For what it's worth, I got about 80 hours of entertainment out of diablo 3. That's about 75c per hour in Australian prices.
Entertainment doesn't come a lot cheaper than that. Was it as good as D2 was back in the day? No. But it stands up as a decent game in its own right - the only people bitching like crazy about it are those who haven't even bought or played it.
If it's like most EA releases, they'll support the online servers for about 2 months and then move on citing "poor sales" and screw everyone who actually did buy the game. Got burned far too many times back in the early 00s by EA to even consider buying any of their shit.
It hasn't even been previewed yet, let alone published. I'll jump for joy when something tangible has been released. Just because people are willing to pay for a sequel, it doesn't mean that the developer won't push out some turd, especially given they are now funded, no matter how crappy the game is they put out.
The hacks work on the desktop platforms that matter if you're chasing maximum number of botnet hosts. Linux as far as desktop usage goes is barely a blip on the radar, and trying to target the myriad of different variants contained within that 1 percent of desktop users is just not worth the effort. You'd be spending say 10x the effort to hack the Windows and OS X to target the many different linux variants for a maybe 1% increase in terms of number of machines owned.
And if they did test at pwn2own - which distro? Whatever they pick will be the wrong platform, and would unfairly tarnish the rep of the distro hacked vs the others who may or may not be vulnerable as well, but publicly get a pass because they weren't tested. It's just not worth it.
However, if you think that say, Firefox is not hackable on Linux, I'd suggest you're being a little cavalier with that attitude. Most of the code is similar, barring widget toolkits and a bit of abstraction for the networking code.
Mobile opera, at least on iOS is just a wrapper around the iOS webkit library. All the heavy lifting is done by webkit, so as far as iOS opera goes, any vulnerability that affects Safari probably affects Opera on iOS too. And vice versa.
The bias is against java at the moment largely because it is owned by Oracle who is evil, but also because lately, its security record has just shown it to be complete and utter CRAP.
The whole point of java was to run cross platform code in a secure manner. The fact that it is the most insecure software on a typical machine these days is the joke. And no, my browser, and yours is not less secure than Java, which has had way more than 65 vulnerabilities patched in the last month alone.
For the people who need Java, it often IS a mission critical component (and yes, often for applets). And it is a FUCKING JOKE lately. AGAIN this morning another update.
It's been hacked every year previously, mostly by the same guy. I suspect that the sandboxing of the web process in the current version, gatekeeper in Mountain Lion, and ARC support in the current development tools (to make memory management easier and less prone to error) is paying off.
And Safari is still exploitable as is OS X and iOS.
So why wasn't it in the headlines as having been hacked, on slashdot of all sites. If it WAS hacked,/. would be ALL OVER IT, like they have been every previous year.
runs on top of QNX, which is like a more stable, secure version of Linux.
The sky is blue and therefore I like rollercoasters.
Just..... no. It's like saying VMS is a more stable secure version of Windows, the two platforms have about as much in common. Probably more, given they're both the children of Dave Cutler.
You know. The browser that probably accounts for more traffic than the built in android browser. That has previously been hacked pretty much first thing every year so far.
Gatekeeper, sandboxing the web worker process and ARC in the development kit maybe paying off.
I'd like an office suite for starters. I'd like to be able to script things in the file manager, so i can say, drag and drop a bunch of files to have them automatically convert format/resize/etc. I'd like to be able to use my MIDI keyboard with a decent sequencer. I'd like IPSEC over L2TP to work. I'd like 802.1x to work. I'd like http proxy auto-detect via DHCP to work. I'd like backups to just work (no i don't want to write a script).
Linux misses the mark in so many areas because it is made for nerds by nerds. Which is fine. But the average person (or hell, even me when I'm not at work) just doesn't want to deal with that sort of shit. I have money. I use it to make the problems above go away.
Example of how L2TP "just works" on Linux. Read the comments - kernel upgrade broke it (as I've had them break other things like PCI slot probing order, etc). NAT traversal also "currently experimental". I.e., I would not consider it reliable for production use. No, using PPTP is not an equivalent alternative.
That, for a start. I'd also like full support for my keyboard (as in midi), a decent sequencer, a scripting language that works across multiple applications, IPSEC over L2TP VPN support that isn't a total pain in the ass, WIFI that reliably works, 802.1x support that isn't a complete headfuck, etc.
By workload, I mean tasks. "Develop" means you need vi and a compiler of your choice, which any OS these days will provide... OS X will let you distribute builds across multiple machines with a few clicks and an OS X server.
Directory layout = irrelevant. Video card = good enough, when it becomes not good enough buy new machine (mac users tend to be $ rich and time poor). If it is cooking itself, you take it back under applecare and get a new one.
"I disagree" is not necessarily "shill". I think you'll find a trend amongst older users (in their 30s or older) that are $ rich and time poor. As opposed to teens and early 20s who are time rich and $ poor.
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For what it's worth, I got about 80 hours of entertainment out of diablo 3. That's about 75c per hour in Australian prices.
Entertainment doesn't come a lot cheaper than that. Was it as good as D2 was back in the day? No. But it stands up as a decent game in its own right - the only people bitching like crazy about it are those who haven't even bought or played it.
If it's like most EA releases, they'll support the online servers for about 2 months and then move on citing "poor sales" and screw everyone who actually did buy the game. Got burned far too many times back in the early 00s by EA to even consider buying any of their shit.
It hasn't even been previewed yet, let alone published. I'll jump for joy when something tangible has been released. Just because people are willing to pay for a sequel, it doesn't mean that the developer won't push out some turd, especially given they are now funded, no matter how crappy the game is they put out.
For previous versions, which isn't what they were testing here.
The hacks work on the desktop platforms that matter if you're chasing maximum number of botnet hosts. Linux as far as desktop usage goes is barely a blip on the radar, and trying to target the myriad of different variants contained within that 1 percent of desktop users is just not worth the effort. You'd be spending say 10x the effort to hack the Windows and OS X to target the many different linux variants for a maybe 1% increase in terms of number of machines owned.
And if they did test at pwn2own - which distro? Whatever they pick will be the wrong platform, and would unfairly tarnish the rep of the distro hacked vs the others who may or may not be vulnerable as well, but publicly get a pass because they weren't tested. It's just not worth it.
However, if you think that say, Firefox is not hackable on Linux, I'd suggest you're being a little cavalier with that attitude. Most of the code is similar, barring widget toolkits and a bit of abstraction for the networking code.
Mobile opera, at least on iOS is just a wrapper around the iOS webkit library. All the heavy lifting is done by webkit, so as far as iOS opera goes, any vulnerability that affects Safari probably affects Opera on iOS too. And vice versa.
The bias is against java at the moment largely because it is owned by Oracle who is evil, but also because lately, its security record has just shown it to be complete and utter CRAP.
MENTIONED in TFA. Not confirmed as hacked. It didn't fall (yet).
The whole point of java was to run cross platform code in a secure manner. The fact that it is the most insecure software on a typical machine these days is the joke. And no, my browser, and yours is not less secure than Java, which has had way more than 65 vulnerabilities patched in the last month alone.
For the people who need Java, it often IS a mission critical component (and yes, often for applets). And it is a FUCKING JOKE lately. AGAIN this morning another update.
It's been hacked every year previously, mostly by the same guy. I suspect that the sandboxing of the web process in the current version, gatekeeper in Mountain Lion, and ARC support in the current development tools (to make memory management easier and less prone to error) is paying off.
So why wasn't it in the headlines as having been hacked, on slashdot of all sites. If it WAS hacked, /. would be ALL OVER IT, like they have been every previous year.
ChromeOS was designed to make google money out of the box. Secure out of the box is/was primary marketing slogan.
The sky is blue and therefore I like rollercoasters.
Just..... no. It's like saying VMS is a more stable secure version of Windows, the two platforms have about as much in common. Probably more, given they're both the children of Dave Cutler.
You know. The browser that probably accounts for more traffic than the built in android browser. That has previously been hacked pretty much first thing every year so far.
Gatekeeper, sandboxing the web worker process and ARC in the development kit maybe paying off.
Not hacked? First time ever! :D
Name something macs can't readily do?
I'd like an office suite for starters. I'd like to be able to script things in the file manager, so i can say, drag and drop a bunch of files to have them automatically convert format/resize/etc. I'd like to be able to use my MIDI keyboard with a decent sequencer. I'd like IPSEC over L2TP to work. I'd like 802.1x to work. I'd like http proxy auto-detect via DHCP to work. I'd like backups to just work (no i don't want to write a script).
Linux misses the mark in so many areas because it is made for nerds by nerds. Which is fine. But the average person (or hell, even me when I'm not at work) just doesn't want to deal with that sort of shit. I have money. I use it to make the problems above go away.
Example of how L2TP "just works" on Linux. Read the comments - kernel upgrade broke it (as I've had them break other things like PCI slot probing order, etc). NAT traversal also "currently experimental". I.e., I would not consider it reliable for production use. No, using PPTP is not an equivalent alternative.
For small values of "just work". I've kept an eye on Ubuntu since 2004 thanks very much, and its still not there yet.
That, for a start. I'd also like full support for my keyboard (as in midi), a decent sequencer, a scripting language that works across multiple applications, IPSEC over L2TP VPN support that isn't a total pain in the ass, WIFI that reliably works, 802.1x support that isn't a complete headfuck, etc.
By workload, I mean tasks. "Develop" means you need vi and a compiler of your choice, which any OS these days will provide... OS X will let you distribute builds across multiple machines with a few clicks and an OS X server.
Directory layout = irrelevant. Video card = good enough, when it becomes not good enough buy new machine (mac users tend to be $ rich and time poor). If it is cooking itself, you take it back under applecare and get a new one.
"I disagree" is not necessarily "shill". I think you'll find a trend amongst older users (in their 30s or older) that are $ rich and time poor. As opposed to teens and early 20s who are time rich and $ poor.
Exactly. I can get more money easily enough. Time, as you say, is irreplaceable.