The only reason that most people find.Net or Delphi any easier for GUI work than Java is because there are very few good drag and drop environments for creating Swing and AWT GUIs. The best one I've seen so far is the one that Comes with NetBeans. It makes GUI development a lot easier. It's still not as good as what they have for.Net or Delphi, but it's workable. If you are stuck doing your UI coding by hand, or using the terrible Eclipse extension, then you might want to take a look at NetBeans.
Just go with the Revolution. It will only have a DVD Drive, and won't play any DVD movies without a special attachment. The thing is, they won't stop selling DVDs. There's a reason those super audio cds didn't surplant regular audio cds. Because people couldn't tell the difference in quality, because they had no new features, and because they required new hardware to play. HD-DVD and BluRay have the exact same problems. Even with a large HDTV, and really good speakers, it would be hard to notice a quality difference. Also, it doesn't offer any advantages over the previous format, at least not on the level of no rewind, skip to any scene, never wear out kind of features that DVD offered over VHS. And lastly, these new formats will require new hardware. And if you buy hardware that plays one, you can't play the others. This whole format war thing is going to confuse the hell out of people. Especially because the discs look exactly the same as DVDs, and eachother.
The CD drive in the original playstation was a terrible idea. Those things were slow. Loading times were terrible. Playstation has terrible loading times even with the PS2. At least the original PS2, not sure about thee newer models. It's nice to see someone trying to put in new features, but when the technology isn't ready, it can turn out to be a big mistake. Nintendo waited until the technology was ready, and now they are the only console maker without any noticeable loading times. I think that Sony is also taking a big risk this time around. The PS3 is going to cost a lot more than either the revolution, and the 360, and isn't going to offer much in terms of new features, except really good graphics, (which all the systems have), and ability to play blu-ray movies (which don't even exist yet). Are people willing to pay that much money, just for the ability to play blu-ray?
Who says the banks don't try to educate their customers? I know there's a whole wealth of information on my banks' websites about email fraud. They can't really force you to read the information, but they do put it there. This kind of fraud isn't new. Requiring people to enter more information when they log on to a banking site won't solve anything. Using tokens that change keys every 60 seconds won't stop anything, because the fake website can just forward the information to the bank's page, allow them to log in. The thing is, I don't know if there is any safety net that can protect against people visiting some rogue site, and giving them their personal information. People just have to learn not to be so naive.
Yeah, MS always has had bad default rights. Remember the default sa account in sql server up to and including 7.0. The default password was empty. What kind of system even allows blank passwords. In *nix, the default file system since the beginning, has not allowed users to overwrite everything including system files. You could overwrite files in your own user account, but the system is pretty useless if you can't do that. With FAT(32), there are absolutely no permissions on files whatsoever. Anybody can overwrite any file. Provided it's not in use. Yes, you could probably run linux on FAT(32), But either everything on the mount point would be executable, or nothing would be. Neither of these options are good.
First Flaw. Windows makes your initial user account as administrator by default. Secondly, if you don't use NTFS, and there's a few reasons why you may want to, such as incompatibility with other operating systems, windows won't stop programs from overwriting almost all your files with garbage.
You can fake all the headers in the http header, so that the paypal site thinks the post is coming from it's own site. Also, whether or not the site you type your information into saves it in a database, or automatically logs into the paypal site as soon as you enter it, by forwarding it to the real paypal, has not bearing on whether or not it's a man-in-the-middle attack. A man in the middle attack actually requires someone listening in on a connection to a specific server. It's not a man-in-the-middle attack if you trick someone to entering their information into the wrong site.
First of all, the fact that you are calling it a "man-in-the-middle" attack shows that you know nothing about security. If you go to a mypaypalsecurity.com, there is no one in the middle, nor does there need to be. On another not, why hasn't paypal started using PGP for their emails, or at least the option of it. At least this would give their customers a way to actually verify the messages, since it seems that email is the only way they communicate.
I have two bank accounts (TD and RBC), both of them have a no email policy. In fact, I've never heard of a real bank that emails customers. There's too many problems associated with email. They could use PGP, but try teaching average users how to use that. The only money related business i've seen send out emails is paypal. Since this is their only way of contacting most of their customers. I have no idea why they don't have a PGP option.
It would probably be trivially easy to have a computer automatically log into someone's account, immediately after they enter the information. Httprequests are standard in quite a few languages, and the server would have a hard time telling the difference between a well programmed bot, and a human being.
Maybe they should stop providing bank accounts and credit cards with little more than a couple numbers and a name. Seriously all you need to get an account in someone else's name is their SIN number, maybe another credit card number, maybe a bank account number. All that stuff can be found in someone's trash. Maybe they should require passport-like credentials to get credit, at least over a certain amount, say $500 or $1000. For the number of credit cards, loans, mortgages and other stuff people actually need in their life, it would be a little more trouble, but a lot more reassuring to know that it takes a little more than a couple numbers in order to fake my identity.
You can't make banks responsible for the lack of intelligence shown by their customers. If people are stupid enough to click on a link, to visit some website, that looks like their banks, and enter all their personal information, then what is a bank supposed to do to prevent this. They can make them enter 17 pieces of information, but the fake website will do the same. They will make them carry around some gadget that gives them random numbers to type in. But people will lose it, or they will break it. Then they will blame the bank when they can't pay their bills on time, because their gadget broke, and they can't log on to the website. This is the online equivalent of wallet inspectors. Do you expect banks to be responsible for that too?
I know a bunch of people who mentioned the fact that Java isn't that slow anymore. But they didn't mention the advantages of running a java web browser. Imagine, running a browser, in a sandbox. It would make it a lot harder for malware to be installed by websites. Not so much damage can get done by software that isn't allowed to access the harddrive, and can't access ports other than 80. There would still be holes, but there would be much fewer holes.
Yes, it does. but most of that software isn't designed by corporations. Why isn't there more software put out there to make a profit off all the linux users. I think it's not that linux users don't want to spend money, but that there's not much useful to spend money on.
2 platforms does not constitute multiplatform. There are way more than 2 platforms out there. I really don't get why so few companies make software for Linux. I know it has a small userbase, but so does mac, and they got tons of software.
If people are really going to choose 1 distro over the other, because Linus uses it, then they are pretty dumb users. You really have to choose your distro based on what you will be using it for. There is no distro that's right for everyone. That's where windows has it wrong. They try to create 1 windows that's right for everyone, and instead, don't really end up satisfying anyone. Never mind the Home,Pro,Server,Advanced Server, DC Server versions. They are all really the same OS, with a few features disabled. With linux, you can get any version, and enable all the features. You don't need to spend thousands of dollars just because you happen to have a 16 cpu machine.
Yeah, but those backups are like mp3s, in the respect that they are quite lossy. Maybe with 3 backups, there is enough parity to assemble the original.
Yeah, I owned the Sega Game Gear. While not quite as rare as they Atari lynx, it had all the same flaws. It ate batteries, and was a lot of trouble to carry around. Also, they just tried to put too much technology into too small a unit. At least for those days.
Too many people want to cast off the shackles of childhood, and are afraid to do something that makes them seem even a little immature. These people are the ones that end up having less fun in their lives. Many people ended up saying that the GC was too childish, and because of this, endep up missing out on great games like Resident Evil 4 and Metroid Prime. If the GC looks childish because it's small and square, then I want a childish system. Because it's a lot easier to take over to a friends house than that massive XBox, with the original massive controllers. Even the XBox 360 is a huge, I thought they learned the first time that nobody wants a 7 pound console.
Who wants to bet that the only difference between a played disc and a non played disc is that the player writes some data on it after it is done playing. That way, all the other custom players will refuse to read it. Of course, if you can get a computer to read it, you could probably rip it as easily as a regular dvd. That's probably the only reason it requires a special player. So the player can write to the disc.
Yeah, I don't have a mailbox that close to my apartment. However, on my way to work, I pass by at least 5. I go to work everyday, so it's not much trouble to stop by one of the mailboxes to drop them off. And have you ever thought about the amount of garbage disposable dvd rentals would create? I think any company even thinking about promoting an idea such as this, which creates so much more garbage than the previous solution, to have to pay some sort of fine or something.
If they really wanted them to last longer, they'd put permananent cases around them like floppy disks and minidiscs. Instead, they leave CDs and DVDs vulnerable to be scratched, so that eventually, you will have to replace them.
Mailing times vary depending on where you live. I live in Ottawa, and the mailing times are amazing. Make sure you tell them when you mail a movie, they will mail another to you right away, before the other has arrived. You are only allowed to have 1 movie "in transit" though. Hopefully they will open up some other distribution centres though, so they can service other parts of canada better. This country in pretty big.
But being that it runs on windows, it will probably be hacked by simply holding down the shift key. Just like all those "Copy Protected" cds they are putting out lately.
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The only reason that most people find .Net or Delphi any easier for GUI work than Java is because there are very few good drag and drop environments for creating Swing and AWT GUIs. The best one I've seen so far is the one that Comes with NetBeans. It makes GUI development a lot easier. It's still not as good as what they have for .Net or Delphi, but it's workable. If you are stuck doing your UI coding by hand, or using the terrible Eclipse extension, then you might want to take a look at NetBeans.
Just go with the Revolution. It will only have a DVD Drive, and won't play any DVD movies without a special attachment. The thing is, they won't stop selling DVDs. There's a reason those super audio cds didn't surplant regular audio cds. Because people couldn't tell the difference in quality, because they had no new features, and because they required new hardware to play. HD-DVD and BluRay have the exact same problems. Even with a large HDTV, and really good speakers, it would be hard to notice a quality difference. Also, it doesn't offer any advantages over the previous format, at least not on the level of no rewind, skip to any scene, never wear out kind of features that DVD offered over VHS. And lastly, these new formats will require new hardware. And if you buy hardware that plays one, you can't play the others. This whole format war thing is going to confuse the hell out of people. Especially because the discs look exactly the same as DVDs, and eachother.
The CD drive in the original playstation was a terrible idea. Those things were slow. Loading times were terrible. Playstation has terrible loading times even with the PS2. At least the original PS2, not sure about thee newer models. It's nice to see someone trying to put in new features, but when the technology isn't ready, it can turn out to be a big mistake. Nintendo waited until the technology was ready, and now they are the only console maker without any noticeable loading times. I think that Sony is also taking a big risk this time around. The PS3 is going to cost a lot more than either the revolution, and the 360, and isn't going to offer much in terms of new features, except really good graphics, (which all the systems have), and ability to play blu-ray movies (which don't even exist yet). Are people willing to pay that much money, just for the ability to play blu-ray?
Who says the banks don't try to educate their customers? I know there's a whole wealth of information on my banks' websites about email fraud. They can't really force you to read the information, but they do put it there. This kind of fraud isn't new. Requiring people to enter more information when they log on to a banking site won't solve anything. Using tokens that change keys every 60 seconds won't stop anything, because the fake website can just forward the information to the bank's page, allow them to log in. The thing is, I don't know if there is any safety net that can protect against people visiting some rogue site, and giving them their personal information. People just have to learn not to be so naive.
Yeah, MS always has had bad default rights. Remember the default sa account in sql server up to and including 7.0. The default password was empty. What kind of system even allows blank passwords. In *nix, the default file system since the beginning, has not allowed users to overwrite everything including system files. You could overwrite files in your own user account, but the system is pretty useless if you can't do that. With FAT(32), there are absolutely no permissions on files whatsoever. Anybody can overwrite any file. Provided it's not in use. Yes, you could probably run linux on FAT(32), But either everything on the mount point would be executable, or nothing would be. Neither of these options are good.
First Flaw. Windows makes your initial user account as administrator by default. Secondly, if you don't use NTFS, and there's a few reasons why you may want to, such as incompatibility with other operating systems, windows won't stop programs from overwriting almost all your files with garbage.
You can fake all the headers in the http header, so that the paypal site thinks the post is coming from it's own site. Also, whether or not the site you type your information into saves it in a database, or automatically logs into the paypal site as soon as you enter it, by forwarding it to the real paypal, has not bearing on whether or not it's a man-in-the-middle attack. A man in the middle attack actually requires someone listening in on a connection to a specific server. It's not a man-in-the-middle attack if you trick someone to entering their information into the wrong site.
First of all, the fact that you are calling it a "man-in-the-middle" attack shows that you know nothing about security. If you go to a mypaypalsecurity.com, there is no one in the middle, nor does there need to be. On another not, why hasn't paypal started using PGP for their emails, or at least the option of it. At least this would give their customers a way to actually verify the messages, since it seems that email is the only way they communicate.
I have two bank accounts (TD and RBC), both of them have a no email policy. In fact, I've never heard of a real bank that emails customers. There's too many problems associated with email. They could use PGP, but try teaching average users how to use that. The only money related business i've seen send out emails is paypal. Since this is their only way of contacting most of their customers. I have no idea why they don't have a PGP option.
It would probably be trivially easy to have a computer automatically log into someone's account, immediately after they enter the information. Httprequests are standard in quite a few languages, and the server would have a hard time telling the difference between a well programmed bot, and a human being.
Maybe they should stop providing bank accounts and credit cards with little more than a couple numbers and a name. Seriously all you need to get an account in someone else's name is their SIN number, maybe another credit card number, maybe a bank account number. All that stuff can be found in someone's trash. Maybe they should require passport-like credentials to get credit, at least over a certain amount, say $500 or $1000. For the number of credit cards, loans, mortgages and other stuff people actually need in their life, it would be a little more trouble, but a lot more reassuring to know that it takes a little more than a couple numbers in order to fake my identity.
You can't make banks responsible for the lack of intelligence shown by their customers. If people are stupid enough to click on a link, to visit some website, that looks like their banks, and enter all their personal information, then what is a bank supposed to do to prevent this. They can make them enter 17 pieces of information, but the fake website will do the same. They will make them carry around some gadget that gives them random numbers to type in. But people will lose it, or they will break it. Then they will blame the bank when they can't pay their bills on time, because their gadget broke, and they can't log on to the website. This is the online equivalent of wallet inspectors. Do you expect banks to be responsible for that too?
OK, now I've heard of them. Too bad I still can't pronounce their name.
I know a bunch of people who mentioned the fact that Java isn't that slow anymore. But they didn't mention the advantages of running a java web browser. Imagine, running a browser, in a sandbox. It would make it a lot harder for malware to be installed by websites. Not so much damage can get done by software that isn't allowed to access the harddrive, and can't access ports other than 80. There would still be holes, but there would be much fewer holes.
Yes, it does. but most of that software isn't designed by corporations. Why isn't there more software put out there to make a profit off all the linux users. I think it's not that linux users don't want to spend money, but that there's not much useful to spend money on.
2 platforms does not constitute multiplatform. There are way more than 2 platforms out there. I really don't get why so few companies make software for Linux. I know it has a small userbase, but so does mac, and they got tons of software.
If people are really going to choose 1 distro over the other, because Linus uses it, then they are pretty dumb users. You really have to choose your distro based on what you will be using it for. There is no distro that's right for everyone. That's where windows has it wrong. They try to create 1 windows that's right for everyone, and instead, don't really end up satisfying anyone. Never mind the Home,Pro,Server,Advanced Server, DC Server versions. They are all really the same OS, with a few features disabled. With linux, you can get any version, and enable all the features. You don't need to spend thousands of dollars just because you happen to have a 16 cpu machine.
Yeah, but those backups are like mp3s, in the respect that they are quite lossy. Maybe with 3 backups, there is enough parity to assemble the original.
Yeah, I owned the Sega Game Gear. While not quite as rare as they Atari lynx, it had all the same flaws. It ate batteries, and was a lot of trouble to carry around. Also, they just tried to put too much technology into too small a unit. At least for those days.
Too many people want to cast off the shackles of childhood, and are afraid to do something that makes them seem even a little immature. These people are the ones that end up having less fun in their lives. Many people ended up saying that the GC was too childish, and because of this, endep up missing out on great games like Resident Evil 4 and Metroid Prime. If the GC looks childish because it's small and square, then I want a childish system. Because it's a lot easier to take over to a friends house than that massive XBox, with the original massive controllers. Even the XBox 360 is a huge, I thought they learned the first time that nobody wants a 7 pound console.
Who wants to bet that the only difference between a played disc and a non played disc is that the player writes some data on it after it is done playing. That way, all the other custom players will refuse to read it. Of course, if you can get a computer to read it, you could probably rip it as easily as a regular dvd. That's probably the only reason it requires a special player. So the player can write to the disc.
Yeah, I don't have a mailbox that close to my apartment. However, on my way to work, I pass by at least 5. I go to work everyday, so it's not much trouble to stop by one of the mailboxes to drop them off. And have you ever thought about the amount of garbage disposable dvd rentals would create? I think any company even thinking about promoting an idea such as this, which creates so much more garbage than the previous solution, to have to pay some sort of fine or something.
If they really wanted them to last longer, they'd put permananent cases around them like floppy disks and minidiscs. Instead, they leave CDs and DVDs vulnerable to be scratched, so that eventually, you will have to replace them.
Mailing times vary depending on where you live. I live in Ottawa, and the mailing times are amazing. Make sure you tell them when you mail a movie, they will mail another to you right away, before the other has arrived. You are only allowed to have 1 movie "in transit" though. Hopefully they will open up some other distribution centres though, so they can service other parts of canada better. This country in pretty big.
But being that it runs on windows, it will probably be hacked by simply holding down the shift key. Just like all those "Copy Protected" cds they are putting out lately.