Wow, lets not get ahead of ourselves. Internet E-destroyer still controls the lions share of the market by far. Its not even a race this point.
100,000 more downloads it not that many. There are still many, many idiots out there who think their pop-up stopper will solve their problems.
Mozilla is gaining in popularity, but there is still a long road to go before things change and IE users become the minority. I wish Mozilla luck, but anything can happen in the next year, includng Microsoft actually fixing IE.
So don't could your chickens before they hatch, much less start injecting virus tests into them because animal rights activist might just get mad at you or something.
i read on here how someone had p2 and a p4 laptops systems. he, out of boredom probably, switched the pentium stickers. then somene robbed his house and took the p2 with the p4 sticker on it and left the other computer behind.
Mozilla
Shockwave Plugin
Winamp
AIM
MS Office
WS_FTP
Adobe Acrobat
Photoshop
Putty/WinSCP
Realplayer and Quicktime (unfortunatly I still need them to play a lot of internet videos)
Then come the video games!
can't say i really support MS, i def would never actually pay money for a windows OS. i need to use windows for the games/photoshop/etc though, so i do.
i know there are other options but those other options suck and are sooooo not worth the hassle. so while windows is the only OS with all the software written for it that i want to use, i'll use it - party of a problem or not (i dont actually see how windows itself is a problem, by the way)
I work tech support for Gateway. Trust me those computers are verified crap. They put the worst, cheapest parts in all of the systems I've seen.
My favorite is the guy who called up with a Gateway computer that had 768 MB Ram, a Radeon 9600, and RAID 0 in it. Which is all fine, except the power supply was 250 Watts!!! Needless to say this guy had tons of problems with his computer from day 1.
i don't think india showed us anything, except that companies will do anything to save a few bucks.
ans far as the money. yeah my ego still tells me i deserve 80-90k per year. slowly i'm comming to reality and settiling for my 20k per year job. its sucks, but so does life.
How is an infected user supposed to resolve the issues that they have if they can't get to an update or patch?
Did you mean, how do they do it without paying money. Sorry If these people have to actually pay money to take their computer somewhere to get fixed, but that America for you - money, money, money.
well ok. say you are 15 year old sally using the family compy. you go to some site cuz a friend emailed you a link. then you get there and some grey pop up come up from internet explorer that say something you don't know what it says and just click ok to get rid of it. then you continue surfing.
well what sally didnt realize she was clicking was a prompt from IE. the prompt was asking he if she tusted the website and would allow it to install something onto her computer. unknowingly she clicked yes. it installed, got into her registry, got into her system and now this program runs freely on her computer. the program pop-up ads, changes website urls, and pretty much earns money for the company that owns it. annoying yes, but did sally actually give permission to the company to install it? i highly doubt it. she just clicked stuff, thats all.
yeah i pretty much have given up email. i dont email friends/family anymore, i just call them using my trusty cell phone and free long distance. the only reason i have an email account is to sign up for stuff on the internet. and i do have three accounts for that, only one do i use after i verify that the company i gave my email too isnt spamming me.
other than that i stay away from email. althoguh i do use IM a lot.
i dont feel like reading all the other posts, but i just wanted to say this.
i hate working in the same room as other people. i'm the only person that knows anything, so they always keep comming to me and asking me questions and such. i then have to stop what i'm doing and help them. i need my privacy so that i can actually accomplish something.
yeah i agree too, i really don't understand. is it supposed to be some sort of self-serving geek feel good article or something? the logic in that article is incredibly off base. i just dont get it.
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Wow, lets not get ahead of ourselves. Internet E-destroyer still controls the lions share of the market by far. Its not even a race this point. 100,000 more downloads it not that many. There are still many, many idiots out there who think their pop-up stopper will solve their problems.
Mozilla is gaining in popularity, but there is still a long road to go before things change and IE users become the minority. I wish Mozilla luck, but anything can happen in the next year, includng Microsoft actually fixing IE.
So don't could your chickens before they hatch, much less start injecting virus tests into them because animal rights activist might just get mad at you or something.
yeah, Mozilla is a lot better, those Firefox users are just idiots.
Then only comfort I derive from this is that now the average user will have only 27 spyware programs on their computer instead of 28.
i read on here how someone had p2 and a p4 laptops systems. he, out of boredom probably, switched the pentium stickers. then somene robbed his house and took the p2 with the p4 sticker on it and left the other computer behind.
its all about disguise.
Mine:
Mozilla
Shockwave Plugin
Winamp
AIM
MS Office
WS_FTP
Adobe Acrobat
Photoshop
Putty/WinSCP
Realplayer and Quicktime (unfortunatly I still need them to play a lot of internet videos) Then come the video games!
its freeking snowing in Rochester right now. The nice weather might make us less productive, but it sure makes me a lot happier.
can't say i really support MS, i def would never actually pay money for a windows OS. i need to use windows for the games/photoshop/etc though, so i do.
i know there are other options but those other options suck and are sooooo not worth the hassle. so while windows is the only OS with all the software written for it that i want to use, i'll use it - party of a problem or not (i dont actually see how windows itself is a problem, by the way)
I work tech support for Gateway. Trust me those computers are verified crap. They put the worst, cheapest parts in all of the systems I've seen.
My favorite is the guy who called up with a Gateway computer that had 768 MB Ram, a Radeon 9600, and RAID 0 in it. Which is all fine, except the power supply was 250 Watts!!! Needless to say this guy had tons of problems with his computer from day 1.
i work gateway tech support. i have to say though, i work on a compaq and have never actually used any of the computers i support/troubleshoot.
i don't think india showed us anything, except that companies will do anything to save a few bucks.
ans far as the money. yeah my ego still tells me i deserve 80-90k per year. slowly i'm comming to reality and settiling for my 20k per year job. its sucks, but so does life.
How is an infected user supposed to resolve the issues that they have if they can't get to an update or patch? Did you mean, how do they do it without paying money. Sorry If these people have to actually pay money to take their computer somewhere to get fixed, but that America for you - money, money, money.
i wonder what percentage of first posts on /. are quick humorous quips. i bet its somewhere in the vicinity of 100%.
such shameful begging
i hope the bots find your email address and you get spammed for the rest of all eternity.
well ok. say you are 15 year old sally using the family compy. you go to some site cuz a friend emailed you a link. then you get there and some grey pop up come up from internet explorer that say something you don't know what it says and just click ok to get rid of it. then you continue surfing.
well what sally didnt realize she was clicking was a prompt from IE. the prompt was asking he if she tusted the website and would allow it to install something onto her computer. unknowingly she clicked yes. it installed, got into her registry, got into her system and now this program runs freely on her computer. the program pop-up ads, changes website urls, and pretty much earns money for the company that owns it. annoying yes, but did sally actually give permission to the company to install it? i highly doubt it. she just clicked stuff, thats all.
yeah i pretty much have given up email. i dont email friends/family anymore, i just call them using my trusty cell phone and free long distance. the only reason i have an email account is to sign up for stuff on the internet. and i do have three accounts for that, only one do i use after i verify that the company i gave my email too isnt spamming me. other than that i stay away from email. althoguh i do use IM a lot.
i dont feel like reading all the other posts, but i just wanted to say this. i hate working in the same room as other people. i'm the only person that knows anything, so they always keep comming to me and asking me questions and such. i then have to stop what i'm doing and help them. i need my privacy so that i can actually accomplish something.
yeah i agree too, i really don't understand. is it supposed to be some sort of self-serving geek feel good article or something? the logic in that article is incredibly off base. i just dont get it.
The U.S. government... lie? nooo...