You still do. Think other remotely exploitable holes won't appear in Apple's MacOS X? Think again - this is the "nature of the beast", & up until yesterday, & our discussion began BEFORE that?? MacOS X had a java hole that was big enough to drive a truck through...
A single Java flaw that took months to patch with no actual threat in the wild, despite how many machines were vulnerable prior(hint: that same flaw hit across all platforms; even windows) versus...
ActiveX.
QED.
(THIS IS THE "SHEER ARROGANCE" as well as ignorance you display & others like yourself, that try to tell others "*NIX is impenetrable" when clearly, you STILL have a problem in MacOS X even now, & it produces 3 problems of System Access, DOS/DDOS, or Privelege Escalation possibilities - & the ONLY way you can 'shield yourself' vs. them, is to do SOME of what I do (alter permissions/access rights)).
Arrogrance or did i just not buy a crapware OS? I just now ran nmap and the only service running is Bonjour. Which has no current vulnerabilities right now.
You're digging your heels in, not listening to anything anyone ever has to say to you, because as you describe your self, that you're above the level of experience of people who post here generally. I don't have a life. I'll admit it. But, I don't. So I'm biting.
Unfortunately, your conclusions are all wrong. Your history of past posting shows people pointing out everything wrong you've said.
What you've done has absolutely no bearing on whether or not you're right. We've got accomplished astronauts who say we've never gone to the moon and nobel prize winning doctors who said you could treat cancer with Vitamins. They're obviously proven wrong. You're either a troll, trying to get people to argue with you, or you're an idiot because you don't know what the argument from authority fallacy means. It means that your arguments need to stand up on their own. Most of your posts are hyping up how awesome you are, yet you're sitting here on slashdot trolling away trying to... I really don't actually know what you're trying to do. Either you're in troll mode, trying to get people like me worked up or you're going through cognitive dissonance so hard you're like Ted Haggard at a Castro Street pride festival.
Further more, Secunia is listing 5 major desktop/workstation releases of OS X as well as 6 major server releases of OS X as a single OS. If we took this logic and ran with it, the Windows NT 5 family, 2000, 2000 Server, 2000 Advanced Server, 2000 Datacenter, XP Home, XP Pro, XP Media Center, XP Starter, XP Tablet, XP 64bit, XP 64bit Pro, 2003 Server, 2003 Server SBE, 2003 server web, 2003 server enterprise, 2003 server datacenter, 2003 Compute Cluster Server, Windows Storage Server, HPC Server 2003, Home Server, 2003 with Chipotle Mayonaise...
You'd wind up with *way* more listed vulnerabilities than you'd get from just counting a single version of NT5. That's why that number is pretty unreliable.
Plus they're listing things that aren't Apple's fault as being a "vulnerability."
(Same with Windows, but, this is why Secunia's listings are unreliable).
Also, things that Mark Russinovich has worked on really have no bearing on this discussion. THe point of the discussion is, if Mac OSX or Linux or Solaris were more popular, would they have the same level of reported vulnerabilities as Windows does? The answer is easily no. The evidence is out there, I've given you an outline of the baseline technical reasons why this is, and yet you dig your heels in and go on really long and amusing tirades about your own guidelines, your work, and CIS Tools.
Who won in this discussion? I don't have to cover my ass on the internet when I boot my computer up. You do. I win. Until that changes, I win.
I'm not sure if you're a clever troll or some sort of new take on Samir Gupta, or if you're just an idiot. But you're full of noise.
Clearly you don't know what a fallacy is, otherwise you wouldn't have used so many of them in your defense of Windows and limp wristed slapfight with Linux. Clearly you don't know what you're talking about. What the hell do you mean by "hardcodes?" Like, you helped some computer science phd remove hardcoded variable values out of some application? What does that have to do Windows security?
Please get off the internet. You clearly sound like a man who's never gotten laid. Ever. Try talking to a woman with out mentioning the CIS Tool and maybe, just maybe, you can have your tool serviced too.
You're an idiot. thankfully i've got insomnia and willing to go point to point here.
never ONCE said it was "immune", or ANY OS is "completely immune", did I? As you say, USERS THEMSELVES are a 'problem' (PEBKAC, ever heard of it? It too, though, can be corrected via education), first of all, & as I said?? New 'holes' show up, in the OS & its apps that run on it, plus drivers & services also.
HOWEVER?
It appears that after my setup, per my own experiences, & that of others I show proof of (& I can produce more than the 1 I did that showed 2 people experiencing practical immunity, as long as they obey a few simple rules my guide illustrates though - funny that, eh?) that Windows CAN BE MADE SO, & again:
SO CAN USERS - with a bit of "education"!
IN fact, education, such as my guide yields for them!!
(& I put it on "rookie user" forums, the most, not where 'security gurus' are - they KNOW about it, but can only reach so many people... & it's those "rookie users" that need that info., more than anybody else does)...
You're missing the point. Windows *can* be made to be secure. Sure. Great. So can VAX/VMS. That doesn't make the product that ships out the door from Redmond gold. Firewalls, antiviruses, and antimalware apps just try to put a gold plating on a giant stinking turd.
In fact, for YOUR OS of choice? IF you possess the skills/saavy to do so?? DO 'spread the word' to them, on any platform you wish, as I have!
Here's my OS X safety guide:
"Don't download warez. Or, if you do, whenever it prompts you for a username and password, never give it. Ever. Also, your computer will occasionally ask you to install updates and reboot. I suggest doing this. Unless you know what you're doing, never enable Apache, FTP access, SSH or remote desktop. Ever."
(Mine's been used to the tune of nearly 300,000 views in only a yrs' time & also to the tune of my guide becoming a "sticky/pinned thread" or "most viewed" on some pretty widely travelled/well known forums in that short time frame, in fact, if not more by now)
So, why's that?
Windows users are sheep and willing to put up with a trash OS?
Well, like THRONKA said in the example quote of his in my 1st reply to you?? BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS, if the user applies cis tool, & its points, plus others I add onto it, & evidences thereof exist (I posted only 1 though)).
So what if it works, windows is still trash.
And, as far as "no where on the scale it does on the Windows platform" in reference to *NIX's on the PC in general, especially for home users?
HEY: That's easy - 95% of the world's PC's run Windows NT-based OS', & how many of all the combined *NIX's do (especially on the most used CPU platform there is, in x86)?? Thus, Windows user represent the largest body of "ordinary grandma/uncle Joe type users", who are analogous to 1st year drivers of automobiles, when the MOST accidents tend to occur for them, until they become more experienced (I know, it happened to me in both cars & computers, & only makes sense it does then when you do not have a lot of experience or solid training).
Or let's look at this from a technical point of view. Windows ships with various WTFs out of the box. take for example, and this is a damn good example, the RPC service, the one responsible for the famous Blaster worm, is necessary for copy and fucking paste. Copy and paste. WHY?!
run an nmap on a given home user OS X machine and compare it with a given Windows machine. Be prepared to crap yourself. I worked at an ISP that had to block a largish array of ports because of all of the random shit Windows would keep open for something simple like File/Print sharing.
Also?
*NIX, on the PC, especially the "home user front", doesn't even SCRATCH the sur
Hardened and resistant does not mean "Immune." Yes, flaws exist in the OS, but no where on the scale that it exists on the Windows platform.
All this hype I hear about the gaining market share of OSX also increasing the market share for malware, viruses, etc(trojans excluded, operator error when it prompts for username and password is something that no OS can really be hardened against, although recovery from such a idiot move can be, I don't know how well OSX handles being rootkitted or attacked after having a trojan rape the machine, but I can imagine recovery to be simpler than on a Windows box; which also makes up half of your little list), market share for similar vulnerabilities haven't gone up either the same way they do for Windows machines.
Taking a read of the various flaws listed(most of which are a year+ old, and many of which have been patched), it seems to secure a Mac install, all you have to do is power it on and turn off Bonjour(Although it seems like the DNS vulnerability has too, been patched). It seems like a majority of the flaws are very user specific, like abusing apple remote desktop, which is not enabled in the first place. Yes, Apple is a little slow with patching at times, they just now got around to releasing the Java patch that's been around for quite awhile, but it's done. Compare this with a typical windows exploit which is basically, "Turn on your PC to get owned."
While it's not the "it just works" setup, quite frankly, I like that a whole lot better than, "Turn off X, Y, Z, install A, B, C and D apps, block L, M, N and O ports, and don't use the computer on alternate mondays" route pro-windows people tend to be. Not every OS is perfect, but, the shit that Windows users go through is not worth it.
Also, with your list of vulnerabilities, are these services that the average user is going to be running? It doesn't help to list 90 vulnerabilities with Apache when, I'm clearly not talking about users who are running apache.
This is what Tyranny looks like, not whether or not Ron Paul gets laughed at or if your movement is heckled because you guys chose, "Teabagging" as your rallying cry.
This is real tyranny. Not being mocked endlessly because your candidate of choice is hopelessly and helplessly trapped in the 1880's.
Grow up and stop polluting the Internet.
As for what we, the typical freedom loving west should do? If you've got the means, set up proxies. Make sure that Iranian dissidents can get their word out to the world. If you don't, pressure the Obama administration to look into the Iranian crackdown. The real story here isn't whether or not the election was dirty, the real story is the cover up.
The thing about worms like Conficker is that they absolutely do not rely on user interactivity with some sort of trojan interface. No, "CLICK HERE FOR FREE PORN!" or, "DOWNLOAD THIS APP AND GET GREAT WAREZ!" apps.
Conficker spreads site to site silently through vulnerabilities in Windows.
Yes, it's possible to own *NIX boxen via trojan horse deployments, but for home users who aren't running apache, mysql, openssl, ssh, ftp, gopher, BIND, etc. the non-user infection vectors dry up. This is because Windows *sucks* for system security. While it's possible to pull privilege escalation on *NIX machines, and other OSes, often, they're a pain in the ass and usually require specialized setups(certain version of MySQL running with certain version of Apache, with... etc). Home users really don't have to worry about Samba file/print sharing owning their machine like NetBIOS on Windows users have to worry about their machines being similarly owned.
Sure, disabling autorun, running firewalls, virus scanners, etc. is great computing practice, I think it's more to expect from a typical home user who just wants the damned thing to work regardless. Lots of people use a computer thinking it's, well, a computer. Not a car, or a fax machine or a rifle that every so often needs to be broken down and maintained. Nor should it be. Modern file systems are virtually self-optimizing and aside from system updates and making sure there's room on your disk, which NO OS can really claim to do for you, unless you count Apple's MobileMe/.Mac service, even then it's only 20 gigs, most modern OSes can just be used on end with out much worry. Except most machines aren't running with components designed in this decade, they're often running Windows.
if they are streaming more movies than they're shipping out is probably due to several factors.
A) You can watch as many movies as you want. Most netflix plans have limited number of movies for rent.
B) 480p video can easily travel through most internet pipes. Try this with realtime streaming of 1080p high def stuff.
C) Movies aren't games. You can get by with a 480p stream to your xbox, set top box with netflix support or your PC. Games on the other hand, can't necessarily be compressed small enough to be consumed similarly to movies.
Music is probably doomed though. Movies are probably going to be hurting through digital distribution, but games? Games are probably safe.
Diminished? Sure. There's a compelling argument. Eliminated? That's... asking a lot.
On the technical end, I would hate to download a dual layer BDROM's worth of data through my internet pipe. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a jewel case travelling at speed limits from the store to my house. Not to mention activation, and other issues.
on the usability end, I'd hate to have to prove i owned a game I don't have physical access to should my Steam account get hacked or my PSN/XBLA account get compromised.
I refuse to pay the idiot premium on high fashion items, and that is exactly what Apple's products are.
Because my MacBook's BSD based kernel goes great with my Dolce and Gabanna sun glasses and my MacBook's user security just absolutely matches DKNY's latest for the 09 season.
Apple advertised the price of the 3GS as 199/299 at the keynote, and didn't mention the unsubsidized price.
I really don't think we should haul them into court for false advertising, but, we should at least reserve the right to feel burned by the big price point that was driven home at the WWDC keynote.
MS moving to MS-only hardware wouldn't solve the stability and usability problems Windows has.
I'd wager than a Linux, or BSD or whatever, install would be more hardened against the kinds of internal stability and usability issues that Windows machines face. Viruses, crappy driver model(nothing can defend against crappy drivers, the OS can be hardened against having these drivers make the machine shit itself though), spyware, etc. I don't care how popular an OS is, if the software's built right, it won't buckle like Windows does.
OMF was my first venture into being a gaming curmudgeon.
SF2 had been out for a few years at this point. Super SF2 Turbo had *just* came out and it was deep. OMF shareware made me want to puke with how cheesy it was compared to it, King of Fighters, and even Mortal Kombat.
(Yes, I know what the meme is, but, no, this altmed crap is crap.)
That would mean that everything we know about how tumors start, grow, and go into remission is wrong. That everything we know about chemo and radiation is wrong.
But there's no evidence that Kaufman and Simoncini's work actually does work. Where's the peer reviewed studies? Where's the followups? Clinical trials?
It was an FPS who's only redeeming quality was the fact that the times you were sitting around shooting things were actually kind of fun. HL2 defined the mindless shooter with the voiceless, nearly nameless, nearly faceless protagonist.
Granted, all of the NPCs are interesting, but, the writing is so stunted and poor. In the time it took for MGS1 - 4 to come out, Valve still has yet to actually *tell* us anything about the Half Life universe other than the Combine have invaded and they're so weak that they were beaten by a dweeb in Emo Glasses and his rag tag team of the AV-Club.
Oh, sure, the gravity gun was pretty neat, but so what? Spiffy rag doll physics guns make for great engines, not great games.
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You still do. Think other remotely exploitable holes won't appear in Apple's MacOS X? Think again - this is the "nature of the beast", & up until yesterday, & our discussion began BEFORE that?? MacOS X had a java hole that was big enough to drive a truck through...
A single Java flaw that took months to patch with no actual threat in the wild, despite how many machines were vulnerable prior(hint: that same flaw hit across all platforms; even windows) versus...
ActiveX.
QED.
(THIS IS THE "SHEER ARROGANCE" as well as ignorance you display & others like yourself, that try to tell others "*NIX is impenetrable" when clearly, you STILL have a problem in MacOS X even now, & it produces 3 problems of System Access, DOS/DDOS, or Privelege Escalation possibilities - & the ONLY way you can 'shield yourself' vs. them, is to do SOME of what I do (alter permissions/access rights)).
Arrogrance or did i just not buy a crapware OS? I just now ran nmap and the only service running is Bonjour. Which has no current vulnerabilities right now.
I win. GTFO.
You're digging your heels in, not listening to anything anyone ever has to say to you, because as you describe your self, that you're above the level of experience of people who post here generally. I don't have a life. I'll admit it. But, I don't. So I'm biting.
Unfortunately, your conclusions are all wrong. Your history of past posting shows people pointing out everything wrong you've said.
What you've done has absolutely no bearing on whether or not you're right. We've got accomplished astronauts who say we've never gone to the moon and nobel prize winning doctors who said you could treat cancer with Vitamins. They're obviously proven wrong. You're either a troll, trying to get people to argue with you, or you're an idiot because you don't know what the argument from authority fallacy means. It means that your arguments need to stand up on their own. Most of your posts are hyping up how awesome you are, yet you're sitting here on slashdot trolling away trying to ... I really don't actually know what you're trying to do. Either you're in troll mode, trying to get people like me worked up or you're going through cognitive dissonance so hard you're like Ted Haggard at a Castro Street pride festival.
Further more, Secunia is listing 5 major desktop/workstation releases of OS X as well as 6 major server releases of OS X as a single OS. If we took this logic and ran with it, the Windows NT 5 family, 2000, 2000 Server, 2000 Advanced Server, 2000 Datacenter, XP Home, XP Pro, XP Media Center, XP Starter, XP Tablet, XP 64bit, XP 64bit Pro, 2003 Server, 2003 Server SBE, 2003 server web, 2003 server enterprise, 2003 server datacenter, 2003 Compute Cluster Server, Windows Storage Server, HPC Server 2003, Home Server, 2003 with Chipotle Mayonaise...
You'd wind up with *way* more listed vulnerabilities than you'd get from just counting a single version of NT5. That's why that number is pretty unreliable.
Plus they're listing things that aren't Apple's fault as being a "vulnerability."
(Same with Windows, but, this is why Secunia's listings are unreliable).
Also, things that Mark Russinovich has worked on really have no bearing on this discussion. THe point of the discussion is, if Mac OSX or Linux or Solaris were more popular, would they have the same level of reported vulnerabilities as Windows does? The answer is easily no. The evidence is out there, I've given you an outline of the baseline technical reasons why this is, and yet you dig your heels in and go on really long and amusing tirades about your own guidelines, your work, and CIS Tools.
Who won in this discussion? I don't have to cover my ass on the internet when I boot my computer up. You do. I win. Until that changes, I win.
that whoosh was not the sound of the joke going over his or my head but the Troll missing his/her/it's mark.
Noise.
Just. Noise.
I'm not sure if you're a clever troll or some sort of new take on Samir Gupta, or if you're just an idiot. But you're full of noise.
Clearly you don't know what a fallacy is, otherwise you wouldn't have used so many of them in your defense of Windows and limp wristed slapfight with Linux. Clearly you don't know what you're talking about. What the hell do you mean by "hardcodes?" Like, you helped some computer science phd remove hardcoded variable values out of some application? What does that have to do Windows security?
Please get off the internet. You clearly sound like a man who's never gotten laid. Ever. Try talking to a woman with out mentioning the CIS Tool and maybe, just maybe, you can have your tool serviced too.
whooooooooosh.
We usually try to measure how many libraries of congress we can get to the new blade server in under 5 minutes.
our best is 12.
You're an idiot. thankfully i've got insomnia and willing to go point to point here.
never ONCE said it was "immune", or ANY OS is "completely immune", did I? As you say, USERS THEMSELVES are a 'problem' (PEBKAC, ever heard of it? It too, though, can be corrected via education), first of all, & as I said?? New 'holes' show up, in the OS & its apps that run on it, plus drivers & services also.
HOWEVER?
It appears that after my setup, per my own experiences, & that of others I show proof of (& I can produce more than the 1 I did that showed 2 people experiencing practical immunity, as long as they obey a few simple rules my guide illustrates though - funny that, eh?) that Windows CAN BE MADE SO, & again:
SO CAN USERS - with a bit of "education"!
IN fact, education, such as my guide yields for them!!
(& I put it on "rookie user" forums, the most, not where 'security gurus' are - they KNOW about it, but can only reach so many people... & it's those "rookie users" that need that info., more than anybody else does)...
You're missing the point. Windows *can* be made to be secure. Sure. Great. So can VAX/VMS. That doesn't make the product that ships out the door from Redmond gold. Firewalls, antiviruses, and antimalware apps just try to put a gold plating on a giant stinking turd.
In fact, for YOUR OS of choice? IF you possess the skills/saavy to do so?? DO 'spread the word' to them, on any platform you wish, as I have!
Here's my OS X safety guide:
"Don't download warez. Or, if you do, whenever it prompts you for a username and password, never give it. Ever. Also, your computer will occasionally ask you to install updates and reboot. I suggest doing this. Unless you know what you're doing, never enable Apache, FTP access, SSH or remote desktop. Ever."
(Mine's been used to the tune of nearly 300,000 views in only a yrs' time & also to the tune of my guide becoming a "sticky/pinned thread" or "most viewed" on some pretty widely travelled/well known forums in that short time frame, in fact, if not more by now)
So, why's that?
Windows users are sheep and willing to put up with a trash OS?
Well, like THRONKA said in the example quote of his in my 1st reply to you?? BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS, if the user applies cis tool, & its points, plus others I add onto it, & evidences thereof exist (I posted only 1 though)).
So what if it works, windows is still trash.
And, as far as "no where on the scale it does on the Windows platform" in reference to *NIX's on the PC in general, especially for home users?
HEY: That's easy - 95% of the world's PC's run Windows NT-based OS', & how many of all the combined *NIX's do (especially on the most used CPU platform there is, in x86)?? Thus, Windows user represent the largest body of "ordinary grandma/uncle Joe type users", who are analogous to 1st year drivers of automobiles, when the MOST accidents tend to occur for them, until they become more experienced (I know, it happened to me in both cars & computers, & only makes sense it does then when you do not have a lot of experience or solid training).
Or let's look at this from a technical point of view. Windows ships with various WTFs out of the box. take for example, and this is a damn good example, the RPC service, the one responsible for the famous Blaster worm, is necessary for copy and fucking paste. Copy and paste. WHY?!
run an nmap on a given home user OS X machine and compare it with a given Windows machine. Be prepared to crap yourself. I worked at an ISP that had to block a largish array of ports because of all of the random shit Windows would keep open for something simple like File/Print sharing.
Also?
*NIX, on the PC, especially the "home user front", doesn't even SCRATCH the sur
Hardened and resistant does not mean "Immune." Yes, flaws exist in the OS, but no where on the scale that it exists on the Windows platform.
All this hype I hear about the gaining market share of OSX also increasing the market share for malware, viruses, etc(trojans excluded, operator error when it prompts for username and password is something that no OS can really be hardened against, although recovery from such a idiot move can be, I don't know how well OSX handles being rootkitted or attacked after having a trojan rape the machine, but I can imagine recovery to be simpler than on a Windows box; which also makes up half of your little list), market share for similar vulnerabilities haven't gone up either the same way they do for Windows machines.
Taking a read of the various flaws listed(most of which are a year+ old, and many of which have been patched), it seems to secure a Mac install, all you have to do is power it on and turn off Bonjour(Although it seems like the DNS vulnerability has too, been patched). It seems like a majority of the flaws are very user specific, like abusing apple remote desktop, which is not enabled in the first place. Yes, Apple is a little slow with patching at times, they just now got around to releasing the Java patch that's been around for quite awhile, but it's done. Compare this with a typical windows exploit which is basically, "Turn on your PC to get owned."
While it's not the "it just works" setup, quite frankly, I like that a whole lot better than, "Turn off X, Y, Z, install A, B, C and D apps, block L, M, N and O ports, and don't use the computer on alternate mondays" route pro-windows people tend to be. Not every OS is perfect, but, the shit that Windows users go through is not worth it.
Also, with your list of vulnerabilities, are these services that the average user is going to be running? It doesn't help to list 90 vulnerabilities with Apache when, I'm clearly not talking about users who are running apache.
Do you know what's easier to do than following any of those directions?
Buying a fucking Mac.
Good day sir.
This is what Tyranny looks like, not whether or not Ron Paul gets laughed at or if your movement is heckled because you guys chose, "Teabagging" as your rallying cry.
This is real tyranny. Not being mocked endlessly because your candidate of choice is hopelessly and helplessly trapped in the 1880's.
Grow up and stop polluting the Internet.
As for what we, the typical freedom loving west should do? If you've got the means, set up proxies. Make sure that Iranian dissidents can get their word out to the world. If you don't, pressure the Obama administration to look into the Iranian crackdown. The real story here isn't whether or not the election was dirty, the real story is the cover up.
I'm tired of this meme.
The thing about worms like Conficker is that they absolutely do not rely on user interactivity with some sort of trojan interface. No, "CLICK HERE FOR FREE PORN!" or, "DOWNLOAD THIS APP AND GET GREAT WAREZ!" apps.
Conficker spreads site to site silently through vulnerabilities in Windows.
Yes, it's possible to own *NIX boxen via trojan horse deployments, but for home users who aren't running apache, mysql, openssl, ssh, ftp, gopher, BIND, etc. the non-user infection vectors dry up. This is because Windows *sucks* for system security. While it's possible to pull privilege escalation on *NIX machines, and other OSes, often, they're a pain in the ass and usually require specialized setups(certain version of MySQL running with certain version of Apache, with... etc). Home users really don't have to worry about Samba file/print sharing owning their machine like NetBIOS on Windows users have to worry about their machines being similarly owned.
Sure, disabling autorun, running firewalls, virus scanners, etc. is great computing practice, I think it's more to expect from a typical home user who just wants the damned thing to work regardless. Lots of people use a computer thinking it's, well, a computer. Not a car, or a fax machine or a rifle that every so often needs to be broken down and maintained. Nor should it be. Modern file systems are virtually self-optimizing and aside from system updates and making sure there's room on your disk, which NO OS can really claim to do for you, unless you count Apple's MobileMe/.Mac service, even then it's only 20 gigs, most modern OSes can just be used on end with out much worry. Except most machines aren't running with components designed in this decade, they're often running Windows.
Clearly not, but, if the alternatives are Linux and Windows...
Well...
if they are streaming more movies than they're shipping out is probably due to several factors.
A) You can watch as many movies as you want. Most netflix plans have limited number of movies for rent.
B) 480p video can easily travel through most internet pipes. Try this with realtime streaming of 1080p high def stuff.
C) Movies aren't games. You can get by with a 480p stream to your xbox, set top box with netflix support or your PC. Games on the other hand, can't necessarily be compressed small enough to be consumed similarly to movies.
Music is probably doomed though. Movies are probably going to be hurting through digital distribution, but games? Games are probably safe.
When I was last there people were talking about how nice they were to use and how Safari didn't shit itself every five minutes.
I think not.
Diminished? Sure. There's a compelling argument. Eliminated? That's ... asking a lot.
On the technical end, I would hate to download a dual layer BDROM's worth of data through my internet pipe. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a jewel case travelling at speed limits from the store to my house. Not to mention activation, and other issues.
on the usability end, I'd hate to have to prove i owned a game I don't have physical access to should my Steam account get hacked or my PSN/XBLA account get compromised.
I use it because it has real apps.
Unlike BSD.
I refuse to pay the idiot premium on high fashion items, and that is exactly what Apple's products are.
Because my MacBook's BSD based kernel goes great with my Dolce and Gabanna sun glasses and my MacBook's user security just absolutely matches DKNY's latest for the 09 season.
Apple advertised the price of the 3GS as 199/299 at the keynote, and didn't mention the unsubsidized price.
I really don't think we should haul them into court for false advertising, but, we should at least reserve the right to feel burned by the big price point that was driven home at the WWDC keynote.
When I'm paying for text messages that are ostensibly free for the carrier to send?
MS moving to MS-only hardware wouldn't solve the stability and usability problems Windows has.
I'd wager than a Linux, or BSD or whatever, install would be more hardened against the kinds of internal stability and usability issues that Windows machines face. Viruses, crappy driver model(nothing can defend against crappy drivers, the OS can be hardened against having these drivers make the machine shit itself though), spyware, etc. I don't care how popular an OS is, if the software's built right, it won't buckle like Windows does.
OMF was my first venture into being a gaming curmudgeon.
SF2 had been out for a few years at this point. Super SF2 Turbo had *just* came out and it was deep. OMF shareware made me want to puke with how cheesy it was compared to it, King of Fighters, and even Mortal Kombat.
It's actually at a likelyhood of zero.
(Yes, I know what the meme is, but, no, this altmed crap is crap.)
That would mean that everything we know about how tumors start, grow, and go into remission is wrong. That everything we know about chemo and radiation is wrong.
But there's no evidence that Kaufman and Simoncini's work actually does work. Where's the peer reviewed studies? Where's the followups? Clinical trials?
and gets to another point.
Wimax tends to have no real cap either.
the reason why 3G services will never replace local free wifi is that damn 5 gig cap.
PSX.
PSX was the internal codename for the playstation, it was also the name of a DVR/Music/Movie/Set Top Box/PS2 combo in Japan for Satellite services.
This is going to be a little interesting.
Interaction my ass.
It was an FPS who's only redeeming quality was the fact that the times you were sitting around shooting things were actually kind of fun. HL2 defined the mindless shooter with the voiceless, nearly nameless, nearly faceless protagonist.
Granted, all of the NPCs are interesting, but, the writing is so stunted and poor. In the time it took for MGS1 - 4 to come out, Valve still has yet to actually *tell* us anything about the Half Life universe other than the Combine have invaded and they're so weak that they were beaten by a dweeb in Emo Glasses and his rag tag team of the AV-Club.
Oh, sure, the gravity gun was pretty neat, but so what? Spiffy rag doll physics guns make for great engines, not great games.