Wow, you Japanese politicians have too much time on your hands I see. Why don't you entertain yourselves with war on terrorism or organize some more elections?:-)
If you think printed encyclopedias are authoritative source of the truth you have not seen soviet "encyclopedias" I suppose. Same is true, to a lesser degree though, for all the others. And anyway - what does a Brittanica or whatever in your local library tells about something like Al Qaeda or similar? How long would it take you to get to the said library, check it out, and get back? Do you really own and periodically update an encyclopedia held at your home?
Or do they? (I have not found). At $15-25 a disc they could've get enough money to maintain it IMHO. It hurts me when I see free projects begging with the bowl.:(
$(SUBJ). Really - while it is possible to find a hole (to be fixed!) by cracking the binaries, no-one in his right mind would deny that source analysis is considerably easier.
Many of us probably did commercial software development and we know how it's done. Security, right...:( What's funny though is that the same bosses that oversee the sad state of development in their houses (99.9% of them I guess) still think that, miraculously, software developed by other guys (which are the same but just other) has virtues that no OSS has. I see some psychological complex here;)
No way! I instantly disable that feature. Microsoft or not I do not like software installed on my system without my will. And cheap broadband is not universally available on the globe.
* Use something other than IE and Outlook/OE
Yes, not that alternative mailer won't let you run that attachment but at least chances are that it won't use your message base / address book for spreading.
* Use a firewall
Absolutely. Don't plug the cable until you have it on.
* Use anti virus and have it auto update
Iffy. Resident AVs do more harm (oh, when people have two of them at once, fun!) and auto-updates are tricky for dialup users.
* Run scans with some anti-spyware software now and then (although I've never caught anything I wanted removed). It looks like this will soon get absorbed by AV software.
Also check your autoruns: services and the other 101 places that MSWin provides for that.
* Don't run dodgy executables, office documents and the like
Oh do as I do: install a sandbox in VMWare. Make a snapshot, run the shit, revert. Pity that VMWare is a tad pricey for general usage.
Well, if I install DivX suite and do _not_ read all the legalese (do they really, really-really intend users to read that??) and it all ends up w/ Gator (IIRC) installed on my machine, is it _my_ fault?
I find it hard to believe Windows XP crashes 12% of the time
On the other hand I find it hard to believe that: - 90+ percent of people really use MSIE - People do program w/ C++ for living - Voting results are indeed real
Well, that just tells that you and me are different from the general populace I suppose.:)
I don't know about where you live guys, but here I guess no-one has a TV capable of 1920x1080 and I think it will never cost less than $2000-3000 or smth (right?) so I don't expect more than 1-2% penetration. So then, what's the reason to buy that? OTOH - 25Gigs is about, what, 35-40 CDs? Whoohoo!! My MP4 collection will fit on one-two spindles then!:)
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Yes, in the same way as a Linux distibution on CD is _always_ obsolete. Or even Windows' one for that matter. This does not make it useless though.
Q: Does wikipedia project gets (its share of) money from those distributors?
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Wow, you Japanese politicians have too much time on your hands I see. Why don't you entertain yourselves with war on terrorism or organize some more elections? :-)
If you think printed encyclopedias are authoritative source of the truth you have not seen soviet "encyclopedias" I suppose. Same is true, to a lesser degree though, for all the others. And anyway - what does a Brittanica or whatever in your local library tells about something like Al Qaeda or similar? How long would it take you to get to the said library, check it out, and get back? Do you really own and periodically update an encyclopedia held at your home?
Or do they? (I have not found). :(
At $15-25 a disc they could've get enough money to maintain it IMHO. It hurts me when I see free projects begging with the bowl.
There's quite a load of "pretonic" though. Is there a difference between "propretonic" and "pretonic"?
Gigarectum is one that's probably not so frequently used.
Sure it isn't. It's been superceeded by "hello". If you know what I mean.
Wow! Someone uses word #4304 without some form of word #5598 as an attribute? I'm amazed.
I love money.
No, he lives on that remote planet doing basically nothing.
Bloody hell, I wonder what other words are _not_ so frequently used then.
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Hmm, interesting idea, thanks.
Sounds like an expensive hobby
I'll answer in Morse code:
ppp2pp2p2p2pp....
$(SUBJ). Really - while it is possible to find a hole (to be fixed!) by cracking the binaries, no-one in his right mind would deny that source analysis is considerably easier.
Many of us probably did commercial software development and we know how it's done. Security, right... :( ;)
What's funny though is that the same bosses that oversee the sad state of development in their houses (99.9% of them I guess) still think that, miraculously, software developed by other guys (which are the same but just other) has virtues that no OSS has. I see some psychological complex here
Great! It's so revolutionary! I mean, see how VRML has changed the old text+bitmap web we've had before! ;-)
Baka. :)
One by one:
* Keep windows up to date with auto update
No way! I instantly disable that feature. Microsoft or not I do not like software installed on my system without my will. And cheap broadband is not universally available on the globe.
* Use something other than IE and Outlook/OE
Yes, not that alternative mailer won't let you run that attachment but at least chances are that it won't use your message base / address book for spreading.
* Use a firewall
Absolutely. Don't plug the cable until you have it on.
* Use anti virus and have it auto update
Iffy. Resident AVs do more harm (oh, when people have two of them at once, fun!) and auto-updates are tricky for dialup users.
* Run scans with some anti-spyware software now and then (although I've never caught anything I wanted removed). It looks like this will soon get absorbed by AV software.
Also check your autoruns: services and the other 101 places that MSWin provides for that.
* Don't run dodgy executables, office documents and the like
Oh do as I do: install a sandbox in VMWare. Make a snapshot, run the shit, revert. Pity that VMWare is a tad pricey for general usage.
Well, if I install DivX suite and do _not_ read all the legalese (do they really, really-really intend users to read that??) and it all ends up w/ Gator (IIRC) installed on my machine, is it _my_ fault?
And then people doubt 12% "reboots rate" of WinXP.
I find it hard to believe Windows XP crashes 12% of the time
:)
On the other hand I find it hard to believe that:
- 90+ percent of people really use MSIE
- People do program w/ C++ for living
- Voting results are indeed real
Well, that just tells that you and me are different from the general populace I suppose.
Well, one cowboy or another... what's the difference?
I don't know about where you live guys, but here I guess no-one has a TV capable of 1920x1080 and I think it will never cost less than $2000-3000 or smth (right?) so I don't expect more than 1-2% penetration. :)
So then, what's the reason to buy that?
OTOH - 25Gigs is about, what, 35-40 CDs? Whoohoo!! My MP4 collection will fit on one-two spindles then!