Vista runs IPV6 by default and everyone was hoping that this would help to drive adoption. IPV6 can be installed in a few clicks on an XP machine. You harboring much of an agenda there, boss?
No, but you are, if you think XP supports IPv6 in any usable form. Go ahead, disable IPv4 in XP and see how many hostnames you can look up.
If they moved to IPv6, their old "We can't give each of your computers a real IP address because we don't have enough to go around" excuse would fall apart and they would have to either start letting people run their own servers or they'd have to move to doing actual port blocking, which would look really bad.
Good! Fuck 'em! If they can't be bothered to offer quality service, what right do they have to look good for treating their customers like shit?
I tend to work on smaller teams, so while I can handle multislacking and still get things done, it still ends up being hard to explain additional cruft.
I stick to Linux work environments because most PHBs don't understand multiple desktops, and flipping a mousewheel over a pager to switch between work and slack makes effective multislacking a real snap.
What is you, boss, a politician? It's reasonable or stupid: take your pick.;)
It's reasonable for developers to take advantage of security flaws in an operating system, especially when they go long-unfixed, even if doing so is a stupid thing to do.
A quality app targets a Limited Account, period.
And a quality OS makes those by default. It doesn't matter if you and I know better. If the defaults suck, your average layman is going to use crap permissions and figure they're secure. If your average layman doesn't know better and don't care, what's the motivation for developers to get it right?
You can't implement security top-down and expect it to stick on it's own as an afterhtought, it has to be top down from the stop.
Linux games are notorious for not existing. The tiny handful of Windows games ported to Linux don't even come _close_ to conclusive "evidence in the field" that developers wouldn't carry their bad Windows habits over to Linux.
I think it's fair to include Wine in this. No, they aren't carrying their bad habits over from Windows.
There hasn't been any justification for typical Windows software to require Administrator-level privileges for a decade, yet developers have continued to do release broken software.
And there is zero reason for the default Windows install to make someone create a seperate, normal user account, and require passwords, which is the root cause of the problem.
The most you can say is that poorly coded client apps encourage you to do something stupid.
Not when they're going with the reasonable assumption that Windows has given that user administrator rights by default. That's a design flaw at the OS level that developers are stupidly taking advantage of. At best, it's a co-moronic situation where both sides are the loser. Windows isn't the white knight on this one, and neither are the developers. Both suck.
From your perspective where the native Microsoft formats can be considered legacy documents that only need to be converted to a newer one, it appears you don't actually work in any sort of corporation. Lucky you.
I work for a corporation, just not one where the CTO is fucking up his job horribly by not maintaining standards compliance.
Except that you're argument against gaming refers to newer versions of windows, which try to encourage both you AND developers (because they're just as much to blame for this by making crap installers and such) to not always stay in or require Administrator access.
That's odd, because the games that Windows and Linux both have native versions of, Windows generally requires Administrator rights to give proper access to the hardware, whereas Linux will give you access to the appropriate hardware without compromising access to the rest of the system (and well-ported games will refuse to run as root).
Besides, you're blaming the OS for something a user has near completely control over. You'd be better blaming Microsoft for not discouraging this practice instead of the OS.
To say that it's not the OS's fault for being crap and therefor it's OK for it to be is a pretty specious argument to make, and I can't believe you went there. Sure, it's Microsoft's fault that Windows doesn't encourage safe permissions by default. But the point is it's insecure by default, despite being marketed as such, so a great deal of it's users don't bother to learn about permission seperation and understand why you shouldn't blindly give Administrator permissions to non-maintenance tasks.
The permissions problem is one that should have been fixed 20 years ago, and it's STILL wrong in Vista.
Yet, Wine not only lets you do the same thing without root, you're actively discouraged from running as root.
Currently the only ones I can think of would need full DX10 support too which is probably gonna be a lot of work.
Are there really game developers out there who really think DX10 is the way to go instead of OpenGL at this point? For that matter, are there really game developers out there who still consider Windows the only viable gaming platform in the long term, despite the fact that the platform keeps sapping hardware power away from the programs with each newer release?
I suggest you google "VMWare Fusion". It's a Mac VM designed to run Windows, fully, seamlessly, and (in the latest beta versions, which you can download for free (for the time being)), full support of DirectX.
You must be new here given you're relatively high UID, so I'll spell it out for you: If you quote, we might be able to tell what part of the previous comment you're referring to.
Your argument is that Linux is superior because it lets you play those games, however this is through an emulation layer (i.e. WINE), which you can also do in Windows if you're so inclined.
In a horribly insecure manner. You should never log in as Administrator or root to play games, and, unfortunately, Windows often makes you to do just that. That kind of behavior just isn't ready for the desktop at all.
Last I checked it wasn't possible to get it to work with recent versions of glibc. At least without a lot of work first. Wine support would be a major step up.
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No, but you are, if you think XP supports IPv6 in any usable form. Go ahead, disable IPv4 in XP and see how many hostnames you can look up.
Good! Fuck 'em! If they can't be bothered to offer quality service, what right do they have to look good for treating their customers like shit?
Swift Kick: Apply directly to the nutsack.
...by making Californians less retarded. Put this in their drinking water.
I tend to work on smaller teams, so while I can handle multislacking and still get things done, it still ends up being hard to explain additional cruft.
Gears seems to work wherever Gecko is the rendering engine, from what I've seen.
I stick to Linux work environments because most PHBs don't understand multiple desktops, and flipping a mousewheel over a pager to switch between work and slack makes effective multislacking a real snap.
You can't implement security top-down and expect it to stick on it's own as an afterhtought, it has to be top down from the stop.
Or throw an ad up on Criagslist asking to swap with someone who has a supported tuner.
Try running it on Wine instead. This box won't run most games in Windows that it will on Wine...
ktorrent, and bittorrent itself.
Does it run Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri? Dude, WTF?? YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!!