This has serious implications for e-commerce websites whose functionality might be affected by any bugs in the software.
Bugs in the software? I think the risk is more about IE 7 adhering to standards better, and those websites not.
Also to have end users suddenly using a new browser right before the holiday shopping season could magnify the cost any bugs that might create a bad user experience on sites.
Yes, but on the other hand, is staying with IE 6 even an option for those? Is the risk of this greater than the risk of being infected by malware from IE 6 security holes? IE 7 isn't perfect, but it's improving in several security-related areas. For example its phishing support -- that could help users a lot in the holiday shopping season.
That article brings up the downsides, but it doesn't look into its upsides. IE 7 is a major improvement over IE 6 in most areas.
Humour (also spelled humor) is the ability or quality of people, objects, or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. The term encompasses a form of entertainment or human communication which evokes such feelings, or which makes people laugh or feel happy.
The origin of the term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which stated that a mix of fluids known as humours controlled human health and emotion.
A sense of humour is the ability to experience humour, a quality which all people share, although the extent to which an individual will personally find something humorous depends on a host of absolute and relative variables, including, but not limited to geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education and context. For example, young children (of any background) particularly favour slapstick, while satire tends to appeal to more mature audiences.
I was a bit confused by these numeric values of PageRanks as I generally don't care, or at most have seen a visual representation when using their toolbar. However, if you go here you can type in the URL of any web site and see its page rank, without having to install some plugin and going there. Especially nice if you're curious but e.g. using Opera.
Seriously, WHY DOES it take a 4ghz computer to play solitaire?
Even Vista only requires a ~800 MHz computer for the "Vista Capable" label, stupid!;-)
Seriously, if all you want to do is to play Solitaire, why don't you grab MS-DOS and a DOS version of Solitaire and check the minimum requirements? Chances are it'll end up at something less than 8 MHz at least. But it won't be that suitable for many other modern world scenarios than playing Solitaire, you won't get something too much better than monochrome text graphics, you won't get good multitasking, no networking support or advanced features like domains or preparations for remote desktop, no USB support, and so on ad infinitum... And there you have a hint in why this looks the way you're wondering.
Modern operating systems are to be prepared for *everything* (or so the philosophy goes at least), and the users should basically just be able to press "Next" in the install process, and then it should be able to do everything listed on a website that don't know the user at all, but still have that big shiny list of stuff advertising what it can do. Guess what happens in the OS design process and how much is installed, and how high the requirements become?
Of course, minimalist freaks that still needs to use Microsoft software can take a look at Windows CE for embedded devices, or the upcoming "Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs" for something XP-like that has already been shown to only need 64 MB RAM in a review.
There's already a Wikipedia article covering this a bit, including a prototype picture. Not only is it very iPod-looking, but given that prototypes tend to be slick artist concept work often looking better than the end product, I'm not really impressed.:-/ Comparison picture as a reminder of what they're dealing with. Sure, it's just a prototype, but it simply can't look anything like that.:-p
Well, it's not similar markets anyway, so I don't think they have much of a say, and I dare say rightly so. If not, it would be super hard to register trademarks today. They're software development, this is music hardware. It's not as bad as with Mozilla Firebird vs the open source db, as then both were even software.
Simply look at the total number of sold PC games? Surely there must be some form of statistics about this? If WoW has its huge share of the market seemingly on the cost of others, things look like this yes, otherwise the industry do seem to actually be in decline?
1. What's the bitrate? It needs to be at least 192 kbps.
2. Jessica Simpson's "A Public Affair"? Hmm, I was considering downloading just to show I'm supportive of a non-DRM model, even if it would need future tweaks, but just to try get the industry on the right track. BUT... Jessica Simpson? I really don't know if I can do this.:-(
Am I the only one who doesn't see any need whatsoever for a bit torrent client built in to a web browser?
For being a unique idea behind decentralized protocols, I can definitely see the use for it.
That there are dedicated and more feature rich third party clients doesn't really excuse it IMHO, as the same could then be said about FTP, another totally non-web protocol.
The only complaint I'd see valid here would be bloat, but check Opera's install footprint and come again.;-)
With that one out of the way, no, I can't really see a good reason it shouldn't be there. Well, possibly another feature that could in theory have a security exploit. But then again, Opera users are rarely left out in the cold for as long as IE users when an exploit is discovered.
I don't think Spore will "change the world" and I believe it will have its shortcomings like other games, but I'm still happy that despite the harsh climate of the computer game industry and how tough it is to succeed, even moreso getting companies to bet your money on your team, that "games" like these can get developed. If I'd chose the computer gaming subject to complain about, I'd rather complain about yet another World War FPS being too similar to others, than a rather unique game not being a typical "game" per se.
Like most of Maxis' games, it's not a "twitch" game about reflexes, and it lacks a good story. Also like others, the challenges are largely created by the player. In SimCity and The Sims, there are some scenarois for more scripted challenges, but my impression was that the sandbox modes in these games were among the most popular ones.
Given Spore's design, what's most interesting to me is the game difficulty. Will you almost always succeed in conquering several planets, only given enough time? Or will a designed species show up as not being as successful as another? If experience would indeed turn out to be important in the game and that efficient creature designs mattered, then I can definitely see replayability entering the picture and goals being set. The goal would turn into designing efficient creatures. And given the enormous flexibility, it's possible it could be very hard to "beat" the game still, which is important for good replayability.
But unfortunately, it seems like anything they throw together will evolve into a race that you can use to shoot down others with. I hope it's not as easy as that, because I fear making things too easy will make people grow bored of the game after a couple of different creatures. SimCity had some difficulties in the game, and it took a while to get experienced in it, and I think it's important Spore will have some of that.
Now he's in charge of all Google's webmasters, and designing the logos is only about 20 percent of his job -- but that doesn't mean it's not a lot of work.
Sorry, but that really sounds a lot like thumb rolling for him at Google then...
The occasional art for a few holidays and events a year is a FIFTH of his workload? Jeez!
I wonder if it's a misleading number from CNN.com, but somehow I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually true as it's in line with my Google work environment prejudices.:-p
Sorry, I missed they at one point do name some bugs discovered that could make its networking technology "less stable" (whatever that means) in the short term. But the question is when they found these, and how/if they'll even affect the Vista release. For all we know, these bugs may already have been fixed, as there's a lot of work on Vista at the moment.
Unless they point us to a report with these bugs and their status on a bug tracking service like Secunia, I can't really see much use of this information.
So they're saying that beta software still has bugs in it?
They aren't even saying that. Symantec is saying: 1. Vista may not have an "inherently insecure network stack" when released. 2. It can be bad to replace tested code like a network stack for security.
They aren't even saying Vista's network stack is flawed.
They aren't even saying something in Vista is flawed.
They're waving a warning flag and Slashdot spins the whole thing 180 degrees.
So, point me to the place in the article which says something is still rife with insecure code?
Well, of course, there'll be securite holes in Vista too, like most other OS's, but I'm not sure that's what the article means? It seems someone somewhere have come to the conclusion that there are still major problems with it and I just, darned as much as I try, can't find the place in the article.
It seems to me Symantec only speculates, as Vista will have a new network stack?
But then, Symantec themselves say:
"We're not saying that Vista's network stack is going to be inherently insecure when it is released," Oliver Friedrichs, director of emerging technologies at Symantec Security Response, said in an interview Monday.
So, which is it, and is the article just spun like this on Slashdot because it's Slashdot?
Hmm, one could think the ISS would have some minor rockets to adjust their orbit whenever necessary. Isn't that quite a weakness to rely on shuttles when they could be stopped at any time for political reasons? Since the ISS isn't complete, I wonder if this function would be part of a future module?
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That only hides the issue, as the memory often then gets reallocated as soon as you restore the window.
This has serious implications for e-commerce websites whose functionality might be affected by any bugs in the software.
Bugs in the software? I think the risk is more about IE 7 adhering to standards better, and those websites not.
Also to have end users suddenly using a new browser right before the holiday shopping season could magnify the cost any bugs that might create a bad user experience on sites.
Yes, but on the other hand, is staying with IE 6 even an option for those? Is the risk of this greater than the risk of being infected by malware from IE 6 security holes? IE 7 isn't perfect, but it's improving in several security-related areas. For example its phishing support -- that could help users a lot in the holiday shopping season.
That article brings up the downsides, but it doesn't look into its upsides. IE 7 is a major improvement over IE 6 in most areas.
Humour (also spelled humor) is the ability or quality of people, objects, or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. The term encompasses a form of entertainment or human communication which evokes such feelings, or which makes people laugh or feel happy.
The origin of the term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which stated that a mix of fluids known as humours controlled human health and emotion.
A sense of humour is the ability to experience humour, a quality which all people share, although the extent to which an individual will personally find something humorous depends on a host of absolute and relative variables, including, but not limited to geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education and context. For example, young children (of any background) particularly favour slapstick, while satire tends to appeal to more mature audiences.
In my opinion? Pretty much, but despite that, there are a whole lot of them.
Damn you! :-(
Sorry, me being confused... I was thinking of 10 going to 100 Mbps. Now that wasn't as impressive then. ;-)
Thought they were talking about GB's. Since it's Gigabits, well, that's available in many parts of the world today.
We had a free upgrades from a major ISP from 1 Gbps up/down to 1 Gbps up / 10 Gbps down over here half a year ago or so.
I'm not intending to brag about my country with this; that's why I don't mention it.
I was a bit confused by these numeric values of PageRanks as I generally don't care, or at most have seen a visual representation when using their toolbar. However, if you go here you can type in the URL of any web site and see its page rank, without having to install some plugin and going there. Especially nice if you're curious but e.g. using Opera.
We don't know that from this article.
:-p
Do an article need to *tell* you that?
All supernovas actually happened some time ago unless it's our Sun that's blowing up.
Seriously, WHY DOES it take a 4ghz computer to play solitaire?
;-)
Even Vista only requires a ~800 MHz computer for the "Vista Capable" label, stupid!
Seriously, if all you want to do is to play Solitaire, why don't you grab MS-DOS and a DOS version of Solitaire and check the minimum requirements? Chances are it'll end up at something less than 8 MHz at least. But it won't be that suitable for many other modern world scenarios than playing Solitaire, you won't get something too much better than monochrome text graphics, you won't get good multitasking, no networking support or advanced features like domains or preparations for remote desktop, no USB support, and so on ad infinitum... And there you have a hint in why this looks the way you're wondering.
Modern operating systems are to be prepared for *everything* (or so the philosophy goes at least), and the users should basically just be able to press "Next" in the install process, and then it should be able to do everything listed on a website that don't know the user at all, but still have that big shiny list of stuff advertising what it can do. Guess what happens in the OS design process and how much is installed, and how high the requirements become?
Of course, minimalist freaks that still needs to use Microsoft software can take a look at Windows CE for embedded devices, or the upcoming "Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs" for something XP-like that has already been shown to only need 64 MB RAM in a review.
There's already a Wikipedia article covering this a bit, including a prototype picture. Not only is it very iPod-looking, but given that prototypes tend to be slick artist concept work often looking better than the end product, I'm not really impressed. :-/ Comparison picture as a reminder of what they're dealing with. Sure, it's just a prototype, but it simply can't look anything like that. :-p
Today? Hmm, if we're to speak figuratively, it's usually rather "Delivering yesterday's technology tomorrow".
Well, it's not similar markets anyway, so I don't think they have much of a say, and I dare say rightly so. If not, it would be super hard to register trademarks today. They're software development, this is music hardware. It's not as bad as with Mozilla Firebird vs the open source db, as then both were even software.
Simply look at the total number of sold PC games? Surely there must be some form of statistics about this? If WoW has its huge share of the market seemingly on the cost of others, things look like this yes, otherwise the industry do seem to actually be in decline?
1. What's the bitrate? It needs to be at least 192 kbps.
:-(
2. Jessica Simpson's "A Public Affair"? Hmm, I was considering downloading just to show I'm supportive of a non-DRM model, even if it would need future tweaks, but just to try get the industry on the right track. BUT... Jessica Simpson? I really don't know if I can do this.
For being a unique idea behind decentralized protocols, I can definitely see the use for it.
That there are dedicated and more feature rich third party clients doesn't really excuse it IMHO, as the same could then be said about FTP, another totally non-web protocol.
The only complaint I'd see valid here would be bloat, but check Opera's install footprint and come again.
With that one out of the way, no, I can't really see a good reason it shouldn't be there. Well, possibly another feature that could in theory have a security exploit. But then again, Opera users are rarely left out in the cold for as long as IE users when an exploit is discovered.
I don't think Spore will "change the world" and I believe it will have its shortcomings like other games, but I'm still happy that despite the harsh climate of the computer game industry and how tough it is to succeed, even moreso getting companies to bet your money on your team, that "games" like these can get developed. If I'd chose the computer gaming subject to complain about, I'd rather complain about yet another World War FPS being too similar to others, than a rather unique game not being a typical "game" per se.
Like most of Maxis' games, it's not a "twitch" game about reflexes, and it lacks a good story. Also like others, the challenges are largely created by the player. In SimCity and The Sims, there are some scenarois for more scripted challenges, but my impression was that the sandbox modes in these games were among the most popular ones.
Given Spore's design, what's most interesting to me is the game difficulty. Will you almost always succeed in conquering several planets, only given enough time? Or will a designed species show up as not being as successful as another? If experience would indeed turn out to be important in the game and that efficient creature designs mattered, then I can definitely see replayability entering the picture and goals being set. The goal would turn into designing efficient creatures. And given the enormous flexibility, it's possible it could be very hard to "beat" the game still, which is important for good replayability.
But unfortunately, it seems like anything they throw together will evolve into a race that you can use to shoot down others with. I hope it's not as easy as that, because I fear making things too easy will make people grow bored of the game after a couple of different creatures. SimCity had some difficulties in the game, and it took a while to get experienced in it, and I think it's important Spore will have some of that.
Sorry, but that really sounds a lot like thumb rolling for him at Google then...
The occasional art for a few holidays and events a year is a FIFTH of his workload? Jeez!
I wonder if it's a misleading number from CNN.com, but somehow I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually true as it's in line with my Google work environment prejudices.
Sorry, I missed they at one point do name some bugs discovered that could make its networking technology "less stable" (whatever that means) in the short term. But the question is when they found these, and how/if they'll even affect the Vista release. For all we know, these bugs may already have been fixed, as there's a lot of work on Vista at the moment.
Unless they point us to a report with these bugs and their status on a bug tracking service like Secunia, I can't really see much use of this information.
They aren't even saying that. Symantec is saying:
1. Vista may not have an "inherently insecure network stack" when released.
2. It can be bad to replace tested code like a network stack for security.
They aren't even saying Vista's network stack is flawed.
They aren't even saying something in Vista is flawed.
They're waving a warning flag and Slashdot spins the whole thing 180 degrees.
Am I right?
No, that's release candidates. At least if you're talking Microsoft.
So, point me to the place in the article which says something is still rife with insecure code?
Well, of course, there'll be securite holes in Vista too, like most other OS's, but I'm not sure that's what the article means? It seems someone somewhere have come to the conclusion that there are still major problems with it and I just, darned as much as I try, can't find the place in the article.
It seems to me Symantec only speculates, as Vista will have a new network stack?
But then, Symantec themselves say:
So, which is it, and is the article just spun like this on Slashdot because it's Slashdot?
Hmm, one could think the ISS would have some minor rockets to adjust their orbit whenever necessary. Isn't that quite a weakness to rely on shuttles when they could be stopped at any time for political reasons? Since the ISS isn't complete, I wonder if this function would be part of a future module?
Which makes me wonder what's saying it won't happen again with this vaccine.
Let's hope it won't though...