I do enjoy a minimum browsing quality. However, personally, all of the competing browsers currently on the market do what I ask them to. Yes, this includes IE7. Microsoft has vastly improved their browser and I applaud them for it.
However, I think there's a point where feature packing has its limit. I guess you could compare it to Microsoft adding tons of bloat to XP and making Vista instead of fixing the outstanding issues of XP.
I believe there's a point where browsers are just fine, and extra features would be superfluous. I thought Firefox 2 had attained that point until Firefox 3 came out, with its many performance improvements. At this point I only think that bug fixes and even more performance improvements are necessary.
Vector graphics? No thanks. My work computer already has enough trouble loading Toms hardware and slashdot properly as it is.
Most hardcore WoW players will actually spend a lot less money playing WoW than you will going out with friends every week.
WoW is about $15/month. That's your average movie ticket, at least where I live. So you can either go out to the movies and get about 2 hours of entertainment, or play WoW and get say an hour of entertainment every day/other day/week/two weeks, and you're still paying less than the person who chose to go to the movies.
I'd say it's quite the investment, and I don't play WoW myself.
Or you can just return your copy of Vista like many people did and stop bitching about how MS sucks and they're stealing your cash and how Linux rocks and the average slashdot fanboyism.
What you don't understand is that the PC playing field is already unlevel.
People with better PCs are gonna have a better chance at a higher frag output than people with laggy PCs. People with higher DPI mice are going to have a better chance at accurate aiming in FPS. People with G15 keyboards are going to have an advantage over people that don't have a keyboard with macros on them. People with better monitors are going to have an advantage over people who can't see as much. Lastly, people who have a large FoV are going to see more than people with a smaller one.
This is another change in a series of changes that have been happening forever now.
If I spend my arm and my leg trying to buy a brain mouse, then it better fucking work in World of Warcraft.
There is not much difference between the Keyboard Turning VS Mouse turning debate, the 400 DPI and 2000 DPI mouse debate, and the 2000 DPI mouse and brain mouse debate.
People are gonna have to deal with it. Though I'm curious how accurate and fast it's gonna be. Instantly pinpointing something on a FPS could be disastrous.
World of Warcraft won't be going anywhere for at least another couple years, but I'd expect at least either AoC or Warhammer to get into the millions of users and take a chunk out of WoW's userbase. People were saying this when the game came out, but it's simply wrong.
Yes, a bunch of people will leave for Warhammer - The population of WoW players will still grow, just like it always did. WoW is as strong as ever, with around 10 million subscriptions, and another expansion around the way. It is getting somewhere.
Nothing will beat WoW for a while.
Just about every MMORPG released in the last 2 years were said to beat WoW, spawning hordes of fanboys who would come on the forums only to say "LOTRO will kill WoW! Vanguard will kill WoW! X will kill WoW!" and they were always wrong.
At this point saying a game will kill WoW is simply a laughable trolling attempt intended to 'scare' blizzard into changing the game mechanics so that said person can stay on WoW, even though they would either way.
It takes just about 20 minutes to reinstall windows once I get done saving my files. I'd rather do that than waste hours looking on google to try and fix what's going on.
They would sell it to a couple students who would begin an open source movement, insisting that ways of cheating the system should be available to everyone to learn from, fix and even improve. Licenses would be analyzed and applied, a commitee would be formed, Sourceforge would receive a new project request and then a new breed of linux would be created using their own kernel, specifically supporting hardware to break scripts that are preventing you to download P2P.
And then, that version of linux would be on a torrent, which you would need to complete a quiz to access.
For anything above High School level, that is.
For most of my high school work Wikipedia was sufficient as a source, save an assignment or two.
Though obviously it's better if you just use the references, I could get a 90 from teachers who didn't really care.
Nevermind, you're just plugging your ears. I'm done with this waste of time. Obviously my point is going right over your head, while I understand yours completely.
I mean for a regular user, not a security geek. I'm pretty sure I havn't been hacked because my computer isn't any slower, my bandwith % I use for the month hasn't had any spikes lately, and I'm not getting unusually slow download times and what not.
I could run all of the tools in the article and it'd still end up being the same thing - I'm not compromised. It still doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the fact that not trusting a windows machine to connect to the internet, when Windows machines are the majority of desktop boxes used by the average joe, is pretty ridiculous.
If he said "I don't trust an unpatched Windows Machine with all ports open, no anti-virus, using IE6, to connect the internet", then I'd agree with him.
It's not like you can tell on any platform whether you've never been hacked, but given how I play an MMORPG with an account that could sell for several hundred dollars, I'm pretty sure if someone had hacked me by now they'd have tried taking over the account. Same for my emails and what not.
I find your question pretty pointless, considering there's no way to know for sure on Linux either.
And the only machines I trust on the internet are my Linux boxes.
Paranoid much? Using Firefox with spybot, never detected anything, I'm running with no firewall and was never hacked. Linux might be safer but not trusting windows boxes to surf the web is taking it to a ridiculous level.
This is really not useful at all, then. Any decent application will have 100,000 users at a time, so this means we're getting advertising in Pidgin if they decide to implement it (I hope not).
Self-Compile with stripped advertising, anyone?
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I do enjoy a minimum browsing quality. However, personally, all of the competing browsers currently on the market do what I ask them to. Yes, this includes IE7. Microsoft has vastly improved their browser and I applaud them for it. However, I think there's a point where feature packing has its limit. I guess you could compare it to Microsoft adding tons of bloat to XP and making Vista instead of fixing the outstanding issues of XP. I believe there's a point where browsers are just fine, and extra features would be superfluous. I thought Firefox 2 had attained that point until Firefox 3 came out, with its many performance improvements. At this point I only think that bug fixes and even more performance improvements are necessary. Vector graphics? No thanks. My work computer already has enough trouble loading Toms hardware and slashdot properly as it is.
Though I guess my argument is kinda nil if you strictly meant time-wise.
Most hardcore WoW players will actually spend a lot less money playing WoW than you will going out with friends every week. WoW is about $15/month. That's your average movie ticket, at least where I live. So you can either go out to the movies and get about 2 hours of entertainment, or play WoW and get say an hour of entertainment every day/other day/week/two weeks, and you're still paying less than the person who chose to go to the movies. I'd say it's quite the investment, and I don't play WoW myself.
Opening a new tab in Firefox spikes my CPU to a whooping 2%. Yes, with many extensio
Obviously I wasn't referring to you personally, but inferring about how a lot of the slashdotters are are going to think about it.
Or you can just return your copy of Vista like many people did and stop bitching about how MS sucks and they're stealing your cash and how Linux rocks and the average slashdot fanboyism.
It's amazing what a dick can bring to mankind.
Yeah, let's stop technological advances right now!
What you don't understand is that the PC playing field is already unlevel.
People with better PCs are gonna have a better chance at a higher frag output than people with laggy PCs. People with higher DPI mice are going to have a better chance at accurate aiming in FPS. People with G15 keyboards are going to have an advantage over people that don't have a keyboard with macros on them. People with better monitors are going to have an advantage over people who can't see as much. Lastly, people who have a large FoV are going to see more than people with a smaller one.
This is another change in a series of changes that have been happening forever now.
If I spend my arm and my leg trying to buy a brain mouse, then it better fucking work in World of Warcraft. There is not much difference between the Keyboard Turning VS Mouse turning debate, the 400 DPI and 2000 DPI mouse debate, and the 2000 DPI mouse and brain mouse debate. People are gonna have to deal with it. Though I'm curious how accurate and fast it's gonna be. Instantly pinpointing something on a FPS could be disastrous.
I'm not sure this is news at all, as this has been going on for years now. It would be the same as saying "Military now use computers!" Really now?
Nothing will beat WoW for a while. Just about every MMORPG released in the last 2 years were said to beat WoW, spawning hordes of fanboys who would come on the forums only to say "LOTRO will kill WoW! Vanguard will kill WoW! X will kill WoW!" and they were always wrong. At this point saying a game will kill WoW is simply a laughable trolling attempt intended to 'scare' blizzard into changing the game mechanics so that said person can stay on WoW, even though they would either way.
It takes just about 20 minutes to reinstall windows once I get done saving my files. I'd rather do that than waste hours looking on google to try and fix what's going on.
Shift-click instead of Ctrl-Click? :rolleyes:
They would sell it to a couple students who would begin an open source movement, insisting that ways of cheating the system should be available to everyone to learn from, fix and even improve. Licenses would be analyzed and applied, a commitee would be formed, Sourceforge would receive a new project request and then a new breed of linux would be created using their own kernel, specifically supporting hardware to break scripts that are preventing you to download P2P. And then, that version of linux would be on a torrent, which you would need to complete a quiz to access.
Or perhaps you can record your nightly kodak moment even better because of the longer exposure times available?
Is there any way to get the Service Pack 3 in its final form if we don't use MS DRMS?
For anything above High School level, that is. For most of my high school work Wikipedia was sufficient as a source, save an assignment or two. Though obviously it's better if you just use the references, I could get a 90 from teachers who didn't really care.
Nevermind, you're just plugging your ears. I'm done with this waste of time. Obviously my point is going right over your head, while I understand yours completely.
I mean for a regular user, not a security geek. I'm pretty sure I havn't been hacked because my computer isn't any slower, my bandwith % I use for the month hasn't had any spikes lately, and I'm not getting unusually slow download times and what not. I could run all of the tools in the article and it'd still end up being the same thing - I'm not compromised. It still doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the fact that not trusting a windows machine to connect to the internet, when Windows machines are the majority of desktop boxes used by the average joe, is pretty ridiculous. If he said "I don't trust an unpatched Windows Machine with all ports open, no anti-virus, using IE6, to connect the internet", then I'd agree with him.
And I'm part of those who've never had a hard drive fail :)
It's not like you can tell on any platform whether you've never been hacked, but given how I play an MMORPG with an account that could sell for several hundred dollars, I'm pretty sure if someone had hacked me by now they'd have tried taking over the account. Same for my emails and what not. I find your question pretty pointless, considering there's no way to know for sure on Linux either.
And the only machines I trust on the internet are my Linux boxes.
Paranoid much? Using Firefox with spybot, never detected anything, I'm running with no firewall and was never hacked. Linux might be safer but not trusting windows boxes to surf the web is taking it to a ridiculous level.This is really not useful at all, then. Any decent application will have 100,000 users at a time, so this means we're getting advertising in Pidgin if they decide to implement it (I hope not). Self-Compile with stripped advertising, anyone?