Most users don't want to deal with that, they sign away thier safety and thats fine with them. I mean at some point not everyone in the world can be a computer expert, so are you recommending that people that aren't shouldn't have a computer? Fsking elitist. Sorry you lose.
There wouldn't be a computer industry if it weren't for the "stupid" people needing computers to help out thier jobs and lives. What we need to do is constructively help make the experience good and safe for everyone. MS is trying hard to do this, doesn't always succeed, but they try hard. Linux people just yell "rtfm".
His point is that the patch was avaialble and public BEFORE code red. Meaning that MS found the vunerability and issued a fix to it and noone used it. That happens no matter what OS you run, if you don't keep it up to date you get hosed by bugs. In this case MS did as well as anyone could to fix the problem.
You people want to ask for all software to be perfect before released but you know what that doesn't happen. In the OOS world you can just keep the software in forever beta but in the commercial world you have to eventually go "I hafta ship this its really pretty good" or you go broke. Linux has security holes, they send out patches all the freaking time, if you don't install the patch is that the linux communities fault?
On a similar not the only reason I think that worms like this are written for windows more often than unix (because I am CERTAIN that you could set up a worm to exploit apache/unix if you set your mind to it) is that there are just more windows users to exploit so it spreads faster and makes bigger news, and anyways the people that write these viruses buy into the popular hacker hype that windows sucks.
Someone needs to make worm like software to hit unix exploits to show that all software is vunerable to breaking.
Granted its open sourse so people will have a patch in 15 minutes but you will see the EXACT same problem as on windows where people don't install the patch, especially because the patch is HARDER to install in unix because it probably requires a recompile of the service.
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the MS patch only helps machines that have NOT been comprimised by the virus. The patch fixes the exploit that is used to get the virus on the machine in the first place, it doesn't fix the virus itself.
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I don't know whats stopping them, the patch is available straight from MS's site with no checks of any sort.
Um come on and use your brain guys, its NOT a TRS-80.
#1 basic source for webserver would not even run (um POOP and PUKE are not keywords in basic)
#2 A casette tape connected to one of those would NOT hold 4gb.
#3 even if the casette tape did hold 4gb it would take about 3 minutes to load a single 200k jpeg and then got knows how long to output that data to the network.
I never thought that the general/.er was smart but guys you are being pathetic here:)
The page does refresh every minute:) Just not "on the minute" like you might expect.
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The solution to the snooping problem is client based encryption. Not the silly replacement encryption that was popular not long ago, but real PGP or something. There is no reason that I can see that some sort of encryption algo couldn't be placed in a client and used.
Granted it will be as annoying as all hell to those people with out the special clients but the people with encryption will flock together just like the silly people with that comic chat heh:)
I have to sorta agree, you should keep the internal Zip drive in this slot or use it for a second hard drive bay or something. I prefer the zip drive because its removable/transferable storage thats large enough to be somewhat useful. Anyways it was in the G4 to start so you wouldn't have to buy it:)
The thing is, the people marketing don't give a flying flip about the product because they are 2 different entities in most cases.
I work closely with a web advertising agency and companies come to us and say "Make us an ad that people will look at and we will pay you XXX $'s" and so we make ads that we can prove people looked at. There are all sorts of ways to do this but that has nothing to do with my point.
As long as advertising is a "pay for views" or "pay for clicks" thing on the internet then advertising agencies are going to continue to make these nutty and annoying ads. Maybe they do squat for the manufacturers but in reality they actually do sell product. Its CRAZY how big of an increase in sales popup ads get. X10 was doomed from the start but their popup ad campaign actually did increase sales a HUGE amount.
I guess in the end I'm saying that even though all of you are annoyed by the ads, enough people fall for it that its worth spending the money on. If enough companies spend money advertising agencies will develop nutty and annoying ads and we are stuck. Same goes for spam, it wouldn't still be used if it didn't make money.
ME is less stable than win 98 se. I would recommend not upgrading to it. Win2k is best suited for businesses and lacks the features that are good for home users.
As much as you open source people hate it, windows XP is its own killer app, add Office suite to it and most people don't need to buy anything other than games for home use.
Most all the drivers people need are built into the OS, just plug in the hardware and it will work. There is CD burning software, zip software, i-net software, messaging software, word processor, basic drawing program, really any basic thing that you need. I hate that people get upset for a company building a product that does what people need. There is no more cost than win2k was so its not like they are even charging more for it. Maybe the result is evil because everyone uses windows but if its because its the product that does the most things well for people can you complain? Its like complaining that ford added more features to its automobile.
So anyways, my point is if you don't want to use windows don't, but advocating a governtment breakup just because the product is best is WRONG and ruins business in this nation.
Studys have shown that sleep debt is not really cumulative as you say. You can't for instance miss 4 hours of sleep one night and sleep and extra 4 the next night and catch up. The problem seems to be the rhythm of the whole thing and its better to sleep your right amount all the time, changing alot is bad.
That said you are right that most people don't sleep enough.
Using it in your business is not allowed because you make monetary benifit from using thier software and in that case MS should be reimbursed.
I would say however that if you have a licence to use wince in your business in the first place that there should be no problems with you then using a modified version of that. I am pretty sure that MS just doesn't want every business to grab a compiler and whip up wince for thier business machines robbing MS of revenue. Not that most people that could use wince don't already have the licence because the OS was distributed with the hardware heh.
Login is a terrible word to use for what most people (and even I) normally think of as a "name" of some sort. Username, or Login Name or something that says thats your "name" on the system is needed. I mean what is the login really except for your Identification to the system so call it that, either name or id or username or something to make it absolutely clear what you want.
Most of the other cases were somewhat like that, while many of them were things like "I'm used to thinking of this a certain way" that can be blamed on what MS did as standard, you need to look beyond that to why MS picked it that way. Sometimes its because thats just what they did, but most often MS spent hours watching people in a usability lab or reading other peoples usability lab results and picked something that was felt would be easy for most people to deal with.
I mean look at the whole issue about the gnome menu thing. I happen to think that a foot icon has NOTHING to do with starting programs. Start happens to be nice cause id says something about starting programs but "run" or "go" or something like that would work too. You need to make sure that an icon encapsulates the purpose of what it represents. Its a mapping to the real world expectations pictorially.
Yeah many people don't like mixing a browser and a file manager (I am not one of those) but I think the big problem here is that Natilus tried to look like a web browser but didn't let you do web browsing. With IE it mixes the two but and actually lets you do both tasks instead of looking like it should be able to both tasks and only doing one of them.
Dropping Java was a direct result of the case by Sun against MS over java. No argument that MS cheated and broke the contract it had with Sun. Now MS has decided that they really can't live with the contract that Sun has with them so they decided to avoid it the 100% legal way and not use java at all.
Um, MS would not want to stop people from implementing C#. At most they would want to stop people from implementing versions of C# that would not run a pure C# or pure managed (one that runs entirely in the CLR and doesn't use native hooks) program.
I think it would be benificial to MS to have other implementations of the platform that ran on systems other than intel/windows. I think MS knows this as well.
I guess what I'm saying is that its in MS's interest for mono to exist and that the licence should only give the rights for MS to make standards for what constitutes a deficient implementation and restrict its distribution if the standards aren't met. I don't think MS should be given the right to choose whether or not an implementation is sufficent to meet the standards though for numerous reasons.
And you CAN replace them:) What is stopping you from unregistering msHTML and registering a different com dll that implements that interface. Granted things would break if it wasn't a complete implmentation but there nothing stopping you from doing that.
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There wouldn't be a computer industry if it weren't for the "stupid" people needing computers to help out thier jobs and lives. What we need to do is constructively help make the experience good and safe for everyone. MS is trying hard to do this, doesn't always succeed, but they try hard. Linux people just yell "rtfm".
And then someone will write an exploit of the "auto-update" feature to install whatever the hell they want on the machine. Yeah good idea bud :)
You people want to ask for all software to be perfect before released but you know what that doesn't happen. In the OOS world you can just keep the software in forever beta but in the commercial world you have to eventually go "I hafta ship this its really pretty good" or you go broke. Linux has security holes, they send out patches all the freaking time, if you don't install the patch is that the linux communities fault?
On a similar not the only reason I think that worms like this are written for windows more often than unix (because I am CERTAIN that you could set up a worm to exploit apache/unix if you set your mind to it) is that there are just more windows users to exploit so it spreads faster and makes bigger news, and anyways the people that write these viruses buy into the popular hacker hype that windows sucks.
Granted its open sourse so people will have a patch in 15 minutes but you will see the EXACT same problem as on windows where people don't install the patch, especially because the patch is HARDER to install in unix because it probably requires a recompile of the service.
the MS patch only helps machines that have NOT been comprimised by the virus. The patch fixes the exploit that is used to get the virus on the machine in the first place, it doesn't fix the virus itself.
I don't know whats stopping them, the patch is available straight from MS's site with no checks of any sort.
Also april 20th is hitlers birthday which is also a famous 4 20.
The TRS-80 portable ran a version of Microsoft basic written by Bill G. himself. In fact the last actual code that he wrote for production.
There is a timezone bug in the code. The creator gives you a link to reset the timezone correctly which will fix the time you see.
We need to port this 25k version of apache BACK to unix :)
Um come on and use your brain guys, its NOT a TRS-80. #1 basic source for webserver would not even run (um POOP and PUKE are not keywords in basic) #2 A casette tape connected to one of those would NOT hold 4gb. #3 even if the casette tape did hold 4gb it would take about 3 minutes to load a single 200k jpeg and then got knows how long to output that data to the network. I never thought that the general /.er was smart but guys you are being pathetic here :)
The page does refresh every minute :) Just not "on the minute" like you might expect.
Granted it will be as annoying as all hell to those people with out the special clients but the people with encryption will flock together just like the silly people with that comic chat heh :)
They wouldn't give a hoot, if you pay the price they will sell you as many of them as they can provide :)
I have to sorta agree, you should keep the internal Zip drive in this slot or use it for a second hard drive bay or something. I prefer the zip drive because its removable/transferable storage thats large enough to be somewhat useful. Anyways it was in the G4 to start so you wouldn't have to buy it :)
I work closely with a web advertising agency and companies come to us and say "Make us an ad that people will look at and we will pay you XXX $'s" and so we make ads that we can prove people looked at. There are all sorts of ways to do this but that has nothing to do with my point.
As long as advertising is a "pay for views" or "pay for clicks" thing on the internet then advertising agencies are going to continue to make these nutty and annoying ads. Maybe they do squat for the manufacturers but in reality they actually do sell product. Its CRAZY how big of an increase in sales popup ads get. X10 was doomed from the start but their popup ad campaign actually did increase sales a HUGE amount.
I guess in the end I'm saying that even though all of you are annoyed by the ads, enough people fall for it that its worth spending the money on. If enough companies spend money advertising agencies will develop nutty and annoying ads and we are stuck. Same goes for spam, it wouldn't still be used if it didn't make money.
I guess the iPAQ got instant on right :) It helps to never turn off in the first place heh.
As much as you open source people hate it, windows XP is its own killer app, add Office suite to it and most people don't need to buy anything other than games for home use.
Most all the drivers people need are built into the OS, just plug in the hardware and it will work. There is CD burning software, zip software, i-net software, messaging software, word processor, basic drawing program, really any basic thing that you need. I hate that people get upset for a company building a product that does what people need. There is no more cost than win2k was so its not like they are even charging more for it. Maybe the result is evil because everyone uses windows but if its because its the product that does the most things well for people can you complain? Its like complaining that ford added more features to its automobile.
So anyways, my point is if you don't want to use windows don't, but advocating a governtment breakup just because the product is best is WRONG and ruins business in this nation.
That said you are right that most people don't sleep enough.
I would say however that if you have a licence to use wince in your business in the first place that there should be no problems with you then using a modified version of that. I am pretty sure that MS just doesn't want every business to grab a compiler and whip up wince for thier business machines robbing MS of revenue. Not that most people that could use wince don't already have the licence because the OS was distributed with the hardware heh.
Most of the other cases were somewhat like that, while many of them were things like "I'm used to thinking of this a certain way" that can be blamed on what MS did as standard, you need to look beyond that to why MS picked it that way. Sometimes its because thats just what they did, but most often MS spent hours watching people in a usability lab or reading other peoples usability lab results and picked something that was felt would be easy for most people to deal with.
I mean look at the whole issue about the gnome menu thing. I happen to think that a foot icon has NOTHING to do with starting programs. Start happens to be nice cause id says something about starting programs but "run" or "go" or something like that would work too. You need to make sure that an icon encapsulates the purpose of what it represents. Its a mapping to the real world expectations pictorially.
Yeah many people don't like mixing a browser and a file manager (I am not one of those) but I think the big problem here is that Natilus tried to look like a web browser but didn't let you do web browsing. With IE it mixes the two but and actually lets you do both tasks instead of looking like it should be able to both tasks and only doing one of them.
Dropping Java was a direct result of the case by Sun against MS over java. No argument that MS cheated and broke the contract it had with Sun. Now MS has decided that they really can't live with the contract that Sun has with them so they decided to avoid it the 100% legal way and not use java at all.
I think it would be benificial to MS to have other implementations of the platform that ran on systems other than intel/windows. I think MS knows this as well.
I guess what I'm saying is that its in MS's interest for mono to exist and that the licence should only give the rights for MS to make standards for what constitutes a deficient implementation and restrict its distribution if the standards aren't met. I don't think MS should be given the right to choose whether or not an implementation is sufficent to meet the standards though for numerous reasons.
And you CAN replace them :) What is stopping you from unregistering msHTML and registering a different com dll that implements that interface. Granted things would break if it wasn't a complete implmentation but there nothing stopping you from doing that.