As I said - With Linux, it is up to you to figure that out and run the gauntlet with regards to OEMs that SAY they support linux, but don't mention on the box that they released one driver for 2.6 back in 2012 and haven't put anything out since (oh hi ASUS!).
Pretty much everything supports Windows, and if you want a Mac OS X just works on it properly out of the box.
It doesn't always work when you turn it on. Your system is in the minority amongst modern hardware. The number of 100% supported laptops for example (out of the box, or given 72 hours to play to try and make work) is exceedingly small.
I'd agree with that. I've been saying for a while now that Android is the MS-Windows of the mobile world. Run any code you want, install stuff from anywhere, rely on the end user for security enforcement. Unfortunately that has been proven time and time again to be a liability.
Above isn't troll, it's pretty much fact. Newsflash kiddos: there is no free lunch. You either pay up-front with money (Apple), or you pay with privacy/advertising (Google), or you pay with spending time to sort things out yourself (Linux/BSD/etc.). Make your choice.
The UI may be user hostile, i'll grant you that, but I can live with that. at least it is stable and performance isn't bad. Windows 3.x was a bug-ridden pile of shit. Short 8.3 filenames. No native TCP/IP stack.
Windows ME : It had all of the stability of Windows 95 (16/32 bit hybrid), and most of the inccompatibility of Windows 2000 (removed DOS and used Windows 2000 ish driver model). It was an unhappy compromise between the two and had the disadvantages of both. If your software all worked with Windows ME, Windows 2000 was a far better option.
I already leave gatekeeper on, and can sign code if need be. Again, it is a necessary evil in my opinion - allowing unsigned code from anywhere to run is just a disaster.
If you look at all those windows exploits, the lions share of them are in the browser. Exploiting the browser these days isn't really difficult, they generally fall within the first day at pwn2own.
Pretty much the same as playing one locally - because the raw h.264 (or whatever) data stream gets sent over RDP and it uses your local hardware to play the video the same way it does locally.
You can install anything you want - if you have a copy of Xcode and a developer certificate. This is probably not what you mean, but i'll take the increase security of running only signed code over the device running any old stuff from anywhere, thanks. Computers have proven that doesn't work over the past 4 years.
They've still had exploitable bugs in the HTML parser, which would need to run through the email to convert it into text if it was not a plaintext email.
Look at the smartphone world? Sandboxing seems to be enforced on iOS pretty well. Yes there have been jailbreaks, but i'm not aware of any for iOS 7 yet.
Australian gamers disagree with your assessment. I've been gaming on US-based servers for over a decade now, and the minimum latency i see in that situation is north of 200ms. Regularly play FPS (co-op, like borderlands) with friends on the other side of the country...
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Yeah, but the supplied apple apps generally aren't what one would class as "crapware". They actually work well.
That is entirely speculation on your part, about some future possible scenario. In the mean-time, I'll use what works thanks.
As I said - With Linux, it is up to you to figure that out and run the gauntlet with regards to OEMs that SAY they support linux, but don't mention on the box that they released one driver for 2.6 back in 2012 and haven't put anything out since (oh hi ASUS!).
Pretty much everything supports Windows, and if you want a Mac OS X just works on it properly out of the box.
Pretty much. Telco crapware can die in a fire.
It doesn't always work when you turn it on. Your system is in the minority amongst modern hardware. The number of 100% supported laptops for example (out of the box, or given 72 hours to play to try and make work) is exceedingly small.
MS DOS was a bootloader. Both DOS and WIndows 95 were beaten in functionality by GEOS on the Commodore C64.
I'd agree with that. I've been saying for a while now that Android is the MS-Windows of the mobile world. Run any code you want, install stuff from anywhere, rely on the end user for security enforcement. Unfortunately that has been proven time and time again to be a liability.
Above isn't troll, it's pretty much fact. Newsflash kiddos: there is no free lunch. You either pay up-front with money (Apple), or you pay with privacy/advertising (Google), or you pay with spending time to sort things out yourself (Linux/BSD/etc.). Make your choice.
The UI may be user hostile, i'll grant you that, but I can live with that. at least it is stable and performance isn't bad. Windows 3.x was a bug-ridden pile of shit. Short 8.3 filenames. No native TCP/IP stack.
Windows ME : It had all of the stability of Windows 95 (16/32 bit hybrid), and most of the inccompatibility of Windows 2000 (removed DOS and used Windows 2000 ish driver model). It was an unhappy compromise between the two and had the disadvantages of both. If your software all worked with Windows ME, Windows 2000 was a far better option.
Uh... no. DOS was pretty bad, even in it's day. Windows 95 was inferior to most of its contemporaries (e.g., OS 2), it was just marketed well.
I already leave gatekeeper on, and can sign code if need be. Again, it is a necessary evil in my opinion - allowing unsigned code from anywhere to run is just a disaster.
UH... that was meant to be past "40" years, not 4.
Whilst I am a mac owner (posting this from my macbook), clearly you haven't used Windows 95, Windows ME or DOS.
If you look at all those windows exploits, the lions share of them are in the browser. Exploiting the browser these days isn't really difficult, they generally fall within the first day at pwn2own.
Pretty much the same as playing one locally - because the raw h.264 (or whatever) data stream gets sent over RDP and it uses your local hardware to play the video the same way it does locally.
You can install anything you want - if you have a copy of Xcode and a developer certificate. This is probably not what you mean, but i'll take the increase security of running only signed code over the device running any old stuff from anywhere, thanks. Computers have proven that doesn't work over the past 4 years.
They've still had exploitable bugs in the HTML parser, which would need to run through the email to convert it into text if it was not a plaintext email.
Yeah its time to switch to something like Ada.
Look at the smartphone world? Sandboxing seems to be enforced on iOS pretty well. Yes there have been jailbreaks, but i'm not aware of any for iOS 7 yet.
shift-right-click, run as other user. don't log into the desktop as an admin account (whatever OS it is, Unix included), doing that is retarded.
depends if you're logged in as an admin user, doesn't it? which has not been ms recommended practice since at least 1996 with NT4 and likely previous.
Australian gamers disagree with your assessment. I've been gaming on US-based servers for over a decade now, and the minimum latency i see in that situation is north of 200ms. Regularly play FPS (co-op, like borderlands) with friends on the other side of the country...
uh what? my 2007 spec machine sitting in the corner doing nothing because it has been replaced, can transcode video in better than real time.
Administrator access for everybody! Right? Good luck with that.