Well in that sense, Linux is still free. You aren't being forced to plunk down a huge share of your hard-earned livelihood just to get your computer to work. It may not work right, it may be confusing as hell, and it may not do all the things you want it to do, but since it's free, you have no real reason to bitch.
Now when you pay $300 for an operating system, it better damn well be all it's cracked up to be, or else Microsoft's ultimately responsible for defrauding its customers.
Great. Now explain what any of that has to do with the "average Windows user" I specified in my first post. Do you really think they'll read any of that? Heck, do you really think the average Windows user even reads/.?
Twenty minutes. That's all it takes. They get their computer up and running, they start playing around on the net, twenty minutes into it and they're already compromised.
Yet for some strange reason, a much better, secure alternative is FREE and it costs three hundred fucking dollars for a single-user license of one of the most insecure operating systems known to man.
Price/satisfaction ratio. How much grief does a typical Windows user have to put up with just to make their computer work right? The average Windows user would have to put up with a fuckton of crap to get Linux to work right, but Linux is free so nobody's complaining. Given how much Windows costs, Microsoft should be paying people to use it, not vice versa.
Actually, they'll do everything short of aggrivated assault. They certainly won't shoot you. They might pull out a gun with blanks in it to scare you into submission, but you won't be shot full of holes if you fail.
"The PS2 can't handle the size of areas we want these days. Best example is the PS2 port of Deus Ex, where every level got chopped up into 5-10 areas with load zones in order to fit them together, as compared to the original PC version (which still rocks, BTW)."
Or, sadly, the PC port of Deus Ex: Invisible War is that is plagued with the same problem PS2 Deus Ex had -- in order to get the game to run on an XBox, the levels had to be designed with a console in mind, so you end up with chopped-up levels with load zones to fit them together.
I prefer Western Digital. The only problem I've ever had with a WD dying on me was when one was damaged during shipping. Had no problems getting a replacement.
Between my two 7200RPM WD drives and my CPU fan, I can't even hear the drives.
At least as far as these worms are concerned, a temporary block should be put into effect by ISPs to stifle the proliferation of these damn things. However it's still ultimately up to the end-user to secure his own systems. However they should also at least attempt to keep tabs on users whose machines have already been comprimised and nag the hell out of them (phone calls, email, whatever) with advice on how to fix the problem, and if the problem doesn't go away in due time, cut them off altogether for abuse of the service. If that means users have to purchase their own firewalls, fine. If they don't want to go through the hassle of securing their systems, they don't belong on the Internet.
Glue the CD to the spindle itself, that way you risk breaking the actual CD when attempting to pry it off. There's nothing stopping people from pulling out a friggin' CROWBAR and cracking the player in half to get to the disc, if they want it that badly. Though unfortunately, the player itself might be worth more than the crap music inside.;)
My school district learned the hard way that filtering access is doomed to fail. It only took a week and a virus that spread across the whole network for the sysadmin to realize that nobody could update their outdated virus scanner because the connection was blocked by the "porn filter".
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This is all Bush's fault? Oh please.
You can do both with a TV tuner card.
Well in that sense, Linux is still free. You aren't being forced to plunk down a huge share of your hard-earned livelihood just to get your computer to work. It may not work right, it may be confusing as hell, and it may not do all the things you want it to do, but since it's free, you have no real reason to bitch.
Now when you pay $300 for an operating system, it better damn well be all it's cracked up to be, or else Microsoft's ultimately responsible for defrauding its customers.
Twenty minutes. That's all it takes. They get their computer up and running, they start playing around on the net, twenty minutes into it and they're already compromised.
Yet for some strange reason, a much better, secure alternative is FREE and it costs three hundred fucking dollars for a single-user license of one of the most insecure operating systems known to man.
Provided you have a firewall? Clean install, get on the net to download patches and you're infected before they've finished downloading.
Price/satisfaction ratio. How much grief does a typical Windows user have to put up with just to make their computer work right? The average Windows user would have to put up with a fuckton of crap to get Linux to work right, but Linux is free so nobody's complaining. Given how much Windows costs, Microsoft should be paying people to use it, not vice versa.
One lawyer already laid claim to the Sun. I say we send 'em all there.
Ran them over with a SUV? That doesn't sound like much.
Have a drag car burn out on it. If it survives and still works, it's worth buying.
Actually, they'll do everything short of aggrivated assault. They certainly won't shoot you. They might pull out a gun with blanks in it to scare you into submission, but you won't be shot full of holes if you fail.
Enlist in the Air Force. Technical proficiency is practically a requirement.
This should've been modded Insightful.
Or, sadly, the PC port of Deus Ex: Invisible War is that is plagued with the same problem PS2 Deus Ex had -- in order to get the game to run on an XBox, the levels had to be designed with a console in mind, so you end up with chopped-up levels with load zones to fit them together.
I prefer Western Digital. The only problem I've ever had with a WD dying on me was when one was damaged during shipping. Had no problems getting a replacement.
Between my two 7200RPM WD drives and my CPU fan, I can't even hear the drives.
At least as far as these worms are concerned, a temporary block should be put into effect by ISPs to stifle the proliferation of these damn things. However it's still ultimately up to the end-user to secure his own systems. However they should also at least attempt to keep tabs on users whose machines have already been comprimised and nag the hell out of them (phone calls, email, whatever) with advice on how to fix the problem, and if the problem doesn't go away in due time, cut them off altogether for abuse of the service. If that means users have to purchase their own firewalls, fine. If they don't want to go through the hassle of securing their systems, they don't belong on the Internet.
Idiots.
;)
Glue the CD to the spindle itself, that way you risk breaking the actual CD when attempting to pry it off. There's nothing stopping people from pulling out a friggin' CROWBAR and cracking the player in half to get to the disc, if they want it that badly. Though unfortunately, the player itself might be worth more than the crap music inside.
Voodoo Extreme may soon find itself a better web server. ;)
They want a "stripped-down" version of Windows? It already exists.
What if the surface it's projected on is red?
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;)
My school district learned the hard way that filtering access is doomed to fail. It only took a week and a virus that spread across the whole network for the sysadmin to realize that nobody could update their outdated virus scanner because the connection was blocked by the "porn filter".