MS really depends on blazing performance to keep its users happy. Shipping IE separately means an upgrade to those internal components, not delivery of a separate product. I doubt you'll be able to use it alongside the existing IE, for example
And that IE is required for HTML Help, and other applications to function. Try removing Konquer from KDE and see what happens.
"Now whether this is bad or not depends on how much you care. If you say "its just a game" then consider it as frustrating as waiting in line at say... McDonalds. You have 11 kids in front of you, and they think its real cool to keep you from getting your food by ordering a glass of water, getting it, then getting their buddy in 11th place to let them cut in front for another glass. Unless of course you slip them a buck to get to the front of the line."
I think most people would leave McDonalds and goto another establishment that didn't allow that sort of activity. Maybe you should follow my analogy and do the same.
Also you analogy is flawed. It be more like fishing and having people camp a fishing hole. No one is cutting in line(immoral) in the game, they were there before you. Point of the game is gather items and advance, there is no moral obligation for them to allow you a chance to advance.
Also if they didn't sell the items for real money but instead traded the items for other items in the game would you still be complaining? Trading items is perfectly legit in the eyes of the people who run the games.
Is it cheating when I put more money in the arcarde games so I can get extra lives and beat the high score? Is it cheating when I buy some guys oscar award off of them? Is it cheating when I pay extra $50 for the FastPass at amusement park so I don't have to wait in lines? Is it cheating when I pay extra for first class and get to board the plane before other people? Is it cheating when I buy a $500 super softball bat that allows me to hit the ball 30% farther than anyone else? Is it cheating when Ferrari Spends 500% more than other guys in F1 in order to come in first place? Is it cheating when you hire a tutor so you can pass a class? Is it cheating if I donate $25,000 Hollywood bowl allow me to purchase tickets before everyone else and giving me priority parking? Is it cheating when some millionaire buys his way into space while 100s of people try to become astronauts?
"1)If you went to a car dealer and bought a car for $30,000 and you found out it only cost the dealer $3,000 would you feel ripped off? If yes - isn't that what MS does with MS Office?"
Wrong analogy. It should be the car manufactor. Most cars today are manufactored at cost of 50% that of retail. If you think that is bad, car options are even worse. My car costs $300 for heated seats, the funny thing is that all seats made for my car have heated seats because its costs them less to build all the seats the same, considering the heating elements are probably a few cents. You're paying $300 for them to hook up a $0.10 switch and some wire. Yet people still buy heated seats option.
Phones that take flash cards and can play mp3s have been out for over year. Slashdot crowd is getting old as you can tell with all the +5 insight posts that say "All I want is phone that just makes call". Its like talking with my dad, he compains his simple cell phone is too complicated and its 4 years old and it does is make phone calls(no camera,no ring polymoric ring tones, no web. He doesn't even know how to check his voicemail.
Do you live an alternative reality? Ninetendo is dieing. Can you name one game nintendo released that was on the top 10 games world wide? PSX2 and Xbox both had shortages last christmas season due to a 22% increase in console sales yet Gamecube was no where near that 22% increase in fact their sales fell. Saying that xboxes are obsolete is quite funny because all market data says otherwise. Xbox is clearly the number 2 console in numbers world wide, and latest numbers from last quarter indicate strong sales for MS. What reality are you living in?
Demand for the GameCube last year was hurt by the lack of hit games for the console. - Bloomberg
uters and other news agencies have reported out of Japan that Nintendo's net profit has fallen 43 percent in the latest quarter, and that the videogame maker has also cut its forecast for the full year by more than one fifth, citing a strong yen and weak sales of the GameCube. - Reuters
Only one Nintendo title made it to NPD's Top 10 list: "Pokémon FireRed" for the Game Boy Advance. The company's highest-selling GameCube game, "Pokémon Coliseum," ranked 25th, according to Lowenstein. - Seattle Times
The company now expects that by the end of June it will have sold 21 million to 22 million Xboxes since the product debuted, up from an earlier forecast of less than 20 million. - CNET News.com
The Home and Entertainment division, which includes the Xbox and all games sales, reported sales of the console up 30% on the same period last year... Ferrango
PS: Name one killer game that came with psx2 on launch. Ready to Rumble, Timesplitters.. I think not.
PSPS: I remember having the same type of debate when xbox originally came out. Which just proves slashbotters have no insight on how consumer markets work.
Your forgot about 480p widescreen. Almost all games for the xbox support at least 480p, and all the new games suport widescreen. Only game i've seen for psx2 that supports 480p is GTA SA.
Maybe haven't seen the latest figures but the Xbox 1 is bringing in the cash. $84 million last quarter. Its the perfect time for a new console. Use the Xbox 1 sucess to float xbox2 initial costs.
Turning phones into music rental devices seems to fall under the "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should" category.
I bet you said the same thing about cameras in phones. The market is now consoldating personal gadgets, we got phones, cameras(now even decent cameras), pdas combining together. There's alreay phones on the market that can accept flash cards and play mp3s, combine that the dropping price of flash storage and you have a good market.
BTW. There's a few services that you "rent" music that are doing very very well. Have you heard of XM and Sirius? People paying $10 to $13 for the right to recieve broadcasted songs. People are willing to pay for the right to listen to music something slashbotters haven't come to grasp yet.
Millions of people pay for cable tv. Millions of people pay for sat radio. With Sirius its $13 a month, $2 cheaper than Napster. Yet with napster I can choose which songs I want. Both services, if I don't pay, the music disappears. Now if they can combine sat radio and napster subscription for a low price(under $20), i think they would have a decent chance.
I recently switched to Firefox and on NTBugTraq last week, 3 exploits were announced with status of patched. I ran check for updates on firefox and reported nothing. I check A noticed a bunch of other vunerabilities that say patched yet firefox.exe says there's no updates. I went to mozilla.org and even the default download is to the original 1.0 build. What gives? I'd expect update to actually work, there's no way i can install firefox on my parents machines because the only way they actually apply patches is when windows update actually downloads and prompts them. I can tell my parents to find the buried update feature and run it everyday, and that doesn't even seem to work.
Really? Removing MSN messenger is simple go, to add/remove files click uninstall. Simple and easy. Maybe if you were smart enough to realize that you're actually trying to remove Windows Messenger not MSN messenger, you wouldn't have have issues. Next are you going to complain about not being able to remove Oulook Express by trying to uninstall Outlook XP?
Finally, what matters in the end to most of us is: how much time do I need to spend making sure my system is protected from exploitation, cleaning up infestations, etc. ? You can claim your OS is more secure than my OS but if I'm spending less time protecting against or recovering from exploitation than you are, you are going to have a really hard time convincing anyone who follows this type of stuff. If I am not the target audience (because I know better) than what you are engaging in is FUD - aimed at the gullible or uninformed managers and masses who are expected to take your word for it because you are Microsoft and the Press has picked up your sound-bite.
Vunerability known only by the company isn't a problem. Every piece of software has undiscovered vunerabilities, we just don't know about them. When it comes to whether not something is open source or closed source, ask you this. Would you feel safer if government published their source code for their defense software? So anyone can find bugs? In a utopian world 1000s of eyes viewing source is a wonderful thing if all their intent was for good. But in the real world their are people looking to do malicous acts. Before you even respond. Ask yourself, have you ever seen a root kit for NT? When I view processes, or run netstat, i know i'm seeing the actual information. And that these applications are not some hacked up and recompiled version that some script kiddie wrote in 5 minutes to hide his trail.
They don't get fired, they get transfered to Washington DC and placed in administrative position which prevents them for further research. For a scientist who loves what they do, it means they need to find a new job. Scientist that work for the government don't work for the paycheck, they work because they love what they do. Moving into the private sector pays a lot more money but usually removes them true research. People who get a PhD in oceanography didn't spend 8 years in college so they can become rich and famous. Just like true Artists, they do it because they are passionate about it. People who work at the DMV aren't there because they are passionate about their job. No one says when they grow up that they want to give people driving tests. So please don't compare people at the DMV to government scientists who work for NASA,JPL, or NOAA(Fisheries guys in the article).
What are the exploits. Since we are talking about servers, most of important thing is the amount of remote exploits. No one is going to "own" a corporate SMTP server, web server or even an application server by priviledge escalation by logging into the local system. Lets look at the percentages of the types of exploits.
Would you mind advertisements in Gutenber Project online books as long as they were relevant. Would you mind advertisements on pbs as long as they are relevant? How about at your childs school in their textbooks?
Last thing we need is more commercial sites. If you like wikipedia, donate money. I don't want ads on their pages. Last thing I need is big banner ad from google's adsense in wikipedia. I already see enough banner ads a day.
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You forgot to thank Microsoft for going outside of the standards and implementing XMLHttpRequest in IE5.0. Got so popular everyone started copying it. You see how gmail and google maps can change the content page without loading up a new page? Thats XMLHttpRequest, non standardized browser object.
Most boats I see going out of the local harbor have Radar. Everyone I know who fishes has GPS, since your not going to find fish unless you have a handy sheet of gps coords of rock piles, or other structures that contain fish. Lot of boats even have dual gps, just in case one breaks What you don't see is people with real life maps. Everyone uses GPS combined together autonav, they don't even need to steer the boat. Select a way point, engage the autopilot, turn the radar warning on. I even think the new gps systems will interface with radar to navigate around other boats. Talk about lazyiness.
I don't anyone who would dare go out into the ocean without GPS. I think you look at the fatalities, they've probably gone down after GPS became common. There's tons of hazardous areas for boats that aren't marked by light houses. How are you going to navigate US waters especially since there is lot of offlimit areas(military) without GPS? The harbor I go out of is 1 mile away from Port Hueneme Harbor which is military base guarded by troops manning zodiac rafts and what look like to be surface to surface missles located on their beach. I'd rather not get lost and end up there by mistake. Or even worse end up in Missile test range during a missile test and having ICBM falling on the boat i'm fishing on would make me sad.
They are screwed either way. If they give it away for free, people will complain that microsoft is product dumping. If they charge, people will complain that they are making money on their software bugs.
Considering IBM,Sun(java),microsoft(MSMQ) all have message queuing system. You're a retard for not knowing what it is. Maybe instead of complaining you could do a search for message queuing on google.
Think of email for applications, when you send out an email(message) and the other server is down, your smtp server (local queue) keep trying to deliver to remote server(far queue).
Now imagine that type of scenario on steriods. With atomic transactions, xml serialization of objects, custom routing, security, and guaranteed delivery.
What was reported was deception bug for the address contained in the URL. My exploit takes advantage of the way firefox handles whitelist lookups. Instead of correctly using the true domain name, it uses the IDF spoof domain name which is incorrectly converted to standard ASCII instead of using the higher character sets.. However firefox does handle cookies and javascript correctly, cookies are correctly pointed to the real domain name. Luckily this was the case otherwise, people could use this exploit to steal cookies.
When people say firefox has is lot more secure than IE, I laugh. Today I played around with firefox and found a huge hole. If some lowely web developer can find a big gaping hole in 1/2 hour, how many more undiscovered exploits are in mozilla?
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And that IE is required for HTML Help, and other applications to function. Try removing Konquer from KDE and see what happens.
I think most people would leave McDonalds and goto another establishment that didn't allow that sort of activity. Maybe you should follow my analogy and do the same.
Also you analogy is flawed. It be more like fishing and having people camp a fishing hole. No one is cutting in line(immoral) in the game, they were there before you. Point of the game is gather items and advance, there is no moral obligation for them to allow you a chance to advance.
Also if they didn't sell the items for real money but instead traded the items for other items in the game would you still be complaining? Trading items is perfectly legit in the eyes of the people who run the games.
Is it cheating when I put more money in the arcarde games so I can get extra lives and beat the high score? Is it cheating when I buy some guys oscar award off of them? Is it cheating when I pay extra $50 for the FastPass at amusement park so I don't have to wait in lines? Is it cheating when I pay extra for first class and get to board the plane before other people? Is it cheating when I buy a $500 super softball bat that allows me to hit the ball 30% farther than anyone else? Is it cheating when Ferrari Spends 500% more than other guys in F1 in order to come in first place? Is it cheating when you hire a tutor so you can pass a class? Is it cheating if I donate $25,000 Hollywood bowl allow me to purchase tickets before everyone else and giving me priority parking? Is it cheating when some millionaire buys his way into space while 100s of people try to become astronauts?
Wrong analogy. It should be the car manufactor. Most cars today are manufactored at cost of 50% that of retail. If you think that is bad, car options are even worse. My car costs $300 for heated seats, the funny thing is that all seats made for my car have heated seats because its costs them less to build all the seats the same, considering the heating elements are probably a few cents. You're paying $300 for them to hook up a $0.10 switch and some wire. Yet people still buy heated seats option.
Phones that take flash cards and can play mp3s have been out for over year. Slashdot crowd is getting old as you can tell with all the +5 insight posts that say "All I want is phone that just makes call". Its like talking with my dad, he compains his simple cell phone is too complicated and its 4 years old and it does is make phone calls(no camera,no ring polymoric ring tones, no web. He doesn't even know how to check his voicemail.
Grand Turismo didn't come out till almost a year later.
Demand for the GameCube last year was hurt by the lack of hit games for the console. - Bloomberg
uters and other news agencies have reported out of Japan that Nintendo's net profit has fallen 43 percent in the latest quarter, and that the videogame maker has also cut its forecast for the full year by more than one fifth, citing a strong yen and weak sales of the GameCube. - Reuters
Only one Nintendo title made it to NPD's Top 10 list: "Pokémon FireRed" for the Game Boy Advance. The company's highest-selling GameCube game, "Pokémon Coliseum," ranked 25th, according to Lowenstein. - Seattle Times
The company now expects that by the end of June it will have sold 21 million to 22 million Xboxes since the product debuted, up from an earlier forecast of less than 20 million. - CNET News.com
The Home and Entertainment division, which includes the Xbox and all games sales, reported sales of the console up 30% on the same period last year... Ferrango
PS: Name one killer game that came with psx2 on launch. Ready to Rumble, Timesplitters.. I think not.
PSPS: I remember having the same type of debate when xbox originally came out. Which just proves slashbotters have no insight on how consumer markets work.
Your forgot about 480p widescreen. Almost all games for the xbox support at least 480p, and all the new games suport widescreen. Only game i've seen for psx2 that supports 480p is GTA SA.
Xbox's 2004 Success Sets Company Up for 2005
I bet you said the same thing about cameras in phones. The market is now consoldating personal gadgets, we got phones, cameras(now even decent cameras), pdas combining together. There's alreay phones on the market that can accept flash cards and play mp3s, combine that the dropping price of flash storage and you have a good market.
BTW. There's a few services that you "rent" music that are doing very very well. Have you heard of XM and Sirius? People paying $10 to $13 for the right to recieve broadcasted songs. People are willing to pay for the right to listen to music something slashbotters haven't come to grasp yet.
Last time i checked maps.google.com doesn't work in opera. I don't see the guys from opera or anyone else complaining about this.
Millions of people pay for cable tv. Millions of people pay for sat radio. With Sirius its $13 a month, $2 cheaper than Napster. Yet with napster I can choose which songs I want. Both services, if I don't pay, the music disappears. Now if they can combine sat radio and napster subscription for a low price(under $20), i think they would have a decent chance.
I recently switched to Firefox and on NTBugTraq last week, 3 exploits were announced with status of patched. I ran check for updates on firefox and reported nothing. I check A noticed a bunch of other vunerabilities that say patched yet firefox.exe says there's no updates. I went to mozilla.org and even the default download is to the original 1.0 build. What gives? I'd expect update to actually work, there's no way i can install firefox on my parents machines because the only way they actually apply patches is when windows update actually downloads and prompts them. I can tell my parents to find the buried update feature and run it everyday, and that doesn't even seem to work.
Really? Removing MSN messenger is simple go, to add/remove files click uninstall. Simple and easy. Maybe if you were smart enough to realize that you're actually trying to remove Windows Messenger not MSN messenger, you wouldn't have have issues. Next are you going to complain about not being able to remove Oulook Express by trying to uninstall Outlook XP?
Vunerability known only by the company isn't a problem. Every piece of software has undiscovered vunerabilities, we just don't know about them. When it comes to whether not something is open source or closed source, ask you this. Would you feel safer if government published their source code for their defense software? So anyone can find bugs? In a utopian world 1000s of eyes viewing source is a wonderful thing if all their intent was for good. But in the real world their are people looking to do malicous acts. Before you even respond. Ask yourself, have you ever seen a root kit for NT? When I view processes, or run netstat, i know i'm seeing the actual information. And that these applications are not some hacked up and recompiled version that some script kiddie wrote in 5 minutes to hide his trail.
They don't get fired, they get transfered to Washington DC and placed in administrative position which prevents them for further research. For a scientist who loves what they do, it means they need to find a new job. Scientist that work for the government don't work for the paycheck, they work because they love what they do. Moving into the private sector pays a lot more money but usually removes them true research. People who get a PhD in oceanography didn't spend 8 years in college so they can become rich and famous. Just like true Artists, they do it because they are passionate about it. People who work at the DMV aren't there because they are passionate about their job. No one says when they grow up that they want to give people driving tests. So please don't compare people at the DMV to government scientists who work for NASA,JPL, or NOAA(Fisheries guys in the article).
Red Hat AS 3
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66% of the Redhat vunerabilities are Remote compared to 59% for Windows 2003.
Now lets compare standard services on servers. like web servers.
IIS 6.0
Apache 2.0.x
IIS has only 3 known exploits compared to 26 exploits that apache has.
Last thing we need is more commercial sites. If you like wikipedia, donate money. I don't want ads on their pages. Last thing I need is big banner ad from google's adsense in wikipedia. I already see enough banner ads a day.
You forgot to thank Microsoft for going outside of the standards and implementing XMLHttpRequest in IE5.0. Got so popular everyone started copying it. You see how gmail and google maps can change the content page without loading up a new page? Thats XMLHttpRequest, non standardized browser object.
I don't anyone who would dare go out into the ocean without GPS. I think you look at the fatalities, they've probably gone down after GPS became common. There's tons of hazardous areas for boats that aren't marked by light houses. How are you going to navigate US waters especially since there is lot of offlimit areas(military) without GPS? The harbor I go out of is 1 mile away from Port Hueneme Harbor which is military base guarded by troops manning zodiac rafts and what look like to be surface to surface missles located on their beach. I'd rather not get lost and end up there by mistake. Or even worse end up in Missile test range during a missile test and having ICBM falling on the boat i'm fishing on would make me sad.
Considering IBM,Sun(java),microsoft(MSMQ) all have message queuing system. You're a retard for not knowing what it is. Maybe instead of complaining you could do a search for message queuing on google.
Now imagine that type of scenario on steriods. With atomic transactions, xml serialization of objects, custom routing, security, and guaranteed delivery.
What was reported was deception bug for the address contained in the URL. My exploit takes advantage of the way firefox handles whitelist lookups. Instead of correctly using the true domain name, it uses the IDF spoof domain name which is incorrectly converted to standard ASCII instead of using the higher character sets.. However firefox does handle cookies and javascript correctly, cookies are correctly pointed to the real domain name. Luckily this was the case otherwise, people could use this exploit to steal cookies.
Whitelist hole