Yes, they work so fine you need admin privileges to run many of them! Like it or not Microsoft wrote Windows. Believe or not they made it so the vast majority of software could easily run without admin privileges IF the developers would take the time to learn how to write their software correctly.
Are they Microsoft Applications or third party apps? Everyone is quick to blame MS for this but in reality it's usually the fault of the application developers that can't follow Microsoft's guidelines for writing software. 99.9% of the time it is the result of one of the following:
1. Storing user information in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE instead of HKEY_CURRENT_USER (even MS is guilty of this with their TS licenses)
2. Writing files to the program directory instead of to the user profile, temp, home drive or other user writable location
3. Writing files to C:\ (this is just inexcusable and lazy)
4. Some other bonehead move by the developers (such as registering components on run instead of during the install, trying to store files in winnt, using freaking INI files!)
[insert rant about under-trained programmers and lack of proper software engineers here]
If the programmers would actually learn how Windows works most of the "x software package requires admin rights" could be avoided.
Probably the same quality software they were putting out when they tanked: CRAP. I realize that/. is in love with this myth that Netscape was this awesome browser that the evil MS crushed with their inferior product, but the truth is Netscape is as much to blame for what happened as MS. At the time their browser sucked compared to IE. Had they focused on the browser instead of trying to pile loads of extra junk into it the outcome might have been different, but they didn't and they died a horrible, horrible death (purchased by AOL). In retrospect it's probably the best thing that could have happened, since now there is a good alternative browser, and you don't have to pay $49.95 for it.
It's not only the decrease, it's where some of it is happening. AMD is the new golden child of the server market. Not only are they a more popular choice for most applications, their multi-core processors caused an explosion in the virtualization field by driving down the cost of building the massive servers to make it worthwhile for mainstream production use.
Before the Opteron Intel was the only processor supplier for x86 server applications in most companies eyes. The market belonged exclusively to Intel. That's no longer the case. Now it's about who can give the best performance for the price. Even if Intel retakes all of their lost server share the market is different and Intel would no longer "own" it as they did before. Now they have to compete based on their merits instead of just trading on their name.
That's gotta sting for Intel, but it's great for business customers.
I'd love to educate the users. Hell, if they were educated on the basics of security they wouldn't even need outbound connection blocking, they would know better than to install every dumbass program because it has cute smilies or kittens or whatnot.
Reality is if outbound connections are blocked they are just going to click Yes every time they are asked to allow a connection. This is exactly how ActiveX malware became so popular. All blocking outbound is going to do is create more problems for people like us when mom or grandma calls up because their new PC doesn't work. It won't stop botnets or any other malware.
If Windows had a firewall that blocked outbound connections by default there would be an article on/. blasting them for breaking user's PC's out of the box. Like it or not most end users don't know what the hell a firewall is, much less how to configure one.
You are correct. Do you feel more better now? I know its harder too live on a world with so manny gramatically unright peoples pollutioning teh ether. Where it me. I'd dun gown crazy.
Sorry, I just could not resist. Yes, you are right and it is one of my pet typo's.
I like their hardware, and there is some functional bits that make it attractive, but honestly I would not decide between two machines based mainly on looks (unless they run the same OS and have the same feature set). It's the OS that I have to actually use every day and I think OS X is about the best choice out there for daily use. I just wish software developers would figure that out. Apple could put out a perfectly fugly machine but if I can run what I need and have OS X I'll buy it.
What attracts me to Apple (as a windows user no less) is OS X. Period. Yea, the hardware looks nice but really I could care less. OS X is a very good OS. Take that away and put OS 9 back on and I wouldn't even consider using one.
As far as OS X on non-Mac hardware, well, that would be a dream come true. Not for home users, but for use in business on standardized white boxes from Dell/HP. It's a pipe dream, I know, but it would be nice.
Ah, gotcha. Sorry, I misinterpreted your first reply. Yes, you are correct. Non-technical users will be SOL if they like watching movies on their PSP and UMD goes away. The sad fact is they don't even realize how the law, even if they are aware of it in the first place, strips them of their fair-use rights.
Yes but technically, since I don't care if I am breaking the law by doing it, and the chances that I would be prosecuted for doing so (for personal use from my own collection, not downloading or distributing)are exactly nil, that really does not matter.
I thought about that but the PSP had a few advantages for me. First, it's smaller and the battery life is a bit better. Second, GTA:LCS. Third, it's just a cool little device. I also played games on it when flying, just not as much as watching movies when I traveled. Now I do play games on it still, just not movies.
It is great if you fly a lot. I know several people, including myself, that bought the PSP mainly to watch movies on when flying. Smaller than a laptop, easy to use. I bought several PSP movies when I was flying all the time. Unfortunately that's not a large enough market to sustain it as a format, and there is not any compelling reason to use them outside of traveling. Since I stopped traveling for work, I haven't bought a new one or touched the old ones.
Of course if you are technical you can just rip and compress a DVD then shove it on a memory stick. Not as convenient but cheaper since you get the DVD and get to watch it on the PSP. If (when) I start traveling again I'll probably just do that instead of buying UMD's (even if they are still available).
Exactly. It's one thing to take a onet-ime course of these drugs if you believe you where exposed, but I can't imagine that long-term use of these drugs would be wise if you don't have HIV. The risks created by the side effects would outweigh the benefits for Joe Random.
Yea, you would think. Then again you would think that indexing news with a few lines of the text and a link to the site would be good for the news site. Seems many of them disagree. So much for logic.
Quite honestly I'm just waiting for search engines to be outlawed all together.
Very true. I think, however, in this case we will see something new. I have a feeling when Joe Sixpack finds out that his HD TV isn't allowed to display his HD DVDs, we will see a swarm of class-action suites start flying at the hardware makers. Thankfully our logic-be-damned legal system in the US will probably work in favor of the consumers in this case.
Hopefully it will make the hardware companies lash out at the content companies for putting them in the middle and hopefully it will make them fight back harder against it in the future. Maybe they will also wake up and realize that they have more money than Hollywood and thus could yield more weight with congress (god that's sad, isn't it?) if they wanted to.
I hope. I fully expect the lawsuits. I'm sure there are lawyers just salivating over it right now. I'm not holding my breath on the results though.
Define "A lot" of people? I doubt Mac + Vaio sales = Dell's for consumer purchases. That also assumes that is the ONLY reason EVERYONE bought one. I'm sure most people don't buy Mac's because they "look cute". Same for the Vaio's. Some people will buy them for looks, but not nearly enough to sustain them on that alone.
Exactly! There would be no reason for Joe Sixpack to buy an Apple that ran Windows when he could get a Dell cheaper. The appeal of Apple is not their hardware, it's the OS that runs on it.
Actually, running out of oil in the middle east could benefit the US and Canada. You have to remember that the US and Canada are setting on some of the largest oil reserves in the world in the form of oil shale and oil sands. Shell recently announced that they had a method of extracting (at a net energy gain) oil from oil shale in Colorado. As prices go up it becomes more feasible to extract oil from harder to use sources. An oil "emergency" would prompt the government to assist in lowering the costs of production. The Shell oil shale extraction system, for example, would be a perfect fit for the use of the portable nuclear reactors (a technology already being developed for other uses anyway).
Uh, no. People do want "all-in-one" devices. They just need to be the right device. Look at how the cell phone market obliterated traditional PDAs. TREOs and Blackberries are popular because they are ONE device. Camera Phones are another good example. Sure, the pics are not as good as most digital cameras, but for probably 90% of people they are good enough for everyday use. If they could get over the "carrier greed" and DRM I'm willing to bet cell phone music players would wipe out most portable music players in a few years as well.
Yes, there will always be enthusiasts that want separate components because they want control over the quality of each, but for Joe Consumer a well designed all-in-one device of about any sort is going to be a popular replacement for separates.
Now, if the PS3 will be such a device is another question that I guess only time will answer.
I think something that should go along with an idea like this is that the USPTO should "Standards" registration. That way, when whatever working group comes up with a standard, they submit it to the USPTO, it undergoes review for patent implications by PTO -and- it is held for public comment and patent dispute for a time before being registered. After that point it should be immune from claims by any owner of patents not already attached to the registration. That way everyone knows up front what the IP implications are and it can be worked out before the standard is put into use.
1. BeOS IP.
2. PalmOS / Handwriting "recognition" that "works" nothing like the Newtons (vastly inferior).
3. Not much else.
Considering Palm, inc. doesn't own 1 or 2, #3 pretty much sums it up. All of the OS IP (BeOS and PalmOS) went with PalmSource (now owned by Access, a Japanese company) when the company asexually divided for some reason way back when.
I can't really see why Apple would want Palm hardware. They really don't seem to have any issues developing their own.
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Yes, they work so fine you need admin privileges to run many of them! Like it or not Microsoft wrote Windows. Believe or not they made it so the vast majority of software could easily run without admin privileges IF the developers would take the time to learn how to write their software correctly.
Are they Microsoft Applications or third party apps? Everyone is quick to blame MS for this but in reality it's usually the fault of the application developers that can't follow Microsoft's guidelines for writing software. 99.9% of the time it is the result of one of the following:
1. Storing user information in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE instead of HKEY_CURRENT_USER (even MS is guilty of this with their TS licenses)
2. Writing files to the program directory instead of to the user profile, temp, home drive or other user writable location
3. Writing files to C:\ (this is just inexcusable and lazy)
4. Some other bonehead move by the developers (such as registering components on run instead of during the install, trying to store files in winnt, using freaking INI files!)
[insert rant about under-trained programmers and lack of proper software engineers here]
If the programmers would actually learn how Windows works most of the "x software package requires admin rights" could be avoided.
Probably the same quality software they were putting out when they tanked: CRAP. I realize that /. is in love with this myth that Netscape was this awesome browser that the evil MS crushed with their inferior product, but the truth is Netscape is as much to blame for what happened as MS. At the time their browser sucked compared to IE. Had they focused on the browser instead of trying to pile loads of extra junk into it the outcome might have been different, but they didn't and they died a horrible, horrible death (purchased by AOL). In retrospect it's probably the best thing that could have happened, since now there is a good alternative browser, and you don't have to pay $49.95 for it.
It's a rather important feature for power spreadsheet users.
It's not only the decrease, it's where some of it is happening. AMD is the new golden child of the server market. Not only are they a more popular choice for most applications, their multi-core processors caused an explosion in the virtualization field by driving down the cost of building the massive servers to make it worthwhile for mainstream production use.
Before the Opteron Intel was the only processor supplier for x86 server applications in most companies eyes. The market belonged exclusively to Intel. That's no longer the case. Now it's about who can give the best performance for the price. Even if Intel retakes all of their lost server share the market is different and Intel would no longer "own" it as they did before. Now they have to compete based on their merits instead of just trading on their name.
That's gotta sting for Intel, but it's great for business customers.
I'd love to educate the users. Hell, if they were educated on the basics of security they wouldn't even need outbound connection blocking, they would know better than to install every dumbass program because it has cute smilies or kittens or whatnot.
Reality is if outbound connections are blocked they are just going to click Yes every time they are asked to allow a connection. This is exactly how ActiveX malware became so popular. All blocking outbound is going to do is create more problems for people like us when mom or grandma calls up because their new PC doesn't work. It won't stop botnets or any other malware.
If Windows had a firewall that blocked outbound connections by default there would be an article on /. blasting them for breaking user's PC's out of the box. Like it or not most end users don't know what the hell a firewall is, much less how to configure one.
Hey, you found another one of my pet errors. I swear the net is destroying my written grammar.
You are correct. Do you feel more better now? I know its harder too live on a world with so manny gramatically unright peoples pollutioning teh ether. Where it me. I'd dun gown crazy.
Sorry, I just could not resist. Yes, you are right and it is one of my pet typo's.
I like their hardware, and there is some functional bits that make it attractive, but honestly I would not decide between two machines based mainly on looks (unless they run the same OS and have the same feature set). It's the OS that I have to actually use every day and I think OS X is about the best choice out there for daily use. I just wish software developers would figure that out. Apple could put out a perfectly fugly machine but if I can run what I need and have OS X I'll buy it.
What attracts me to Apple (as a windows user no less) is OS X. Period. Yea, the hardware looks nice but really I could care less. OS X is a very good OS. Take that away and put OS 9 back on and I wouldn't even consider using one.
As far as OS X on non-Mac hardware, well, that would be a dream come true. Not for home users, but for use in business on standardized white boxes from Dell/HP. It's a pipe dream, I know, but it would be nice.
Ah, gotcha. Sorry, I misinterpreted your first reply. Yes, you are correct. Non-technical users will be SOL if they like watching movies on their PSP and UMD goes away. The sad fact is they don't even realize how the law, even if they are aware of it in the first place, strips them of their fair-use rights.
Yes but technically, since I don't care if I am breaking the law by doing it, and the chances that I would be prosecuted for doing so (for personal use from my own collection, not downloading or distributing)are exactly nil, that really does not matter.
I thought about that but the PSP had a few advantages for me. First, it's smaller and the battery life is a bit better. Second, GTA:LCS. Third, it's just a cool little device. I also played games on it when flying, just not as much as watching movies when I traveled. Now I do play games on it still, just not movies.
It is great if you fly a lot. I know several people, including myself, that bought the PSP mainly to watch movies on when flying. Smaller than a laptop, easy to use. I bought several PSP movies when I was flying all the time. Unfortunately that's not a large enough market to sustain it as a format, and there is not any compelling reason to use them outside of traveling. Since I stopped traveling for work, I haven't bought a new one or touched the old ones.
Of course if you are technical you can just rip and compress a DVD then shove it on a memory stick. Not as convenient but cheaper since you get the DVD and get to watch it on the PSP. If (when) I start traveling again I'll probably just do that instead of buying UMD's (even if they are still available).
Exactly. It's one thing to take a onet-ime course of these drugs if you believe you where exposed, but I can't imagine that long-term use of these drugs would be wise if you don't have HIV. The risks created by the side effects would outweigh the benefits for Joe Random.
Ars Technica is reporting that the PS3 release is going to be a world wide release, so no delay for US/Europe markets.
Yea, you would think. Then again you would think that indexing news with a few lines of the text and a link to the site would be good for the news site. Seems many of them disagree. So much for logic.
Quite honestly I'm just waiting for search engines to be outlawed all together.
Very true. I think, however, in this case we will see something new. I have a feeling when Joe Sixpack finds out that his HD TV isn't allowed to display his HD DVDs, we will see a swarm of class-action suites start flying at the hardware makers. Thankfully our logic-be-damned legal system in the US will probably work in favor of the consumers in this case.
Hopefully it will make the hardware companies lash out at the content companies for putting them in the middle and hopefully it will make them fight back harder against it in the future. Maybe they will also wake up and realize that they have more money than Hollywood and thus could yield more weight with congress (god that's sad, isn't it?) if they wanted to.
I hope. I fully expect the lawsuits. I'm sure there are lawyers just salivating over it right now. I'm not holding my breath on the results though.
Define "A lot" of people? I doubt Mac + Vaio sales = Dell's for consumer purchases. That also assumes that is the ONLY reason EVERYONE bought one. I'm sure most people don't buy Mac's because they "look cute". Same for the Vaio's. Some people will buy them for looks, but not nearly enough to sustain them on that alone.
Exactly! There would be no reason for Joe Sixpack to buy an Apple that ran Windows when he could get a Dell cheaper. The appeal of Apple is not their hardware, it's the OS that runs on it.
Actually, running out of oil in the middle east could benefit the US and Canada. You have to remember that the US and Canada are setting on some of the largest oil reserves in the world in the form of oil shale and oil sands. Shell recently announced that they had a method of extracting (at a net energy gain) oil from oil shale in Colorado. As prices go up it becomes more feasible to extract oil from harder to use sources. An oil "emergency" would prompt the government to assist in lowering the costs of production. The Shell oil shale extraction system, for example, would be a perfect fit for the use of the portable nuclear reactors (a technology already being developed for other uses anyway).
Uh, no. People do want "all-in-one" devices. They just need to be the right device. Look at how the cell phone market obliterated traditional PDAs. TREOs and Blackberries are popular because they are ONE device. Camera Phones are another good example. Sure, the pics are not as good as most digital cameras, but for probably 90% of people they are good enough for everyday use. If they could get over the "carrier greed" and DRM I'm willing to bet cell phone music players would wipe out most portable music players in a few years as well.
Yes, there will always be enthusiasts that want separate components because they want control over the quality of each, but for Joe Consumer a well designed all-in-one device of about any sort is going to be a popular replacement for separates.
Now, if the PS3 will be such a device is another question that I guess only time will answer.
I think something that should go along with an idea like this is that the USPTO should "Standards" registration. That way, when whatever working group comes up with a standard, they submit it to the USPTO, it undergoes review for patent implications by PTO -and- it is held for public comment and patent dispute for a time before being registered. After that point it should be immune from claims by any owner of patents not already attached to the registration. That way everyone knows up front what the IP implications are and it can be worked out before the standard is put into use.
Of course, I won't hold my breath..
Palm has:
1. BeOS IP.
2. PalmOS / Handwriting "recognition" that "works" nothing like the Newtons (vastly inferior).
3. Not much else.
Considering Palm, inc. doesn't own 1 or 2, #3 pretty much sums it up. All of the OS IP (BeOS and PalmOS) went with PalmSource (now owned by Access, a Japanese company) when the company asexually divided for some reason way back when.
I can't really see why Apple would want Palm hardware. They really don't seem to have any issues developing their own.