Besides the fact that Disney is the "big evil", I used to go by the rule that Pixar = movies worth seeing, Disney = mostly crap that you should avoid. Now how am I supposed to tell what is worth seeing?
Look at it this way. OS X has been running in parallel on X86 for years. X86 is a well known platform that 90% of the computing world uses. What kind of "hardware flaws" are you expecting to see?
If Apple had moved to say xyz platform that was not being widely used for computing then IMHO you would have a point. But that isn't the case so I don't think you theory about there being something wrong with this generation of Intel hardware is accuarte. The "next" gen Mactels won't be 2nd gen, they will be 15th gen or whatever of a stable and widely used platform.
I do expect OS bugs to crop up simply due to a wider sample of users, but I also expect next gen Mactel hardware to look just like next gen PC hardware. Afterall Apple now essentially makes "IBM PCs".
"Apple is finding a way to provide lower prices by jumping on the most popular PC processor company's ability to consistently make quality products are reasonable prices."
No they aren't. They switched processors but are keeping the same prices.
"New Intel iMac: Same models 17 and 20, same prices"
Please don't take this the wrong way but... were you visting warez/porn sites on IE?
I will say that I have seen XP SP2 boxes with AV get trojans. In fact I help someone out who has XP SP2, all updates, and updated AV, MS Antispyware, and spyware blaster running, who STILL manages to get himself into trouble. Still though he is an idiot and you seem to know your way around computers. Legit apps on the net usually don't cause much problems.
One thing that does bother me about all these apps is that an average user still can get themselves into trouble even with all that help. This will probably cause some blood to boil but the default behavior for these apps needs to be to A) delete by default no matter what the file even if it means instantly rebooting into safemode to fix the problem B) if the virus/trojan can't be fixed lock the user out of the system until it is fixed properly or at a minimum C) dump the user into a different virus free profile setup with the new Microsoft "Shared computer" program. Nip it all in the bud and prevent the spreading. Man I hope Vista really does stand up to MS's claims about how secure it will be. *coughs*
Why would I want that? Says the person on his FOURTH adapter for his POS dell. Of course I'm not bitter that my fourth adapter already has to be bent just so in order to even charge anymore.
Very nice design. We'll see how it holds up in a year or so though.
98 support is already gone from many apps. The 9X OS series are dead. Time to move on.
2k support is disappearing but will continue for a few more years on apps that large corps use. It's a 7 year old OS already.
And finally XP support will continue for years to come. Just like how 2K killed off 95 support, Vista will be the ultimate end for 98. If your father in law uses 98 tell him to upgrade already. If he wants to keep using an abandoned OS despite his own best interest then he can do that as well. In that case spend $120 on XP Home and 512MB of memory and he'll be all set.
This may come as a shock to you but certain moderators think and act differently. Sorry if this doesn't jibe with your "all/. user's are drones which think the same way" theory.
Your probably right. But I'd bet anything that >50% of "HDTV" owners are still using plain old SD. The vast majority of people don't read product manuals, have no idea how to use even program their 10 year VCR, and don't have a clue which cable does what.
"I'm sure a lot of people out there who were planning to taking advantage of this problem have been thinking that they have till Tuesday to write a really good exploit, and therefore not hurrying too much."
I don't believe that for a second. People who wanted to take advantage of this flaw had their code done with 48hrs of the public disclosure. No serious hackers we waiting till this weekend to try and catch some people. It's a race you see. The last thing they wanted was to wait a week and let Antivirus makers and consumers get wise to this and start taking precautions.
IMHO MS releasing this early is due to bad PR and massive pressure from customers. I think it had nothing to do with "tricking" crackers.
And I also want to say thanks to a "real" hacker. Running around like crazy to install that 3rd party patch probably saved me from mucho headaches. Jeers to MS to taking so freaking long.
Agreed. If he said 150-175MB he MIGHT have been believable. But 100MB? What did do? Just load up a single tab at google.com? Thank god memory is cheap.
Much of an equipment snob? You'll pit your 8MP DSLR against a sub $500 camera for low light capability?
What else to you want to compare? A porsche 911 Turbo against a Yugo?
We all know that DSLRs will always have cheaper digicams beat. That doesn't change the fact stabilization is a godsend for consumers and will become standard in the future. Nobody wants to carry around huge heavy expensive camera bodies.
Spot on. Kodak has been getting slammed for years for WAY over compressing its photos. A 4MP cam putting out 400KB files? Forums all over are ripe with examples of jpegs artifacts. I'm sorry but in anything above a $50 camera I should not be seeing artifacts. Its the only brand I know of that has this problem and its embarassing. Its a dam shame because otherwise Kodak's have pleasantly punchy colors and good sharpness. In good conditions they can take some nice shots. But compression problems, a general inability to focus in less than perfect conditions and a weak White balance system continue to plague what could otherwise be very solid cameras.
"but they complain about paying $30/month for a lifesaving drug!"
Uh you don't know what your talking about. Its not "geez why do I have to pay this $30 a month!"
Its "the drugs that will help you cost $350 a month and are not covered by your plan. You can either pay for the drugs or eat. Decide." You know all those people complaining about how much drugs costs these days? Well they're sure as heck not complaining about a mere $30 a month copay.
So I'm kind of curious why he states "though I have used the hack on my machine and haven't had any problems yet. " since it breaks basic XP functionaliry.
Anyway, losing thumbnails and that program is IMHO a very minor price to pay for not having your machine rooted. So just make sure and warn others before you tell them to use this temporary workaround.
I wonder how long we will have to wait for MS to fix this one? Oh well, more money for me if they don't.
You can see a quaint movie of Santa over India and the Tag Mahal. And if you look REALLY closely you'll see over 800 Million people looking up wondering what the hell a Christian symbol is doing flying overhead. Because afterall, its not like 98% of the population is Non-Christian or anything.
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Besides the fact that Disney is the "big evil", I used to go by the rule that Pixar = movies worth seeing, Disney = mostly crap that you should avoid. Now how am I supposed to tell what is worth seeing?
Exactly. If XP SP3 came out with IE 7 and a few other security addons the need to upgrade to Vista would be a big fat zero.
Look at it this way. OS X has been running in parallel on X86 for years. X86 is a well known platform that 90% of the computing world uses. What kind of "hardware flaws" are you expecting to see?
If Apple had moved to say xyz platform that was not being widely used for computing then IMHO you would have a point. But that isn't the case so I don't think you theory about there being something wrong with this generation of Intel hardware is accuarte. The "next" gen Mactels won't be 2nd gen, they will be 15th gen or whatever of a stable and widely used platform.
I do expect OS bugs to crop up simply due to a wider sample of users, but I also expect next gen Mactel hardware to look just like next gen PC hardware. Afterall Apple now essentially makes "IBM PCs".
"Apple is finding a way to provide lower prices by jumping on the most popular PC processor company's ability to consistently make quality products are reasonable prices."
No they aren't. They switched processors but are keeping the same prices.
"New Intel iMac: Same models 17 and 20, same prices"
Please don't take this the wrong way but... were you visting warez/porn sites on IE?
I will say that I have seen XP SP2 boxes with AV get trojans. In fact I help someone out who has XP SP2, all updates, and updated AV, MS Antispyware, and spyware blaster running, who STILL manages to get himself into trouble. Still though he is an idiot and you seem to know your way around computers. Legit apps on the net usually don't cause much problems.
One thing that does bother me about all these apps is that an average user still can get themselves into trouble even with all that help. This will probably cause some blood to boil but the default behavior for these apps needs to be to A) delete by default no matter what the file even if it means instantly rebooting into safemode to fix the problem B) if the virus/trojan can't be fixed lock the user out of the system until it is fixed properly or at a minimum C) dump the user into a different virus free profile setup with the new Microsoft "Shared computer" program. Nip it all in the bud and prevent the spreading. Man I hope Vista really does stand up to MS's claims about how secure it will be. *coughs*
Is the Mac now a PC? Sounds like it to me.
*Smirks* at the thought of thousands of Mac users crying because they will all soon be using an "IBM PC" in the future. LOL.
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Why would I want that? Says the person on his FOURTH adapter for his POS dell. Of course I'm not bitter that my fourth adapter already has to be bent just so in order to even charge anymore.
Very nice design. We'll see how it holds up in a year or so though.
Not a problem.
98 support is already gone from many apps. The 9X OS series are dead. Time to move on.
2k support is disappearing but will continue for a few more years on apps that large corps use. It's a 7 year old OS already.
And finally XP support will continue for years to come. Just like how 2K killed off 95 support, Vista will be the ultimate end for 98. If your father in law uses 98 tell him to upgrade already. If he wants to keep using an abandoned OS despite his own best interest then he can do that as well. In that case spend $120 on XP Home and 512MB of memory and he'll be all set.
This may come as a shock to you but certain moderators think and act differently. Sorry if this doesn't jibe with your "all /. user's are drones which think the same way" theory.
Back in the day IIRC, that is how you knew you configured you Soundcard correctly in RedHat.
At least for me the page didn't load at first.
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Your probably right. But I'd bet anything that >50% of "HDTV" owners are still using plain old SD. The vast majority of people don't read product manuals, have no idea how to use even program their 10 year VCR, and don't have a clue which cable does what.
Let them all sue each other into bankruptcy. Especially Apple for being the litigious assholes they are.
"I'm sure a lot of people out there who were planning to taking advantage of this problem have been thinking that they have till Tuesday to write a really good exploit, and therefore not hurrying too much."
I don't believe that for a second. People who wanted to take advantage of this flaw had their code done with 48hrs of the public disclosure. No serious hackers we waiting till this weekend to try and catch some people. It's a race you see. The last thing they wanted was to wait a week and let Antivirus makers and consumers get wise to this and start taking precautions.
IMHO MS releasing this early is due to bad PR and massive pressure from customers. I think it had nothing to do with "tricking" crackers.
And I also want to say thanks to a "real" hacker. Running around like crazy to install that 3rd party patch probably saved me from mucho headaches. Jeers to MS to taking so freaking long.
Agreed. If he said 150-175MB he MIGHT have been believable. But 100MB? What did do? Just load up a single tab at google.com? Thank god memory is cheap.
Much of an equipment snob? You'll pit your 8MP DSLR against a sub $500 camera for low light capability?
What else to you want to compare? A porsche 911 Turbo against a Yugo?
We all know that DSLRs will always have cheaper digicams beat. That doesn't change the fact stabilization is a godsend for consumers and will become standard in the future. Nobody wants to carry around huge heavy expensive camera bodies.
Spot on. Kodak has been getting slammed for years for WAY over compressing its photos. A 4MP cam putting out 400KB files? Forums all over are ripe with examples of jpegs artifacts. I'm sorry but in anything above a $50 camera I should not be seeing artifacts. Its the only brand I know of that has this problem and its embarassing. Its a dam shame because otherwise Kodak's have pleasantly punchy colors and good sharpness. In good conditions they can take some nice shots. But compression problems, a general inability to focus in less than perfect conditions and a weak White balance system continue to plague what could otherwise be very solid cameras.
Nice shot.
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Because I know I just woke up but that CERT page is listing APPLICATIONS FLAWS and NOT OS flaws.
Is a flaw in "Gold FTP explorer" or Photoshop a Windows OS flaw?
Am I the only one seeing this?
"but they complain about paying $30/month for a lifesaving drug!"
Uh you don't know what your talking about. Its not "geez why do I have to pay this $30 a month!"
Its "the drugs that will help you cost $350 a month and are not covered by your plan. You can either pay for the drugs or eat. Decide." You know all those people complaining about how much drugs costs these days? Well they're sure as heck not complaining about a mere $30 a month copay.
So I'm kind of curious why he states "though I have used the hack on my machine and haven't had any problems yet. " since it breaks basic XP functionaliry.
Anyway, losing thumbnails and that program is IMHO a very minor price to pay for not having your machine rooted. So just make sure and warn others before you tell them to use this temporary workaround.
I wonder how long we will have to wait for MS to fix this one? Oh well, more money for me if they don't.
You can see a quaint movie of Santa over India and the Tag Mahal. And if you look REALLY closely you'll see over 800 Million people looking up wondering what the hell a Christian symbol is doing flying overhead. Because afterall, its not like 98% of the population is Non-Christian or anything.
Updates can be as little as a few hundre KB. That's the entire point of the new update system.
Its the Frog and scorpion, not the dog and the scorpion.
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