As Billg likes to point out, Windows is the platform on which 90 per cent of the computing industry builds, and this naturally means that it's the platform on which 90 per cent of spyware, adware, virus, worm, and Trojan developers build. That translates into 90 per cent of botnet zombies, 90 per cent of spam relays, 90 per cent of spyware hosts, and 90 per cent of worm propagators.
This implies that Linux, Mac, Solaris, VMS, etc stands for 10% of the malware. This is not true. I would guess that non-Windows systems have less than 1% of the malware.
the credential can have multiple private keys, one of which has to be random and the others of which can be secrets you would not be happy to sell to a youngster. (Say like your credit card number, or any other info that could be risky to lend to someone).
So someone with nothing to lose (a bum?) can't get to verify he's 40?
Apart from a credit card number (can't you get one-off credit cards or cancel them or report it stolen?) I don't know what kind of information you absolutely can't share.
I don't need this certificate myself. Can someone explain why I can't obtain one proving my age (42) and sell it to a youngster? All other attributes are masked.
You have got it all wrong. Microsoft doesn't regard you (the person who pays for Vista) as a customer. You are the sheep that pays the monopoly tax. The real Microsoft customers are the entities that can strengthen their monopoly. Such as RIAA/MPAA. Key application developers that can be made MS-only. Device manufacturers that can be made into producing hardware that only runs Windows. Web sites that only work with IE. etc...
I'm holding out for Trolltech's Greenphone. It runs Linux, and the point is openness... you can recompile the kernel if you want! Paired with KDE 4, I think it's going to blow the iPhone out of the water
Well, I have a Trolltech Greenphone on my desk because we develop software for it. And while it is hackable, Linux based, and a nice geek gizmo, there is no way I'm going to use it as my primary mobile phone. Teeeeny stuff to hit with the stylus. Lots of buttons that you don't really know what they do. Difficult to enter text. (It's a development platform after all.)
Personally, I'm using the cheapest Motorola cellphone available (monochrome display, does nothing more than phone and SMS), and I'm holding out for the iPhone to hit Europe. Because I don't WANT to hack a device to use it as a phone/PIM, even if I COULD.
I've never found plain-Jane posix permissions to be all that useful on anything other than the most basic of server environments.... What I'd really like to see is both that kind of functionality along with NTFS's really excellent ACL permission system implemented.
I wish you could read more about ZFS before suggesting how you could improve it by adding ACLs. It already supports them!
NTFS is one of the few worthwhile things that's ever come out of Redmond. I wish more people would spend a bit learning from it without throwing it away simply because it's MS bloat.
I wish MS would let us. NTFS is worthless if you don't run Windows. And it hinders interoperability with other systems because its implementation and disk layout is secret/patented.
Why, do you think, there is no stable implementation that can write NTFS volumes (other than the MS implementation)?
Contrast this with ZFS which is released under an open source license.
...if one operating system does something right, should we really criticize another operating system for coding that feature into their own product? For instance, when I found out that Mac OS's had the Unix shell I was happy & enthusiastic at the same time...
The difference is that Apple says up front that it uses tried and tested UNIX technology. They are not acting like they invented the shell.
I never hear Microsoft say they include technology borrowed from XXX or UI elements modelled after vendor YYY. They present "their" solutions as if they invented it themselves. And Joe Public often believes that.
One of the things thats always bothered me when I use OS X is the way that the maximize button behaves.
On my 23" screen (1920 x 1200) I don't think I will ever want to enlarge a screen to full size. A browser/mail/code window in that size is just dumb. The Mac OS X version to optimize the window to its contents is very nice though and I use it often. I really miss it when I use Linux.
Use the entire screen? Why is it called Windows?
I maximize a window to hide the clutter behind it as well as to see some more content in the foreground window
Use the Hide others command (alt-command-H). (Which I also miss on Linux and Windows)
Microsoft doesn't care about quality, they care about money.
I'm not so sure about that. It seems to me that they care more about dominating and crushing competition, than about money. For Microsoft, "winning" is not about earning more than the competition, it's about cutting off the oxygen and killing them.
Of course, once the competition is killed, a monopoly is established and profits can be made.
This, of course, makes Microsoft an even more evil company.
The machines will recognize account holders' thumbprints, eliminating the need for a personal identification number
Why can't these idiots ever understand that fingerprints aren't secrets?
So now I can collect a fingerprint from someone (you know you leave them on everything you touch, right?) and have instant access to their bank account?
The rest of the stuff is known or existed in Windows for over 6 years and also exists in OSX.
I know. That's when I decided I wasn't going to upgrade to Windows XP. About a year after I moved to Linux and haven't owned any Windows system since. It works quite well once you learn it and I haven't regretted it. Thankyou.
Yes. Of course, Microsoft won't support Zune on his next OS.
I agree it sounds ridiculous that Microsoft wouldn't support Zune on Vista. Almost as ridiculous as that the Zune wouldn't support Microsofts own PlayForSure format.
So of course Microsoft will fix that when Vista is released, right?
Whether music labels, musicians, Peter Jenner, you or I like it or not, there's a fundamental problem that everybody seems to understand: as long as lossless copies of music (or movies or photos for that matter) can be made, paying for music is dead.
This is what the music industry is thinking, and I disagree completely.
The filesharing we see today is not lossless copies, it is lossy MP3 files. Of course people will copy the music they buy and use the copies in their MP3 players, in the car and give some copies to their friends, just like they did before they had computers and made cassette tapes of their purchases.
And that will not kill the industry.
What the music industry needs to do is to get past their fear of people copying. They need to make the best download site ever. Combine the best of Pirate bay, iTunes Store, and eMusic, and sell DRM-free high-quality MP3s for less than $1. Make the site a joy to use and offer great reviews, bios, forums, artist facts, lyrics, videos, etc. People will come and they will buy. Because it is easier to download at the site than to search for a good copy on a pirate site. People are lazy. Offer good value for the money and don't treat the customers as thiefs and they will come.
So is this how much it will cost to switch from XP to Vista? Notice how we are not talking about costs to switch now, but how many jobs it will create?
How many jobs will it create to switch to Linux instead of Vista? Is it time to rewrite the TCO studies at the get-the-facts campaign?
All I can see is that their current online video authoring package isn't very good, and they don't want to have people who's OS doesn't support it thinking that there's a bug with their site.
By not supporting standards and by intentionally crippling operating systems that can deal with their site, I'm fully convinced there is a bug with their site. Can't they just stop putting energy into doing this crap?
I note they don't have sweden on the list where (last I heard) you could get 100Mbps for something like 30 euros/month in a large city
I Live in Stockholm. My 100Mbps access was reduced from 30 euros/month to 15 euros/month and telephony added in for free. Because the house where my apartment lies struck a deal with bredbandsbolaget.net.
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In about 1995, The Shamen released the track S2 Translation which was generated by decoding the DNA sequence of the S2 protein. http://www.nemeton.com/axis-mutatis/s2.html
"A new CII debate? No thank you!"(Francisco Mingorance, BSA Europe).
They would much rather have EPO create new case law without debate and without those pesky MPs.
From the article:
As Billg likes to point out, Windows is the platform on which 90 per cent of the computing industry builds, and this naturally means that it's the platform on which 90 per cent of spyware, adware, virus, worm, and Trojan developers build. That translates into 90 per cent of botnet zombies, 90 per cent of spam relays, 90 per cent of spyware hosts, and 90 per cent of worm propagators.
This implies that Linux, Mac, Solaris, VMS, etc stands for 10% of the malware. This is not true. I would guess that non-Windows systems have less than 1% of the malware.
the credential can have multiple private keys, one of which has to be random and the others of which can be secrets you would not be happy to sell to a youngster. (Say like your credit card number, or any other info that could be risky to lend to someone).
So someone with nothing to lose (a bum?) can't get to verify he's 40?
Apart from a credit card number (can't you get one-off credit cards or cancel them or report it stolen?) I don't know what kind of information you absolutely can't share.
I don't need this certificate myself. Can someone explain why I can't obtain one proving my age (42) and sell it to a youngster? All other attributes are masked.
Microsoft planned extensive research with focus groups in Europe to see how it could be modified for a European consumer.
Beige?
You have got it all wrong. Microsoft doesn't regard you (the person who pays for Vista) as a customer. You are the sheep that pays the monopoly tax. The real Microsoft customers are the entities that can strengthen their monopoly. Such as RIAA/MPAA. Key application developers that can be made MS-only. Device manufacturers that can be made into producing hardware that only runs Windows. Web sites that only work with IE. etc...
I'm holding out for Trolltech's Greenphone. It runs Linux, and the point is openness... you can recompile the kernel if you want! Paired with KDE 4, I think it's going to blow the iPhone out of the water
Well, I have a Trolltech Greenphone on my desk because we develop software for it. And while it is hackable, Linux based, and a nice geek gizmo, there is no way I'm going to use it as my primary mobile phone. Teeeeny stuff to hit with the stylus. Lots of buttons that you don't really know what they do. Difficult to enter text. (It's a development platform after all.)
Personally, I'm using the cheapest Motorola cellphone available (monochrome display, does nothing more than phone and SMS), and I'm holding out for the iPhone to hit Europe. Because I don't WANT to hack a device to use it as a phone/PIM, even if I COULD.
I've never found plain-Jane posix permissions to be all that useful on anything other than the most basic of server environments. ...
What I'd really like to see is both that kind of functionality along with NTFS's really excellent ACL permission system implemented.
I wish you could read more about ZFS before suggesting how you could improve it by adding ACLs. It already supports them!
http://blogs.sun.com/marks/entry/zfs_acls
NTFS is one of the few worthwhile things that's ever come out of Redmond. I wish more people would spend a bit learning from it without throwing it away simply because it's MS bloat.
I wish MS would let us. NTFS is worthless if you don't run Windows. And it hinders interoperability with other systems because its implementation and disk layout is secret/patented.
Why, do you think, there is no stable implementation that can write NTFS volumes (other than the MS implementation)?
Contrast this with ZFS which is released under an open source license.
...if one operating system does something right, should we really criticize another operating system for coding that feature into their own product?
For instance, when I found out that Mac OS's had the Unix shell I was happy & enthusiastic at the same time...
The difference is that Apple says up front that it uses tried and tested UNIX technology. They are not acting like they invented the shell.
I never hear Microsoft say they include technology borrowed from XXX or UI elements modelled after vendor YYY. They present "their" solutions as if they invented it themselves. And Joe Public often believes that.
That's why Microsoft deserves to be bashed.
Backup on Mac is not as easy as one would think...
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http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/05/the-sta
http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/23/mac-bac
Maybe TimeMachine will offer an interesting solution...
http://www.apple.com/se/macosx/leopard/timemachin
One of the things thats always bothered me when I use OS X is the way that the maximize button behaves.
On my 23" screen (1920 x 1200) I don't think I will ever want to enlarge a screen to full size. A browser/mail/code window in that size is just dumb. The Mac OS X version to optimize the window to its contents is very nice though and I use it often. I really miss it when I use Linux.
Use the entire screen? Why is it called Windows?
I maximize a window to hide the clutter behind it as well as to see some more content in the foreground window
Use the Hide others command (alt-command-H). (Which I also miss on Linux and Windows)
Coming from windows or linux, I'd never have thought to try this.
;-)
You could open the Help window and search for "rename file" and learnt the shortcut.
But coming from windows or linux, you probably wouldn't have thought about that either!
The help texts are actually very useful on OS X.
Microsoft doesn't care about quality, they care about money.
I'm not so sure about that. It seems to me that they care more about dominating and crushing competition, than about money. For Microsoft, "winning" is not about earning more than the competition, it's about cutting off the oxygen and killing them.
Of course, once the competition is killed, a monopoly is established and profits can be made.
This, of course, makes Microsoft an even more evil company.
The machines will recognize account holders' thumbprints, eliminating the need for a personal identification number
Why can't these idiots ever understand that fingerprints aren't secrets?
So now I can collect a fingerprint from someone (you know you leave them on everything you touch, right?) and have instant access to their bank account?
Mandatory reading for biometric proponents: Fun with fingerprint readers
The rest of the stuff is known or existed in Windows for over 6 years and also exists in OSX.
I know. That's when I decided I wasn't going to upgrade to Windows XP. About a year after I moved to Linux and haven't owned any Windows system since. It works quite well once you learn it and I haven't regretted it. Thankyou.
Yes. Of course, Microsoft won't support Zune on his next OS.
I agree it sounds ridiculous that Microsoft wouldn't support Zune on Vista. Almost as ridiculous as that the Zune wouldn't support Microsofts own PlayForSure format.
So of course Microsoft will fix that when Vista is released, right?
Whether music labels, musicians, Peter Jenner, you or I like it or not, there's a fundamental problem that everybody seems to understand: as long as lossless copies of music (or movies or photos for that matter) can be made, paying for music is dead.
This is what the music industry is thinking, and I disagree completely.
The filesharing we see today is not lossless copies, it is lossy MP3 files. Of course people will copy the music they buy and use the copies in their MP3 players, in the car and give some copies to their friends, just like they did before they had computers and made cassette tapes of their purchases.
And that will not kill the industry.
What the music industry needs to do is to get past their fear of people copying. They need to make the best download site ever. Combine the best of Pirate bay, iTunes Store, and eMusic, and sell DRM-free high-quality MP3s for less than $1. Make the site a joy to use and offer great reviews, bios, forums, artist facts, lyrics, videos, etc. People will come and they will buy. Because it is easier to download at the site than to search for a good copy on a pirate site. People are lazy. Offer good value for the money and don't treat the customers as thiefs and they will come.
Seriously, if they knocked Leopard *down* to $99 or something, Microsoft would be looking really bad.
I don't know what Leopard will cost, but Tiger is $129 for a single-user license. How would cutting the cost to $99 create a big difference?
So is this how much it will cost to switch from XP to Vista? Notice how we are not talking about costs to switch now, but how many jobs it will create?
How many jobs will it create to switch to Linux instead of Vista? Is it time to rewrite the TCO studies at the get-the-facts campaign?
I guess it's for all those Microsoft customers who wear brown suits and brown shoes.
Yes, I can see it now
I called the 800 number and they immediately said, "you used Firefox, didn't you?". Yes I did and they only support IE.
What does it tell you when your bank only supports the least secure browser and won't do business with people who prefer more security?
All I can see is that their current online video authoring package isn't very good, and they don't want to have people who's OS doesn't support it thinking that there's a bug with their site.
By not supporting standards and by intentionally crippling operating systems that can deal with their site, I'm fully convinced there is a bug with their site. Can't they just stop putting energy into doing this crap?
I note they don't have sweden on the list where (last I heard) you could get 100Mbps for something like 30 euros/month in a large city
I Live in Stockholm. My 100Mbps access was reduced from 30 euros/month to 15 euros/month and telephony added in for free. Because the house where my apartment lies struck a deal with bredbandsbolaget.net.