Of course they've had issues of their own, but I've dealt with both and find it far easier to deal with nvidia's. With ATI I had to deal with monitor settings being forgotten, blurry display output, memory hogging driver interfaces, application windows being resized incorrectly, horrible multi-monitor support, and quite a few other problems.
"1. I don't worry about firewalls, or anti-virus software"
Your computer is still hackable.
2. Complete incremental backup of computer to network drive, usb drive, whatever.
3. nfs, and sshfs. They really are awesome. Windows/mac users don't even know what they are missing.
Also available on OSX & Windows. It sounds like you just don't know much about these two.
4. New OS every few months, FREE. FOREVER..
Sounds like you're too busy upgrading all the time to actually use anything anyway.
Well.... Firefox does not run its plugins in a sandbox, so they can run at whatever level FF was started at. Any plugin with a vulnerability would then give you as much access as you allow FF.
IE8 is available for Windows XP, your point is moot. If users wanted to upgrade they could.
Most modern operating systems also have a web browser, shipping without one is not a wise choice. As illustrated, it also allows third parties to rely on there already being a rendering engine for such things available (or I have even seen documention ship as html).
I also saw it a bit as people who advocated staying away from Vista were also likely to be talking to people who probably haven't updated their browser.
PSP was bought by Corel and has gone down hill in my eyes.
The thing about Photoshop is that it can still handle some things that alternatives can't, or it can handle them better. So it becomes the default standard.
I personally hate GIMP, but have found Paint.net to work quite well.
In the EU, MS was also under pressure to remove WMP. I don't know how anyone can think WMP has a stranglehold on the market since iTunes is doing so well.
Not really. The Sony rootkit installed silently any time you inserted the CD into the system. The Microsoft plugin in question is installed with another package and must be started by the user. It's probably mentioned in wording somewhere in the EULA, but the user has to install it on their own in the first place.
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You're supposed to turn your phone off on the plane anyways. Wouldn't that count as power cycling?
I had these issues as recently as 2 months ago. I no longer use an ATI card so I can't say what it's like now.
Of course they've had issues of their own, but I've dealt with both and find it far easier to deal with nvidia's. With ATI I had to deal with monitor settings being forgotten, blurry display output, memory hogging driver interfaces, application windows being resized incorrectly, horrible multi-monitor support, and quite a few other problems.
You mean the one that's been fixed for 3+ years? Yes that was them.
Yeah, but with ATI you have to deal with their driver bugs.
Your computer is still hackable.
Also available on OSX & Windows. It sounds like you just don't know much about these two.
Sounds like you're too busy upgrading all the time to actually use anything anyway.
Maybe they'll copy guest logins from OSX too.
I mean, it just works, right?!
Vista actually did this but you linux fanboys were too busy falting it for reasons that Mohave showed were false.
It seems to count the same page multiple times if it's mentioned more than once, because there are only so many pags for each.
I was wrong, however. There are 5 pages for IE and 7 for Firefox. Have to click through more to see the end.
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/8308/advisories.png
http://secunia.com/advisories/15601/
Seven year old vulnerability reintroduced into Firefox.
Well.... Firefox does not run its plugins in a sandbox, so they can run at whatever level FF was started at. Any plugin with a vulnerability would then give you as much access as you allow FF.
There were 5 pages of results for Firefox and 2 pages for IE.
The connector on my Mac Mini is always loose. If only there were some kind of screw connection to keep it in place.
Last I heard it was legal in Canada to make a copy of a borrowed CD for yourself, as long as you don't sell it. This was the basis for the CD taxes.
How often do people who have not even updated their web browser try to reinstall their operating system? I'm putting emphasis on try here.
IE8 is available for Windows XP, your point is moot. If users wanted to upgrade they could.
Most modern operating systems also have a web browser, shipping without one is not a wise choice. As illustrated, it also allows third parties to rely on there already being a rendering engine for such things available (or I have even seen documention ship as html).
I also saw it a bit as people who advocated staying away from Vista were also likely to be talking to people who probably haven't updated their browser.
PSP was bought by Corel and has gone down hill in my eyes.
The thing about Photoshop is that it can still handle some things that alternatives can't, or it can handle them better. So it becomes the default standard.
I personally hate GIMP, but have found Paint.net to work quite well.
In the EU, MS was also under pressure to remove WMP. I don't know how anyone can think WMP has a stranglehold on the market since iTunes is doing so well.
"Upcoming" is the operative keyword here.
You run Firefox, a browser that does not run its plugins in a sandbox. You should be worried more about that than your obvious fear of MS.
Not really. The Sony rootkit installed silently any time you inserted the CD into the system. The Microsoft plugin in question is installed with another package and must be started by the user. It's probably mentioned in wording somewhere in the EULA, but the user has to install it on their own in the first place.
Cygwin does terrible things with its DLL and explodes in certain evironments.
Skype is on PSP, is QT?
You can get a year of Live Gold for $30. That's an extra $2.50 a month.