Would stock markets crash and water/rail etc networks to go tits-up because of a major 1min phone outage?
We dont realise how dependent we are on the telephone!
We're not that dependent, all of us have lasted much longer than a minute without talking to anybody (days, months, years?)
Now if the telephone system suddenly stopped then that's another story, until we get broadband to everybody then not many will have access to the internet in a time of crisis such as the telephone and television lines being severed
And don't forget the boom of IM in the last few years, which has shown quite a few features which IRC is lacking...
If anything, most of the IM software seems like a stripped-down IRC client: Connect to a server; check your notify list; send private messages to people; create "chats" and invite your friends in; send files to people on your notify list (I've never used MSN or AIM, do they even support file transfer?); and then a few external program launching that could easily be done by a client script.
So what exactly is lacking in IRC? IRC has public "channels" as well as private chats, direct-connect chats and file-transfer, support for many clients and bots, even server-run moderation by control of the user. Will you miss your pretty flower? We could still use those sounds that everybody loves in IRC...
All one really needs is a small notify list window (with right-click action) add-on for mIRC and suddenly people are using IRC again:) (hmmmm...I might just do that actually...) Then all that must be done is to link all those networks together, I'm sure irc.aol.com could hold a lot of those AOL kiddies among other users.
Is it just me, or is Spyware a windows-only term?
I've seen Freeware for Linux, Shareware for Mac, and whatever-ware for every other system out there. But I've only seen Spyware mentioned with Windows. Has there been any sneaky "shareware" with popular Mac or *nix binaries? Obviously nothing open-sourced (unless with closed-source libs?)
Why don't we just call it Windows? AudioGalaxy, a full Windows program taking advantage of all Windows "features".
All these replies say the same thing, here's a redundant reply to add to the pile of "Score: 5 Interesting" and "Score: 5 Insightful":
Intel's compiler isn't open-sourced, this is bad, GCC will win, go GCC, I love GCC, nobody can take my GCC away from me, unless it's over my dead body. Long live GCC!
GCC is used more than Intel (hey, isn't this like Microsoft? no, not really) everyone already uses it and probably won't switch any time soon.
Intel has made the compiler designed for the chip they make, obviously it's faster, good for them.
So it's faster, big deal, speed isn't everything.
Probably some other redundant replies that I missed while reading at threshold 2:P
Mind you, there were a number of actual interesting posts, such as the KCC (Kai compiler) post. Not to mention the various "I worked in this field, and we found..." etc. But the rest can be summed-up above.
I'm not sure if that's just a bad joke but Microsoft will sell many upgrades in the future, especially if/when they sell their products with security as a feature (opposed to security being required in an OS). Now if we lived in a perfect world, upgrades and future/fixed versions of a home OS would be free...
Those customers probably started using Windows because it was the only thing they (being a first-time computer user) had heard about, or they had used it somewhere else, or it came pre-installed on that new computer.
Q: [...] Explain for us a little bit how security fits into the Microsoft corporate structure.
A: I think security is recognized as the number-one priority across
the company. That goes not only to operational security and securing our
assets, but also to product development. [...]
Perhaps I'm not reading this right, or reading into his wording too much, but it seems they put more effort into securing their company instead of securing their product? That explains a few things.:)
Is this how it's always been, or how it's going to be? hmmm....
You never know, a nice warm server room complete with small fridge (the one you installed for those late nights fixing that damned router) could score a point with those cold Canadian chicks.
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Would stock markets crash and water/rail etc networks to go tits-up because of a major 1min phone outage?
We dont realise how dependent we are on the telephone!
We're not that dependent, all of us have lasted much longer than a minute without talking to anybody (days, months, years?)
Now if the telephone system suddenly stopped then that's another story, until we get broadband to everybody then not many will have access to the internet in a time of crisis such as the telephone and television lines being severed
We'll always have radio I suppose...
If anything, most of the IM software seems like a stripped-down IRC client: Connect to a server; check your notify list; send private messages to people; create "chats" and invite your friends in; send files to people on your notify list (I've never used MSN or AIM, do they even support file transfer?); and then a few external program launching that could easily be done by a client script.
So what exactly is lacking in IRC? IRC has public "channels" as well as private chats, direct-connect chats and file-transfer, support for many clients and bots, even server-run moderation by control of the user. Will you miss your pretty flower? We could still use those sounds that everybody loves in IRC...
All one really needs is a small notify list window (with right-click action) add-on for mIRC and suddenly people are using IRC again
Is it just me, or is Spyware a windows-only term?
I've seen Freeware for Linux, Shareware for Mac, and whatever-ware for every other system out there. But I've only seen Spyware mentioned with Windows. Has there been any sneaky "shareware" with popular Mac or *nix binaries? Obviously nothing open-sourced (unless with closed-source libs?)
Why don't we just call it Windows? AudioGalaxy, a full Windows program taking advantage of all Windows "features".
Probably some other redundant replies that I missed while reading at threshold 2
Mind you, there were a number of actual interesting posts, such as the KCC (Kai compiler) post. Not to mention the various "I worked in this field, and we found..." etc. But the rest can be summed-up above.
I'm not sure if that's just a bad joke but Microsoft will sell many upgrades in the future, especially if/when they sell their products with security as a feature (opposed to security being required in an OS). Now if we lived in a perfect world, upgrades and future/fixed versions of a home OS would be free...
Those customers probably started using Windows because it was the only thing they (being a first-time computer user) had heard about, or they had used it somewhere else, or it came pre-installed on that new computer.
Remember the whole monopoly thing?
Q: [...] Explain for us a little bit how security fits into the Microsoft corporate structure.
:)
A: I think security is recognized as the number-one priority across
the company. That goes not only to operational security and securing our
assets, but also to product development. [...]
Perhaps I'm not reading this right, or reading into his wording too much, but it seems they put more effort into securing their company instead of securing their product? That explains a few things.
Is this how it's always been, or how it's going to be? hmmm....
You never know, a nice warm server room complete with small fridge (the one you installed for those late nights fixing that damned router) could score a point with those cold Canadian chicks.