I know lots of stable women, including my wife of 14 years, my sister, my mother, my mother-in-law, a bunch of sisters-in-law and lots of friends. Perhaps you hang around the wrong kind of women.
Actually, I always thought it was the other way around. After all, a witch would use her infernal powers to survive the ordeal while a non-witch would succumb. In any event, it makes it more ironic that way.
I can't speak for Nicolas, but it's the _food_ not the service that prompted me to never eat at McDonald's... for about the last 15 years. Actually, I always found McDonald's service to be superior to most places, but once I realized they chemically extract all the joy from their food and sell it to Wendy's, I stopped eating there.
If Netflix suddenly goes down the tube or something, the box is completely useless.
Yes, but the people selling you settop box don't care about that. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if some day we see a service that is predicated on selling a bunch of boxes and the folding and walking off with the profit.
I've already got all the hardware I need to get video off the Internet and on to my TV. If your service can't work with it then I guess I won't be using your service. I'm already drowning in gadgets and I don't want any more.
There's a reason we never had to have a separate television for each different channel, but I guess that obvious kind of consideration of your customers is too subtle for today's corporate idiots who all seem to expect customers owe them money by virtue of them being in business no matter how stupid their business model. Yes, DIVX, I'm talking to you.
The fixable bug though is whatever made it possible to infect a Windows-machine simply as the result of the user viewing a webpage.
But the Microsoft paradigm is that an application isn't "useful" unless it "owns" the entire OS and machine. After all, why else would Office have been the Microsoft Virus Developer's Kit for so many years? Why else would Microsoft have created ActiveX, which by its very nature opens the contents of your computer to every Web page? Why else would they have literally opened the floodgates of insecurity and then stuck a little Dutch boy out there trying to plug the torrent with his finger?
If edlin had been written today, it would be scriptable via ActiveX to allow you to access any service running in Windows, and eventually someone would discover how to pwn your machine using it to open a malformed GIF file (of course, edlin 2008 would support editing images). Of course, it would be "safe" because Vista would require you to press "Allow" every fifth keyboard operation and every third mouse click. Oh, and it would have, by default, some nausea-inducing "skin" that only allowed 19% of the application's real estate to be dedicated towards content.
If you are a Windows user and like Windows and your system has 1gb of RAM and you can afford Vista, there is NO reason not to be running it.
I call BS. I used Vista on a 1.6GHz Celeron (IIRC) with 1.5GB of RAM (it came with Vista, and I added the extra GB of RAM) and it was, quite literally, the slowest machine I've used since before personal computers had harddrives. It was on par with my floppy-based Amiga 500 for performance, and only marginally more useful. However, when I put Ubuntu on it, it was perfectly snappy. Vista is nothing but a complete boat anchor, and in my opinion there is literally NO reason TO use it. It offers nothing useful over XP except for a security enhancements that will only affect you if you are completely computer illiterate in the first place. Its disadvantages compared to XP are huge and numerous.
I simply don't want to put my offspring out into a population so inscrutably stupid.
Too bad. I've got 4 very inquisitive, skeptical and creative children who are doing their part to bring the average up. They already have a good sense that world is crazy but a smart person can still succeed and make valuable contributions. I'm not pessimistic enough to give up on the future... yet.
I'm pretty sure if Microsoft was to include an SSH server, they'd simply take OpenSSH, strip out all the X forwarding (plus probably a few other parts they don't deem necessary), add a registry interface, add some AD user auth magic, done. There's no use in re-building something that's really, really free, wouldn't make them any money and is invisible to all but sysadmins anyways.
But how could they put their own mark on it unless they delivered some 300 megabyte behemoth with hooks into every service that runs on the machine and requires the rote memorization of 600 pages of cryptic documentation to be able to configure, and through which someone could pwn your server by doing a listing of a directory that contains a slightly malformed JPEG file?
Wow, the media companies still need lobbyists for Congress? I thought they just yanked the chain connected to the Congressmen's dog collars. Maybe there's hope for this country yet.
Yeah Ubuntu is great, do I still have to find, download, compile and install READLINE?
I don't remember the last time I had to do something like that. If it's in the repository, all that stuff is taken care of for you. apt-get is the best installation solution ever.
And btw, why is linux still a pain in the ass to install on laptops? Really, more than 50% computers sold are laptops, and they don't have a video configuration method that obviates "give up and die" as a solution to little hiccups?
What are you installing? RedHat 5? It's not 100% bullet-proof: I've had to back out after installing the restricted drivers in Feisty, but I play on the bleeding-edge and am willing and equipped to deal with that stuff. But I haven't had graphics problems installing Linux on a laptop in years. By the way, I had no problems after installing the restricted nVidia drivers under Gutsy.
I guess you didn't get the memo, but Christians don't have the same rights as everyone else. And God forbid you're one of the many Christians who actually embraces and insists on reason. People don't know what to do with you so they figure you're an evil influence and should be shut out of society. Meanwhile, PhD's are being handed out for "discoveries" that were common sense just a few generations ago. "Birth control leads to the objectification of women." "Divorce hurts kids." "Not having a father hurts kids." "Not having a mother hurts kids." "A strong moral underpinning is necessary for a society to function."
Yes, unfortunately, it's a toss-up between whether Vista is more secure because of better security features or it's more secure because no one uses it.
I tried Consolas and was really surprised to find I _didn't_ like it. Generally I find Microsoft's fonts to be unmatched in quality, although I can't speak for the real high-end stuff.
I don't think 95% of Windows users care if Microsoft is untrustworthy or not, know who Microsoft is beyond a name, don't feel violates, and have barely any clue that things are updating, at all.
I would hazard that to most Windows users, "Windows" and "computer" are essentially interchangeable, just like so many Windows users think "IE" is interchangeable with "internet". That's an effect of being a monopoly.
The idea of there being alternatives (except for maybe the Macintosh) is about as thinkable as the idea that there are alternatives to breathing air. It's not something that would (or even could) occur to them because of the Microsoft monoculture.
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I know lots of stable women, including my wife of 14 years, my sister, my mother, my mother-in-law, a bunch of sisters-in-law and lots of friends. Perhaps you hang around the wrong kind of women.
Actually, I always thought it was the other way around. After all, a witch would use her infernal powers to survive the ordeal while a non-witch would succumb. In any event, it makes it more ironic that way.
I can't speak for Nicolas, but it's the _food_ not the service that prompted me to never eat at McDonald's... for about the last 15 years. Actually, I always found McDonald's service to be superior to most places, but once I realized they chemically extract all the joy from their food and sell it to Wendy's, I stopped eating there.
That would be reasonable if takeout places didn't get the order wrong about every third time.
If Netflix suddenly goes down the tube or something, the box is completely useless.
Yes, but the people selling you settop box don't care about that. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if some day we see a service that is predicated on selling a bunch of boxes and the folding and walking off with the profit.
I've already got all the hardware I need to get video off the Internet and on to my TV. If your service can't work with it then I guess I won't be using your service. I'm already drowning in gadgets and I don't want any more.
There's a reason we never had to have a separate television for each different channel, but I guess that obvious kind of consideration of your customers is too subtle for today's corporate idiots who all seem to expect customers owe them money by virtue of them being in business no matter how stupid their business model. Yes, DIVX, I'm talking to you.
The fixable bug though is whatever made it possible to infect a Windows-machine simply as the result of the user viewing a webpage.
But the Microsoft paradigm is that an application isn't "useful" unless it "owns" the entire OS and machine. After all, why else would Office have been the Microsoft Virus Developer's Kit for so many years? Why else would Microsoft have created ActiveX, which by its very nature opens the contents of your computer to every Web page? Why else would they have literally opened the floodgates of insecurity and then stuck a little Dutch boy out there trying to plug the torrent with his finger?
If edlin had been written today, it would be scriptable via ActiveX to allow you to access any service running in Windows, and eventually someone would discover how to pwn your machine using it to open a malformed GIF file (of course, edlin 2008 would support editing images). Of course, it would be "safe" because Vista would require you to press "Allow" every fifth keyboard operation and every third mouse click. Oh, and it would have, by default, some nausea-inducing "skin" that only allowed 19% of the application's real estate to be dedicated towards content.
If you are a Windows user and like Windows and your system has 1gb of RAM and you can afford Vista, there is NO reason not to be running it.
I call BS. I used Vista on a 1.6GHz Celeron (IIRC) with 1.5GB of RAM (it came with Vista, and I added the extra GB of RAM) and it was, quite literally, the slowest machine I've used since before personal computers had harddrives. It was on par with my floppy-based Amiga 500 for performance, and only marginally more useful. However, when I put Ubuntu on it, it was perfectly snappy. Vista is nothing but a complete boat anchor, and in my opinion there is literally NO reason TO use it. It offers nothing useful over XP except for a security enhancements that will only affect you if you are completely computer illiterate in the first place. Its disadvantages compared to XP are huge and numerous.
I think Salman Rushdie's got that one sewn up.
Maybe not, after reading the article, it looks like they have divorced.
I simply don't want to put my offspring out into a population so inscrutably stupid.
Too bad. I've got 4 very inquisitive, skeptical and creative children who are doing their part to bring the average up. They already have a good sense that world is crazy but a smart person can still succeed and make valuable contributions. I'm not pessimistic enough to give up on the future... yet.
I'm pretty sure if Microsoft was to include an SSH server, they'd simply take OpenSSH, strip out all the X forwarding (plus probably a few other parts they don't deem necessary), add a registry interface, add some AD user auth magic, done. There's no use in re-building something that's really, really free, wouldn't make them any money and is invisible to all but sysadmins anyways.
But how could they put their own mark on it unless they delivered some 300 megabyte behemoth with hooks into every service that runs on the machine and requires the rote memorization of 600 pages of cryptic documentation to be able to configure, and through which someone could pwn your server by doing a listing of a directory that contains a slightly malformed JPEG file?
Maybe they would see it as approval of their killing.
I dont see why computers should be immune from this kind of policing.
Because our Redmondian Corporate Overlords (whom I, for one, do NOT welcome) wouldn't tolerate it.
He didn't say "President" of what...
Wow, the media companies still need lobbyists for Congress? I thought they just yanked the chain connected to the Congressmen's dog collars. Maybe there's hope for this country yet.
Yeah Ubuntu is great, do I still have to find, download, compile and install READLINE?
I don't remember the last time I had to do something like that. If it's in the repository, all that stuff is taken care of for you. apt-get is the best installation solution ever.
And btw, why is linux still a pain in the ass to install on laptops? Really, more than 50% computers sold are laptops, and they don't have a video configuration method that obviates "give up and die" as a solution to little hiccups?
What are you installing? RedHat 5? It's not 100% bullet-proof: I've had to back out after installing the restricted drivers in Feisty, but I play on the bleeding-edge and am willing and equipped to deal with that stuff. But I haven't had graphics problems installing Linux on a laptop in years. By the way, I had no problems after installing the restricted nVidia drivers under Gutsy.
I tried that and had to reactivate Vista.
Apparently to Microsoft the user is not the customer. Microsoft apparently considers the user just a dog on a leash.
Forget John Romero: Steve Ballmer wants to make you his bitch.
And he's doing a pretty good job for anyone who continues to use Microsoft.
I guess you didn't get the memo, but Christians don't have the same rights as everyone else. And God forbid you're one of the many Christians who actually embraces and insists on reason. People don't know what to do with you so they figure you're an evil influence and should be shut out of society. Meanwhile, PhD's are being handed out for "discoveries" that were common sense just a few generations ago. "Birth control leads to the objectification of women." "Divorce hurts kids." "Not having a father hurts kids." "Not having a mother hurts kids." "A strong moral underpinning is necessary for a society to function."
Yes, unfortunately, it's a toss-up between whether Vista is more secure because of better security features or it's more secure because no one uses it.
No, they should just waste billions of taxpayer dollars propping up companies with incompetent management.
I tried Consolas and was really surprised to find I _didn't_ like it. Generally I find Microsoft's fonts to be unmatched in quality, although I can't speak for the real high-end stuff.
I for one welcome our new Octal Overlords.
if we suppose that reliability fixes will solve this problem, i'm just amazed that a problem this blatant could make it through quality control.
You must be new to Microsoft products.
I don't think 95% of Windows users care if Microsoft is untrustworthy or not, know who Microsoft is beyond a name, don't feel violates, and have barely any clue that things are updating, at all.
I would hazard that to most Windows users, "Windows" and "computer" are essentially interchangeable, just like so many Windows users think "IE" is interchangeable with "internet". That's an effect of being a monopoly.
The idea of there being alternatives (except for maybe the Macintosh) is about as thinkable as the idea that there are alternatives to breathing air. It's not something that would (or even could) occur to them because of the Microsoft monoculture.