" The last thing that I need is for a bunch of screw-ups to tell me how to run a secured system. "
So? Don't use what they provide. In the mean time, lots of people are unprotected because they simply don't know.
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" 10% of Windows users is 10 million PCs. "
Ah dammit. I had rewritten that paragraph a couple of times and forgot to update that sentence. Sorry about the dumb math error.:)
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"SLI is overkill for 99.99% of people out there. In fact, onboard video is fine for probably 80-90% of the PC market."
I don't know how many PCs are out there, but I did read somewhere that there are 80 million Windows users. 10% of Windows users is 10 million PCs. Whether or not on-board video is good enough for 90% of the PCs out there, there' still a very large number to go after.
" Even though they know IE doesn't render correctly... ".... what? Are you seriously trying to say that despite most websites being made for IE, they really show up properly on FireFox? (Not nitpicking your whole entire point, but this particular comment made my eyebrows collide.)
"What can be done about these kinds of users? Is this the vast middle-ground of IE users that just won't switch?"
Show them the new cool features you get. Tabbed browsing: Good. Pop-up blocking, good. Etc. I just switched somebody to Opera recently because he was tired of having IE windows flooding his task bar. It was difficult to get him to do it, though, because of the experience he's had getting OTHER browsers to load pages properly. (He also runs a Mac from time to time.) Now you've got an idea why I was asking you about IE not showing pages correctly. They can be asked to switch if features appeal to them, and they know they won't be losing anything.
"You're assuming that Firefox has the same amount of bugs and vulnerabilities that IE does and it's not the case."
It cannot be assumed that FireFox doesn't have the same amount of bugs and vulnerabilities, it hasn't had as much attention paid to it. Frankly, the 'as much' number isn't all that important anyway. It needs to have one vulnerability to be a problem. Suppose a FF extension becomes really popular, and somebody finds an exploit in it?
I'm not defending IE here, rather I'm pointing out that one should be careful in making broad assumptions about the future.
"Maybe it's because people are switching FROM Firefox to something else, but not IE? Is it really that bad if people don't use Firefox, but still aren't using IE?"
Us Opera users don't think so. Pity it doesn't get more Slashdot time. Opera's quite the friendly browser.
"I would have thought a black & white image would have been done first."
Eh, I'm not really so surprised. Before 92, in the BBS days, you could get color JPG's and Gifs. I understand your point that getting a color scan was harder, but my only real rebuttal to that is the technology was around before the WWW was.
"In other words, as Cringely puts it, even Microsoft's "good" actions have a predatory purpose."
Err, right. Companies made money on Microsoft's incompetence. Microsoft fixes their incompetence, makes their product better, but it puts companies out of business. Never mind that anti-virus etc doesn't lose MS sales. Heh.
Uh. Sorry man, not trying to give you personally a hard time. I've just noticed lately that when people put their minds to something they hate, they can cook up all kinds of justifications to hate them. A lot of the time, the justifications sound alright because a negative is measurable (i.e. "businesses will go under. That's what Microsoft wants!") but further analysis (usually dislike prevents this analysis from happening) often yields more enlightening info about reality.
Microsoft is usually the butt of these insightful ramblings, but I see it all the time. The thought process, in my view, is utterly unhelpful. "Why would I want a camera in my phone?!?" as opposed to "If I had a camera in my phone, what productive work could I do with it?" I work in a field where creative solutions need to be sought on a regular basis. Unfortunately, some people develop opinions like these and end up closing off an entire avenue of solutions. (i.e. Maya users and LW users baring their teeth at each other.) I've learned the hard way this is a bad way to behave. That's why I felt compelled to reply to your post. I often reply to these comments like I did in the first paragraph here, the idea being to show people that there's often more to the story than they've allowed in. Unfortunately, I come off sounding like a Microsoftie.
Okay, not the most on-topic post in the world, but hopefully at least you'll understand why I don't take assumptions about Microsoft's behaviour too seriously. All it takes to be seen as evil is a pre-supposition that you are.
Overrated? I'm getting really tired of being modded down because I didn't put Apple in the brightest light. Come on guys, tell me I'm wrong. If I don't have the right idea, then why doesn't Mac have a greater market share? Why aren't people using the Mac instead of Windows just like the guy I responded to said? Can you honestly tell me it isn't because of impressions that it's a niche product? I'll hear anything you gotta say, but hit reply instead of Mod.
"If they want to just install a device and go, then why are they bothering with Windows? Isn't that what Apple OS X is for?"
A.) Windows is better supported with a much larger user base. Go to any computer store and it's Windows Windows Windows!!! The Mac is riskier, at least in the eyes of a lot of people, in this respect. In other words, anything you can buy can safely be assumed to work with Windows. Mac users wind up looking for the word 'Mac' on anything they buy.
B.) Windows does this job quite satisfactorally.
Wrong OS? No, sorry. Like it or loathe it, Windows is the mass-market OS. It would be nice, however, if Apple made an x86 OS.
"If I'm going to be punished, I may as well commit the crime."
Ya know, if MS were to say "Since this will cut down on piracy, we're going to pre-emptively lower prices..." I might be a little less offended. But this never happens, does it? I mean, billions and billions of dollars are claimed to be lost due to piracy, but has Valve made HL2 cheaper? Ugh.
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"So how do you go about building one of these things?"
"Do you know how to build an empty box?"
" The last thing that I need is for a bunch of screw-ups to tell me how to run a secured system. "
So? Don't use what they provide. In the mean time, lots of people are unprotected because they simply don't know.
" 10% of Windows users is 10 million PCs. "
:)
Ah dammit. I had rewritten that paragraph a couple of times and forgot to update that sentence. Sorry about the dumb math error.
"SLI is overkill for 99.99% of people out there. In fact, onboard video is fine for probably 80-90% of the PC market."
I don't know how many PCs are out there, but I did read somewhere that there are 80 million Windows users. 10% of Windows users is 10 million PCs. Whether or not on-board video is good enough for 90% of the PCs out there, there' still a very large number to go after.
"Opera doesn't do such a wonderful job over the others that I feel compelled to pay or be shown advertising."
:)
I disagree about that, but really it's all about what you want to use.
"It also costs money."
Or barely noticable google text ads.
"You disable the fucking extension!"
Before or after you've been exploited? Just like with IE, you have to use common sense.
" Even though they know IE doesn't render correctly... " .... what? Are you seriously trying to say that despite most websites being made for IE, they really show up properly on FireFox? (Not nitpicking your whole entire point, but this particular comment made my eyebrows collide.)
"What can be done about these kinds of users? Is this the vast middle-ground of IE users that just won't switch?"
Show them the new cool features you get. Tabbed browsing: Good. Pop-up blocking, good. Etc. I just switched somebody to Opera recently because he was tired of having IE windows flooding his task bar. It was difficult to get him to do it, though, because of the experience he's had getting OTHER browsers to load pages properly. (He also runs a Mac from time to time.) Now you've got an idea why I was asking you about IE not showing pages correctly. They can be asked to switch if features appeal to them, and they know they won't be losing anything.
"You're assuming that Firefox has the same amount of bugs and vulnerabilities that IE does and it's not the case."
It cannot be assumed that FireFox doesn't have the same amount of bugs and vulnerabilities, it hasn't had as much attention paid to it. Frankly, the 'as much' number isn't all that important anyway. It needs to have one vulnerability to be a problem. Suppose a FF extension becomes really popular, and somebody finds an exploit in it?
I'm not defending IE here, rather I'm pointing out that one should be careful in making broad assumptions about the future.
"Maybe it's because people are switching FROM Firefox to something else, but not IE? Is it really that bad if people don't use Firefox, but still aren't using IE?"
Us Opera users don't think so. Pity it doesn't get more Slashdot time. Opera's quite the friendly browser.
Well, it's not very often that Edward James Almos posts here.
"I have heard YMCA an inordinate amount of times on my ipod shuffle."
That's no need to feel down.
"My father invented and patented this idea;"
Whoah.. what just came over me? For a moment, I really hated your dad!
"On a whim I did a search."
Whoah.. anybody click on the first link in that search? Glad I have safe search off!
"I built a shank out of my hard drive, with the head sensor assembly. It's hard to smuggle into jail."
Heh I would have laughed harder at this if your nickname was Beecher instead of Davis.
"I would have thought a black & white image would have been done first."
Eh, I'm not really so surprised. Before 92, in the BBS days, you could get color JPG's and Gifs. I understand your point that getting a color scan was harder, but my only real rebuttal to that is the technology was around before the WWW was.
Ugh. Remember downloading porn from BBS's? One... picture... at ... a ... time. Good thing I knew where my dad's stash was.
"Gasp! Girl geeks! Be still my beating heart!"
From 1992? They're like old now.
"Why would anyone migrate away from Microsoft products now?"
So... how much do OSS developers pay up?
Not asking because I want to file a claim, but since MS wouldn't want to bleed $5 towards millions of users...
"I think writing clear and easy to understand code is more important in the long run, especially if other people will have to look at it."
That and resources (memory, cpu cycles etc) are getting so plentiful that we're reaching a point of diminishing returns.
"Where do you work by the way?"
;)
I work in central California. I wrote this plugin.
"In other words, as Cringely puts it, even Microsoft's "good" actions have a predatory purpose."
Err, right. Companies made money on Microsoft's incompetence. Microsoft fixes their incompetence, makes their product better, but it puts companies out of business. Never mind that anti-virus etc doesn't lose MS sales. Heh.
Uh. Sorry man, not trying to give you personally a hard time. I've just noticed lately that when people put their minds to something they hate, they can cook up all kinds of justifications to hate them. A lot of the time, the justifications sound alright because a negative is measurable (i.e. "businesses will go under. That's what Microsoft wants!") but further analysis (usually dislike prevents this analysis from happening) often yields more enlightening info about reality.
Microsoft is usually the butt of these insightful ramblings, but I see it all the time. The thought process, in my view, is utterly unhelpful. "Why would I want a camera in my phone?!?" as opposed to "If I had a camera in my phone, what productive work could I do with it?" I work in a field where creative solutions need to be sought on a regular basis. Unfortunately, some people develop opinions like these and end up closing off an entire avenue of solutions. (i.e. Maya users and LW users baring their teeth at each other.) I've learned the hard way this is a bad way to behave. That's why I felt compelled to reply to your post. I often reply to these comments like I did in the first paragraph here, the idea being to show people that there's often more to the story than they've allowed in. Unfortunately, I come off sounding like a Microsoftie.
Okay, not the most on-topic post in the world, but hopefully at least you'll understand why I don't take assumptions about Microsoft's behaviour too seriously. All it takes to be seen as evil is a pre-supposition that you are.
Overrated? I'm getting really tired of being modded down because I didn't put Apple in the brightest light. Come on guys, tell me I'm wrong. If I don't have the right idea, then why doesn't Mac have a greater market share? Why aren't people using the Mac instead of Windows just like the guy I responded to said? Can you honestly tell me it isn't because of impressions that it's a niche product? I'll hear anything you gotta say, but hit reply instead of Mod.
"If they want to just install a device and go, then why are they bothering with Windows? Isn't that what Apple OS X is for?"
A.) Windows is better supported with a much larger user base. Go to any computer store and it's Windows Windows Windows!!! The Mac is riskier, at least in the eyes of a lot of people, in this respect. In other words, anything you can buy can safely be assumed to work with Windows. Mac users wind up looking for the word 'Mac' on anything they buy.
B.) Windows does this job quite satisfactorally.
Wrong OS? No, sorry. Like it or loathe it, Windows is the mass-market OS. It would be nice, however, if Apple made an x86 OS.
"If I'm going to be punished, I may as well commit the crime."
Ya know, if MS were to say "Since this will cut down on piracy, we're going to pre-emptively lower prices..." I might be a little less offended. But this never happens, does it? I mean, billions and billions of dollars are claimed to be lost due to piracy, but has Valve made HL2 cheaper? Ugh.