I fully assume that IE7's phishing filter, like Outlook 2003's Junk Mail Filter, will receive monthly updates from Microsoft to keep it up to date with the latest phising "heuristics".
Depending on your WSUS server's settings, Outlook 2003 Junk Mail Filter updates (and likely IE7 phishing filter updates) may appear as "Critical Updates" despite not actually being security patches for %0-day_exploit_01%.
It annoys me that Verizon cripples Bluetooth on almost all the phones within my price range. Add to that, refusing to include a USB cable and forcing me to pay $$$ to download pictures from my phone. bah.
Yes, I can order a USB cable (and did). Yes, I can find a tarball out there that will allow me to hack my phone to re-enable bluetooth. But in the end, I'm a consumer who just wants his damn phone to work without having to hack yet another item.
When my friend's Cingular Bluetooth phone immediately was able to mount on his Mac and drag & drop files to/from the phone, I looked at my Verizon phone and just wanted to throw it in the trash.
When my Verizon plan is up this spring, I plan on switching to Cingular.
Bonus that any upcoming Apple iPhone will likely be Cingular-friendly.
"um, well, uh just like the PC with Google's Picasso, Pinnacle Studio/Ulead VideoStudio, and Sony Sound Forge."
Except all those third-party apps are not integrated with each other or with Windows, so setting them to import/export from/to one another with a unified file browser isn't possible, not to mention not having access to embed your iTunes Store music purchases as tracks.
In fact, no third-party "iLife for PC" cocktail is as easy, intuitive, or great-looking as iLife on a Mac.
It looks like Microsoft is simply using Vista as a way to force the EU to back down or be the ones responsible for EU nations to not have Vista when everyone else gets it.
This is a win-win for everyone, really:
1. Such a delayed release would be the ultimate proof of monopoly. Stifling an entire continent. Courts will churn. MS heads will roll.
2. Delayed EU Vista means at least part of the world's computer infrastructure will work when Vista's new DNS scheme allegely will break teh Interweb everywhere else. (I don't have the link... google it)
Carbon Copy Cloner is also another good Mac OS X backup utility that can make a bootable, mountable disk image or directly bootable copy of a partition.
Highly recommended.
(I am not affliliated with CCC, just a happy user)
They're kinda funny, but really mean-spirited. They're "Haha...you suck!!"-ads that don't appeal to me.
Far nicer than the political ads that are swamping televisions this election year.
It makes the PC look productive and serious, instead of the slacker Mac OS X.
Actually, it points out what people already know: Corporations and businesses use Windows PCs. Windows for many is Word and Excel. And almost everyone who has used a Windows PC at work has hated it at some point. Showing you a desktop after logging in but not being able to do anything for an additional 30-120 seconds. Programs with odd names performing illegal operations and offering them the change to debug, only to do nothing useful. And so on.
The Mac is being shown in the light of being a computer for your home life, far away from spreadsheets and Active Directory, where your photos, home movies, and music play a much stronger role, and showing ease-of-use for doing nice things with that media.
Windows runs fine out of the box, there's virtually no advanced configuration after you've installed it.
Remember that the majority of new Windows PC owners buy an OEM machine and can barely plug in all the color-coded cables. They turn it on and the Windows setup wizard starts as you said. Fine. Now your OEM machine is detecting the 3-in-one inkjet-scanner-fax printer that came bundled free with the computer. Windows is now pompting them to install three items it has detected. Each one throwing up the New hardware wizard. Not to mention the computer's system image was from 4 months ago, so they need to download 55MB of patches on their dial-up connection in order to be "safe".
My thumbdrive is only used for transferring files between my machines at home and those at work.
Besides, all the people I "supported" were using digital lifestyle applications (photos, music, movies, dvds) so I had almost all of them buy Macs. Now, the only support calls I get are about simple things like how to make a photo-slideshow into a DVD or what camcorder they should buy.
No iLife. That alone is worth $79, and no consumer-level app available for Windows comes close.
No true Speech Recognition. Gonna have to buy a third party application for that.
No Save anything as PDF option. Time to buy Acrobat or a a free OSS program with a horrible UI.
No native DVD burning application. Gonna have to buy Easy Media Creator or Nero just to burn a Data DVD (or a free OSS program with a horrible UI).
Maintenance:
The Dell will require A/V software & DAT subscription. Even if you use a free A/V client, you'll still have the resultant performance drag.
The Dell will be preloaded with Trials and Spyware that will never fully uninstall. However much you feel your free time is worth per hour, multiply that hourly rate by the amount of time it will take you to remove the preloaded crap and spyware and running frequent anti-spyware scans.
The Dell will need to be patched religiously. Another $$$ for personal time lost.
Before we got married, my wife and I decided to not have kids. Over the years since and to this day, when people ask us why we don't have any kids, we simply say "We're not done being kids, ourselves."
And its true. We'd just rather spend all of that child-rearing money on ourselves and keep our options open (go out/take trips whenever), while not having to put up with the hassles of tending to kids.
I'm sure many traditionally-raised folks might see this as immature or selfish, but it all depends on the point of view.
So, in essence, he's saying you can get around Vista's UAC nag screens by making yourself have Full Control permissions on everything.
"Duh."
Not that I recommend doing such a thing.
What'll be more interesting is seeing how OEMs preconfigure Vista PCs. Joe Sixpacks most assuredly don't want to know of or care about Administrator credentials. They just want Deer Hunter 5 to install. Now. If it works on their old XP computer without raising dialogs, but raised dialogs on their new Vista PC, they'll return it as defective and/or flood the phone lines of third world country call centers.
I've heard a variety of theories that the cloudy sky of Venus may have conditions that could possibly support bacterial/microscopic life (in this case "extremophiles").
I wonder of Venus Express will ever sample the Venusian atmosphere to see -- perhaps as an "Extended Extended Mission" as they deorbit the probe years from now.
Sony has held the all mighty hardware thrown for an astounding eleven years at the time of writing this.
I'm sorry, but with an error like that in the second sentence, I'm guessing the author is not an informed source and likely not an authority on predicting future console market trends.
While I applaud Apple for making this Volume Control-lockout feature, the problem of listening to portable media devices at too high a sound level is something that should fall under common sense.
This is the software equivalent of the "WARNING: COFFEE IS HOT!" label on commercial coffee cups.
I guess this means I should hire a lawyer and demand that Sony send me a re-engineered Cassette-based Walkman to replace the one I used in 1985 so that I can have one with a volume limiter. Perhaps I can say that it has already caused two decades of hearing loss...
Maybe I can sue TicketMaster for not giving me earplugs and a warning letter when buying concert tickets for indoor/front row/near-the-speakers seats...
America needs to stop being offended and looking to manufacturers to install child locks on everything.
Delicious Library is an excellent OSX application for organizing your books, music, games, and movies. It has support for scanning barcodes (even with a web cam).
When the universal binary is complete, it will download like a regular patch and replace the ppc-only binary currently found on all Mac WoW installs. It will be just like any other client patch that replaces the binary.
According to the WoW Mac Tech Support forum, you can install WoW for Intel-based Macs by two means:
Copying your PPC-only installation to the Intel-based Mac, running WoW (in Rosetta) and patching to the universal binary.
Install the game on your Intel-based Mac from your original discs (under Rosetta), patch to 1.9, then to the universal binary.
And as a bit of trivia, Blizzard's Mac team used to be a small Mac porting company. Clearly a solid investment by Blizzard.
Or worse, XP pops up a wizard asking Joe WindowsUser how to partition the new device. He then looks for a CD in the blister-plastic packaging that sadly only includes a Win98 USB Mass Storage Driver.. so he's stuck with a "useless" Thumb drive that he promptly returns to Wal-Mart.
It's pretty safe to say that the vast majority of people who buy an x86 PC from an OEM want Windows (or at least the license) and possibly the preinstalled "experience" of that OEM's bundled software.
People who are capable of loading, configuring, and networking a non-Windows OS on an x86 PC (the vast majority of Slashdot readers) are better off building their own machines. It's cheaper than OEMs and doesn't feature the Microsoft tax.
If you do anything remotely important with your computer (entertainment included), then you should be doing regular back ups.
Restoring iTunes music and video files from a backup set of DVD-Rs or an external hard disk is almost effortless. If you value your electronic purchases (and other data) that much, you'll back it up.
Now as for being able to play your DRM'd files in 20 years, you might want to transcode or do like most people did when going from VHS to DVD: re-purchase in the new format.
The Apollo astronauts said that they did get exposed to the dust that was on their suits. Once they hopped bck into the ascent stage of the lunar lander, the dust floated everywhere. Once they reconnected with the command module, some of the dust blew in. They breathed the dust throughout the trip home.
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Many people forget that they have to add codecs to WMP on Windows to get it to run videos encoded with alternate video codcs (DivX, XviD, etc.).
QuickTime for Mac OS X can be similarly augmented:
Simply download Flip4Mac (free) for WMV support and Perian (free) for support for just about everything else.
No need for VLC.
I fully assume that IE7's phishing filter, like Outlook 2003's Junk Mail Filter, will receive monthly updates from Microsoft to keep it up to date with the latest phising "heuristics".
Depending on your WSUS server's settings, Outlook 2003 Junk Mail Filter updates (and likely IE7 phishing filter updates) may appear as "Critical Updates" despite not actually being security patches for %0-day_exploit_01%.
It annoys me that Verizon cripples Bluetooth on almost all the phones within my price range. Add to that, refusing to include a USB cable and forcing me to pay $$$ to download pictures from my phone. bah.
Yes, I can order a USB cable (and did). Yes, I can find a tarball out there that will allow me to hack my phone to re-enable bluetooth. But in the end, I'm a consumer who just wants his damn phone to work without having to hack yet another item.
When my friend's Cingular Bluetooth phone immediately was able to mount on his Mac and drag & drop files to/from the phone, I looked at my Verizon phone and just wanted to throw it in the trash.
When my Verizon plan is up this spring, I plan on switching to Cingular.
Bonus that any upcoming Apple iPhone will likely be Cingular-friendly.
1 core for Windows
1 core for your game
1 core for your anti-virus/anti-spyware realtime app
1 core for your registry cleaner/defragger
Sounds like a winner.
"um, well, uh just like the PC with Google's Picasso, Pinnacle Studio/Ulead VideoStudio, and Sony Sound Forge." Except all those third-party apps are not integrated with each other or with Windows, so setting them to import/export from/to one another with a unified file browser isn't possible, not to mention not having access to embed your iTunes Store music purchases as tracks.
In fact, no third-party "iLife for PC" cocktail is as easy, intuitive, or great-looking as iLife on a Mac.
It looks like Microsoft is simply using Vista as a way to force the EU to back down or be the ones responsible for EU nations to not have Vista when everyone else gets it.
This is a win-win for everyone, really:
1. Such a delayed release would be the ultimate proof of monopoly. Stifling an entire continent. Courts will churn. MS heads will roll.
2. Delayed EU Vista means at least part of the world's computer infrastructure will work when Vista's new DNS scheme allegely will break teh Interweb everywhere else. (I don't have the link... google it)
Carbon Copy Cloner is also another good Mac OS X backup utility that can make a bootable, mountable disk image or directly bootable copy of a partition.
Highly recommended.
(I am not affliliated with CCC, just a happy user)
They're kinda funny, but really mean-spirited. They're "Haha...you suck!!"-ads that don't appeal to me.
Far nicer than the political ads that are swamping televisions this election year.
It makes the PC look productive and serious, instead of the slacker Mac OS X.
Actually, it points out what people already know: Corporations and businesses use Windows PCs. Windows for many is Word and Excel. And almost everyone who has used a Windows PC at work has hated it at some point. Showing you a desktop after logging in but not being able to do anything for an additional 30-120 seconds. Programs with odd names performing illegal operations and offering them the change to debug, only to do nothing useful. And so on.
The Mac is being shown in the light of being a computer for your home life, far away from spreadsheets and Active Directory, where your photos, home movies, and music play a much stronger role, and showing ease-of-use for doing nice things with that media.
Windows runs fine out of the box, there's virtually no advanced configuration after you've installed it.
Remember that the majority of new Windows PC owners buy an OEM machine and can barely plug in all the color-coded cables. They turn it on and the Windows setup wizard starts as you said. Fine. Now your OEM machine is detecting the 3-in-one inkjet-scanner-fax printer that came bundled free with the computer. Windows is now pompting them to install three items it has detected. Each one throwing up the New hardware wizard. Not to mention the computer's system image was from 4 months ago, so they need to download 55MB of patches on their dial-up connection in order to be "safe".
My thumbdrive is only used for transferring files between my machines at home and those at work. Besides, all the people I "supported" were using digital lifestyle applications (photos, music, movies, dvds) so I had almost all of them buy Macs. Now, the only support calls I get are about simple things like how to make a photo-slideshow into a DVD or what camcorder they should buy.
Imagine the hours of fun playing the GCN version on the Wii, smacking Jack Thompsons in the head with the Wii-mote..
Maintenance:
The above easily makes up the price difference.
Before we got married, my wife and I decided to not have kids. Over the years since and to this day, when people ask us why we don't have any kids, we simply say "We're not done being kids, ourselves."
And its true. We'd just rather spend all of that child-rearing money on ourselves and keep our options open (go out/take trips whenever), while not having to put up with the hassles of tending to kids.
I'm sure many traditionally-raised folks might see this as immature or selfish, but it all depends on the point of view.
Reference frame, people. The reference frame for this case should be pretty inherent when discussing planetary systems.
So, in essence, he's saying you can get around Vista's UAC nag screens by making yourself have Full Control permissions on everything.
"Duh."
Not that I recommend doing such a thing.
What'll be more interesting is seeing how OEMs preconfigure Vista PCs. Joe Sixpacks most assuredly don't want to know of or care about Administrator credentials. They just want Deer Hunter 5 to install. Now. If it works on their old XP computer without raising dialogs, but raised dialogs on their new Vista PC, they'll return it as defective and/or flood the phone lines of third world country call centers.
I've heard a variety of theories that the cloudy sky of Venus may have conditions that could possibly support bacterial/microscopic life (in this case "extremophiles").
I wonder of Venus Express will ever sample the Venusian atmosphere to see -- perhaps as an "Extended Extended Mission" as they deorbit the probe years from now.
Sony has held the all mighty hardware thrown for an astounding eleven years at the time of writing this.
I'm sorry, but with an error like that in the second sentence, I'm guessing the author is not an informed source and likely not an authority on predicting future console market trends.
While I applaud Apple for making this Volume Control-lockout feature, the problem of listening to portable media devices at too high a sound level is something that should fall under common sense.
This is the software equivalent of the "WARNING: COFFEE IS HOT!" label on commercial coffee cups.
I guess this means I should hire a lawyer and demand that Sony send me a re-engineered Cassette-based Walkman to replace the one I used in 1985 so that I can have one with a volume limiter. Perhaps I can say that it has already caused two decades of hearing loss...
Maybe I can sue TicketMaster for not giving me earplugs and a warning letter when buying concert tickets for indoor/front row/near-the-speakers seats...
America needs to stop being offended and looking to manufacturers to install child locks on everything.
Delicious Library is an excellent OSX application for organizing your books, music, games, and movies. It has support for scanning barcodes (even with a web cam).
I use it, myself, and it's extremely useful.
...they acquire whichever company that owns the most promising third-party solution that can be rebranded quickly as Microsoft's own.
..and countless others
R.I.P. GIANT AntiSpyware
R.I.P. GeCAD Software (Anti-virus)
R.I.P. Connectex Virtual PC
R.I.P. NSCA Mosaic
And keeping with the Mafia metaphor, putting your competitors out of business or buying their business are ways to ensure the Mafia's monopoly.
According to the WoW Mac Tech Support forum, you can install WoW for Intel-based Macs by two means:
And as a bit of trivia, Blizzard's Mac team used to be a small Mac porting company. Clearly a solid investment by Blizzard.
Plain and simple.
Or worse, XP pops up a wizard asking Joe WindowsUser how to partition the new device. He then looks for a CD in the blister-plastic packaging that sadly only includes a Win98 USB Mass Storage Driver.. so he's stuck with a "useless" Thumb drive that he promptly returns to Wal-Mart.
It's pretty safe to say that the vast majority of people who buy an x86 PC from an OEM want Windows (or at least the license) and possibly the preinstalled "experience" of that OEM's bundled software.
People who are capable of loading, configuring, and networking a non-Windows OS on an x86 PC (the vast majority of Slashdot readers) are better off building their own machines. It's cheaper than OEMs and doesn't feature the Microsoft tax.
No, seriously.
If you do anything remotely important with your computer (entertainment included), then you should be doing regular back ups.
Restoring iTunes music and video files from a backup set of DVD-Rs or an external hard disk is almost effortless. If you value your electronic purchases (and other data) that much, you'll back it up.
Now as for being able to play your DRM'd files in 20 years, you might want to transcode or do like most people did when going from VHS to DVD: re-purchase in the new format.
The Apollo astronauts said that they did get exposed to the dust that was on their suits. Once they hopped bck into the ascent stage of the lunar lander, the dust floated everywhere. Once they reconnected with the command module, some of the dust blew in. They breathed the dust throughout the trip home.
Perhaps the most well-known and well-received partnership of the two.
I still have my bouncing Raccoon mario and Luigi-cloud...