Actually, if you watch the video, they show screen sharing of multiple apps concurrently using something vaguely similar to Aero Snap, but adjustable.. If you can do that without the new UI, then it would be very useful.
Windows 7 was released on October 22, 2009. Even if Windows 8 is released this year, which it won't be.. that is 2 years between versions. It will be a lot closer to 3 years. Vista was released on January 20th, 2007. Again, almost 3 years between releases. So where do you get this "every year" business?
FYI, winsxs isn't really as big as you think it is. A lot of those files are hardlinked from different folders, so they only take up space once, but are counted multiple times.
I don't know if it will be the default interface. Maybe for tablets.. but I don't see it catching on for desktops. I think most desktop vendors will default to the original UI. Even if MS tries to force them, they'll make it very easy to switch back.
Microsoft doesn't force you to upgrade to their next OS, though they sometimes try to force you to upgrade to every other new version of the OS.
There was no reason you had to upgrade from XP to Vista, unless you wanted the new features. Upgrading to Windows 7 is a bit more useful, for instance you can't ugrade to IE9 in XP, you need to buy Windows 7. There wasn't anything for Vista that wouldn't work on XP.
The problem here is that trust is a two-way street. If a person felt their job was safe if they were to train others in it, then it wouldn't be an issue. All too often, the business makes it clear that they're not invaluable, and open to being replaced if they don't do this or that... So that just makes the person try to make it harder for them to be fired.
Your "hunch" is completely wrong. Well, I'm not saying that Microsoft didn't benefit from the state of affairs around IE6, but the fact of the matter is, IE6 was not "deliberately crippled". In fact, IE6 was the most standards compliant browser out there when it was released. The fact that IE6 sat stagnant for years and did not become as standard compliant as the competition became afterwards has no bearing.
Also, XAML is just a schema of XML. It's impossible to make it "only work with visual studio + sharepoint designer".
Your arguments are really poorly formed, and based on illogical conclusions. You should really try to understand the things you are fighting against.
First, it's idiocy to equate race with the likelihood of being a criminal, as you've done.
No, it's not idiocy. For certain kinds of crimes, certain races are more likely to commit them than others. For instance, White men are more likely to be embezzlers or so called "white collar" crimes (the white not referring to race).
Of course statistics are a bit skewed because blacks or other non-caucations are more likely to be convicted than a white person for the same crime.
The rate of incarceration for white Connecticut residents in 2005 was 211 per 100,000 people; for black residents it was 2,532 per 100,000. The national incarceration rate for whites in 2005 was 412 per 100,000, and the rate for blacks was 2,290 per 100,000 people.
I know of many people that have found a wonderful family pet at shelters. However, I know more people that found what they thought would be a wonderful family pet.. but it wouldn't stop pissing on everything they owned, and it would attack people left and right, no matter how much effort the owners put into trying to socialize them.
Many animals in shelters are not worth the effort to try and re-domesticate them. Sad, but true. Unless you're the type of person that loves a challenge.
I think a lot of cable STB's are inefficient, but my TiVo has a good reason to decode all the time (and it does have a standby mode you can force if you want). TiVo always has the last 30 minutes of programming available on the current channels (Unless the channel has been changed recently). I *love* having that, since i often turn on the TV and find a cool show that has already started, and skip back to watch the full thing. Maybe that's a selfish reason, but at least they make use of that constant decoding.
You know, it seems like Slashdot has become the place to go to enrage the geeks. Oh no! Google slaughters puppies and enslaves kittens. Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the Nerds of war!
Actually, greece has a slightly lower debt per capita ratio than the US. Greece's debt is 481 Billion, with only 11.3 Million people, coming out to about $44,000 per person. The US has 14 Trillion in debt, with 307 Million people, or about $45,000 per person. So I would hardly say Greece's debt is very small comparitively.
Dude. It's VCL, not VLC. And Delphi (and it's retarded cousin, C++ Builder) were nice tools, but suffered from a major flaw. The component model was brittle, and required recompilation to change anything. COM and.NET have ways to extend components with multiple interfaces. VCL did not.
This is why, when you look at Delphi and BCB components, you have to buy them for a specific version. This is not true of COM and C++ components.
Computer people think "Hey, i can setup a miner on all the PC's at my job and nobody will know, and then i can cash those coins in for moohlah! and I don't have to do any real work"
By that, I mean bitcoin is insanely attractive to people who sit at computers all day.
ActiveX is a plug-in architecture. The only difference between ActiveX and FF or Chromes plug-in architecture is the self-install feature. Flash and PDF are integrated in all major browsers and are equally vulnerable.
Actually, YOU need to learn more. Real statistics show that the largest attack vectors are PDF, Flash and Java. Yes, those tools are installed in IE via an ActiveX control, but ActiveX is not the vector of the infection. The executable code inside these pieces of software is. Java and Flash are just as exploitable under Chrome and Firefox, because those are plug-ins as well and have the same rights.
Yes, years ago, and under XP there were security holes in IE (Pre-SP2) that would allow ActiveX controls to be an exploit vector, but that's no longer the case and hasn't been for almost a decade. The codec issue is also no longer the case. Again, you have to agree to install that crap. That's a social engineering attack. It would work just as well to say "You have to download this program and run it in order to see this cool pr0n". and people would do it.
I am aware of no ActiveX installed trojans that do not require the user to agree to do so on any recent version of Windows. Can you provide any evidence otherwise?
Yes, you're correct. However, most people who refer to ActiveX as unsafe refer to so called "drive-by" activex installation. This is something that hasn't been a problem for a very long time, but people keep claiming its true.
Unix was not designed to be a secure OS. Most of the security was layered on through years of attack. It's only through the efforts of projects like OpenBSD that Unix/Linux has become pretty secure.
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Actually, if you watch the video, they show screen sharing of multiple apps concurrently using something vaguely similar to Aero Snap, but adjustable.. If you can do that without the new UI, then it would be very useful.
Windows 7 was released on October 22, 2009. Even if Windows 8 is released this year, which it won't be.. that is 2 years between versions. It will be a lot closer to 3 years. Vista was released on January 20th, 2007. Again, almost 3 years between releases. So where do you get this "every year" business?
FYI, winsxs isn't really as big as you think it is. A lot of those files are hardlinked from different folders, so they only take up space once, but are counted multiple times.
http://www.davidlenihan.com/2008/11/winsxs_disk_space_usage_its_no.html
I don't know if it will be the default interface. Maybe for tablets.. but I don't see it catching on for desktops. I think most desktop vendors will default to the original UI. Even if MS tries to force them, they'll make it very easy to switch back.
Microsoft doesn't force you to upgrade to their next OS, though they sometimes try to force you to upgrade to every other new version of the OS.
There was no reason you had to upgrade from XP to Vista, unless you wanted the new features. Upgrading to Windows 7 is a bit more useful, for instance you can't ugrade to IE9 in XP, you need to buy Windows 7. There wasn't anything for Vista that wouldn't work on XP.
The problem here is that trust is a two-way street. If a person felt their job was safe if they were to train others in it, then it wouldn't be an issue. All too often, the business makes it clear that they're not invaluable, and open to being replaced if they don't do this or that... So that just makes the person try to make it harder for them to be fired.
Your "hunch" is completely wrong. Well, I'm not saying that Microsoft didn't benefit from the state of affairs around IE6, but the fact of the matter is, IE6 was not "deliberately crippled". In fact, IE6 was the most standards compliant browser out there when it was released. The fact that IE6 sat stagnant for years and did not become as standard compliant as the competition became afterwards has no bearing.
Also, XAML is just a schema of XML. It's impossible to make it "only work with visual studio + sharepoint designer".
Your arguments are really poorly formed, and based on illogical conclusions. You should really try to understand the things you are fighting against.
Hmm.. According to Eric Sink, Spyglass Mosaic was not based on the Mosaic source code, they just licensed the name.
No, it's not idiocy. For certain kinds of crimes, certain races are more likely to commit them than others. For instance, White men are more likely to be embezzlers or so called "white collar" crimes (the white not referring to race).
Of course statistics are a bit skewed because blacks or other non-caucations are more likely to be convicted than a white person for the same crime.
The rate of incarceration for white Connecticut residents in 2005 was 211 per 100,000 people; for black residents it was 2,532 per 100,000.
The national incarceration rate for whites in 2005 was 412 per 100,000, and the rate for blacks was 2,290 per 100,000 people.
I know of many people that have found a wonderful family pet at shelters. However, I know more people that found what they thought would be a wonderful family pet.. but it wouldn't stop pissing on everything they owned, and it would attack people left and right, no matter how much effort the owners put into trying to socialize them.
Many animals in shelters are not worth the effort to try and re-domesticate them. Sad, but true. Unless you're the type of person that loves a challenge.
Well, you could always buy a remote that will turn off everything when you click off.
Actually, there are a number of HD TV's with integrated CableCARD support, as well as several other PC tuners that support CableCARD.
I think a lot of cable STB's are inefficient, but my TiVo has a good reason to decode all the time (and it does have a standby mode you can force if you want). TiVo always has the last 30 minutes of programming available on the current channels (Unless the channel has been changed recently). I *love* having that, since i often turn on the TV and find a cool show that has already started, and skip back to watch the full thing. Maybe that's a selfish reason, but at least they make use of that constant decoding.
You know, it seems like Slashdot has become the place to go to enrage the geeks. Oh no! Google slaughters puppies and enslaves kittens. Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the Nerds of war!
Really? I downloaded Opera Mini for my Android at no cost. Did the same on my ancient Windows Mobile. How exactly are they charging for those?
Actually, greece has a slightly lower debt per capita ratio than the US. Greece's debt is 481 Billion, with only 11.3 Million people, coming out to about $44,000 per person. The US has 14 Trillion in debt, with 307 Million people, or about $45,000 per person. So I would hardly say Greece's debt is very small comparitively.
Dude. It's VCL, not VLC. And Delphi (and it's retarded cousin, C++ Builder) were nice tools, but suffered from a major flaw. The component model was brittle, and required recompilation to change anything. COM and .NET have ways to extend components with multiple interfaces. VCL did not.
This is why, when you look at Delphi and BCB components, you have to buy them for a specific version. This is not true of COM and C++ components.
This is basically the problem the One-Click is designed to solve. It deploys apps by web and is very easy to use.
Really, and here I thought it was a lawyers job to associate with people alleged to be criminals ;)
"We believe in complete and total freedom!"
"Ummm.. yeah, but there's criminals there, and you might get associated with them"
"Oh, umm.. nevermind."
Computer people think "Hey, i can setup a miner on all the PC's at my job and nobody will know, and then i can cash those coins in for moohlah! and I don't have to do any real work"
By that, I mean bitcoin is insanely attractive to people who sit at computers all day.
ActiveX is a plug-in architecture. The only difference between ActiveX and FF or Chromes plug-in architecture is the self-install feature. Flash and PDF are integrated in all major browsers and are equally vulnerable.
Actually, YOU need to learn more. Real statistics show that the largest attack vectors are PDF, Flash and Java. Yes, those tools are installed in IE via an ActiveX control, but ActiveX is not the vector of the infection. The executable code inside these pieces of software is. Java and Flash are just as exploitable under Chrome and Firefox, because those are plug-ins as well and have the same rights.
Yes, years ago, and under XP there were security holes in IE (Pre-SP2) that would allow ActiveX controls to be an exploit vector, but that's no longer the case and hasn't been for almost a decade. The codec issue is also no longer the case. Again, you have to agree to install that crap. That's a social engineering attack. It would work just as well to say "You have to download this program and run it in order to see this cool pr0n". and people would do it.
I am aware of no ActiveX installed trojans that do not require the user to agree to do so on any recent version of Windows. Can you provide any evidence otherwise?
Yes, you're correct. However, most people who refer to ActiveX as unsafe refer to so called "drive-by" activex installation. This is something that hasn't been a problem for a very long time, but people keep claiming its true.
Unix was not designed to be a secure OS. Most of the security was layered on through years of attack. It's only through the efforts of projects like OpenBSD that Unix/Linux has become pretty secure.