New Money will now have an expiration date. This is an effort to not only track your cash through the transistors, but to further encourage spending. Goodbye, national deficit!
Sure, Auto-Run can help execute malicious code. But what's stopping users from navigating to that CD or flash drive and executing the code themselves? Aren't they the ones connecting the devices or putting the disks in their computer in the first place?
I know plenty of people who try to do things like download MP3s, somehow end up downloading and running viruses on their machines instead. I'm kind of seeing this as a similar problem. Unfortunately, there isn't a universally-satisfactory solution to these sorts of incidents on the software level: disabling autorun for everyone will take away the ability to do something like pop in an audio CD and have it play right away. Enforcing the use of antivirus software to catch all potentially malicious code can be taxing on older systems. Blocking the execution of programs when they're starting up until the user clicks an "Allow" button can be frustrating for anyone wanting to perform a few simple tasks. These features may prevent something bad from happening, but until that thing happens, the average user will probably find them to be annoying and disable them. Microsoft seems to think that it's best to hold the hands of those who may not entirely know better and take away this feature completely when they should just make an attempt to educate their users as to why they should be cautious when having auto-run enabled to keep them aware.
Then again, as this is an optional update, I could just be blowing smoke. Still, an update that removes a feature doesn't seem like the optimal solution.
I think they're trying very hard to be Opera, actually. Hell, even FF4's new layout looks *just* like Opera's, which I'm considering making my primary browser myself.
Most people I've talked to about computers are well aware that you can build your own PCs from scratch. The problem is that the "whopping majority" doesn't know how to do it. There are other options as well, such as having a knowledgeable friend help you to build one, buy a custom-made one from a local PC shop, buy a used computer from someone nearby that didn't come with bloatware or doesn't currently have it, or just uninstall the bloat when you buy the new computer that you want. It doesn't exactly require a degree in computer science to uninstall a program from a Windows machine, and if there are any difficulties, anyone can type "How to remove [software] from Windows" or something similar into Google and find an answer.
I don't see it as trendy. The praise and criticism have largely been legitimate for Firefox. People praised this browser because of its execution speed and flexibility with add-ons as well as better support for standards than many other browsers, particularly Internet Explorer (which might not sound like much until one considers how many people used IE and how newer browsers like FF have helped things like CSS grow on the web). Now, people criticize it because this software that has proven to be so useful is being bogged down with a poor development process and questionable feature additions, such as this Do-Not-Track header line.
I'm sure that the speeds will improve over time. Part of it has to do with the execution time of Javascript which has a lot to do with how fast things run in Firefox (at least from my experiences with FF). That, and the browsers are likely not using the fastest methods for drawing to the canvas elements.
Browser developers are dipping their toes in the water at this point because HTML5 isn't standardized yet, but there's a growing interest in what it can do. Of course, on top of supporting these new standards, the developers will want to make sure that their browsers run as quickly as possible on most machines to compete with one another, so I'm optimistic.
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So what do you do all day, then? Stare at a blank monitor or something?
Oh god, that was painful.
New Money will now have an expiration date. This is an effort to not only track your cash through the transistors, but to further encourage spending. Goodbye, national deficit!
Q: How many audiophiles does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A. Six. One to screw it in and five to appreciate its superior fluorescent hum.
Sure, Auto-Run can help execute malicious code. But what's stopping users from navigating to that CD or flash drive and executing the code themselves? Aren't they the ones connecting the devices or putting the disks in their computer in the first place?
I know plenty of people who try to do things like download MP3s, somehow end up downloading and running viruses on their machines instead. I'm kind of seeing this as a similar problem. Unfortunately, there isn't a universally-satisfactory solution to these sorts of incidents on the software level: disabling autorun for everyone will take away the ability to do something like pop in an audio CD and have it play right away. Enforcing the use of antivirus software to catch all potentially malicious code can be taxing on older systems. Blocking the execution of programs when they're starting up until the user clicks an "Allow" button can be frustrating for anyone wanting to perform a few simple tasks. These features may prevent something bad from happening, but until that thing happens, the average user will probably find them to be annoying and disable them. Microsoft seems to think that it's best to hold the hands of those who may not entirely know better and take away this feature completely when they should just make an attempt to educate their users as to why they should be cautious when having auto-run enabled to keep them aware.
Then again, as this is an optional update, I could just be blowing smoke. Still, an update that removes a feature doesn't seem like the optimal solution.
I think they're trying very hard to be Opera, actually. Hell, even FF4's new layout looks *just* like Opera's, which I'm considering making my primary browser myself.
Most people I've talked to about computers are well aware that you can build your own PCs from scratch. The problem is that the "whopping majority" doesn't know how to do it. There are other options as well, such as having a knowledgeable friend help you to build one, buy a custom-made one from a local PC shop, buy a used computer from someone nearby that didn't come with bloatware or doesn't currently have it, or just uninstall the bloat when you buy the new computer that you want. It doesn't exactly require a degree in computer science to uninstall a program from a Windows machine, and if there are any difficulties, anyone can type "How to remove [software] from Windows" or something similar into Google and find an answer.
I don't see it as trendy. The praise and criticism have largely been legitimate for Firefox. People praised this browser because of its execution speed and flexibility with add-ons as well as better support for standards than many other browsers, particularly Internet Explorer (which might not sound like much until one considers how many people used IE and how newer browsers like FF have helped things like CSS grow on the web). Now, people criticize it because this software that has proven to be so useful is being bogged down with a poor development process and questionable feature additions, such as this Do-Not-Track header line.
I'm sure that the speeds will improve over time. Part of it has to do with the execution time of Javascript which has a lot to do with how fast things run in Firefox (at least from my experiences with FF). That, and the browsers are likely not using the fastest methods for drawing to the canvas elements.
Browser developers are dipping their toes in the water at this point because HTML5 isn't standardized yet, but there's a growing interest in what it can do. Of course, on top of supporting these new standards, the developers will want to make sure that their browsers run as quickly as possible on most machines to compete with one another, so I'm optimistic.
How long ago was this source leaked? Because when I compile it, I get Windows 95.
Funny thing is, IE isn't even that good with Javascript. This algorithm will probably end up working the best in Google Chrome