem of global climate a huge complicated task involving all the sciences but now we have politicians on both sides of the fence that are monkeying with the facts.
Personally I always assume anyone who is preaching hail and brimstone to be a wacko.
I agree. There is a lot of people in the US and Europe saying everyone needs to jump on board with IPv6 and/or IPv6 doesn't work and yet very few in US and Europe have even bothered trying to migrate. I'm thinking a lot of the nations of the world are trying to get with the program as they don't have the resources and money to waste on premium IPv4 node numbers.
Who needs to have a fire lit under their butts is US and European ISP's. Thats where the slackers TRULY are. Want a door step to wave pitchforks and torches... try AOL.
Since I was zygote i've been smoking cigarettes and crack cocaine. Than one day I read on the side of the pack "Surgeon Generals Warning: This crap can kill you." If it wasn't for that warning I would have never known that tobacco is bad. So as of today I only smoke crack.
Think of all the millions of meth heads that didn't get a warning from the Surgeon General. I smell a class action lawsuit against the federal government right there.
I'm waiting for a bug to touch some of the WGA system. Particular since so many hackers have taken to breaking it. It's just a matter of time before one of their WGA fixes breaks the system for the innocent people. Copy protection has never worked. The worst part is the more extreme these software companies get with the copy protection the more likely it won't work for paying customers who legitimately bought the software and only the pirated versions with the copy protection works as intended. Amazing, no one has learned this lesson from the last time software companies went hell bent with the idea of copy protection in the C64 days.
Okay... as one of the sucker OEMs. I can explain how #1 question became true. It has little to do with users as hardly anyone USES Vista except for pirates. It set a record sells because OEMs and retailers had to make a entire shelf for Vista and all its flavors. Vista Home, Vista Home Premium, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate Supreme Pizza with Olives. Don't forget you have to stock 32 bit, 64 bit and 64 and 32 bit versions. Each level had a different price tag. In general a small system builder or retailer likes to keep around about 5 copies of any one version. You do the math.
How many people (actual users) bought Vista? To date, one person. But I have gotten numerous work from people back when the big OEMs were forcing people to buy Vista with a new computer, downgrading to XP and its inspired a lot of folks to switch to Linux. With needing only a little encouragement i've switched a lot of people to Ubuntu.
So... #1 record sells IN THE FIRST MONTH. Ya, I believe it. I can show you a shelf I have of the dust collecting Vista.
This is a VERY short term effect. OEM's and Retailers aren't buying any more. The users don't want it.
No its worst than that. You have to be a OEM builder in Australia to even qualify to win. It said which AUSTRALIA territories are valid. I'm pretty certain that disqualifies people in the US. I didn't see California in the list of Australian states qualified to win.
Silverlight is a MS replacement for Flash. So now our choices for this kind of HTTP applets is Java, Flash, and Silverlight. Two on this list is owned by the spawns of Satan. Can't OOS community put together something better?
Well:-/ Security is a fun issue. I used to work in the security analyst gig for a while. Here is one rule. The more secure something is, the more obscure and readily available it is. The easier accessible the object or data is to you... the less secure and easier accessible it is to the criminal. The ultimate goal is to strike a balance between convenience for the legitimate user and the security being too unaccessible and not worth the time, effort or risk for the criminal to bother with. Security is meant purely as a deterrent. Like the old rotary phone is the best secured dumb phone, the best firewall in the world is to unplug your network cable from your computer. (Assuming your on a wired LAN.)
Any ways obscurity is great when you can guaranty its obscure. Example the clock workings of a vault door is highly guarded secret and is very obscure and very few people has seen the inner workings of any vault door. The inner workings of your house door knob lock is not obscure. It is free for any criminal to go down to WalMart, buy and tear apart the door knob. Windows, MacOS and Linux are all readily available for the criminal types to tear apart. With Linux unlike majority (or majority portions) of the other OS's the good guys get a first chance to go over everything with fine tooth comb. Exploits are usually fixed when they are just a theoretically security hole not when they are a proven real hole like typically what happens with closed source software. So the obscurity that closed source gives you is really pretty much nil since anyone can buy and/or common with the criminal factions pirate the OS and have their way with it. Just because its in microcode CPU instructions doesn't at all mean that the code is unreadable. Plus lets not forget in order for anyone to figure out the exploits of open source software they have to have a working knowledge of how its going to look when the code is compiled anyways. You can't possible understand a buffer overrun unless you understand how strings are stored in memory.
Anyones claims that their OS is more secure because of closed source is a very thin thread to stand on. OS's like SkyOS are secured OS's not because its shrouded in secrecy due to close source, but more because of obscurity. With this in mind you could always just run Windows NT 3.5 or Windows 3.11 and be as equally safe from hackers using the same obscurity technique.
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Well and don't forget everyone has the ability to customize Linux to explicitly do what they need it to. It really isn't practically to pay the stipend for Vista and just use the API to make a customized shell interface and strip everything (bloat) out. You still could but its not exactly cost effective especially considering how readily available the source is for Linux and its free.
Ya thats my experience too. To further this notion, the majority of MS advertising seems to have nothing technical instead it just uses cool token words and lots of colorful graphs and charts.
I agree. Ethanol made from corn via processing plants powered by coal is definitely the solution! Just think you can power coal mining equipment with the Ethanol and have created perpetual motion. Politics needs to stay out of science. We have no clue what the truth is. Not only is the problem of global climate a huge complicated task involving all the sciences but now we have politicians on both sides of the fence that are monkeying with the facts. Personally I always assume anyone who is preaching hail and brimstone to be a wacko.
I agree. There is a lot of people in the US and Europe saying everyone needs to jump on board with IPv6 and/or IPv6 doesn't work and yet very few in US and Europe have even bothered trying to migrate. I'm thinking a lot of the nations of the world are trying to get with the program as they don't have the resources and money to waste on premium IPv4 node numbers. Who needs to have a fire lit under their butts is US and European ISP's. Thats where the slackers TRULY are. Want a door step to wave pitchforks and torches... try AOL.
Since I was zygote i've been smoking cigarettes and crack cocaine. Than one day I read on the side of the pack "Surgeon Generals Warning: This crap can kill you." If it wasn't for that warning I would have never known that tobacco is bad. So as of today I only smoke crack. Think of all the millions of meth heads that didn't get a warning from the Surgeon General. I smell a class action lawsuit against the federal government right there.
I'm waiting for a bug to touch some of the WGA system. Particular since so many hackers have taken to breaking it. It's just a matter of time before one of their WGA fixes breaks the system for the innocent people. Copy protection has never worked. The worst part is the more extreme these software companies get with the copy protection the more likely it won't work for paying customers who legitimately bought the software and only the pirated versions with the copy protection works as intended. Amazing, no one has learned this lesson from the last time software companies went hell bent with the idea of copy protection in the C64 days.
Okay... as one of the sucker OEMs. I can explain how #1 question became true. It has little to do with users as hardly anyone USES Vista except for pirates. It set a record sells because OEMs and retailers had to make a entire shelf for Vista and all its flavors. Vista Home, Vista Home Premium, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate Supreme Pizza with Olives. Don't forget you have to stock 32 bit, 64 bit and 64 and 32 bit versions. Each level had a different price tag. In general a small system builder or retailer likes to keep around about 5 copies of any one version. You do the math. How many people (actual users) bought Vista? To date, one person. But I have gotten numerous work from people back when the big OEMs were forcing people to buy Vista with a new computer, downgrading to XP and its inspired a lot of folks to switch to Linux. With needing only a little encouragement i've switched a lot of people to Ubuntu. So... #1 record sells IN THE FIRST MONTH. Ya, I believe it. I can show you a shelf I have of the dust collecting Vista. This is a VERY short term effect. OEM's and Retailers aren't buying any more. The users don't want it.
No its worst than that. You have to be a OEM builder in Australia to even qualify to win. It said which AUSTRALIA territories are valid. I'm pretty certain that disqualifies people in the US. I didn't see California in the list of Australian states qualified to win. Silverlight is a MS replacement for Flash. So now our choices for this kind of HTTP applets is Java, Flash, and Silverlight. Two on this list is owned by the spawns of Satan. Can't OOS community put together something better?
Well :-/ Security is a fun issue. I used to work in the security analyst gig for a while.
Here is one rule. The more secure something is, the more obscure and readily available it is. The easier accessible the object or data is to you... the less secure and easier accessible it is to the criminal.
The ultimate goal is to strike a balance between convenience for the legitimate user and the security being too unaccessible and not worth the time, effort or risk for the criminal to bother with. Security is meant purely as a deterrent.
Like the old rotary phone is the best secured dumb phone, the best firewall in the world is to unplug your network cable from your computer. (Assuming your on a wired LAN.)
Any ways obscurity is great when you can guaranty its obscure. Example the clock workings of a vault door is highly guarded secret and is very obscure and very few people has seen the inner workings of any vault door. The inner workings of your house door knob lock is not obscure. It is free for any criminal to go down to WalMart, buy and tear apart the door knob.
Windows, MacOS and Linux are all readily available for the criminal types to tear apart. With Linux unlike majority (or majority portions) of the other OS's the good guys get a first chance to go over everything with fine tooth comb. Exploits are usually fixed when they are just a theoretically security hole not when they are a proven real hole like typically what happens with closed source software.
So the obscurity that closed source gives you is really pretty much nil since anyone can buy and/or common with the criminal factions pirate the OS and have their way with it.
Just because its in microcode CPU instructions doesn't at all mean that the code is unreadable. Plus lets not forget in order for anyone to figure out the exploits of open source software they have to have a working knowledge of how its going to look when the code is compiled anyways. You can't possible understand a buffer overrun unless you understand how strings are stored in memory.
Anyones claims that their OS is more secure because of closed source is a very thin thread to stand on. OS's like SkyOS are secured OS's not because its shrouded in secrecy due to close source, but more because of obscurity.
With this in mind you could always just run Windows NT 3.5 or Windows 3.11 and be as equally safe from hackers using the same obscurity technique.