You're right. I was saying that most of the important stuff is security improvements that won't be obvious from running it for a few hours. But as a service pack, I'm sure it also contains plenty of bugfixes like the ones you describe, and fixes for some crashes and memory leaks and the like. I shouldn't have implied that it is only a security update.
Of course it's not an acceptable legal definition. Who cares? We're not in a coutroom. An enormous number of words have specific meanings in a court of law that differ from how they are ordinarily used. Since when do we object (oops) whenever someone uses one of them in an ordinary discussion and tell them they aren't using the legal meaning?
I have installed SP2 and I can't say that I noticed much difference to my machine
What difference do you expect to instantly see? It's a security release. Not only does it fix existing security holes (like any patch or service pack would do), but it attacks the root causes of the security problems. I have been running it since the beta and every single time there has been a "New IE Exploit" story on slashdot, I have tried it on my xp sp2 machine and the exploit hasn't worked. Not because the specific hole had been patched, but because of broad security measures. The reason it's a "linux killer" is that security had previously been one area where people saw windows as weak, but with its secuirty on par with linux (although not with something like open bsd) and it already fairly stable (admittedly, not quite as stable as the linux kernel), there would be much less reason for anyone to bother switching.
Here in the US, most of us are not happy with a system that requires us to put our faith in the competence and benevolence of the government, especially not one that requires us to gamble that one government employee is going to using his discretion as we think is correct. It just isn't good enough to tell me that I should be willing to sue a corporation because even though I could be held responsible for their million dollars in legal fees, a judge is "rarely" going to make that decision. This is going to scare me out of bringing a lot of frivilous suits, but also out of bringing a lot suits that I believe to be legitimate.
The quote you are looking for is "no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public", which is attirbuted to PT Barnum. However, he never exactly said that. The real quote from him was the same but with "good taste" rather than "intelligence".
hell, IE is about the only browser without tabbed browsing and popup blocking
Except of course that the current version of IE has a popup blocker. And in fact it's much more effective than the easy-to-circumvent mozilla popup blocker, which is good because if it weren't, every evil site would just work around it, which they generally don't bother doing just to get to the small percentage of the population that uses a mozilla browser.
I think so and hope so. The point of a firewall should be to block unwanted internet traffic, which nowadays largely means spyware on your computer logging and reporting things you'd rather it didn't.
This seems to be pretty much a minimal name. It has the product (win xp), which service pack it is (sp2), the languague (enu) and the # for the kb article. A short name like o2ksp3 doesn't include, for example, the language, which is significant since the English sp2 is different than the German one (for example).
FWIW, I bought the European vesion to play on my American DC as well. In fact, it's the only thing I've ever bought on ebay (every web site that sells imported games had a huge waiting list for this one).
I think that making people pay for a subscription to a sports game that gets updated makes a lot more sense than making them pay full price again every year for updated players and stats and bugfixes. Of course, they are trying to do both, which just sucks.
Of course, it didn't help that Microsoft allegedly paid them off to not release Shenmue 2 in the US market.
"Allegedly paid them off"?! You make it sound like this is some shady bribe. Microsoft bought the exclusive rights to the game in the US for their console. This is done all the time. Similarly, Sony and Nintendo make exclusive deals for developers and/ or games for their console. It's the way the business goes.
Corporate America has been influencing schools for a while now. Would a kid getting suspended for a bittorrent shirt somehow be worse than the kid who got suspended for wearing the pepsi shirt on coke day (or was it the other way around)?
In case you (or someone else) is really not sure, changing "it.slashdot.org" to "anythingelse.slashdot.org" is what you need to do. Not sure how to automate that; I've just been muanually fixing the url after clicking on any link to an it.slashdot page (and why is this there anyway? xp sp2 is important to plenty of non-IT people).
The government is using the fact that students are a captive audience in order to push its political agenda? It's nice that a large new group of people is now getting to experience the same sort of disgust that many of us have already felt for years toward the DARE program. Welcome.
Soemone mod parent back up. If it saves even one person from the horrific yellow color scheme, it's worth all of wasted time of the people (including me) who already knew how escape.
You might be right. Due to the horrendous gas mileage (and the fact that I'm just one person and have no need for a vehicle that big), I never put a moment of serious thought into buying an SUV, so I have never driven one and don't know much about them. Had I researched it and test-driven one, I probably would have discovered all the things you list above and then not bought it anyway. But still, for me gas mileage was a big enough reason alone not to rule out this class of vehicle, they'll get some people like me to at least look at SUV's who wouldn't have otherwise, which should translate into at least a few more suckers buying them.
Some people like to perfer domestic products. When applying that heuristic to car selection, they sometimes get mocked by know-it-alls, but I'm not sure why. I've found that domestic cars are reliable, well-made and attractive... IN JAPAN!
The major drawback of SUVs is poor fuel efficiency. That's certainly the main reason I wouldn't t buy one. This will help mitigate that problem. Thus, people who previousl wouldn't have bought an SUV because of gas mileage may now consider it. How is this idea confusing? Doesn't improving your product in the area where it is weakest (compared to the alternativeS) seem like a sensible thing to do?
The dupes do seem to getting worse though. Every time I checked the site last week, that same story about five hundred and three services being unavailable had been posted on the front page again. Don't know what the story was about because there never seemed to be any comments.
Someday, this will likely be true, but for now it's a smaller canvas. I don't have statistics right here, but I doubt the amount of money involved in p2p and law enforcement against p2p currently exceeds that involved in the war on drugs.
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You're right. I was saying that most of the important stuff is security improvements that won't be obvious from running it for a few hours. But as a service pack, I'm sure it also contains plenty of bugfixes like the ones you describe, and fixes for some crashes and memory leaks and the like. I shouldn't have implied that it is only a security update.
Of course it's not an acceptable legal definition. Who cares? We're not in a coutroom. An enormous number of words have specific meanings in a court of law that differ from how they are ordinarily used. Since when do we object (oops) whenever someone uses one of them in an ordinary discussion and tell them they aren't using the legal meaning?
What difference do you expect to instantly see? It's a security release. Not only does it fix existing security holes (like any patch or service pack would do), but it attacks the root causes of the security problems. I have been running it since the beta and every single time there has been a "New IE Exploit" story on slashdot, I have tried it on my xp sp2 machine and the exploit hasn't worked. Not because the specific hole had been patched, but because of broad security measures. The reason it's a "linux killer" is that security had previously been one area where people saw windows as weak, but with its secuirty on par with linux (although not with something like open bsd) and it already fairly stable (admittedly, not quite as stable as the linux kernel), there would be much less reason for anyone to bother switching.
Here in the US, most of us are not happy with a system that requires us to put our faith in the competence and benevolence of the government, especially not one that requires us to gamble that one government employee is going to using his discretion as we think is correct. It just isn't good enough to tell me that I should be willing to sue a corporation because even though I could be held responsible for their million dollars in legal fees, a judge is "rarely" going to make that decision. This is going to scare me out of bringing a lot of frivilous suits, but also out of bringing a lot suits that I believe to be legitimate.
The quote you are looking for is "no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public", which is attirbuted to PT Barnum. However, he never exactly said that. The real quote from him was the same but with "good taste" rather than "intelligence".
Except of course that the current version of IE has a popup blocker. And in fact it's much more effective than the easy-to-circumvent mozilla popup blocker, which is good because if it weren't, every evil site would just work around it, which they generally don't bother doing just to get to the small percentage of the population that uses a mozilla browser.
Yes, the firewall is now active during startup and shutdown.
I think so and hope so. The point of a firewall should be to block unwanted internet traffic, which nowadays largely means spyware on your computer logging and reporting things you'd rather it didn't.
This seems to be pretty much a minimal name. It has the product (win xp), which service pack it is (sp2), the languague (enu) and the # for the kb article.
A short name like o2ksp3 doesn't include, for example, the language, which is significant since the English sp2 is different than the German one (for example).
FWIW, I bought the European vesion to play on my American DC as well. In fact, it's the only thing I've ever bought on ebay (every web site that sells imported games had a huge waiting list for this one).
Ok, I did't know that everything had to have a section now. That makes more sense.
I think that making people pay for a subscription to a sports game that gets updated makes a lot more sense than making them pay full price again every year for updated players and stats and bugfixes. Of course, they are trying to do both, which just sucks.
"Allegedly paid them off"?! You make it sound like this is some shady bribe. Microsoft bought the exclusive rights to the game in the US for their console. This is done all the time. Similarly, Sony and Nintendo make exclusive deals for developers and/ or games for their console. It's the way the business goes.
Corporate America has been influencing schools for a while now. Would a kid getting suspended for a bittorrent shirt somehow be worse than the kid who got suspended for wearing the pepsi shirt on coke day (or was it the other way around)?
In case you (or someone else) is really not sure, changing "it.slashdot.org" to "anythingelse.slashdot.org" is what you need to do. Not sure how to automate that; I've just been muanually fixing the url after clicking on any link to an it.slashdot page (and why is this there anyway? xp sp2 is important to plenty of non-IT people).
The government is using the fact that students are a captive audience in order to push its political agenda? It's nice that a large new group of people is now getting to experience the same sort of disgust that many of us have already felt for years toward the DARE program. Welcome.
Soemone mod parent back up. If it saves even one person from the horrific yellow color scheme, it's worth all of wasted time of the people (including me) who already knew how escape.
You might be right. Due to the horrendous gas mileage (and the fact that I'm just one person and have no need for a vehicle that big), I never put a moment of serious thought into buying an SUV, so I have never driven one and don't know much about them. Had I researched it and test-driven one, I probably would have discovered all the things you list above and then not bought it anyway. But still, for me gas mileage was a big enough reason alone not to rule out this class of vehicle, they'll get some people like me to at least look at SUV's who wouldn't have otherwise, which should translate into at least a few more suckers buying them.
You fail it. If you want to make a stupid comment about "most people using X", the comment must involve a rave in some way.
Why are you printing code in 12 point font?! You can buy reading glasses in any pharmacy/ convenience store for a few bucks, btw.
Some people like to perfer domestic products. When applying that heuristic to car selection, they sometimes get mocked by know-it-alls, but I'm not sure why. I've found that domestic cars are reliable, well-made and attractive... IN JAPAN!
The major drawback of SUVs is poor fuel efficiency. That's certainly the main reason I wouldn't t buy one. This will help mitigate that problem. Thus, people who previousl wouldn't have bought an SUV because of gas mileage may now consider it. How is this idea confusing? Doesn't improving your product in the area where it is weakest (compared to the alternativeS) seem like a sensible thing to do?
Yeah. I thought "Anit-Wi-Fi Wallpaper" was just going to be a BMP that says "WiFi Sucks!".
The dupes do seem to getting worse though. Every time I checked the site last week, that same story about five hundred and three services being unavailable had been posted on the front page again. Don't know what the story was about because there never seemed to be any comments.
Someday, this will likely be true, but for now it's a smaller canvas. I don't have statistics right here, but I doubt the amount of money involved in p2p and law enforcement against p2p currently exceeds that involved in the war on drugs.