I think they should do this to everyone! Send your mechanic to jail for not repairing your car correctly on the first try!!! Just kidding of course. wouldn't it make more sense and be cheaper to build a task force (real one) that actually finds and punishes virus writers. I would love for all os's to be 100% secure but everyone knows that is impossible. No matter how smart the dev team is. They are not smarter than the rest of the world who are trying to hack it. Yes open source makes things a little more secure because more eyes are on the code. But there will always be that one little piece of code that only a handful of devs ever look at. I think that if these criminals were actually hunted down and punished for writing viruses and scamming grandmothers. That would help out more than this idea. Take that guy who was doing kiddie porn. They un-morphed they pictures and were able to get a positive ID on him. If that kind of work was put into hunting down virus writers and Nigerian princes they would disappear. just my $.02
YES the freakin driver sites are getting ridiculous. Every time I look for a driver the first 2 pages are some crap site that just pops you around from page to page only to try and install their crappy software to "give" you the driver for a small fee! If their site was not there the driver would be easy to find. With all these sites it makes the driver impossible to find.. therefore you need these sites to find them.. AHHH gonna throw up now.. then download this bad boy.
I think google gets their naming convention from Intel. This makes my life hell. my customers already have issues figuring out the difference between chrome and chrome os. What the hell are these companies thinking. Come on people. AOL.com is still one of the top searches per day on google because these idiots haven't figured out the difference between the search box and the url box.
True. I have an android phone. I have a legit copy of launcher pro. I have recently installed about 8 different roms on my phone to see which one I liked best. I re-installed launcher pro every time using my own serial #. would things like this skew the numbers?
Unless they make HUGE changes to the Chrome OS I don't see this as even a remote possibility. Have you tried the chrome OS? I have. Lack luster to say the least. Very limited in what it is capable of. If they ever make the move. You can bet it won't be the same OS we know today.
I think we should to nothing. No one should run antivirus! No firewalls. Nothing I hate them all. I think the virus makers should make more and more and more viruses every day. Infect the world!!! Oh yeah BTW I own a computer repair store so I might be a little biased:)
Next gen Wii has already said it will be HD. Not that the games will be in HD but at least it has HD capabilities. Anyway. Just got my email from netflix today.
Dear William,
Your free instant streaming disc for Wii should arrive by Friday, Mar 26, 2010.
Meanwhile, add movies & TV episodes to your instant Queue now so you're ready to watch instantly when your instant streaming disc arrives.
-Your friends at Netflix
Thousands of TV episodes & movies to watch instantly!
Wii instant Queue Choose from thousands of TV episodes, classic movies & some new releases.
Browse and instantly watch right on your TV via your Wii(TM) console.
I say F the iphone app! I wanna be able to use my linux box to watch netflix. I had to setup a dual boot machine for the sole purpose of netflix. PLEASE netflix users join in the fight to get netflix to support linux. http://www.petitiononline.com/Linflix/
Did I miss something? I have done SEVERAL tests on machines running windows XP Vista and 7. I have never gotten an overall performance increase with 7. Vista runs the slowest XP the fastest and 7 a close 2nd. 7 only comes close if you have a new beefy machine with 4gb of RAM. I am not making any jokes here. Can someone point me to any proof that 7 out performs XP overall. Grant it I did all my testing before the official release of 7 but show me a Pentium 4 with 2gb of ram and I will bet XP will run faster.
I was laid off from my IT position.. I live in Ohio.. everyone is laid off. All I know is computers. In a past life I was a paramedic but figured I didn't have the compassion needed for that job. I understand computers and love to do it. Thats why I chose IT. About 6 months ago I took a leap and opened my own computer repair shop. Only cost me about 2k to get the doors open. No stock of parts except the boxes of crap I had around my house. I am now making profit after 6 months. I love it. I have no one to answer to but myself. The customers are very thankful that there is some place they can go that will actually fix there issues. I even have some older retired guys who just come in to hang out. I have no experience what so ever in running a business. Learning curve is not all that hard. Luckily my neighbor is an accountant and helped me in that area. The first 2 months were kind of scary not having anything to do. Played a lot of pocket tanks with my friends. Now I have an office that I don't even go into because I have so much to do. If your an honest person that truly knows how to fix computers. I am sure you would be a welcome asset to your community. Oh yeah and the 2 mile drive to work is SWEET!
Internet Explorer's lack of built-in support for SVG was keeping it away from mainstream use on the web.
Since when is IE NOT mainstream? They have over 90% of the market? I get it.. they don't follow the rules and IE sux and everyone should use firefox or opera but to call IE not mainstream is if nothing else a bit odd.
I must say that it has been a LONG time since I purchased a cert. Thawte and Verisign were competing companies at the time. I know when we got ours there were LOTS of hoops we had to jump through to get it. We had to verify phone numbers, addresses and Dun and Bradstreet crap. I can't imagine that over the years they made it so just anyone would be able to purchase a certificate saying the were a new paypal site?
Get rid of the steel barbed wire around the prison and replace it with copper wire and make a giant Ferriday cage. Signals inside will stay inside so walkie talkies would still function and no signal outside could get in.
66 cameras, 31 laptop computers, 20 cell phones, 17 sets of electronic games, 13 pieces of jewelry, 12 GPS devices, 11 MP3 players, eight camera lenses, six video cameras two DVD players and a partridge in a pear tree.
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I think they should do this to everyone! Send your mechanic to jail for not repairing your car correctly on the first try!!! Just kidding of course. wouldn't it make more sense and be cheaper to build a task force (real one) that actually finds and punishes virus writers. I would love for all os's to be 100% secure but everyone knows that is impossible. No matter how smart the dev team is. They are not smarter than the rest of the world who are trying to hack it. Yes open source makes things a little more secure because more eyes are on the code. But there will always be that one little piece of code that only a handful of devs ever look at. I think that if these criminals were actually hunted down and punished for writing viruses and scamming grandmothers. That would help out more than this idea. Take that guy who was doing kiddie porn. They un-morphed they pictures and were able to get a positive ID on him. If that kind of work was put into hunting down virus writers and Nigerian princes they would disappear. just my $.02
P.R.O.T.E.C.T How much time and money is wasted on just coming up with an acronym like that?
YES the freakin driver sites are getting ridiculous. Every time I look for a driver the first 2 pages are some crap site that just pops you around from page to page only to try and install their crappy software to "give" you the driver for a small fee! If their site was not there the driver would be easy to find. With all these sites it makes the driver impossible to find.. therefore you need these sites to find them.. AHHH gonna throw up now.. then download this bad boy.
I think google gets their naming convention from Intel. This makes my life hell. my customers already have issues figuring out the difference between chrome and chrome os. What the hell are these companies thinking. Come on people. AOL.com is still one of the top searches per day on google because these idiots haven't figured out the difference between the search box and the url box.
a dynamic go getter a genius and a man from Ireland.
True. I have an android phone. I have a legit copy of launcher pro. I have recently installed about 8 different roms on my phone to see which one I liked best. I re-installed launcher pro every time using my own serial #. would things like this skew the numbers?
Glad it was you and not me. I was just getting ready to post almost the same thing. If I had mod points I would mod you up. I thought it very witty.
I think they should call it the Ronjeromeyasaurus.
Yes if you search for google in google that can crash the internet.
Unless they make HUGE changes to the Chrome OS I don't see this as even a remote possibility. Have you tried the chrome OS? I have. Lack luster to say the least. Very limited in what it is capable of. If they ever make the move. You can bet it won't be the same OS we know today.
I think we should to nothing. No one should run antivirus! No firewalls. Nothing I hate them all. I think the virus makers should make more and more and more viruses every day. Infect the world!!! Oh yeah BTW I own a computer repair store so I might be a little biased :)
I think it's due to the fact that everyone already owns a nintendo DS.
Next gen Wii has already said it will be HD. Not that the games will be in HD but at least it has HD capabilities. Anyway. Just got my email from netflix today. Dear William, Your free instant streaming disc for Wii should arrive by Friday, Mar 26, 2010. Meanwhile, add movies & TV episodes to your instant Queue now so you're ready to watch instantly when your instant streaming disc arrives. -Your friends at Netflix Thousands of TV episodes & movies to watch instantly! Wii instant Queue Choose from thousands of TV episodes, classic movies & some new releases. Browse and instantly watch right on your TV via your Wii(TM) console.
Oh come on.. I needed a good laugh today. That cracked me up!
I say F the iphone app! I wanna be able to use my linux box to watch netflix. I had to setup a dual boot machine for the sole purpose of netflix. PLEASE netflix users join in the fight to get netflix to support linux. http://www.petitiononline.com/Linflix/
Did I miss something? I have done SEVERAL tests on machines running windows XP Vista and 7. I have never gotten an overall performance increase with 7. Vista runs the slowest XP the fastest and 7 a close 2nd. 7 only comes close if you have a new beefy machine with 4gb of RAM. I am not making any jokes here. Can someone point me to any proof that 7 out performs XP overall. Grant it I did all my testing before the official release of 7 but show me a Pentium 4 with 2gb of ram and I will bet XP will run faster.
I will be holding out till some one releases a holodeck!
I have a motorcycle.. why would i ride a bicycle? My last 2 jobs were 45 miles each way. 2 miles is SWEET
I was laid off from my IT position.. I live in Ohio.. everyone is laid off. All I know is computers. In a past life I was a paramedic but figured I didn't have the compassion needed for that job. I understand computers and love to do it. Thats why I chose IT. About 6 months ago I took a leap and opened my own computer repair shop. Only cost me about 2k to get the doors open. No stock of parts except the boxes of crap I had around my house. I am now making profit after 6 months. I love it. I have no one to answer to but myself. The customers are very thankful that there is some place they can go that will actually fix there issues. I even have some older retired guys who just come in to hang out. I have no experience what so ever in running a business. Learning curve is not all that hard. Luckily my neighbor is an accountant and helped me in that area. The first 2 months were kind of scary not having anything to do. Played a lot of pocket tanks with my friends. Now I have an office that I don't even go into because I have so much to do. If your an honest person that truly knows how to fix computers. I am sure you would be a welcome asset to your community. Oh yeah and the 2 mile drive to work is SWEET!
Internet Explorer's lack of built-in support for SVG was keeping it away from mainstream use on the web.
Since when is IE NOT mainstream? They have over 90% of the market? I get it.. they don't follow the rules and IE sux and everyone should use firefox or opera but to call IE not mainstream is if nothing else a bit odd.
Ha I just find it funny this is modded 5 informative.. REALLY? did we need to be informed. We need a 6 informative but don't need to know.
I must say that it has been a LONG time since I purchased a cert. Thawte and Verisign were competing companies at the time. I know when we got ours there were LOTS of hoops we had to jump through to get it. We had to verify phone numbers, addresses and Dun and Bradstreet crap. I can't imagine that over the years they made it so just anyone would be able to purchase a certificate saying the were a new paypal site?
I for one welcome our new fat breathing mice overlords
Get rid of the steel barbed wire around the prison and replace it with copper wire and make a giant Ferriday cage. Signals inside will stay inside so walkie talkies would still function and no signal outside could get in.
66 cameras, 31 laptop computers, 20 cell phones, 17 sets of electronic games, 13 pieces of jewelry, 12 GPS devices, 11 MP3 players, eight camera lenses, six video cameras two DVD players and a partridge in a pear tree.