Woohoo about time the Europeans rather than us Brits got the stiffed on the pricing of identical goods.
I don't know what he was talking about, I recently pre-ordered this thing in Sweden, Europe, for 54 euro, or $66.:-) 79 euro sounds like a terribly bad deal to me.:-P
At least we got the original trilogy DVD. But I guess I'm in minority who actually appreciate this DVD and don't care much about who bloody fires first.:-)
... and here's a user-edited, unauthoritative, small, article from Wikipedia about the changes in case anyone missed them. Please use multiple sources to confirm the validity of this information.
Probably by own experiences. Note he didn't say "in all cases, I know it's better than proprietary solutions". You can draw a conclusion like that if you often find very good articles (without lying when saying so), you know.:-)
I think the quality of the articles matter more than the mass. A smaller number of good, well-edited articles on topics that people actually care about would be better.
Wow, that must be the understatement of the day.
You're saying that Wikipedia has a less-than-small number of good, well-edited articles? Come on...
Wikipedia has a huge number of well-written articles, but I agree with others that you should use multiple sources if doing some research. As usual. It's not like I write an essay based on Encyclopedia Britannica.:-)
Here's the definition I'm using, which are you using?
Encyclopedia: The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.
It's from Merriam-Webster too, which should be in your opinion well-researced enough to be used as well?
But how much do we REALLY need to know about Klingon or memetics?
Uhh, don't look it up if you aren't interested?
Wikipedia is a great resource, and so far seems to do a pretty good job of keeping itself in check by the sheer volume of people checking each other's work.. but there is also the risk of important aspects being missed, or errors creeping in unchecked, as highlighted in a previous slashdot story.
Maybe you should give an actual example to give some substance to your concern.
They suggest the Athlon 64 3500+ over the P4 560 for "balancing price and performance"... and this is also the result they'd also get if using them on Windows?
I don't see why it wouldn't anyway.
For personal use, Athlon's have almost always (at least since the first Athlon was released) had better "balance between price and performance".
If I understand the comments correctly, IE is still required to be fully installed. All it does is to add a menu item for "Windows Update" that runs IE?:-P
What would be nice is a special program that grabs stuff from WU. I know the WU client does, but only the critical security updates.
If the user is running a VLK edition of Windows with a CD-Key other than the FCKGW one - or with the 640 PID, depending one how stringent they're being - how do Microsoft know that it's a priated copy?
They can't. Numerous users at Neowin checked with pirated (i.e. installed with keys from key generators) copies and they verified very well.:-p
So shaving off a a fraction of a millisecond results in better usibilty does it?
I think he was talking about the big picture here -- the philosophy at Microsoft in general, not just about this particular thing. I don't know about you, but it's pretty obvious to me that MS has often went for performance instead of security. Why else would they integrate their graphics subsystem with the OS?
Yeah, it's probably much because of the heavy GTK+ libraries. Yuck.
Miranda's plugin support also rocks compared to what Gaim has to offer, and I really like that Miranda comes with few features to start with so you can make it as complex as you wish, not the IM developers. I know Gaim supports plugins too, but they're not even competing in the same field here, with 5 plugins on their web page compared to 275 for Miranda.
For me, there's OS-related crashes in Windows 2000 (at work) or XP (at home) about as often, and then it's maybe once every two weeks or so. And I almost never get blue screens, with the only times I recall it being graphics driver problems which was fairly easy to fix.
The OS crashes are mostly explorer.exe crashes now and then, but those can usually be fixed just by killing the process, which will make Windows auto-restart it. I haven't noticed any data loss involved since shutting down Explorer doesn't imply shutting down other apps. No re-login is required either, etc.
I think the system stability has become good enough that it isn't an issue for me as a regular user anymore, and not really something I take into consideration when deciding what OS I should run. At the rate they're appearing -- sometimes about once a month or less -- I'll accept them, since I know from experience that other desktop OS'es aren't rock solid either.
Bill Gates is presently worth $29.83 Billion. $1.2 Billion is just north of 5% of Bill's net worth. Put another way: $1.2 Billion is less than Bill Gates could make on the interest on his net worth.
So? Many, many, people (actually -- most) don't donate at all, even if they have the money.
We've found a bug in firefox, we're really sorry. Anyone using old versions of firefox will be affected.
We've found a bug in internet explorer, we're really sorry. We'll fix it... eventually.
The only difference here is when they decided to announce the flaw. Mozilla decided to keep it secret until a new version was released. Don't you find that at least slightly scary?
Look when this security exploit was filed: #226669.
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79 Euros!?!
:-) :-P
Woohoo about time the Europeans rather than us Brits got the stiffed on the pricing of identical goods.
I don't know what he was talking about, I recently pre-ordered this thing in Sweden, Europe, for 54 euro, or $66.
79 euro sounds like a terribly bad deal to me.
At least we got the original trilogy DVD. But I guess I'm in minority who actually appreciate this DVD and don't care much about who bloody fires first. :-)
... and here's a user-edited, unauthoritative, small, article from Wikipedia about the changes in case anyone missed them. Please use multiple sources to confirm the validity of this information.
And you arrived at this conclusion exactly how?
:-)
Probably by own experiences. Note he didn't say "in all cases, I know it's better than proprietary solutions". You can draw a conclusion like that if you often find very good articles (without lying when saying so), you know.
I think the quality of the articles matter more than the mass. A smaller number of good, well-edited articles on topics that people actually care about would be better.
:-)
Wow, that must be the understatement of the day.
You're saying that Wikipedia has a less-than-small number of good, well-edited articles? Come on...
Wikipedia has a huge number of well-written articles, but I agree with others that you should use multiple sources if doing some research. As usual. It's not like I write an essay based on Encyclopedia Britannica.
Oh, I meant current stuff in it, thought you meant there were articles you weren't pleased with content-wise?
Yes, I read that article too and he brings up a good point of why you should use multiple sources. This is of course not limited to Wikipedia, though.
Wikipedia is NOT an encyclopedia
Hmm...
Here's the definition I'm using, which are you using?
Encyclopedia: The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.
It's from Merriam-Webster too, which should be in your opinion well-researced enough to be used as well?
But how much do we REALLY need to know about Klingon or memetics?
Uhh, don't look it up if you aren't interested?
Wikipedia is a great resource, and so far seems to do a pretty good job of keeping itself in check by the sheer volume of people checking each other's work.. but there is also the risk of important aspects being missed, or errors creeping in unchecked, as highlighted in a previous slashdot story.
Maybe you should give an actual example to give some substance to your concern.
They suggest the Athlon 64 3500+ over the P4 560 for "balancing price and performance" ... and this is also the result they'd also get if using them on Windows?
I don't see why it wouldn't anyway.
For personal use, Athlon's have almost always (at least since the first Athlon was released) had better "balance between price and performance".
Seriosuly, are these guys insane including unfiltered image search results by default?
Sounds sane to me. Default censorship of naked people sounds more insane to me. But then again, I'm not from USA.
I actually don't think this is a problem for PR reasons.
Behold.. Windows Update Extension for Firefox.
:-P
If I understand the comments correctly, IE is still required to be fully installed. All it does is to add a menu item for "Windows Update" that runs IE?
What would be nice is a special program that grabs stuff from WU. I know the WU client does, but only the critical security updates.
If the user is running a VLK edition of Windows with a CD-Key other than the FCKGW one - or with the 640 PID, depending one how stringent they're being - how do Microsoft know that it's a priated copy?
:-p
They can't. Numerous users at Neowin checked with pirated (i.e. installed with keys from key generators) copies and they verified very well.
So shaving off a a fraction of a millisecond results in better usibilty does it?
I think he was talking about the big picture here -- the philosophy at Microsoft in general, not just about this particular thing. I don't know about you, but it's pretty obvious to me that MS has often went for performance instead of security. Why else would they integrate their graphics subsystem with the OS?
Compiling isn't that hard.
So why don't they do it then?
It's not a little used OS when comparing non-Windows operating systems with each others.
And if you are so hung up on a mac binary nothing stoping you from doing it.
I think he was very aware of that, but he wasn't exactly saying "can I compile a Mac binary?" Please read up on the posts better...
Yeah, it's probably much because of the heavy GTK+ libraries. Yuck.
Miranda's plugin support also rocks compared to what Gaim has to offer, and I really like that Miranda comes with few features to start with so you can make it as complex as you wish, not the IM developers. I know Gaim supports plugins too, but they're not even competing in the same field here, with 5 plugins on their web page compared to 275 for Miranda.
That's something for a geek to put the blame on.
"No, I didn't wreck your system by issuing that command, it was a ghost in the shell! I'm innocent!"
Why do steps 1 and 2 if you're going to do 3 anyway?
You seem to really need to bash it into the skulls of Microsoft and RIAA that copy protection won't help much. They just aren't getting it.
And how many have a clue of how much that is?
For me, there's OS-related crashes in Windows 2000 (at work) or XP (at home) about as often, and then it's maybe once every two weeks or so. And I almost never get blue screens, with the only times I recall it being graphics driver problems which was fairly easy to fix.
The OS crashes are mostly explorer.exe crashes now and then, but those can usually be fixed just by killing the process, which will make Windows auto-restart it. I haven't noticed any data loss involved since shutting down Explorer doesn't imply shutting down other apps. No re-login is required either, etc.
I think the system stability has become good enough that it isn't an issue for me as a regular user anymore, and not really something I take into consideration when deciding what OS I should run. At the rate they're appearing -- sometimes about once a month or less -- I'll accept them, since I know from experience that other desktop OS'es aren't rock solid either.
Bill Gates is presently worth $29.83 Billion. $1.2 Billion is just north of 5% of Bill's net worth. Put another way: $1.2 Billion is less than Bill Gates could make on the interest on his net worth.
So? Many, many, people (actually -- most) don't donate at all, even if they have the money.
226669 is "Thunderbird tries to download nonexisting messages with POP3" and is not a security bug.
OK, go tell Secunia that then, since it's part of the list in their advisory.
We've found a bug in firefox, we're really sorry. Anyone using old versions of firefox will be affected.
We've found a bug in internet explorer, we're really sorry. We'll fix it... eventually.
The only difference here is when they decided to announce the flaw.
Mozilla decided to keep it secret until a new version was released. Don't you find that at least slightly scary?
Look when this security exploit was filed: #226669.
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