Most Windows users won't even know what Microsoft was promising two and a half years ago. They'll be happy with their shiny new glass windows and amazing alt-tab feature. Vista is ultimately going to be successful, despite the glaring development problems it's has had.
What Microsoft should really be concerned about is the poor current implementation of the User Account Protection feature. It is really annoying as is, and there's a night and day usability difference between it and OS X's implementation. This is something that regular end users will actually notice and complain about.
A deeper problem is interface consistency. Thurrott points out how Microsoft has basically turned into what it once despised: a reactive bureaucracy in the model of IBM in the 70's. This is really reflected in the current builds of Vista-- the interface is incredibly inconsistent compared to OS X, Gnome, or Windows 2000. It feels like twnety different teams worked on fourty different things without any real coordination or a common set of user interface guidelines.
First, read the fucking article. Where did you get 7% from?
Next, realize that the percentage that goes down the drain is likely made up for by the people who wouldn't otherwise have donated but were convinced by the lure of free merchandise.
The owner of Something Awful is a longtime customer of PayPal. This isn't some fly-by-night operation that just popped up. Five minutes of investigation on PayPal's part would have revealed that it's quite legit.
And why would you be glad that PayPal is hording the money generously donated towards hurricane victims?
You're a braying fucking moron. The owner of Something Awful wasn't looking for "credit," recognition, or blowjobs. A separate method was set up so that those who donated could receive free merchandise.
Looks like I won't be switching to Movelink soon. BitTorrent doesn't have the same nasty requirement.
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They're probably trying to install Gator onto my machine anyways...
In my opinion, the issue is less that this particular bug is a threat to election security and more that it shows the continued incompetence of Diebold.
While I fully support ESR and the rest of the open source movement's defense of Linux against SCO, I have a feeling that this tool's results will not immediately be accepted by established media simply because of ESR's bias. A reporter looking into the SCO story who knows little about open source wouldn't trust a tool made by one side of the disagreement.
It seems very important to me that "third parties" and experts who are not an integral part of the open-source movement validate that comparator works as intended and is effective at detecting code similarities. Hopefully we'll see some articles on respected sites in the next week or so with conclusive analyses of comparator. Not to mention a chance for someone to use it on SCO's code!
Oh, and "Yes, I'm being deliberately vague and tantalizing" is quite funny.
What I meant was not that we live in a true democratic system, but that we consider ourselves the model of democracy. Despite this, we are very far from being democratic. We call ourselves a democracy, and our foreign policy tries to spread democracy throughout the world... why don't we practice it here?
I never voted on the DMCA. Why can't I vote with my votes?
The DMCA is a good example of representative democracy at its worst: the public should be voting on things like this, not a group of old, white, men who are told by their party to vote a certain way. That isn't democracy, that's two parties vying for campaign dollars from special interests.
How long have you been in the scene, and how much has it changed in the years since you joined an elite group? Additionally, do you believe that five years ago an operation similar to Buccaneer could have happened? Is Buccaneer a direct result of the internet and the exposure of the warez scene to the "general" internet public?
I doubt nvidia-based cards will jump in price much because of VisionTek's closure. There is still plenty of competition in the market between the various GeForce vendors... including some rather large vendors. The big question is how much of a dent the new ATI part will make into nvidia's dominance of the high-end graphics market.
Remember: this doesn't only mean that Doom III will get onto the Xbox, this means many FPS's will. It also shows that games which do not primarily use Direct3D are quite portable to Xbox.
I think the only thing that's completely standardized across all computing platforms is the power cable. Can we just connect everything with power cables?
"It will be possible to turn TCPA off, but if it achieves critical mass then this will mean you don't have access to TCPA-enabled applications, which may isolate you a tad."
I don't care if I'm isolated a tad, especially since I know that there will be plenty of dissenters providing things i'm interested in anyways. This isn't a good solution of course, but it does answer my question as to whether or not we can turn it off and run linux or an older version of windows. I'd also imagine quite a few brilliant people will be working on ways to circumvent all of this shit.
Where in this article, or the previous articles, does it say that the hardware would not let alternative operating systems be installed? Will only operating systems that use the key embedded into the hardware be "allowed" to install? And if so, how the hell can they accomplish this? It seems like if you can install linux or an older version of windows without using the public/private key stuff then it isn't as much the horrible linux-killing initiative some make it out to be. I'm not trying to troll, flamebait, etc., I'm just curious.
X-Box's controllers are a modified form of USB. You can't physically plug a USB device into the X-Box's controller port because of the design, and you can't use a simple adapter because of a voltage difference. There may be ways around this, but I don't know of any.
I don't know about you, but the lizard in IE6 looks identical to the one in Mozilla, the only difference being that in Mozilla the right border of the box is one pixel off from the lizard image while in IE6 it aligns perfectly. Look right under the lizard where the "mozilla 1.0" bar intersects the right border. In my mozilla 1.0 final (win32), it is one pixel off. In IE6, it isn't.
But hey, let's moderate up the people who talk about ie6 gopher holes in a mozilla thread, and moderate down the people who actually talk about the browser at hand.
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First, read the fucking article. Where did you get 7% from?
Next, realize that the percentage that goes down the drain is likely made up for by the people who wouldn't otherwise have donated but were convinced by the lure of free merchandise.
The owner of Something Awful is a longtime customer of PayPal. This isn't some fly-by-night operation that just popped up. Five minutes of investigation on PayPal's part would have revealed that it's quite legit.
And why would you be glad that PayPal is hording the money generously donated towards hurricane victims?
You're a braying fucking moron. The owner of Something Awful wasn't looking for "credit," recognition, or blowjobs. A separate method was set up so that those who donated could receive free merchandise.
Next time, read the fucking article.
It's about fucking time.
They're probably trying to install Gator onto my machine anyways...
In my opinion, the issue is less that this particular bug is a threat to election security and more that it shows the continued incompetence of Diebold.
Key generators are already made without the source code.
While I fully support ESR and the rest of the open source movement's defense of Linux against SCO, I have a feeling that this tool's results will not immediately be accepted by established media simply because of ESR's bias. A reporter looking into the SCO story who knows little about open source wouldn't trust a tool made by one side of the disagreement.
It seems very important to me that "third parties" and experts who are not an integral part of the open-source movement validate that comparator works as intended and is effective at detecting code similarities. Hopefully we'll see some articles on respected sites in the next week or so with conclusive analyses of comparator. Not to mention a chance for someone to use it on SCO's code!
Oh, and "Yes, I'm being deliberately vague and tantalizing" is quite funny.
Geez, I've only had Outlook corrupt my primary .pst file what, 8 times?
:(
Sadly enough, the above sentence is as played out as the grandparent's.
What I meant was not that we live in a true democratic system, but that we consider ourselves the model of democracy. Despite this, we are very far from being democratic. We call ourselves a democracy, and our foreign policy tries to spread democracy throughout the world... why don't we practice it here?
I never voted on the DMCA. Why can't I vote with my votes?
The DMCA is a good example of representative democracy at its worst: the public should be voting on things like this, not a group of old, white, men who are told by their party to vote a certain way. That isn't democracy, that's two parties vying for campaign dollars from special interests.
You're wrong, chief.
How long have you been in the scene, and how much has it changed in the years since you joined an elite group? Additionally, do you believe that five years ago an operation similar to Buccaneer could have happened? Is Buccaneer a direct result of the internet and the exposure of the warez scene to the "general" internet public?
Check out this picture.
"this is the beginning of microsoft's end."
Because everyone knows that Tux Racer is going to be the catalyst for change.
Oh, and GLTron.
I doubt nvidia-based cards will jump in price much because of VisionTek's closure. There is still plenty of competition in the market between the various GeForce vendors... including some rather large vendors. The big question is how much of a dent the new ATI part will make into nvidia's dominance of the high-end graphics market.
Remember: this doesn't only mean that Doom III will get onto the Xbox, this means many FPS's will. It also shows that games which do not primarily use Direct3D are quite portable to Xbox.
I think the only thing that's completely standardized across all computing platforms is the power cable. Can we just connect everything with power cables?
I don't care if I'm isolated a tad, especially since I know that there will be plenty of dissenters providing things i'm interested in anyways. This isn't a good solution of course, but it does answer my question as to whether or not we can turn it off and run linux or an older version of windows. I'd also imagine quite a few brilliant people will be working on ways to circumvent all of this shit.
Where in this article, or the previous articles, does it say that the hardware would not let alternative operating systems be installed? Will only operating systems that use the key embedded into the hardware be "allowed" to install? And if so, how the hell can they accomplish this? It seems like if you can install linux or an older version of windows without using the public/private key stuff then it isn't as much the horrible linux-killing initiative some make it out to be. I'm not trying to troll, flamebait, etc., I'm just curious.
X-Box's controllers are a modified form of USB. You can't physically plug a USB device into the X-Box's controller port because of the design, and you can't use a simple adapter because of a voltage difference. There may be ways around this, but I don't know of any.
The page looks fine in Opera 6 (win32).
I don't know about you, but the lizard in IE6 looks identical to the one in Mozilla, the only difference being that in Mozilla the right border of the box is one pixel off from the lizard image while in IE6 it aligns perfectly. Look right under the lizard where the "mozilla 1.0" bar intersects the right border. In my mozilla 1.0 final (win32), it is one pixel off. In IE6, it isn't.
But hey, let's moderate up the people who talk about ie6 gopher holes in a mozilla thread, and moderate down the people who actually talk about the browser at hand.
Have a look at these two articles
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http://www.MacKiDo.com/Press/TheRegister.html
http://www.MacKiDo.com/Hardware/Parallelism.htm
Something should be done to make Apple move from
its position of withholding hardware information
for its current and future machines.