You complain about both backward compatibility and UAC. Most problems with UAC came from exactly that - the old software wasn't made to support it. New software is. Nevertheless, UAC is the correct direction for securing Windows as OS. People have been complaining that Windows is insecure, and now that MS takes the correct way people complain that it's a nuisance? You can't have it both ways (and you can disable UAC if you're not happy with it).
UAC nuisance goes away when you replace older software with newer one that supports it. But to support it MS had to just throw it in.
Because you need a current hardware to enjoy current OS and technology. Ubuntu and other commonplace Linux distros dont run on a 100MHz+16MB RAM computer either (yeah maybe you find some specialized ones that do, but thats not the point and dont support everyday people)
It's certainly better than the old already aged one, but was the section listbox taken completely off? However I must admit it's probably better to let authors choose it, it was always messy anyway.
And *I know* this news will get officially buried into bitching about non-working javascript on other sections of slashdot!
You might want to note the word *was*, in 2006. Back then my current, a little bit oldish computer didn't run it good but when I bought a new one, it was great. Most of that cause was probably RAM. Obviously current OS's aren't going to work with decades old hardware. It's not really slower to XP, and Win7 will improve that UI responsiveness even more (XP didn't have the same kind of just-show-ui-quickly-while-its-loading thing either)
after 2 years of no re-installs or cleaning up of my computer, and it's flying.
Yes, this is another thing that was greatly improved in Vista. I have it on my laptop and desktop pc and I've never needed to do a reinstall, which was quite common thing with XP (you just had to do it atleast once a year). At some point everything became so much slower and cluttered that you just had to do it - in Vista everything still works fast, as will probably in Win7 too.
I dont think Vista was that bad OS after a little bit more powerful hardware came out and after you got used to it. It feels a bit more sluggish than XP but that's what Win7 improves with their move responsive UI (which is really important thing that always seems to be forgotten - just compare Opera to Firefox)
Everyone who have started using Win7 already are saying it's great. Even those who skipped Vista completely. Personally I will probably move from Vista once I get a new computer - I dont want to do an update nor move all the files and settings in place and install new programs right now (and more so because I will probably get a new computer soon anyway)
One of the failure points for Vista was that all the drivers had to be redone and released for it. Even if it's a better thing now that it happened, it was bad to be in the first ones. But this time they all work in Win7 too, so that's not an issue.
What comes to UAC, it's the correct direction, but lots of Windows userbase is general audience which would get annoyed with such in Linux and other OS too. Atleast it's there now, and those who dont like it can disable it.
Most of the problems with Vista was actually that it was taking Windows OS into new direction and probably needed that one OS release in between to get there and so that users get familiar and used with it.
I've experienced cloud computing myself. It wasn't as cool as I thought tho. A week ago I was traveling and the airplane was landing but I couldn't see out - but there I was, happily computing in the cloud (until the stewardess came to tell me shutdown the freaking laptop during landing)
As always, cloud computing/hosting/whatever is a vague term used like any other buzz term. I just see it as a platform where the resources should be allocated automatically and the underneath system takes care of having those available.
The same failure points are there. You're just putting the trust and management to someone else. Even if they do have backup plans and certain levels of redundancy, it can always fail. Cloud computing isn't something magical.
“Similarly datacenters fail, get disconnected, overheat, flood, burn to the ground and so on, but these events should not cause any more than a minor interruption for end users. Otherwise how are they different from ‘legacy’ web applications?”
That's because they aren't. The system is just managed by someone else, and its managed for thousands of people at the same time so its cheaper. Kind of like what Akamai has been doing for long with their content delivery network - it's cheaper for the providers because they dont have to build the infrastructure themself, and its cheaper for Akamai because they do it for so many clients.
The BSA is every bit as corrupt, ignorant and greedy as the RIAA and MPAA, the difference is that they've got a pretend right to demand access to business networks to look for "pirated" software.
Well for one thing BSA has never went after normal people like RIAA/MPAA, so I wonder why you think they're "corrupt, ignorant and greedy". Those who use pirated software in their companies and work or who sell pirated software sure as hell deserve to be arrested.
And where are they claiming that its lost sales? They've just saying that 41% of software on personal computers is pirated. There's no talk about lost sales.
On that somewhat-popular alternate universe called "Star Trek" TNG/DS9/&c, piracy is how everything works. People work and produce goods, and everyone else just takes them for free. They don't even use money anymore. That culture seems to make out okay
You're really thinking that made-up scifi universe, which couple of writers write in their head, has considered all the aspects of economy and how the world works to provide an answer on where the world should be heading to? Really?
Star Trek series is good, but you might want to stop watching it now and step outside. It's *not* a simulation to see how our world should develop. It's a written tv series for entertainment.
In other news, Google is working on it's own version to integrate Googlebot to crawl more data into Google Maps. Soon you can zoom into a person you saw on the street and navigate inside her.
Both studies were done by college universities with no bias, unlike the studies coming from RIAA and BSA. (Use google to find them if you're curious, same way I found them.)
If it's on the internets it must be true!
And anyhow, you say in your own post that it is hurting the industry, even if its on smaller scale. The funny thing is that it's also hurting open source.
I've seen many of your pro-piracy comments in countless number of threads already, but you also cant just count solely on lost sales. Pirating MP3's also hurts streaming services like Pandora and Spotify too (but interestingly, spotify is so good that I havent needed to try to find mp3's since i started using it). Also it's obvious that if people couldn't pirate, they would buy more. *Not the same amount they pirate, but still more*. It's just because people can do it, they do. If I could pirate furniture, food and beer, why wouldn't I? (and no need to carry those beers from store either!).
Getting everything for free sounds nice in paper, but it comes with tons of problems which has been discussed to death already.
And the fact is that noone is making any artist/developer/movie maker to ask for that price. They can already publish it for free and upload to torrent sites. But they've decided to ask a price for it, and if you want to use it, you need to pay for the asked price. If it's too much, just be without it.
Sorry to tell this, but Open Source still cant compete with closed, paid-for applications that require a bit more. Yes, Linux is nice for servers. Apache is nice. MySQL is nice. All of that which has the most support is done quite good, but as soon as it gets a little bit off from that the quality drops dramatically. Open source's answer to Photoshop is still what, GIMP? Do any open source games actually compete good with commercially and professionally made games? OpenTDD is nice, but thats again one that has had good support (while still using data files and many parts and ideas from the commercial game).
On larger scale commercialization is required to produce quality software on other areas than where the most supporters are (apache, linux distros and so on).
- If you've paid for the software, it's highly unlikely that it will contain malware or adware. - If you havent paid for the software, it's more likely it could contain adware (hell, even some open source projects bundle adware with them and you have to compile the project yourself if you dont want it) - If you havent paid for the software and are warezing it, anyone could had infected it with malware.
Yes its possible to have malware in any of them, but the risk grows more and more when going in to pirating.
Well I'm actually surprised it's only 41% pirated software on personal computers, considering it's not often that people buy software applications for non-work purposes and most are free or have alternatives.
But it's true that piracy is hurting the industry (be that software, games, music or movies). Yeah it would be nice if all of that would be free, but it's not a good model to sustain the development and producment. You can always argue that those who like doing it "just for the fun of it" will keep doing so, but it's not going work. The quality suffers and there wont be as many different options or products. There's a reason why everything isn't free already (because it could be - there's nothing to limit it). Market and income is how world works and is needed to produce products, in a way or other. Either by user directly paying for it, or from ad revenue ala google (and losing some of your privacy in the trade) or by other means like open source with support and sponsoring from other companies.
And it's not really a surprise that you might get infected with malware when downloading from warez sites.
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I rather wouldn't play a game which world is "instanced" like that on zones. You're basically in the same world, but you're not. It just complicates things, and in that case multiple servers would be better.
EVE Online's one world model would be the ideal and it seems to work good there. Of course its also divided into zones and most popular ones can get laggy if theres lots of players and stuff going on - but its still the same world where everyone is.
Having one single world would also make the areas with fewer players more interesting (most 10->60 areas in WoW have been quite empty for long time)
Dont you understand how dangerous black holes would be in *terrorists* hands? They could use them to destroy the whole world. In my opinion only Americans should be allowed to create black holes.
Exactly, this can be a software bug too and that could possibly easily destroy or corrupt backup data too. I really doubt this service was ran without backups.
The type of filesystem has nothing to do with this.
It is actually illegal to download warez, but they usually go after the uploaders. You probably dont have to pay as much for just downloading, but its still illegal.
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You complain about both backward compatibility and UAC. Most problems with UAC came from exactly that - the old software wasn't made to support it. New software is. Nevertheless, UAC is the correct direction for securing Windows as OS. People have been complaining that Windows is insecure, and now that MS takes the correct way people complain that it's a nuisance? You can't have it both ways (and you can disable UAC if you're not happy with it).
UAC nuisance goes away when you replace older software with newer one that supports it. But to support it MS had to just throw it in.
Because you need a current hardware to enjoy current OS and technology. Ubuntu and other commonplace Linux distros dont run on a 100MHz+16MB RAM computer either (yeah maybe you find some specialized ones that do, but thats not the point and dont support everyday people)
It's certainly better than the old already aged one, but was the section listbox taken completely off? However I must admit it's probably better to let authors choose it, it was always messy anyway.
And *I know* this news will get officially buried into bitching about non-working javascript on other sections of slashdot!
You might want to note the word *was*, in 2006. Back then my current, a little bit oldish computer didn't run it good but when I bought a new one, it was great. Most of that cause was probably RAM. Obviously current OS's aren't going to work with decades old hardware. It's not really slower to XP, and Win7 will improve that UI responsiveness even more (XP didn't have the same kind of just-show-ui-quickly-while-its-loading thing either)
after 2 years of no re-installs or cleaning up of my computer, and it's flying.
Yes, this is another thing that was greatly improved in Vista. I have it on my laptop and desktop pc and I've never needed to do a reinstall, which was quite common thing with XP (you just had to do it atleast once a year). At some point everything became so much slower and cluttered that you just had to do it - in Vista everything still works fast, as will probably in Win7 too.
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I dont think Vista was that bad OS after a little bit more powerful hardware came out and after you got used to it. It feels a bit more sluggish than XP but that's what Win7 improves with their move responsive UI (which is really important thing that always seems to be forgotten - just compare Opera to Firefox)
Everyone who have started using Win7 already are saying it's great. Even those who skipped Vista completely. Personally I will probably move from Vista once I get a new computer - I dont want to do an update nor move all the files and settings in place and install new programs right now (and more so because I will probably get a new computer soon anyway)
One of the failure points for Vista was that all the drivers had to be redone and released for it. Even if it's a better thing now that it happened, it was bad to be in the first ones. But this time they all work in Win7 too, so that's not an issue.
What comes to UAC, it's the correct direction, but lots of Windows userbase is general audience which would get annoyed with such in Linux and other OS too. Atleast it's there now, and those who dont like it can disable it.
Most of the problems with Vista was actually that it was taking Windows OS into new direction and probably needed that one OS release in between to get there and so that users get familiar and used with it.
I've experienced cloud computing myself. It wasn't as cool as I thought tho. A week ago I was traveling and the airplane was landing but I couldn't see out - but there I was, happily computing in the cloud (until the stewardess came to tell me shutdown the freaking laptop during landing)
I know my songs, videos, and other important files are backed-up across triple drives.
Dude. Now close your torrent client and go out.
As always, cloud computing/hosting/whatever is a vague term used like any other buzz term. I just see it as a platform where the resources should be allocated automatically and the underneath system takes care of having those available.
The same failure points are there. You're just putting the trust and management to someone else. Even if they do have backup plans and certain levels of redundancy, it can always fail. Cloud computing isn't something magical.
“Similarly datacenters fail, get disconnected, overheat, flood, burn to the ground and so on, but these events should not cause any more than a minor interruption for end users. Otherwise how are they different from ‘legacy’ web applications?”
That's because they aren't. The system is just managed by someone else, and its managed for thousands of people at the same time so its cheaper. Kind of like what Akamai has been doing for long with their content delivery network - it's cheaper for the providers because they dont have to build the infrastructure themself, and its cheaper for Akamai because they do it for so many clients.
The BSA is every bit as corrupt, ignorant and greedy as the RIAA and MPAA, the difference is that they've got a pretend right to demand access to business networks to look for "pirated" software.
Well for one thing BSA has never went after normal people like RIAA/MPAA, so I wonder why you think they're "corrupt, ignorant and greedy". Those who use pirated software in their companies and work or who sell pirated software sure as hell deserve to be arrested.
And where are they claiming that its lost sales? They've just saying that 41% of software on personal computers is pirated. There's no talk about lost sales.
Stop making stuff up.
On that somewhat-popular alternate universe called "Star Trek" TNG/DS9/&c, piracy is how everything works. People work and produce goods, and everyone else just takes them for free. They don't even use money anymore. That culture seems to make out okay
You're really thinking that made-up scifi universe, which couple of writers write in their head, has considered all the aspects of economy and how the world works to provide an answer on where the world should be heading to? Really?
Star Trek series is good, but you might want to stop watching it now and step outside. It's *not* a simulation to see how our world should develop. It's a written tv series for entertainment.
Slashdot never stops surprising me.
All the pirates who think pirating == freedom of speech.
In other news, Google is working on it's own version to integrate Googlebot to crawl more data into Google Maps. Soon you can zoom into a person you saw on the street and navigate inside her.
Both studies were done by college universities with no bias, unlike the studies coming from RIAA and BSA. (Use google to find them if you're curious, same way I found them.)
If it's on the internets it must be true!
And anyhow, you say in your own post that it is hurting the industry, even if its on smaller scale. The funny thing is that it's also hurting open source.
I've seen many of your pro-piracy comments in countless number of threads already, but you also cant just count solely on lost sales. Pirating MP3's also hurts streaming services like Pandora and Spotify too (but interestingly, spotify is so good that I havent needed to try to find mp3's since i started using it). Also it's obvious that if people couldn't pirate, they would buy more. *Not the same amount they pirate, but still more*. It's just because people can do it, they do. If I could pirate furniture, food and beer, why wouldn't I? (and no need to carry those beers from store either!).
Getting everything for free sounds nice in paper, but it comes with tons of problems which has been discussed to death already.
And the fact is that noone is making any artist/developer/movie maker to ask for that price. They can already publish it for free and upload to torrent sites. But they've decided to ask a price for it, and if you want to use it, you need to pay for the asked price. If it's too much, just be without it.
Sorry to tell this, but Open Source still cant compete with closed, paid-for applications that require a bit more. Yes, Linux is nice for servers. Apache is nice. MySQL is nice. All of that which has the most support is done quite good, but as soon as it gets a little bit off from that the quality drops dramatically. Open source's answer to Photoshop is still what, GIMP? Do any open source games actually compete good with commercially and professionally made games? OpenTDD is nice, but thats again one that has had good support (while still using data files and many parts and ideas from the commercial game).
On larger scale commercialization is required to produce quality software on other areas than where the most supporters are (apache, linux distros and so on).
I dont think that's the point.
- If you've paid for the software, it's highly unlikely that it will contain malware or adware.
- If you havent paid for the software, it's more likely it could contain adware (hell, even some open source projects bundle adware with them and you have to compile the project yourself if you dont want it)
- If you havent paid for the software and are warezing it, anyone could had infected it with malware.
Yes its possible to have malware in any of them, but the risk grows more and more when going in to pirating.
Well I'm actually surprised it's only 41% pirated software on personal computers, considering it's not often that people buy software applications for non-work purposes and most are free or have alternatives.
But it's true that piracy is hurting the industry (be that software, games, music or movies). Yeah it would be nice if all of that would be free, but it's not a good model to sustain the development and producment. You can always argue that those who like doing it "just for the fun of it" will keep doing so, but it's not going work. The quality suffers and there wont be as many different options or products. There's a reason why everything isn't free already (because it could be - there's nothing to limit it). Market and income is how world works and is needed to produce products, in a way or other. Either by user directly paying for it, or from ad revenue ala google (and losing some of your privacy in the trade) or by other means like open source with support and sponsoring from other companies.
And it's not really a surprise that you might get infected with malware when downloading from warez sites.
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I rather wouldn't play a game which world is "instanced" like that on zones. You're basically in the same world, but you're not. It just complicates things, and in that case multiple servers would be better.
EVE Online's one world model would be the ideal and it seems to work good there. Of course its also divided into zones and most popular ones can get laggy if theres lots of players and stuff going on - but its still the same world where everyone is.
Having one single world would also make the areas with fewer players more interesting (most 10->60 areas in WoW have been quite empty for long time)
If it is on the Internet it must be true!
Dont you understand how dangerous black holes would be in *terrorists* hands? They could use them to destroy the whole world. In my opinion only Americans should be allowed to create black holes.
Exactly, this can be a software bug too and that could possibly easily destroy or corrupt backup data too. I really doubt this service was ran without backups.
The type of filesystem has nothing to do with this.
It is actually illegal to download warez, but they usually go after the uploaders. You probably dont have to pay as much for just downloading, but its still illegal.