Garrus and Boba Fett standing next to each other as a thresher maw eats the sarlacc? Han Solo shuffling crews around to the broken mass relays? Joker and C-3PO duking it out for the affection of EDI?
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this is approximately ~2 Library of Congresses of data, which is just a tad bit much to fit in the trunk of your car. It's going to take a few trips to the Library and back to move that data around.
In books, yes. In 32GByte MicroSD cards, it might be possible to do it in one trip with a large enough vehicle.
I _AM_ thinking about jumping off the windows train over Windows 8. I am on win7 now and will not go to win8. Every video I have seen of win8 leads me to believe I am going to have to re-learn the UI and OS operations again. If I have to do that why not try a completely different OS all together?
If I am wrong teach me o-wise internet user land. I am not afraid of being wrong as long as I learn from it.
Depends on what you're running. If your hardware stack is sufficiently standard and Linux compatible, you're fine. While Linux has gotten a lot better in a lot of areas, a handful of wireless chipsets, webcams, specialized gear (pro-grade audio interfaces, industrial control interfaces, etc.), and the advanced features of some multifunction printers sometimes elude a Linux setup. If none of these apply to you, then you're probably fine on the hardware front.
The more common dealbreaker is on the software end of things. I've found a lot of Linux users tend to believe that most people's needs are met by MS Office and a web browser, and LibreOffice and Firefox are generally acceptable substitutes for most people from a functionality perspective. If this is you, pick your distro and wave goodby to Windows, you don't need it. I'm a Fedora fan on the desktop, but do have solid respect for Mint, PCLinuxOS, and Sabayon. Head to distrowatch, burn an ISO, back up your data, and blow away Windows. However, there are many, MANY people like me who are tied to certain Windows software. Mixxx is not Serato, Opensong is not Mediashout, K3B/Brasero is not Nero, Cinelerra is not Premiere Pro CS6, and Alien Arena is not Unreal Tournament 3. I'd spend so much time either altering my existing workflows to accommodate Linux that it'd no longer be worth it.
Going to OSX in my particular case isn't as much of a problem, since Parallels works impressively well and many of the aforementioned applications are available on OSX. My problem is the hardware - I'm an OriginPC fan, and Apple simply doesn't offer a laptop with a number pad, more than one hard disk, a 17" screen, or the ability to perform my own repairs if/when desired or needed. Now, for most people, that's a perfectly understandable tradeoff and I do understand that. If I'm going to pay north of $2,500 for a laptop though, I do have certain expectations out of my hardware that are simply not profitable for Apple to address. Your mileage *will* vary though.
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...and the phone would be the size of an egg carton...
No, it wouldn't. If a group of volunteers could port four different operating systems to a three year old phone through some impressive feats of reverse engineering, you can't possibly expect me to believe that the smart people at Nokia (or HTC, or Samsung, or whoever) couldn't design a phone that allowed the user to pick their operating system using a more official means. No, the fact that a phone and an operating system are part and parcel with each other is due to either the finance departments or the marketing departments, not the engineering departments.
It's not merely a 'risk' that they will abuse it, it's a given, if they think they can get away with it.
Thank you; with that sentence, you just flung yourself headlong from "reasonable argument", which the GP was promoting, straight into "paranoid conspiracy theorist whackjob".
That entirely depends on how you each define 'abuse'. If Acme Marketing Firm has data about me and 50,000 other people to provide aggregate statistics and trend analyses, and they sell those stats and trends (or a product or service derived therefrom) to Foo Soft Drinks, but have not gained my consent to do so, is it abuse? If Slim Shifty's Facebook-Got-Nothing-On-My-Info service has enough data on me to sell an individual marketing profile to Foo Soft Drinks as to how Foo can best sell their sugar water to me personally based upon my eating and shopping habits, is *that* abuse?
It is paranoia to have a reaction to Acme's use of my personal data, based upon how it is used, if that reaction is similar to how Slim Shifty uses that data. It is folly to have the opposite reaction to the opposite use of data.
What the GP is saying is that if a company can get away with selling data on top of whatever products and services they offer, it'd require either companies acting on principle, or companies acting upon fear of litigation to prevent them from doing so. Effectively, you're asking them to turn down free money, and those are the only two reasons they would do so.
Bollocks! We just need to leave a beacon on Mars that a future soldier will stumble upon and see telepathic images of our race. Also, it may be necessary to warn them of the impending doom of the galaxy. Also, we may need to build a space station and some big floating widgets that enable faster-than-light travel to other big floating widgets...
you've obviously forgotten about when no new programs would install unless you had windows xp service pack 2 or greater... do you really think you'll have 5 years before the same happens for win7?
You've obviously forgotten that:
1.) the overwhelming majority of desktop applications released today still install happily on Windows XP (either SP2 or SP3). 2.) SP2 fixed a LOT of stuff in XP that it isn't surprising that applications require it. 3.) Remember the release of Halo 2? It was a "Vista Only" title that ran perfectly fine on Windows XP once you got past the installer. 4.) Microsoft seems to be targeting the "App Craze". If the present offerings in the Windows 8 Store are any indication, they'll have all the depth of iPhone apps, while any 'real' applications like AutoCAD or Photoshop will still run happily on Win7 for some time.
I agree that the Metro music app is annoying...almost as annoying as the full-screen PDF viewer. I prefer Win7 Aero to Win8 - it seems unnecessarily bright, and changing the color to be a bit darker makes the title bar text hard to read. The Task Manager is epic, and I must be one of the few people who find the ribbon on Explorer really handy...though admittedly I keep my copy of XYPlorer close by as well. I'm a bit irked at the start menu situation, since my start menu is fairly well populated, so it's a "seek and ye shall find" situation that's a lot more difficult to deal with than a densely populated start menu. Granted Metro is worlds better than a standard start menu on a touch interface, but I don't have one of those on my laptop.
I've got a Seagate hybrid drive on my laptop, along with a Crucial Adrenaline SSD cache, and I can personally vouch for the 15-second startup once you've gotten past the BIOS. I don't know what your specs are, but it's entirely possible that the bus speed of your RAM or the number of services that start with the machine bump that number up.
If these are users who got 10 minutes to play a preinstalled copy of Cut the Rope on a prototype Surface tablet, I'd expect 47% of people to appreciate that. If that same 47% preferred the touch-based e-mail client over Outlook on a $399 Black Friday laptop special when using a trackpad...then that's a completely different statistic. Now the article does imply that this was a somewhat informal poll based upon voluntary responses, so I guess the odds of trying it out on a Surface tablet are a bit remote. Conversely though, people installing Windows 8 at this point are almost invariably technically savvy at some level. Joe Sixpack doesn't generally install release previews of an OS or have a TechNet subscription to get the RTM bits, so you'll likely end up with people who have figured out how to tweak Win8 to their liking with Start8 or ClassicShell or similar, and are basing it on those merits rather than the actual Metro UI.
Making UI uniform across all devices is a risky strategy. If consumers, familiar with Windows 7 & XP, hate Windows 8, how are they going to be sold Microsoft's new phone on the strength "it's the same as our new PC desktop" ?
1,000% this.
Forced change, even forced positive change, will be perceived by consumers as a negative one. If in their mind "Metro=bad", there will be no differentiation between Metro on the desktop, on the tablet, and on the phone. It's "the UI I hate", even if it would have otherwise been accepted by them on a phone or tablet. Apparently no one took "human nature" into account when designing the system.
But what are these "power features"? That does interest me, I don't mind relearning something to gain productivity, but most MS changes don't.
I've been running Windows 8 for nearly a month now, courtesy of the VLSC agreement at work. The best answer I can give to this is as follows:
Hyper-V.
Look, Classic Shell is a necessity to prevent you from getting a voodoo doll of Steve Ballmer and using it as a pincushion...but Hyper-V seamlessly integrates virtual machines into your computer. If you're even the slightest bit familiar with VMWare's stuff at all, the UI for Hyper-V is simple to pick up. I've been using it to mess around with a lot of different Turnkey Linux appliances, and it's been flawless for the task.
that's today.. tomorrow there won't be a disk.. that's when you lose all control over the software..
This, plus half the discs today don't technically count as discs. My copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops came on a plastic disc...but was a Steam backup. My copy of Mass Effect 3 came on a plastic disc...but was an Origin "backup". Sins of a Solar Empire came as an installation for Stardock Central.
Unfortunately, just because something comes on a plastic disc doesn't inherently make it as useful as it once was. I foresee this becoming even more relevant as Microsoft and Apple both have software stores built directly into the operating system.
Church is recommended for the ~1% of Slashdotters who actually have a religion. Lots of normal females to meet there.
Let me guess - you're the 99%.
As one of the handful of Christian Slashdotters, I can tell you that this is patently not the case. A "nonreligious" girl will say something like, "I'm not feeling it" or, "you're a nice guy, but...". The majority of the girls with whom I spent my adolescence with in church would say, "I don't feel led to date you" or "You're a nice guy, but God told me to date Mr. Tall-dark-wealthy-handsome over there." At one point I learned that trying to beat them at their own game by saying something to the effect of, "I understand, and am certain that you have been praying about it for some time, since Exodus 20:7 does condemn using God's name to justify actions that you take at variance with His direction, right?" at which point I learned that turning things into a scripture war isn't exactly the best way to win her heart, even if I win the argument. To sum up, girls in church generally only differ from the majority of girls outside of church in that church girls will justify their lack of interest by blaming God, whether or not God genuinely gave her direction in this regard. Hence, this church filled with normal, single girls you speak of is not one I've yet visited.
What I *will* say though, is that there's a pretty good way of weeding out the girls who are actually decent people and getting to know them: sign up for service projects. 3,000 people attended my church weekly. When it was time for the semi-annual church work day where we'd rake leaves, mop floors, reorganize cabinets, run wires, etc., on the good years we'd end up with MAYBE 25 people. Some of the most fun times I've ever had at the church were spent in the kitchen slicing 50 pound bags of onions and potatoes as we threw a banquet for several hundred homeless people in our area. Again, a church of 3,000, but a dozen people helping in the kitchen and having a blast in the process. The people who showed up for those kinds of events were there to actually help out others and were willing to sacrifice their time to do it. A resistance to doing those kinds of things when one's day is otherwise uncommitted speaks louder about that person than even the most complete profile on eHarmony - but the opposite is also true. I met more than one of my best friends through those kinds of things, and even if things don't work out, or you have one of those random silences that would be problematic and awkward if done on a first date, the worst case scenario is that you've got organized cabinets, a pan of chopped onions, or a yard whose leaves are raked. On top of that, when you're performing an activity together, it helps with the other issue that I frequently have - when sharing a task, you're all but guaranteed to find something to talk about without guessing if the other person can relate.
What surprises me is the fact that Adobe is making a "next plastic disc version" of Photoshop as opposed to forcing "Creative Cloud" on everyone. I wouldn't have bet a counterfeit wooden nickel against Adobe making CS6 the last version of the suite that didn't use their rolling updates/monthly activation DRM scheme. I now make that statement for the CS7 editions - I don't think there will be a plastic disc successor to CS7.
Seriously? You're telling me that a bank system using a barcode to check a serial number would spawn a web browser because the bill said so? How hard could it possibly be to *not* allow a browser to start while scanning in QR codes, and catching attempts to try as a guaranteed way to prove that the bill is a counterfeit?
Hmm, attacking innocent people at random, could have sworn there was some other word for that...
Well I suppose if I disagree with Wal-mart not using union labor, it would be perfectly acceptable for me to go and slash the tires of all of Wal-mart's customers. That'll teach Wal-Mart!
That analogy only works if you only slash the tires of customers who purchased tires at Wal-Mart who bought them under the pretenses that the tires were impervious to 99.999% of knives, and Wal-Mart tires inherently included internal canisters of Fix-A-Flat, but it took them four hours to find the activate-switch, which union workers would have had under control in 5 minutes or less.
There was a lot of opportunity cost lost by GoDaddy customers, but they didn't have to pay to get their websites back up once DNS came back, so comparing destruction of property that remains destroyed until the user replaces it with a website that works just fine once either the DDOS stops or the traffic is successfully isolated.
What a joke if Apache accepts this patch. What a sell-out. Disgusting.
What will be more interesting to see is what happens if Apache *does* accept the patch. They will be the first, but the true question is whether nginx, lighttpd, and in particular IIS follow suit. Advertisers wanting tracking data and pressuring the most popular web server software in the world to ignore a "pretty please" that becomes a default in a popular web browser* on what will likely become a popular operating system* makes perfectly logical sense. nginx has gotten pretty popular recently, but if they accept the patch, will that help or hinder their market share? Will Microsoft provide the ability to override the DNT flag in their own web server software? If so, will it be backported to the supported versions of IIS, or will it become a selling point for server 2012?
*Yes, I know Slashdot hates IE, but advertisers aren't terribly interested in your data since you're unlikely to click the ads anyway. They're far more interested in average computer users who would accept the default in either direction and are more likely to click on ads. Similarly, while Win8 isn't popular in the Slashdot crowd and understandably so, don't underestimate the power of the sub-$800 laptop crowd that will use Windows 8 because that's what comes on it, especially if things like Classic Shell can help keep Win8 instead of causing a Win7 regression like Vista->XP.
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Garrus and Boba Fett standing next to each other as a thresher maw eats the sarlacc? Han Solo shuffling crews around to the broken mass relays? Joker and C-3PO duking it out for the affection of EDI?
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The First Council of the Druids will find a way to recover the data.
And when they do, they will be known as the Disk Druids.
this is approximately ~2 Library of Congresses of data, which is just a tad bit much to fit in the trunk of your car. It's going to take a few trips to the Library and back to move that data around.
In books, yes. In 32GByte MicroSD cards, it might be possible to do it in one trip with a large enough vehicle.
I _AM_ thinking about jumping off the windows train over Windows 8. I am on win7 now and will not go to win8. Every video I have seen of win8 leads me to believe I am going to have to re-learn the UI and OS operations again. If I have to do that why not try a completely different OS all together?
If I am wrong teach me o-wise internet user land. I am not afraid of being wrong as long as I learn from it.
Depends on what you're running. If your hardware stack is sufficiently standard and Linux compatible, you're fine. While Linux has gotten a lot better in a lot of areas, a handful of wireless chipsets, webcams, specialized gear (pro-grade audio interfaces, industrial control interfaces, etc.), and the advanced features of some multifunction printers sometimes elude a Linux setup. If none of these apply to you, then you're probably fine on the hardware front.
The more common dealbreaker is on the software end of things. I've found a lot of Linux users tend to believe that most people's needs are met by MS Office and a web browser, and LibreOffice and Firefox are generally acceptable substitutes for most people from a functionality perspective. If this is you, pick your distro and wave goodby to Windows, you don't need it. I'm a Fedora fan on the desktop, but do have solid respect for Mint, PCLinuxOS, and Sabayon. Head to distrowatch, burn an ISO, back up your data, and blow away Windows. However, there are many, MANY people like me who are tied to certain Windows software. Mixxx is not Serato, Opensong is not Mediashout, K3B/Brasero is not Nero, Cinelerra is not Premiere Pro CS6, and Alien Arena is not Unreal Tournament 3. I'd spend so much time either altering my existing workflows to accommodate Linux that it'd no longer be worth it.
Going to OSX in my particular case isn't as much of a problem, since Parallels works impressively well and many of the aforementioned applications are available on OSX. My problem is the hardware - I'm an OriginPC fan, and Apple simply doesn't offer a laptop with a number pad, more than one hard disk, a 17" screen, or the ability to perform my own repairs if/when desired or needed. Now, for most people, that's a perfectly understandable tradeoff and I do understand that. If I'm going to pay north of $2,500 for a laptop though, I do have certain expectations out of my hardware that are simply not profitable for Apple to address. Your mileage *will* vary though.
No, it wouldn't. If a group of volunteers could port four different operating systems to a three year old phone through some impressive feats of reverse engineering, you can't possibly expect me to believe that the smart people at Nokia (or HTC, or Samsung, or whoever) couldn't design a phone that allowed the user to pick their operating system using a more official means. No, the fact that a phone and an operating system are part and parcel with each other is due to either the finance departments or the marketing departments, not the engineering departments.
An extension cord? Something tells me that's been done before.
Of course. But this is an extension cord FOR A MOBILE DEVICE, with ROUNDED CORNERS, sold ON THE INTERNET! How could the patent office turn me down?
There really needs to be a futures market for government corruption.
The problem with that is that it's literally the most reliable investment in existence. The government would never allow such a thing to exist.
It's where Krypton keeps their most dangerous criminals, duh!
It's not merely a 'risk' that they will abuse it, it's a given, if they think they can get away with it.
Thank you; with that sentence, you just flung yourself headlong from "reasonable argument", which the GP was promoting, straight into "paranoid conspiracy theorist whackjob".
That entirely depends on how you each define 'abuse'. If Acme Marketing Firm has data about me and 50,000 other people to provide aggregate statistics and trend analyses, and they sell those stats and trends (or a product or service derived therefrom) to Foo Soft Drinks, but have not gained my consent to do so, is it abuse?
If Slim Shifty's Facebook-Got-Nothing-On-My-Info service has enough data on me to sell an individual marketing profile to Foo Soft Drinks as to how Foo can best sell their sugar water to me personally based upon my eating and shopping habits, is *that* abuse?
It is paranoia to have a reaction to Acme's use of my personal data, based upon how it is used, if that reaction is similar to how Slim Shifty uses that data. It is folly to have the opposite reaction to the opposite use of data.
What the GP is saying is that if a company can get away with selling data on top of whatever products and services they offer, it'd require either companies acting on principle, or companies acting upon fear of litigation to prevent them from doing so. Effectively, you're asking them to turn down free money, and those are the only two reasons they would do so.
Bollocks! We just need to leave a beacon on Mars that a future soldier will stumble upon and see telepathic images of our race. Also, it may be necessary to warn them of the impending doom of the galaxy. Also, we may need to build a space station and some big floating widgets that enable faster-than-light travel to other big floating widgets...
you've obviously forgotten about when no new programs would install unless you had windows xp service pack 2 or greater... do you really think you'll have 5 years before the same happens for win7?
You've obviously forgotten that:
1.) the overwhelming majority of desktop applications released today still install happily on Windows XP (either SP2 or SP3).
2.) SP2 fixed a LOT of stuff in XP that it isn't surprising that applications require it.
3.) Remember the release of Halo 2? It was a "Vista Only" title that ran perfectly fine on Windows XP once you got past the installer.
4.) Microsoft seems to be targeting the "App Craze". If the present offerings in the Windows 8 Store are any indication, they'll have all the depth of iPhone apps, while any 'real' applications like AutoCAD or Photoshop will still run happily on Win7 for some time.
How do you figure? I've had nothing but success with it.
I agree that the Metro music app is annoying...almost as annoying as the full-screen PDF viewer. I prefer Win7 Aero to Win8 - it seems unnecessarily bright, and changing the color to be a bit darker makes the title bar text hard to read. The Task Manager is epic, and I must be one of the few people who find the ribbon on Explorer really handy...though admittedly I keep my copy of XYPlorer close by as well. I'm a bit irked at the start menu situation, since my start menu is fairly well populated, so it's a "seek and ye shall find" situation that's a lot more difficult to deal with than a densely populated start menu. Granted Metro is worlds better than a standard start menu on a touch interface, but I don't have one of those on my laptop.
I've got a Seagate hybrid drive on my laptop, along with a Crucial Adrenaline SSD cache, and I can personally vouch for the 15-second startup once you've gotten past the BIOS. I don't know what your specs are, but it's entirely possible that the bus speed of your RAM or the number of services that start with the machine bump that number up.
That depends on how they calculated that 47%.
If these are users who got 10 minutes to play a preinstalled copy of Cut the Rope on a prototype Surface tablet, I'd expect 47% of people to appreciate that. If that same 47% preferred the touch-based e-mail client over Outlook on a $399 Black Friday laptop special when using a trackpad...then that's a completely different statistic. Now the article does imply that this was a somewhat informal poll based upon voluntary responses, so I guess the odds of trying it out on a Surface tablet are a bit remote. Conversely though, people installing Windows 8 at this point are almost invariably technically savvy at some level. Joe Sixpack doesn't generally install release previews of an OS or have a TechNet subscription to get the RTM bits, so you'll likely end up with people who have figured out how to tweak Win8 to their liking with Start8 or ClassicShell or similar, and are basing it on those merits rather than the actual Metro UI.
Making UI uniform across all devices is a risky strategy. If consumers, familiar with Windows 7 & XP, hate Windows 8, how are they going to be sold Microsoft's new phone on the strength "it's the same as our new PC desktop" ?
1,000% this.
Forced change, even forced positive change, will be perceived by consumers as a negative one. If in their mind "Metro=bad", there will be no differentiation between Metro on the desktop, on the tablet, and on the phone. It's "the UI I hate", even if it would have otherwise been accepted by them on a phone or tablet. Apparently no one took "human nature" into account when designing the system.
What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an agnostic, and a dyslexic?
Someone who lies awake at night, wondering if there really is a dog.
I think Microsoft secretly outsourced that to the open source community:
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/
But what are these "power features"? That does interest me, I don't mind relearning something to gain productivity, but most MS changes don't.
I've been running Windows 8 for nearly a month now, courtesy of the VLSC agreement at work. The best answer I can give to this is as follows:
Hyper-V.
Look, Classic Shell is a necessity to prevent you from getting a voodoo doll of Steve Ballmer and using it as a pincushion...but Hyper-V seamlessly integrates virtual machines into your computer. If you're even the slightest bit familiar with VMWare's stuff at all, the UI for Hyper-V is simple to pick up. I've been using it to mess around with a lot of different Turnkey Linux appliances, and it's been flawless for the task.
tl;dr: Win8 + Classic Shell = Win7 + VMWare Workstation.
Apple sues the earth for stealing their intellectual property of inventing 'geography'.
That's absurd! they'd sue the earth for patent infringement - it's entirely made of rounded corners*, after all.
*Testimonies in the defense of Earth will be almost exclusively given by members of the Flat Earth Society.
that's today.. tomorrow there won't be a disk.. that's when you lose all control over the software..
This, plus half the discs today don't technically count as discs. My copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops came on a plastic disc...but was a Steam backup. My copy of Mass Effect 3 came on a plastic disc...but was an Origin "backup". Sins of a Solar Empire came as an installation for Stardock Central.
Unfortunately, just because something comes on a plastic disc doesn't inherently make it as useful as it once was. I foresee this becoming even more relevant as Microsoft and Apple both have software stores built directly into the operating system.
Church is recommended for the ~1% of Slashdotters who actually have a religion. Lots of normal females to meet there.
Let me guess - you're the 99%.
As one of the handful of Christian Slashdotters, I can tell you that this is patently not the case. A "nonreligious" girl will say something like, "I'm not feeling it" or, "you're a nice guy, but...". The majority of the girls with whom I spent my adolescence with in church would say, "I don't feel led to date you" or "You're a nice guy, but God told me to date Mr. Tall-dark-wealthy-handsome over there." At one point I learned that trying to beat them at their own game by saying something to the effect of, "I understand, and am certain that you have been praying about it for some time, since Exodus 20:7 does condemn using God's name to justify actions that you take at variance with His direction, right?" at which point I learned that turning things into a scripture war isn't exactly the best way to win her heart, even if I win the argument. To sum up, girls in church generally only differ from the majority of girls outside of church in that church girls will justify their lack of interest by blaming God, whether or not God genuinely gave her direction in this regard. Hence, this church filled with normal, single girls you speak of is not one I've yet visited.
What I *will* say though, is that there's a pretty good way of weeding out the girls who are actually decent people and getting to know them: sign up for service projects. 3,000 people attended my church weekly. When it was time for the semi-annual church work day where we'd rake leaves, mop floors, reorganize cabinets, run wires, etc., on the good years we'd end up with MAYBE 25 people. Some of the most fun times I've ever had at the church were spent in the kitchen slicing 50 pound bags of onions and potatoes as we threw a banquet for several hundred homeless people in our area. Again, a church of 3,000, but a dozen people helping in the kitchen and having a blast in the process. The people who showed up for those kinds of events were there to actually help out others and were willing to sacrifice their time to do it. A resistance to doing those kinds of things when one's day is otherwise uncommitted speaks louder about that person than even the most complete profile on eHarmony - but the opposite is also true. I met more than one of my best friends through those kinds of things, and even if things don't work out, or you have one of those random silences that would be problematic and awkward if done on a first date, the worst case scenario is that you've got organized cabinets, a pan of chopped onions, or a yard whose leaves are raked. On top of that, when you're performing an activity together, it helps with the other issue that I frequently have - when sharing a task, you're all but guaranteed to find something to talk about without guessing if the other person can relate.
Well if this doesn't help XP finally be put to rest maybe the announcement that the next photoshop won't run on XP will finally do it.
What surprises me is the fact that Adobe is making a "next plastic disc version" of Photoshop as opposed to forcing "Creative Cloud" on everyone. I wouldn't have bet a counterfeit wooden nickel against Adobe making CS6 the last version of the suite that didn't use their rolling updates/monthly activation DRM scheme. I now make that statement for the CS7 editions - I don't think there will be a plastic disc successor to CS7.
Seriously? You're telling me that a bank system using a barcode to check a serial number would spawn a web browser because the bill said so? How hard could it possibly be to *not* allow a browser to start while scanning in QR codes, and catching attempts to try as a guaranteed way to prove that the bill is a counterfeit?
Hmm, attacking innocent people at random, could have sworn there was some other word for that...
Well I suppose if I disagree with Wal-mart not using union labor, it would be perfectly acceptable for me to go and slash the tires of all of Wal-mart's customers. That'll teach Wal-Mart!
That analogy only works if you only slash the tires of customers who purchased tires at Wal-Mart who bought them under the pretenses that the tires were impervious to 99.999% of knives, and Wal-Mart tires inherently included internal canisters of Fix-A-Flat, but it took them four hours to find the activate-switch, which union workers would have had under control in 5 minutes or less.
There was a lot of opportunity cost lost by GoDaddy customers, but they didn't have to pay to get their websites back up once DNS came back, so comparing destruction of property that remains destroyed until the user replaces it with a website that works just fine once either the DDOS stops or the traffic is successfully isolated.
What a joke if Apache accepts this patch. What a sell-out. Disgusting.
What will be more interesting to see is what happens if Apache *does* accept the patch. They will be the first, but the true question is whether nginx, lighttpd, and in particular IIS follow suit. Advertisers wanting tracking data and pressuring the most popular web server software in the world to ignore a "pretty please" that becomes a default in a popular web browser* on what will likely become a popular operating system* makes perfectly logical sense. nginx has gotten pretty popular recently, but if they accept the patch, will that help or hinder their market share? Will Microsoft provide the ability to override the DNT flag in their own web server software? If so, will it be backported to the supported versions of IIS, or will it become a selling point for server 2012?
*Yes, I know Slashdot hates IE, but advertisers aren't terribly interested in your data since you're unlikely to click the ads anyway. They're far more interested in average computer users who would accept the default in either direction and are more likely to click on ads. Similarly, while Win8 isn't popular in the Slashdot crowd and understandably so, don't underestimate the power of the sub-$800 laptop crowd that will use Windows 8 because that's what comes on it, especially if things like Classic Shell can help keep Win8 instead of causing a Win7 regression like Vista->XP.