Firefox disables Java for enterprise users who are on the ESR release. Even after updating their plugins it still disables them. So now they go with this method to cover their asses while it breaks applications if you don't click "enable" fast enough.
"The claim that "security in XP is from the last century where all you needed is a good password" also shows your utter and complete ignorance of XP and security architectures"
Right, you mean how in XP there is an IMPERSONATION SERVICE where a user mode program can run with kernel mode priveldges and impersonate a critical service?!
No ASLR, limited DEP, no priveldge seperation in the code. Yeah, XP is last century security wise which is fine as other operating systems from the 20th century lacked those as well.
"you may have worked in corporate IT but you have no clue. What is your source for wild ass claims like "9 out of 10 CPU cycles are work around exploits"? Oh, right, you pulled that out of your ass -- an invented statistic to try and make XP look bad"
Yeah, I am making it look bad because in 2013 it is bad. You are telling me after 1,000+ exploits there is no performance penalty or advanced filtering for every input and i/o after 12 years? THe fact of the matter is XP ran good on 128 megs of ram on a Pentium II 300 mhz in 2001. Why can't I run it like this. The answer is because of +700 patches.
I look at XP like a boat with holes all over encased with 3 feet of bandaids. I have not looked at hte source code and neither have you. I do not have to rely on fake statistics. Look at the evidence of it today? I can not see how it is possible to fix all the exploits without breaking apps.
My only explanaition is double the code size and filtering out every i/o and input due to the architecture not being able to withstand the malware we have today. NTLM is yet another example, while IE 6 - 8 while still being patched is not being hacked as I typed this because it can not run in protected mode in XP.
XP never once ran good on 128mb's of ram. Window 98 maybe, but not 2000 or XP. 512MB minimum for solid performance.
If you can't find loki games installers with google then you don't deserve them.
Be warned that SMAC is even crashier on Linux than it is on Windows, where it is extremely crashy.
Also be warned you will have to dick around with DLLs by installing and then tweaking a package called Loki_Compat
This is why Linux fails. Being a dickhead just turns off any interest. If you want to promote the Loki installers you'd post links or help people easily jump into it. But instead "google it". Yeah, not worth out time...we'll stick with something that works.
THQ was 1billion dollar business just few years ago and now they are flirting with bankrupcy.
As they say: The past is not an indicator of future performance.
just wait
1. up until WoW everything they touched turned into gold but the WoW cash cow will die sooner or later and the Warcraft franchise as a whole is burned out. MMOs do that to their universes, there is no story left to continue.
2. SC2, destined to be the king of esports, loses to the free-to-play contenders like LoL and DOTA and people are not that receptive to a game with a watered down content so 3 episodes stretched across few years can be made 50 bucks a pop. Also the RTS genre as a whole is not so hot in the eyes of the current generation of players.
3. D3 was hyped by the ActiBlizz PR machine as if it was the second coming of Christ, expectations were sky high but they didn't deliver and the game is pretty much a dud. Granted, it sold quite a lot copies on the name alone but a lot of people have burned themselves in the process and have learned that the Blizzard logo is not a stamp of stellar quality anymore.
4. Titan - god knows what that is
Few pillars supporting the whole thing and they don't look too healthy.
1. Warcraft actually has about 15 story arcs available right now. Pretty damn good ones also. Their subs went up again after the latest expansion and sit at around 10 million again. You may be burned out after playing for 8 years (longer than most marriages last) but the game is still going strong.
2. SC2 is doing great in the country that brought us eSports. Korea. eSports are not very popular in the USA.
3. Diablo 3 was advertised "exactly" how it was released. The players built this up in their heads that it was the second coming of christ but it was just a game. I played it about as long as I played D2. They broke many sales records and there's still close to a million players online playing. That's higher than any paid MMO aside from WoW.
4. Titan will be an updated MMO with a engine built to take advantage of current tech. Blizzard has built the Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft storied franchises. I don't why they wouldn't have success with a 4th.
So that is your solution to every problem in your homeland? Just leave?
And go where exactly?
Which country will let them in?
And which country is "better"?
There IS another choice -- to lend their support in changing the laws. It requires work and coordination, and make take a few decades but a solution can be reached.
ALL (legal) law is relative. If the citizens don't feel that their government is representing them accurately then they have the right to replace it with another one.
It's China. You're not going to change their mind. You will disappear forever before you win something against the government.
there are plenty of cultural differences that are ok
but violating people's basic rights can not be justified with references to culture
this applies to problems in the west too, i'm not singling out china
you can't say chinese people are happy being slaves, so let them be, it's just culture. or muslim women are happy being slaves, so let them be, it's just culture. or poor people in western nations leaning towards social darwinism as plutocrats warp the politics are happy being slaves, so let them be, it's just culture
bullshit
NO ONE is happy being a slave. culture is no excuse
Basic rights in a Democracy are far different than in a Communist government. Whether they are happy is irrelevant. They choose to live in China so they must adhere to the restrictions of their society. Many countries outside the USA would say we have too much freedom. Sometimes I agree.
So, let me get this straight: Windows 8 uses Unified Extensible Firmware Interface to block the installation of any other operating system. Microsoft Office ONLY runs (properly) on Apple and Windows, it has taken the Samba team some 15 years to figure out Active Directory, MS Office files are not 100% ODF compliant (and probably never will be), SQLServer only runs on Windows machines etc. etc.
the bottom line is this: because of all the above, the migration away from this closed-shop monolith is happening - and the RATE at which it's happening is ramping up extremely quickly.
In short, we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the monopoly.
Why would Office run on any other OS? You're crying about using a product in a way it's not intended to be used.
Anecdotally, I stopped playing Grand Theft Auto after I noticed I was starting to drive more aggressively in real life. So your argument has me thinking about whether I should let my 12-year-old kid play games like Skyrim, Fallout, Mass Effect, etc., or tell him to stick with Minecraft.
You don't think it also may be that you thought about what you were doing and took the necessary steps to stop it? I used to drive recklessly as well. I had to be the fastest car on the road, period. I got married, popped out kids and my attitude changed overnight once I thought about it.
My video game habits haven't changed one bit though.
This, exactly. When people say that they miss the old Maps app, I always wonder if they were using the same app as I was, because the old one was nigh unusable for me. No turn-by-turn, have to have the app open for it to be of any use, poor Siri integration, slow-rendering raster tiles... It just sucked.
So Apple dumps it for a variety of reasons and releases a new app based on their own data. The interface is far superior to the old app, it has vector tiles, turn-by-turn, and Siri integration. The problem? For lots of people, the map data itself isn't as good. Being kicked out forces Google to release their own, competitive app with the previously missing features. Since it will presumably have better map data, or at least POI data, this will force Apple to improve their own product.
This is how the free market is supposed to work. It's unfortunate Apple apparently rushed its inclusion of Maps in iOS 6, but every iOS user today is better off than they were with iOS 5.
There is one thing about this story that is odd, though, and that is that it took Google so long to make an app. The writing was on the wall for quite some time before iOS 6 was announced (let alone released), and yet they still seemed caught flat-footed. Also, I enjoy that everyone who claimed Apple would never allow this app into the store were all proven wrong.
Apple could have had those features for quite some time but refused to license it. Apple makes it seem like Google is the bad guy yet they wanted you to believe their mapping application was using their own data. So all along they were leveraging Google. They switch to their own data because god forbid they place Google logos in a Droid phone.
The problem is Apple can't keep up with Google. They leverage their search engine to record and maintain their maps data. Apple would need to license search engine data as well and populate it accurately. That's never going to happen.
Typically you don't need to taser the hell out of someone to escort them from the premises.
Specifically when it's a woman. You might call me old fashioned or sexist here, but where I'm from we get taught not to use violence against women.
Really? Everyone wants equal rights for all race, gender and sex but when you're being escorted from a public place suddenly men and women are different? Equality goes both ways.
And so they decided to use a weapon on her instead of simply handcuffing her and removing her LIKE NORMAL.
If you refuse to leave after being asked to they have a right to use force. It doesn't matter whether it's a child, man or woman. That video only has the taser portion and has 0 detail to back up what happened prior to the situation. For all we know she could have been yelling, screaming,swearing, etc.
Wow. I gotta say that this is one of those cases where "If you have to ask..." applies rather well.
When it comes to creative thinking and coming up with solutions that are a bit outside of the box, you may find that this capability increases significantly while under the influence.
And we have several hundred years of history, compromising some of our greatest bodies of work, also done while under the influence, that help reiterate that point.
In 10 years if Colorado becomes the next Silicon Valley I would agree. But quite honestly it would probably degenerate into hippies who crave Cheetos's after every line of code.
Creative programming and creative problem solving.
Musicians and artists for example do benefit from recreational marijuana use. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was quoted in Rolling Stone magazine as saying that marijuana helped him write Pet Sounds. Shakespeare, Carl Sagan, Paul McCartney.. the list goes on and on.. have all said that the use of cannabis had a profound positive experience on their creative process.
So it wouldn't be a stretch to assume that cannabis could also provide a mental "boost" to a programmers mindset as well. In terms of problem solving or inspiring creativity.
We'll have fun fun fun until our daddy takes the T-bird away. These are extremely deep and thought provoking lyrics.
It's just random. They hack (or claim to hack) whatever low hanging fruit they can find (often using other peoples exploits) and then claim that they were targeted attacks. Why else would the supposed targets be so randomly assorted?
They are desperate for attention. Their last two hacks turned out to be false. One more and they won't even be relevant anymore.
I've really hated how so many movies lately has been redone, but I'd be hard pressed to come up with anything that deserves a proper reboot more than the Star Wars episode 1 to 3.
There's lots of great stories written after Episode 6 in the books. For example the Thrawn series. If it's episode 7 it's an advancement of the storyline and not a reboot.
In all fairness it was GOOGLE refusing Apple to use the Turn-by-Turn results in the App that Apple made for Maps and paid money to Google on behalf of users. GOOGLE wanted "more control".. Read it what you will, but they obviously wanted more information from/ about users than Apple was willing to share (on top of money).
Google rocked the boat FIRST by WITHHOLDING features from iOS versions while Apple was a PAYING CUSTOMER of the service. (To give its own pony an advantage) Apple did what any of US would do. Find another vendor ASAP.
Google just wanted their logo embedded in the App because it was all GOOGLE maps data. That's not too much to ask.
Windows 8 isn't had for gaming, it's just bad for Valve.
Windows 8's store is quite probably a violation of antitrust laws, but they're managing to break into grey area by locking it down only for "tablet" style apps. Here's how it works, Microsoft is doing exactly what Valve is doing but tying it to their existing desktop OS monopoly such that regardless of if Valve produces a better product for end users, Valve will still lose in the market. They way Microsoft is doing this is by making it impossible for end users to load "Metro" apps that use the tablet interface unless they are purchased through MS's built in store. This means while Steam can still sell apps that use the existing Windows UI, they won't be able to sell apps that work with the other half of of the UI APIs including touch screen capable apps and apps that target both touch screen and keyboard. This provides MS a huge advantage (and of course the Windows store is pre-installed just like IE) without being a direct violation of existing antitrust rulings.
The fun thing is, they can drag this out for years in the US courts because they previously defined the market in terms of desktop OS's and what MS is trying to do is simultaneously merge the desktop and tablet OS markets, while taking an action that is only legal if the markets are already the same. The EU will probably slap them down and may or may not take any sort of effective action before another market loses all competition.
Valve's just concerned with their potential market being at risk.
True, but free competition in the market is a huge concern to us consumers as well. I like the innovation, lower prices, and better quality that comes from having multiple vendors competing for my business instead of being stuck with the one and only vendor that can treat me like crap and make me pay through the nose for the privilege.
You can go Linux or MacOS if you feel you have no choice. One has no support and the other is more nazi than Windows.
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Firefox disables Java for enterprise users who are on the ESR release. Even after updating their plugins it still disables them. So now they go with this method to cover their asses while it breaks applications if you don't click "enable" fast enough.
On a point of pedantry, MS didn't bale Apple out -- Apple still had billions of cash reserve and were no where near bankrupt.
Apple would be nonexistent without Microsoft's support. Microsoft had no competition and needed Apple to survive.
I have yet to see an HTML5 exploit that can root your machine.
JRE on the other hand....
^^^ This one factor outweighs basically everything else.
Just wait for it to become more popular and they will come. Exploiters aim for the highest user base it can hit and HTML5 is not there yet.
"The claim that "security in XP is from the last century where all you needed is a good password" also shows your utter and complete ignorance of XP and security architectures"
Right, you mean how in XP there is an IMPERSONATION SERVICE where a user mode program can run with kernel mode priveldges and impersonate a critical service?!
No ASLR, limited DEP, no priveldge seperation in the code. Yeah, XP is last century security wise which is fine as other operating systems from the 20th century lacked those as well.
"you may have worked in corporate IT but you have no clue. What is your source for wild ass claims like "9 out of 10 CPU cycles are work around exploits"? Oh, right, you pulled that out of your ass -- an invented statistic to try and make XP look bad"
Yeah, I am making it look bad because in 2013 it is bad. You are telling me after 1,000+ exploits there is no performance penalty or advanced filtering for every input and i/o after 12 years? THe fact of the matter is XP ran good on 128 megs of ram on a Pentium II 300 mhz in 2001. Why can't I run it like this. The answer is because of +700 patches.
I look at XP like a boat with holes all over encased with 3 feet of bandaids. I have not looked at hte source code and neither have you. I do not have to rely on fake statistics. Look at the evidence of it today? I can not see how it is possible to fix all the exploits without breaking apps.
My only explanaition is double the code size and filtering out every i/o and input due to the architecture not being able to withstand the malware we have today. NTLM is yet another example, while IE 6 - 8 while still being patched is not being hacked as I typed this because it can not run in protected mode in XP.
XP never once ran good on 128mb's of ram. Window 98 maybe, but not 2000 or XP. 512MB minimum for solid performance.
If you can't find loki games installers with google then you don't deserve them.
Be warned that SMAC is even crashier on Linux than it is on Windows, where it is extremely crashy.
Also be warned you will have to dick around with DLLs by installing and then tweaking a package called Loki_Compat
This is why Linux fails. Being a dickhead just turns off any interest. If you want to promote the Loki installers you'd post links or help people easily jump into it. But instead "google it". Yeah, not worth out time...we'll stick with something that works.
THQ was 1billion dollar business just few years ago and now they are flirting with bankrupcy. As they say: The past is not an indicator of future performance.
just wait 1. up until WoW everything they touched turned into gold but the WoW cash cow will die sooner or later and the Warcraft franchise as a whole is burned out. MMOs do that to their universes, there is no story left to continue. 2. SC2, destined to be the king of esports, loses to the free-to-play contenders like LoL and DOTA and people are not that receptive to a game with a watered down content so 3 episodes stretched across few years can be made 50 bucks a pop. Also the RTS genre as a whole is not so hot in the eyes of the current generation of players. 3. D3 was hyped by the ActiBlizz PR machine as if it was the second coming of Christ, expectations were sky high but they didn't deliver and the game is pretty much a dud. Granted, it sold quite a lot copies on the name alone but a lot of people have burned themselves in the process and have learned that the Blizzard logo is not a stamp of stellar quality anymore. 4. Titan - god knows what that is
Few pillars supporting the whole thing and they don't look too healthy.
1. Warcraft actually has about 15 story arcs available right now. Pretty damn good ones also. Their subs went up again after the latest expansion and sit at around 10 million again. You may be burned out after playing for 8 years (longer than most marriages last) but the game is still going strong. 2. SC2 is doing great in the country that brought us eSports. Korea. eSports are not very popular in the USA. 3. Diablo 3 was advertised "exactly" how it was released. The players built this up in their heads that it was the second coming of christ but it was just a game. I played it about as long as I played D2. They broke many sales records and there's still close to a million players online playing. That's higher than any paid MMO aside from WoW. 4. Titan will be an updated MMO with a engine built to take advantage of current tech. Blizzard has built the Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft storied franchises. I don't why they wouldn't have success with a 4th.
Agreed, but the fall of Blizzard started with the closure of Blizzard North, a few years before the Activision merger.
Don't you mean the progressive rise of Blizzard? They continue to make more money each year.
So that is your solution to every problem in your homeland? Just leave?
And go where exactly?
Which country will let them in?
And which country is "better"?
There IS another choice -- to lend their support in changing the laws. It requires work and coordination, and make take a few decades but a solution can be reached.
ALL (legal) law is relative. If the citizens don't feel that their government is representing them accurately then they have the right to replace it with another one.
It's China. You're not going to change their mind. You will disappear forever before you win something against the government.
there are plenty of cultural differences that are ok
but violating people's basic rights can not be justified with references to culture
this applies to problems in the west too, i'm not singling out china
you can't say chinese people are happy being slaves, so let them be, it's just culture. or muslim women are happy being slaves, so let them be, it's just culture. or poor people in western nations leaning towards social darwinism as plutocrats warp the politics are happy being slaves, so let them be, it's just culture
bullshit
NO ONE is happy being a slave. culture is no excuse
Basic rights in a Democracy are far different than in a Communist government. Whether they are happy is irrelevant. They choose to live in China so they must adhere to the restrictions of their society. Many countries outside the USA would say we have too much freedom. Sometimes I agree.
So, let me get this straight: Windows 8 uses Unified Extensible Firmware Interface to block the installation of any other operating system. Microsoft Office ONLY runs (properly) on Apple and Windows, it has taken the Samba team some 15 years to figure out Active Directory, MS Office files are not 100% ODF compliant (and probably never will be), SQLServer only runs on Windows machines etc. etc.
the bottom line is this: because of all the above, the migration away from this closed-shop monolith is happening - and the RATE at which it's happening is ramping up extremely quickly.
In short, we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the monopoly.
Why would Office run on any other OS? You're crying about using a product in a way it's not intended to be used.
All that said, here's a more non-biased look at the pro and con on whether violent video games translate into real-world violence.
Anecdotally, I stopped playing Grand Theft Auto after I noticed I was starting to drive more aggressively in real life. So your argument has me thinking about whether I should let my 12-year-old kid play games like Skyrim, Fallout, Mass Effect, etc., or tell him to stick with Minecraft.
You don't think it also may be that you thought about what you were doing and took the necessary steps to stop it? I used to drive recklessly as well. I had to be the fastest car on the road, period. I got married, popped out kids and my attitude changed overnight once I thought about it. My video game habits haven't changed one bit though.
This, exactly. When people say that they miss the old Maps app, I always wonder if they were using the same app as I was, because the old one was nigh unusable for me. No turn-by-turn, have to have the app open for it to be of any use, poor Siri integration, slow-rendering raster tiles... It just sucked.
So Apple dumps it for a variety of reasons and releases a new app based on their own data. The interface is far superior to the old app, it has vector tiles, turn-by-turn, and Siri integration. The problem? For lots of people, the map data itself isn't as good. Being kicked out forces Google to release their own, competitive app with the previously missing features. Since it will presumably have better map data, or at least POI data, this will force Apple to improve their own product.
This is how the free market is supposed to work. It's unfortunate Apple apparently rushed its inclusion of Maps in iOS 6, but every iOS user today is better off than they were with iOS 5.
There is one thing about this story that is odd, though, and that is that it took Google so long to make an app. The writing was on the wall for quite some time before iOS 6 was announced (let alone released), and yet they still seemed caught flat-footed. Also, I enjoy that everyone who claimed Apple would never allow this app into the store were all proven wrong.
Apple could have had those features for quite some time but refused to license it. Apple makes it seem like Google is the bad guy yet they wanted you to believe their mapping application was using their own data. So all along they were leveraging Google. They switch to their own data because god forbid they place Google logos in a Droid phone. The problem is Apple can't keep up with Google. They leverage their search engine to record and maintain their maps data. Apple would need to license search engine data as well and populate it accurately. That's never going to happen.
Except realistic looking maps did nothing when the data in them was very inaccurate.
Exactly. An average male cop would easily dominate her overwhelmingly enough to avoid any need of inflicting physical harm to her.
She could be a secret Kung Fu master and the taser was the only way to stop her. Wait for the full video!
Typically you don't need to taser the hell out of someone to escort them from the premises.
Specifically when it's a woman. You might call me old fashioned or sexist here, but where I'm from we get taught not to use violence against women.
Really? Everyone wants equal rights for all race, gender and sex but when you're being escorted from a public place suddenly men and women are different? Equality goes both ways.
And so they decided to use a weapon on her instead of simply handcuffing her and removing her LIKE NORMAL.
If you refuse to leave after being asked to they have a right to use force. It doesn't matter whether it's a child, man or woman. That video only has the taser portion and has 0 detail to back up what happened prior to the situation. For all we know she could have been yelling, screaming ,swearing, etc.
Exactly what are the drugs supposed to help?
Wow. I gotta say that this is one of those cases where "If you have to ask..." applies rather well.
When it comes to creative thinking and coming up with solutions that are a bit outside of the box, you may find that this capability increases significantly while under the influence.
And we have several hundred years of history, compromising some of our greatest bodies of work, also done while under the influence, that help reiterate that point.
In 10 years if Colorado becomes the next Silicon Valley I would agree. But quite honestly it would probably degenerate into hippies who crave Cheetos's after every line of code.
Creative programming and creative problem solving.
Musicians and artists for example do benefit from recreational marijuana use. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was quoted in Rolling Stone magazine as saying that marijuana helped him write Pet Sounds. Shakespeare, Carl Sagan, Paul McCartney .. the list goes on and on .. have all said that the use of cannabis had a profound positive experience on their creative process.
So it wouldn't be a stretch to assume that cannabis could also provide a mental "boost" to a programmers mindset as well. In terms of problem solving or inspiring creativity.
We'll have fun fun fun until our daddy takes the T-bird away. These are extremely deep and thought provoking lyrics.
I dunno, I'm starting to think vaccines really do make people retarded.
Higher population and better reporting technique makes autism and other disease more visible. If anything our diets are solely responsible for it.
It's just random. They hack (or claim to hack) whatever low hanging fruit they can find (often using other peoples exploits) and then claim that they were targeted attacks. Why else would the supposed targets be so randomly assorted?
They are desperate for attention. Their last two hacks turned out to be false. One more and they won't even be relevant anymore.
They can hire Peter Jackson after the Hobbit's are done.
I've really hated how so many movies lately has been redone, but I'd be hard pressed to come up with anything that deserves a proper reboot more than the Star Wars episode 1 to 3.
There's lots of great stories written after Episode 6 in the books. For example the Thrawn series. If it's episode 7 it's an advancement of the storyline and not a reboot.
In all fairness it was GOOGLE refusing Apple to use the Turn-by-Turn results
do you know the details? do you know that google didn't offer it at a fair licensing fee and apple refused to pay? no? be quiet.
Google wanted their logo on the application. Apple refused. End of story. It wasn't about money.
In all fairness it was GOOGLE refusing Apple to use the Turn-by-Turn results in the App that Apple made for Maps and paid money to Google on behalf of users. GOOGLE wanted "more control".. Read it what you will, but they obviously wanted more information from/ about users than Apple was willing to share (on top of money).
Google rocked the boat FIRST by WITHHOLDING features from iOS versions while Apple was a PAYING CUSTOMER of the service. (To give its own pony an advantage) Apple did what any of US would do. Find another vendor ASAP.
Google just wanted their logo embedded in the App because it was all GOOGLE maps data. That's not too much to ask.
Windows 8 isn't had for gaming, it's just bad for Valve.
Windows 8's store is quite probably a violation of antitrust laws, but they're managing to break into grey area by locking it down only for "tablet" style apps. Here's how it works, Microsoft is doing exactly what Valve is doing but tying it to their existing desktop OS monopoly such that regardless of if Valve produces a better product for end users, Valve will still lose in the market. They way Microsoft is doing this is by making it impossible for end users to load "Metro" apps that use the tablet interface unless they are purchased through MS's built in store. This means while Steam can still sell apps that use the existing Windows UI, they won't be able to sell apps that work with the other half of of the UI APIs including touch screen capable apps and apps that target both touch screen and keyboard. This provides MS a huge advantage (and of course the Windows store is pre-installed just like IE) without being a direct violation of existing antitrust rulings.
The fun thing is, they can drag this out for years in the US courts because they previously defined the market in terms of desktop OS's and what MS is trying to do is simultaneously merge the desktop and tablet OS markets, while taking an action that is only legal if the markets are already the same. The EU will probably slap them down and may or may not take any sort of effective action before another market loses all competition.
Valve's just concerned with their potential market being at risk.
True, but free competition in the market is a huge concern to us consumers as well. I like the innovation, lower prices, and better quality that comes from having multiple vendors competing for my business instead of being stuck with the one and only vendor that can treat me like crap and make me pay through the nose for the privilege.
You can go Linux or MacOS if you feel you have no choice. One has no support and the other is more nazi than Windows.