The only app or hardware that I've had any issues at all with in Windows 7 x64 was the shitty Intel webcam I had; it was 6 or 7 years old and barely had functional 32-bit drivers, so I consider it a worthwhile sacrifice in exchange for better performance and increased memory addressing.
Slightly different matter at work, but in most cases it's been due to unnecessary bittiness checking by the installers rather than actual inability to run and the others have been shoddy applications with custom-written libraries that break horribly if the moon is in the wrong phase, let alone if you're running 64-bit.
You *can* but how many people actually do compared to x86? And given that, would any of those options be offered if those distros had to make a financial return on their development time in the same way that Microsoft does?
Erm, you don't have to pay anything for SP3. It's a free download and the min spec hasn't increased from SP2 so you don't need to upgrade any hardware.
If your apps still require XP SP2 to function then you've got bigger issues than Microsoft dropping support for it.
The worst part is that SP3 is really just a collection of Hotfixes, it doesn't make any major OS changes like SP2 did, so 99% of apps that don't work with it are doing so simply because of shoddy OS checks or iffy version dependencies.
The summary is fucking awful. This isn't about the BBC *at all*, they're the ones reporting the story about the *Government* wasting money on largely worthless iPhone apps rather than focusing on useful, cross platform ones.
Sorry, no. My children do not have any right to continue to earn money from my work, nor do the executors of my estate or any other 3rd party who might be in my will.
The absolute maximum that copyright should ever be is the life of the author, though frankly that's far too much as it is. I don't get to write one program and then sit back and earn royalties off it every time someone runs it, I have to keep writing new ones to make a living just like almost every other industry anywhere, so why the hell should musicians get to write one song and then live off it for the rest of their lives?
I think that their point, regardless of its validity, is that when people go to Microsoft and say "I've found this vulnerability, here's the detail and PoC, please fix it", they often sit on it for weeks, months or sometimes years before they take any action.
Now, I appreciate that MS can't turn on a dime like some smaller companies and they have a shitload of regression testing and QA to do, but in the cases where highly critical bugs have been known about for years and persisted into *new* versions of OSs and Applications, you can understand why people get upset.
A lot of it is psychological; users convince themselves that computers are too complicated for them to understand, so they are.
We had an app at work that ran on a Windows CE-based palmtop that nurses used to record patient notes on their visits and then synced back to a server when they got back to base. The users never had any problems with this at all. Then, when the palmtops were up for replacement, they swapped them out for notebooks running XP with exactly the same app (newer version, same UI) and sync process and suddenly none of the users were able to cope any more.
Despite the fact that the processes were identical, they saw the notebooks as "proper" computers as opposed to the palmtops that were just electronic notepads in their minds and they convinced themselves that as a proper computer it was too complex for them to understand. So much of the trouble with technology is users creating barriers in their own minds and it's largely of "our" own making for trying to convince users throughout the 90s that computers were easy to use and would do everything for them, when we all know that isn't true.
The problem occurs when you buy 10 of the new Xbox 360 from the local Walmart where there are 10, then stand outside and resell them for 5 times the RRP. Under normal circumstances, people would laugh at your stupid prices and go buy one from Walmart, but they can't because you've removed that option for them.
Actually, Xboxes are a bad analogy because they're not really time-limited. Concert tickets are, you can't just wait a week or so for more stock to come in (even if they add more dates the scalpers will just buy up loads of those tickets as well and not everyone has the free time to dedicate to making sure they're first in line when the tickets go on sale).
I can't believe anyone would take CS as an "easy" degree when there are so many utterly worthless excuses for courses available these days. Golf Sciences? David Beckham Studies? American Studies?
I did a computer engineering degree (BEng) about 8 years ago and I was quite shocked in my first year at just how little some of my course mates knew about computing. In our mandatory (across campus) "learn how to use Office and browse the internet" lab session in the first semester there were a number of people who really struggled to get a passing grade (40%), let alone a decent one. When you add to that the fact that most of our programming labs were nothing more than an exercise in creative plagiarism and it's not surprising that graduates find it hard to get a job.
You also have to remember that most CS and CE degrees are aimed at programming and hardware design (ASICs/FPGA etc), whereas a lot of those graduates go into support and administrator roles, with the belief that doing some support work for your friends on a peer to peer LAN is exactly the same as managing a multi-thousand seat domain infrastructure in a business environment.
No. Your saved browser passwords are only secure if the browser provides (properly implemented) password protection for the saved passwords.
i.e. The passwords are encrypted with a key, which is encrypted with a password that the browser requires you to enter before it will allow access to your saved passwords.
Which is why I like Seamonkey's ability to secure the password store with a password of its own so that you're not simply relying on security through obscurity.
Personally, I'm getting really bored of the word "fascist" and, to a lesser extent, "socialist" (Thanks America), because they're now used as generic terms of abuse for anyone that people disagree with.
"X supports censorship, the fascist" "X is pro-choice, the fascist" "X is in favour of increased government regulation, the fascist" "X is a Red Sox fan, the fascist"
And so forth; it's essentially become meaningless now (not that it wasn't fairly poorly defined in the first place).
Or what they could do with Windows Update if they were able to find Microsoft's private key. Or with the iPhone if they were able to find Apple's private key. Or Ubuntu with Canonical's. And so on.
It's like a thousand angry bees trying to force their way into your brain via your ears. Though to be fair I have largely tuned it out now - at least it's a consistent sound so it's easy to ignore - and the England game yesterday was the first one where I couldn't actually hear the vuvuzelas over the sound of the crowd.
Well you've got to mimic the Facebook, otherwise how will you attract all those cool, intelligent people who use social networking sites to your services?
I don't really doubt Obama's *intentions* when he was running for office, I just don't think he had any idea just how many entrenched, self-interested parties exist at the top of government with sole purpose of making sure that their own existence continues.
See Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister/The Thick of It - no matter your good intentions, government is constructed with layer upon layer of civil servants and corporate lobbyists who will oppose, block, delay, mislead and outright screw you over if you try and do anything that would change the status quo, assuming your own party or opposition party don't get there first.
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The only app or hardware that I've had any issues at all with in Windows 7 x64 was the shitty Intel webcam I had; it was 6 or 7 years old and barely had functional 32-bit drivers, so I consider it a worthwhile sacrifice in exchange for better performance and increased memory addressing.
Slightly different matter at work, but in most cases it's been due to unnecessary bittiness checking by the installers rather than actual inability to run and the others have been shoddy applications with custom-written libraries that break horribly if the moon is in the wrong phase, let alone if you're running 64-bit.
You *can* but how many people actually do compared to x86? And given that, would any of those options be offered if those distros had to make a financial return on their development time in the same way that Microsoft does?
Erm, you don't have to pay anything for SP3. It's a free download and the min spec hasn't increased from SP2 so you don't need to upgrade any hardware.
If your apps still require XP SP2 to function then you've got bigger issues than Microsoft dropping support for it.
The worst part is that SP3 is really just a collection of Hotfixes, it doesn't make any major OS changes like SP2 did, so 99% of apps that don't work with it are doing so simply because of shoddy OS checks or iffy version dependencies.
By "secure environment" I presume you mean "without network connectivity"? Because otherwise, it just isn't.
The summary is fucking awful. This isn't about the BBC *at all*, they're the ones reporting the story about the *Government* wasting money on largely worthless iPhone apps rather than focusing on useful, cross platform ones.
BBC != British Government.
a) The BBC doesn't receive taxpayer pounds
b) If they *only* made a Linux media center application then yes, I would criticize them.
Here we are years later and what do you know, there are not all sorts of undetectable VM based malwares running around
Ah, but if they're undetectable then how do you know that?
Sorry, no. My children do not have any right to continue to earn money from my work, nor do the executors of my estate or any other 3rd party who might be in my will.
The absolute maximum that copyright should ever be is the life of the author, though frankly that's far too much as it is. I don't get to write one program and then sit back and earn royalties off it every time someone runs it, I have to keep writing new ones to make a living just like almost every other industry anywhere, so why the hell should musicians get to write one song and then live off it for the rest of their lives?
I think that their point, regardless of its validity, is that when people go to Microsoft and say "I've found this vulnerability, here's the detail and PoC, please fix it", they often sit on it for weeks, months or sometimes years before they take any action.
Now, I appreciate that MS can't turn on a dime like some smaller companies and they have a shitload of regression testing and QA to do, but in the cases where highly critical bugs have been known about for years and persisted into *new* versions of OSs and Applications, you can understand why people get upset.
A lot of it is psychological; users convince themselves that computers are too complicated for them to understand, so they are.
We had an app at work that ran on a Windows CE-based palmtop that nurses used to record patient notes on their visits and then synced back to a server when they got back to base. The users never had any problems with this at all. Then, when the palmtops were up for replacement, they swapped them out for notebooks running XP with exactly the same app (newer version, same UI) and sync process and suddenly none of the users were able to cope any more.
Despite the fact that the processes were identical, they saw the notebooks as "proper" computers as opposed to the palmtops that were just electronic notepads in their minds and they convinced themselves that as a proper computer it was too complex for them to understand. So much of the trouble with technology is users creating barriers in their own minds and it's largely of "our" own making for trying to convince users throughout the 90s that computers were easy to use and would do everything for them, when we all know that isn't true.
The problem occurs when you buy 10 of the new Xbox 360 from the local Walmart where there are 10, then stand outside and resell them for 5 times the RRP. Under normal circumstances, people would laugh at your stupid prices and go buy one from Walmart, but they can't because you've removed that option for them.
Actually, Xboxes are a bad analogy because they're not really time-limited. Concert tickets are, you can't just wait a week or so for more stock to come in (even if they add more dates the scalpers will just buy up loads of those tickets as well and not everyone has the free time to dedicate to making sure they're first in line when the tickets go on sale).
I can't believe anyone would take CS as an "easy" degree when there are so many utterly worthless excuses for courses available these days. Golf Sciences? David Beckham Studies? American Studies?
I did a computer engineering degree (BEng) about 8 years ago and I was quite shocked in my first year at just how little some of my course mates knew about computing. In our mandatory (across campus) "learn how to use Office and browse the internet" lab session in the first semester there were a number of people who really struggled to get a passing grade (40%), let alone a decent one. When you add to that the fact that most of our programming labs were nothing more than an exercise in creative plagiarism and it's not surprising that graduates find it hard to get a job.
You also have to remember that most CS and CE degrees are aimed at programming and hardware design (ASICs/FPGA etc), whereas a lot of those graduates go into support and administrator roles, with the belief that doing some support work for your friends on a peer to peer LAN is exactly the same as managing a multi-thousand seat domain infrastructure in a business environment.
I didn't know you could congregate on your own...
An Adlert?
No. Your saved browser passwords are only secure if the browser provides (properly implemented) password protection for the saved passwords.
i.e. The passwords are encrypted with a key, which is encrypted with a password that the browser requires you to enter before it will allow access to your saved passwords.
Which is why I like Seamonkey's ability to secure the password store with a password of its own so that you're not simply relying on security through obscurity.
Personally, I'm getting really bored of the word "fascist" and, to a lesser extent, "socialist" (Thanks America), because they're now used as generic terms of abuse for anyone that people disagree with.
"X supports censorship, the fascist"
"X is pro-choice, the fascist"
"X is in favour of increased government regulation, the fascist"
"X is a Red Sox fan, the fascist"
And so forth; it's essentially become meaningless now (not that it wasn't fairly poorly defined in the first place).
Or what they could do with Windows Update if they were able to find Microsoft's private key.
Or with the iPhone if they were able to find Apple's private key.
Or Ubuntu with Canonical's.
And so on.
It's like a thousand angry bees trying to force their way into your brain via your ears. Though to be fair I have largely tuned it out now - at least it's a consistent sound so it's easy to ignore - and the England game yesterday was the first one where I couldn't actually hear the vuvuzelas over the sound of the crowd.
Well you've got to mimic the Facebook, otherwise how will you attract all those cool, intelligent people who use social networking sites to your services?
Credit card *processor*
I don't really doubt Obama's *intentions* when he was running for office, I just don't think he had any idea just how many entrenched, self-interested parties exist at the top of government with sole purpose of making sure that their own existence continues.
See Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister/The Thick of It - no matter your good intentions, government is constructed with layer upon layer of civil servants and corporate lobbyists who will oppose, block, delay, mislead and outright screw you over if you try and do anything that would change the status quo, assuming your own party or opposition party don't get there first.