Im having the same issue. Although they have AntiVir 7 out and I just found out about it (and upgraded all the machines on the company LAN), so it might be just the influx of new users upgrading to version 7.... unless 7 has been out for a while and I was just in the dark.
I'm glad that EA is making these cuts, I'm sure they're pretty strapped for cash, and this is the cause of their subpar titles. *phew* I'm relieved.
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My assertion - key phrase in bold: "In fact because there will be even less users using IE7 than Firefox, one could stand to reason that IE7 is more secure than Firefox because there sure aren't any published bug exploits for IE7 yet."
I didn't state it as fact, because I have nothing to back it up. That's why asserting that Apache is (or isn't) that much less secure than IIS based on what I said is an ignoratio elenchi logical fallacy, because the orignal post has nothing to do with Apache or IIS.
At any rate, I feel this thread deteriorating along with my karma (I'm no troll, silly moderators!).
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Well then I suppose apache must be less secure than IIS. By your logic I suppose so.
I should have put a note in the parent comment - I am a Firefox user myself, and that it wasn't meant to be a flame, or a troll, it was merely an observation. Although I should have known better based on Slashdots audience demographic.
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Sadly, I don't think Firefox is any more secure than IE - there are just more published exploits for IE because it's the largest user base. I'd bet we'll start seeing more and more of Firefox's security issues as it becomes more popular. I shouldn't need to post this, it should be common knowledge. In fact because there will be even less users using IE7 than Firefox, one could stand to reason that IE7 is more secure than Firefox because there sure aren't any published bug exploits for IE7 yet.
I had IE7 installed a few months back, and it just felt like IE6 with tabs... I might give this version a try...
It's called beta because 'it's beta than nothing'.
And frankly, if you're not happy with beta software than stop testing it. And if you're having problems maybe you should try and report them to Google - after all that's what beta is all about?
We've known that CD-Rs will degrade for a long time. Hispace have recently launched a new range of CD-Rs aimed at digital photographers. These disks use 24 caret gold to help add stability to the disks. As a result, they come with a 100 year warranty.
Sites like Digg and Reddit, are burying Slashdot. Not to mention the cesspool of a forum each article creates (I am aware of the irony - no flames please), which most of the time aren't even on topic - I do my best to moderate - but 5 moderator points is meager. Here's a graph showing the traffic comparison of Digg and Slashdot. Now we have front page stories made of the kind of he-said she-said BS that I expect from a high school newspaper, and I feel things are only going to get worse.
Maybe it's time Slashdot innovated, and came up with a new format. Perhaps something like reddit or digg, but giving priority to 'classic submitters' (the Slashdot staff).
AntiVir is SWEET!
I love AntiVir, head to head with Norton it destroys it. I've never tried it against AVG though. AntiVir is what I usually recommend to people.
So, starting what tomorrow? New shows? Starting to hire new writers/animators? Starting to distribute the new episodes? I always find myself saying "I'll start that tomorrrow". Just like I tell my creditors that "The cheque's in the mail".
I think this is a pretty good idea, only rather than having said filter on by default, it should be a question asked when signing up with an ISP. "Would you like adult material filtered?" "Would you like offensive material filtered?"
I know there are similar services out there, but one that is backed by the government might have more credibility.
I love slackware! If anything, newbies that want to get 'hardcore' fast should start with Slack. I started off with Slackware and setup my own web, SQL, and mail server. It was painful, not easy, and took a few weeks of hard work (and much reading). But in the end I came out with a fantastic understanding of the inner workings of Linux.
I find that people install linux 'to play around', install one of the pre-packed distros and once on the desktop say something like "okay, now what?" Or apt-get a few things and figure they've learned what they needed to learn about Linux (which they may have - if they want to learn just the basics). "When one learns a distribution such as Red Hat, one learns Red Hat. When one learns Slackware, one learns Linux." - A frequently seen signature on alt.os.linux.slackware
Spoiler: Sandman will be too powerful, Spidey and Venom will form an uneasy alliance, but only after an epic battle between the two with no clear winner. Hence - not *actually* two villans.
It feels like a slightly more mature IE6.
It lacks the little animated icon that all web browsers have had in the top right corner of the screen showing if IE is still "working" or not. That's been changed to a tiny icon on the tab (IE 7 has tabs).
I'm annoyed that you can move the "File, Edit, View... etc" bar to the very top where all normal applications to date have been.
Built in MSN search is kind of annoying, although I'd imagine there'll be either an option or a hack to make this into a google search (still a step behind FireFox's ability to choose from a plethora of search engines).
I was a bit distressed that the first time I visited my personal website and blog, a "Phishing" warning came up, telling me that I should be aware of sites that want to scam me.:S
Overall, thus far (its only been about an hour of use), I'd say IE7 is just IE6 with some shit moved around, added ActiveX protection, tabs support and a new icon.
Browser of choice is still FireFox, but MS seems to have made a step in the right direction.
I highly doubt the impact that this is actually going to have. I consider myself an "enthusiast", but seeing Intel banners rather than AMD banners at QuakeCon really isn't going to sway my thoughts about performance, nor is it going to erase the knowledge that I have that AMD64's perform better for gaming.
"Oh Intel is sponsoring QuakeCon? I guess I should buy an Intel processor"
The real crime comes when companies sponsor games, and those games get optimized for the company that's sponsoring *cough*battlefield2&nvidia*cough*. Maybe the BYOC computer event Intel servers should detect what computers are running AMDs and automatically add 30 ping to them.
I'll bet SOE will turn poor SWG (I'm a player) into even more of a Star Wars blasphmey by having it turn out that SWG is ACTUALLY another Matrix, and for only $69.99 + $10 a month you can get "out" of the Matrix into the 'real world' which actually turns out to be EQ2.
MMORPGs need something fresh, and by a singular company starting to own a lot of the larger ones... I don't see that happening.
No one can seem to figure out where this "crunch time" for programmers came from. Frankly I'm surprised no other slashdotter's pointed it out: Programmers want to be 'leet'. I remember starting to learn how to program about 9 years ago, I used to brag to friends about how I stayed up all night coding - a few people were even impressed by the fact I hadn't slept in 48 hours and made this cool little game.
Now we're all getting older. Young programmers (IMO) will tell any employer "Oh yeah, I can code for days on end, I'm a leet code haxor". And even if a young programmer tells a potential employer that he can't work 50+ hours a week, the next young programmer that comes for his interview will. I have a feeling upper management of these game companies know this and exploit it to their own ends.
ALL programmers have to wise up and realize that their best code comes not after staying awake for 50 hours while running on 4 cans of Jolt cola, but after a relaxing sleep (it's a fact!).
I just moved in with some flat mates from college. We have 5 regular use PCs (2 mac, 2 WinXP, and 1 Linux).
Our main internet gateway/house file server is a PIII 900 Dell, 2 10/100 Nics (one taking the internet, the other to my Linksys WiFi), 1 gbE NIC connected to my PC sharing my ripped movies, and cds with everyone.
The Dell runs Smoothwall, and a shoutcast server (so everyone in the house can play the same music at the same time).
My Linksys router runs WiFi Box.
There's plans to build a HTPC for the TV room... but we may just wait for the XBox 360.
But you have to ask yourself, if it's ready (or near ready) for one product, why wouldn't they put it in their retail ones(or at least annouce that they were going to)? PS3.0 is an open standard is it not? So they wouldn't be violating any kind of NDA. I just smell something fishy about that whole article. It wreaks of poor journalism, poor technical insight, and XBox fanboyism.
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Im having the same issue.
Although they have AntiVir 7 out and I just found out about it (and upgraded all the machines on the company LAN), so it might be just the influx of new users upgrading to version 7.... unless 7 has been out for a while and I was just in the dark.
I'm glad that EA is making these cuts, I'm sure they're pretty strapped for cash, and this is the cause of their subpar titles.
*phew* I'm relieved.
My assertion - key phrase in bold: "In fact because there will be even less users using IE7 than Firefox, one could stand to reason that IE7 is more secure than Firefox because there sure aren't any published bug exploits for IE7 yet."
I didn't state it as fact, because I have nothing to back it up. That's why asserting that Apache is (or isn't) that much less secure than IIS based on what I said is an ignoratio elenchi logical fallacy, because the orignal post has nothing to do with Apache or IIS.
At any rate, I feel this thread deteriorating along with my karma (I'm no troll, silly moderators!).
Well then I suppose apache must be less secure than IIS.
By your logic I suppose so.
I should have put a note in the parent comment - I am a Firefox user myself, and that it wasn't meant to be a flame, or a troll, it was merely an observation. Although I should have known better based on Slashdots audience demographic.
Sadly, I don't think Firefox is any more secure than IE - there are just more published exploits for IE because it's the largest user base. I'd bet we'll start seeing more and more of Firefox's security issues as it becomes more popular. I shouldn't need to post this, it should be common knowledge.
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In fact because there will be even less users using IE7 than Firefox, one could stand to reason that IE7 is more secure than Firefox because there sure aren't any published bug exploits for IE7 yet.
I had IE7 installed a few months back, and it just felt like IE6 with tabs... I might give this version a try
It's called beta because 'it's beta than nothing'.
And frankly, if you're not happy with beta software than stop testing it. And if you're having problems maybe you should try and report them to Google - after all that's what beta is all about?
Where do I sign up!??!
... until they come out with a bible for it.
Where people usually pray to god for something:
"{$God} help me {$do_something||$get_something}"
Googlites (Googlists? Googlans?) would pray to The Algorithm:
"scanf ("%s",prayer);"
At least
Link to Hispace product page
Gold plated spinners... 50 of them. You're right, it doesn't get much more bling than that.
We've known that CD-Rs will degrade for a long time. Hispace have recently launched a new range of CD-Rs aimed at digital photographers. These disks use 24 caret gold to help add stability to the disks. As a result, they come with a 100 year warranty.
Your porn will be around for decades after all!!
Sites like Digg and Reddit, are burying Slashdot. Not to mention the cesspool of a forum each article creates (I am aware of the irony - no flames please), which most of the time aren't even on topic - I do my best to moderate - but 5 moderator points is meager. Here's a graph showing the traffic comparison of Digg and Slashdot. Now we have front page stories made of the kind of he-said she-said BS that I expect from a high school newspaper, and I feel things are only going to get worse.
Maybe it's time Slashdot innovated, and came up with a new format. Perhaps something like reddit or digg, but giving priority to 'classic submitters' (the Slashdot staff).
AntiVir is SWEET!
I love AntiVir, head to head with Norton it destroys it. I've never tried it against AVG though.
AntiVir is what I usually recommend to people.
So, starting what tomorrow? New shows? Starting to hire new writers/animators? Starting to distribute the new episodes?
I always find myself saying "I'll start that tomorrrow". Just like I tell my creditors that "The cheque's in the mail".
I think this is a pretty good idea, only rather than having said filter on by default, it should be a question asked when signing up with an ISP.
"Would you like adult material filtered?"
"Would you like offensive material filtered?"
I know there are similar services out there, but one that is backed by the government might have more credibility.
I love slackware! If anything, newbies that want to get 'hardcore' fast should start with Slack. I started off with Slackware and setup my own web, SQL, and mail server. It was painful, not easy, and took a few weeks of hard work (and much reading). But in the end I came out with a fantastic understanding of the inner workings of Linux.
I find that people install linux 'to play around', install one of the pre-packed distros and once on the desktop say something like "okay, now what?" Or apt-get a few things and figure they've learned what they needed to learn about Linux (which they may have - if they want to learn just the basics).
"When one learns a distribution such as Red Hat, one learns Red Hat. When one learns Slackware, one learns Linux." - A frequently seen signature on alt.os.linux.slackware
Spoiler: Sandman will be too powerful, Spidey and Venom will form an uneasy alliance, but only after an epic battle between the two with no clear winner.
Hence - not *actually* two villans.
They would have put Hitman: Contracts on that list. Now theres a game with a fantastic musical score, very well put together.
It feels like a slightly more mature IE6. ... etc" bar to the very top where all normal applications to date have been.
Built in MSN search is kind of annoying, although I'd imagine there'll be either an option or a hack to make this into a google search (still a step behind FireFox's ability to choose from a plethora of search engines).
I was a bit distressed that the first time I visited my personal website and blog, a "Phishing" warning came up, telling me that I should be aware of sites that want to scam me. :S
It lacks the little animated icon that all web browsers have had in the top right corner of the screen showing if IE is still "working" or not. That's been changed to a tiny icon on the tab (IE 7 has tabs).
I'm annoyed that you can move the "File, Edit, View
Overall, thus far (its only been about an hour of use), I'd say IE7 is just IE6 with some shit moved around, added ActiveX protection, tabs support and a new icon.
Browser of choice is still FireFox, but MS seems to have made a step in the right direction.
I highly doubt the impact that this is actually going to have. I consider myself an "enthusiast", but seeing Intel banners rather than AMD banners at QuakeCon really isn't going to sway my thoughts about performance, nor is it going to erase the knowledge that I have that AMD64's perform better for gaming.
"Oh Intel is sponsoring QuakeCon? I guess I should buy an Intel processor"
The real crime comes when companies sponsor games, and those games get optimized for the company that's sponsoring *cough*battlefield2&nvidia*cough*.
Maybe the BYOC computer event Intel servers should detect what computers are running AMDs and automatically add 30 ping to them.
I'll bet SOE will turn poor SWG (I'm a player) into even more of a Star Wars blasphmey by having it turn out that SWG is ACTUALLY another Matrix, and for only $69.99 + $10 a month you can get "out" of the Matrix into the 'real world' which actually turns out to be EQ2.
MMORPGs need something fresh, and by a singular company starting to own a lot of the larger ones... I don't see that happening.
No one can seem to figure out where this "crunch time" for programmers came from.
Frankly I'm surprised no other slashdotter's pointed it out: Programmers want to be 'leet'.
I remember starting to learn how to program about 9 years ago, I used to brag to friends about how I stayed up all night coding - a few people were even impressed by the fact I hadn't slept in 48 hours and made this cool little game.
Now we're all getting older. Young programmers (IMO) will tell any employer "Oh yeah, I can code for days on end, I'm a leet code haxor". And even if a young programmer tells a potential employer that he can't work 50+ hours a week, the next young programmer that comes for his interview will.
I have a feeling upper management of these game companies know this and exploit it to their own ends.
ALL programmers have to wise up and realize that their best code comes not after staying awake for 50 hours while running on 4 cans of Jolt cola, but after a relaxing sleep (it's a fact!).
I just moved in with some flat mates from college. We have 5 regular use PCs (2 mac, 2 WinXP, and 1 Linux). Our main internet gateway/house file server is a PIII 900 Dell, 2 10/100 Nics (one taking the internet, the other to my Linksys WiFi), 1 gbE NIC connected to my PC sharing my ripped movies, and cds with everyone. The Dell runs Smoothwall, and a shoutcast server (so everyone in the house can play the same music at the same time). My Linksys router runs WiFi Box. There's plans to build a HTPC for the TV room... but we may just wait for the XBox 360.
"We're not actually the fab 5 from Queer Eye - we're actually BLOG PEOPLE!!"
/end obscure South Park reference
... he can't think of a better name than "Blog People"?
But come on
But you have to ask yourself, if it's ready (or near ready) for one product, why wouldn't they put it in their retail ones(or at least annouce that they were going to)? PS3.0 is an open standard is it not? So they wouldn't be violating any kind of NDA.
I just smell something fishy about that whole article. It wreaks of poor journalism, poor technical insight, and XBox fanboyism.