I used Avast 4.8 for about a month. Then they upgraded to 5.0. Didn't care about the registration, but everything else just irked me to no end. On the other hand, MSE has every advantage you listed, plus no registration, and the updates are gathered through Windows Update, so you don't have yet another service updating itself.
Unfortunately, I don't live in America, moving to America is a pain in the ass, and the face of telecommunications in Canada is very different. You need larger infrastructure for fewer people.
In addition, rather than snarking at me to "go start my own business," you'll note that my plan actually says that a business that is *already* at "good enough for now" to go do it. It requires piecemeal upgrading of components in-place already. The cash layout required to *start* at that level is prohibitive. Remember, the basic version of that Cisco rack is $90k, and you'd need a few of those around the country, if you wanted to compete. The companies already existing, however, are at that point right now, and so rather than investing in "Five year plans," they should go longer-term. It's a better investiture of capital than constantly needing to cycle out equipment that becomes obsolete, rather than has actually broken down due to age. They might even be able to keep ahead of the upgrade cycle and expand the network to low population density areas, rather than constantly trying to prop up their infrastructure in urban areas that's now being excessively taxed due to increased demand.
All in all, you'll have to forgive me for dismissing YOU for being a moron, and a likely troll.
720p IS more than enough for internet HD in the short term (5 year) future.
Thank you for your demonstration of exactly why industries continue to fuck over consumers. And you did it in only one sentence, too! *applause*
"Good enough for now" is always the cry, and then they jack up prices due to the increased demand on their shitty infrastructure. If instead, they looked at it and said "You know what, that might be good for a few years, but if we start *now*, by the end of that time, we could have something good enough for TWENTY years!"
You know what? This. 1000x this. Rather than mandate what lighting a home uses, mandate that they need to be upgraded for heating efficiency. And NO GRANDFATHERING IN OLD HOUSES. Unless it's a historic site that would have its character irreparably damaged by energy efficiency alterations, it fucking needs to get fixed up. Give tax incentives, or pass out a stimulus. Whatever needs to be done. Give a 10 year time frame for older places (I say that long since demand for materials would be massive during this time frame, and same with labour to have it done), but places currently under construction absolutely must meet the code by the time they're finished construction. If every place in North America, Asia, Australia, and the European Union did that, we'd probably hit those insane targets in things like the original Kyoto Accord.
I think you're abusing the definition of pyramid scheme. What you're really looking for is "poorly managed system." Now, excuse me, I need to get "pyramid scheme" to a doctor to see how bad your abuse was. You'll be hearing from its lawyer.
Soundblaster. It's not like it's some obscure no-name brand. The thing's plug-and-play in Windows. There was even an official driver package from Creative Labs. That didn't work. All the ASLA guides on the 'net couldn't make it work. We even tried the alternate open source driver package, and that worked even less.
And exaggerating doesn't help your position. There aren't "gigabytes" of updates out for Windows 7. Maybe after SP1 hits, you might be right. And "gigabytes" of software updates? What the fuck? Again, bullshit. I can't believe someone modded you interesting when you're obviously full of shit. Troooooooooolllllllllll.
What dosen't make sense are the people who bitch and moan about what a hassle Linux is to set up and get figured out, while they waste hours and hours of their time and money cleaning out their Windows installs, setting up anti-malware programs that waste even more time in the form of annoying pop-up reminders and eaten CPU cycles, and even reinstalling their O.S.;
I'd make a smarmy "Can you speak louder joke" like Pak there, but all I've got is deafening silence. Ya see, there's no way to make my soundcard work in *nix, from what I, and my friend who damn well *lives* in *nix can find. And we spent hours. I eventually had to use the shitty on-board sound.
As for wasting hours and hours, and money, I use MSE, took about 5 minutes to download and install, and Spy-bot, which also took about 5 minutes to download and install. MSE updates itself, and Spy-bot probably could, though I'm comfortable with just manually downloading the updates, which takes about 35 seconds. Scans run overnight.
So, I suppose, over my entire life, it might qualify as hours, plural. In fact, I wasted MORE time trying to get my sound card to work than I have with anti-virus/mal-ware programs.
Oh, and I ran without *any* protection for over a year, including doing torrents, and a monthly scan didn't pick up *anything.* Ever. So there's that for your "Windows can be used safely and quickly without protection, but only by savvy users who don't do any "real-world" stuff like torrent or allow the occasional ingorant user to use their computer."
Actually, it does. It means that a botnet CAN be defeated. We constantly see stories about how control servers are up and going again hours or days after some are taken offline. A good step to solving the problem is proving that a solution can actually exist.
I don't think it should be their focus. GP was talking about "ZOMG they're fudging with their ACID3 scores!" I just think it's good that they're admitting they're not "up to spec" on this one test that people are insane over, and they've headed off people bitching about it. As for when they mentioned it isn't, that's in an Ars Technica article I read on the topic:
As you can see in the screenshot above, the IE9 team has made (some) progress in the Acid3 test. IE8 scores 20/100 on the test, and the IE9 build demonstrated at PDC scored 32/100, so given that the IE9 build from MIX10 is at 55/100, we can see Microsoft is certainly taking standards a lot more seriously.
The company's stance on the test, however, has not changed. Microsoft refuses to simply give in and implement everything the test requires to pass; the company continues to downplay the test as it barely encompasses HTML5 but instead tests some technologies that are still in the "working draft" stage of standardization, including many edge cases and error conditions. While Microsoft has no plans to score 100/100, it is not ignoring the test; instead, the company is focusing on what it believes developers actually want supported. "As we support more of the markup, our Acid3 score will go up," Hachamovitch told Ars.
Frankly, if IE 9 can deliver solidly on what's currently promised, in a bug-free way, it'll be a good, solid secondary browser for me (I currently use Opera). I might even use it as a primary for video watching. IE 8 is too clunky for me to like using, even on very rare occasion, but yeah, this push for better standards compliance is nice, and something a bit snappier would fit nicely.
It's scoring a 55. That's a fail no matter what. You're latching on to the wrong point. The important part, which you've glossed over so neatly, is that Microsoft included that 55/100 on ACID3 as part of the actual news. They're freely admitting upfront, "hey, on this test, we're still doing badly, but we are working on improving. It's just not our focus."
Forget people being a dick, how about people just innocently wandering between transmitter and reciever? Or the user himself accidentally setting something down in the way? Too many ways to screw it up.
I think we had a story about LOS wireless before, and really, same as then, the only use I can see for it is in lab environments, where you usually don't have people wandering around in undefined patterns. Attach unit to roof on a per-row basis, aim all computers in that row at that reciever, and no one can accidentally interrupt the beam. Beyond that, I can't see a common residential use, or much industrial use.
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I used Avast 4.8 for about a month. Then they upgraded to 5.0. Didn't care about the registration, but everything else just irked me to no end. On the other hand, MSE has every advantage you listed, plus no registration, and the updates are gathered through Windows Update, so you don't have yet another service updating itself.
Oh, and the quick scan takes about 3 minutes.
Are you shitting me? Uwe Boll would provide the ultimate reason to see it. His movies should be required viewing.
After all, even Plan 9 and Ed Wood's movies look like masterpieces in comparison, and film quality might rise if people see really shitty movies.
Unfortunately, I don't live in America, moving to America is a pain in the ass, and the face of telecommunications in Canada is very different. You need larger infrastructure for fewer people.
In addition, rather than snarking at me to "go start my own business," you'll note that my plan actually says that a business that is *already* at "good enough for now" to go do it. It requires piecemeal upgrading of components in-place already. The cash layout required to *start* at that level is prohibitive. Remember, the basic version of that Cisco rack is $90k, and you'd need a few of those around the country, if you wanted to compete. The companies already existing, however, are at that point right now, and so rather than investing in "Five year plans," they should go longer-term. It's a better investiture of capital than constantly needing to cycle out equipment that becomes obsolete, rather than has actually broken down due to age. They might even be able to keep ahead of the upgrade cycle and expand the network to low population density areas, rather than constantly trying to prop up their infrastructure in urban areas that's now being excessively taxed due to increased demand.
All in all, you'll have to forgive me for dismissing YOU for being a moron, and a likely troll.
720p IS more than enough for internet HD in the short term (5 year) future.
Thank you for your demonstration of exactly why industries continue to fuck over consumers. And you did it in only one sentence, too! *applause*
"Good enough for now" is always the cry, and then they jack up prices due to the increased demand on their shitty infrastructure. If instead, they looked at it and said "You know what, that might be good for a few years, but if we start *now*, by the end of that time, we could have something good enough for TWENTY years!"
wtf is /, ?
You know what? This. 1000x this. Rather than mandate what lighting a home uses, mandate that they need to be upgraded for heating efficiency. And NO GRANDFATHERING IN OLD HOUSES. Unless it's a historic site that would have its character irreparably damaged by energy efficiency alterations, it fucking needs to get fixed up. Give tax incentives, or pass out a stimulus. Whatever needs to be done. Give a 10 year time frame for older places (I say that long since demand for materials would be massive during this time frame, and same with labour to have it done), but places currently under construction absolutely must meet the code by the time they're finished construction. If every place in North America, Asia, Australia, and the European Union did that, we'd probably hit those insane targets in things like the original Kyoto Accord.
I think you're abusing the definition of pyramid scheme. What you're really looking for is "poorly managed system." Now, excuse me, I need to get "pyramid scheme" to a doctor to see how bad your abuse was. You'll be hearing from its lawyer.
There's no apostrophe in "Grammar Nazis."
Further, vaporware would probably be an abstract noun.
I'd love to hear the slashdotian woman's perspective,
And then you'll get the perspective of Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, right?
Soundblaster. It's not like it's some obscure no-name brand. The thing's plug-and-play in Windows. There was even an official driver package from Creative Labs. That didn't work. All the ASLA guides on the 'net couldn't make it work. We even tried the alternate open source driver package, and that worked even less.
And exaggerating doesn't help your position. There aren't "gigabytes" of updates out for Windows 7. Maybe after SP1 hits, you might be right. And "gigabytes" of software updates? What the fuck? Again, bullshit. I can't believe someone modded you interesting when you're obviously full of shit. Troooooooooolllllllllll.
What dosen't make sense are the people who bitch and moan about what a hassle Linux is to set up and get figured out, while they waste hours and hours of their time and money cleaning out their Windows installs, setting up anti-malware programs that waste even more time in the form of annoying pop-up reminders and eaten CPU cycles, and even reinstalling their O.S.;
I'd make a smarmy "Can you speak louder joke" like Pak there, but all I've got is deafening silence. Ya see, there's no way to make my soundcard work in *nix, from what I, and my friend who damn well *lives* in *nix can find. And we spent hours. I eventually had to use the shitty on-board sound.
As for wasting hours and hours, and money, I use MSE, took about 5 minutes to download and install, and Spy-bot, which also took about 5 minutes to download and install. MSE updates itself, and Spy-bot probably could, though I'm comfortable with just manually downloading the updates, which takes about 35 seconds. Scans run overnight.
So, I suppose, over my entire life, it might qualify as hours, plural. In fact, I wasted MORE time trying to get my sound card to work than I have with anti-virus/mal-ware programs.
Oh, and I ran without *any* protection for over a year, including doing torrents, and a monthly scan didn't pick up *anything.* Ever. So there's that for your "Windows can be used safely and quickly without protection, but only by savvy users who don't do any "real-world" stuff like torrent or allow the occasional ingorant user to use their computer."
I don't think it should be their focus. GP was talking about "ZOMG they're fudging with their ACID3 scores!" I just think it's good that they're admitting they're not "up to spec" on this one test that people are insane over, and they've headed off people bitching about it. As for when they mentioned it isn't, that's in an Ars Technica article I read on the topic:
As you can see in the screenshot above, the IE9 team has made (some) progress in the Acid3 test. IE8 scores 20/100 on the test, and the IE9 build demonstrated at PDC scored 32/100, so given that the IE9 build from MIX10 is at 55/100, we can see Microsoft is certainly taking standards a lot more seriously.
The company's stance on the test, however, has not changed. Microsoft refuses to simply give in and implement everything the test requires to pass; the company continues to downplay the test as it barely encompasses HTML5 but instead tests some technologies that are still in the "working draft" stage of standardization, including many edge cases and error conditions. While Microsoft has no plans to score 100/100, it is not ignoring the test; instead, the company is focusing on what it believes developers actually want supported. "As we support more of the markup, our Acid3 score will go up," Hachamovitch told Ars.
Frankly, if IE 9 can deliver solidly on what's currently promised, in a bug-free way, it'll be a good, solid secondary browser for me (I currently use Opera). I might even use it as a primary for video watching. IE 8 is too clunky for me to like using, even on very rare occasion, but yeah, this push for better standards compliance is nice, and something a bit snappier would fit nicely.
They're not "upgrading," 9 is different from 8 which is different from 6. They're not running the same core. They're just keeping the name.
It's scoring a 55. That's a fail no matter what. You're latching on to the wrong point. The important part, which you've glossed over so neatly, is that Microsoft included that 55/100 on ACID3 as part of the actual news. They're freely admitting upfront, "hey, on this test, we're still doing badly, but we are working on improving. It's just not our focus."
So how do you explain the free ones not being perfect, then?
Damn straight! And to prove my solidarity...
*whips a cloth off a table* I present my PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE! Now with plastic cooling for more efficient operation.
No, the purpose was to find out if they used something else now. I'm a movie geek.
With many modern remotes, you don't have to aim the remote at the device, but you can bounce it off walls and furniture and have it work great.
Tell that to my fucking Blu-Ray player. The remote for my parents' 15 year old TV worked better at wider angles.
Besides, the article mentioned Visible Spectrum. Good luck reflecting that and maintaining usefulness.
Forget people being a dick, how about people just innocently wandering between transmitter and reciever? Or the user himself accidentally setting something down in the way? Too many ways to screw it up.
I think we had a story about LOS wireless before, and really, same as then, the only use I can see for it is in lab environments, where you usually don't have people wandering around in undefined patterns. Attach unit to roof on a per-row basis, aim all computers in that row at that reciever, and no one can accidentally interrupt the beam. Beyond that, I can't see a common residential use, or much industrial use.
Dumbass. Citizen != person. The GGP said citizen when they should have picked a different word. GP pointed that out. You, however, are just a dumbass.
Can you think of an icon for Microsoft that doesn't involve Bill Gates as a Borg?
Fucking get over it.
And no, Virginia, the bottles you see used in Hollywood movie bar fights are not actually made of glass.
Do they still use sugar glass, or have they moved on to something else?
And if we want just regular lists, Cracked.
Maybe they'll ban black pepper next...
I'd like that. I'm allergic.