iTunes, for what it does seems to consume an ungodly amount of PC resource. One would think that if it's NOT spying on you then it's probably the worst written piece of junk ever.
Security is like that. No one wants to pay for it until they need it. Then they want to chisel the price down even though all kinds of flashing red lights and klaxons are going off. See the fact is that MS is simply following the mindset of its customer base. Its customer base thinks of security STRICTLY in terms of identity theft and credit card fraud as per the monthly cable news nuggets. And if their machines crash or slow to a crawl those same customers simply shrug and say "The internet's broken" shut off their machines and hope that it will all magically fix itself soon.
Moreover given that the retail price of MS operating systems hasn't dropped, ever, since 1981, it's unlikely that customers would pay a premium for 'security enhanced MS products. Would you? Would you pay a $50 premium for a fixed version of MS code? I wouldn't.
So here's what MS should be sweating. Apple. Yesterday Apple demoed an iBook they claim runs 3-4x faster on Intel hardware. Combine that with the rugged secure OSX and you have a big hammer with which to smash the MS mindset. If Apple-Intel+ OSX gets anywhere near the price point of MS-Wintel I and millions like me will switch in droves.
Now - will that mean better security? Yes in the short run it will until Apple becomes a big enough target then it will suffer a wave of problems. But once they've let the OSX genie out of the bottle it will be hard to put back in and claim that 'Security's hard' because we'll know that that's not entirely true. Customers will demand and get a better stable BSD based security platform and they'll never look back.
BTW Linux-heads. You ignore this at your own peril too. The value add of Linux versus MacOS X at the price point you'll see on Intel hardware will make Linux irrelevant.
I have a bunch of Windows machines sold with no media, only a recovery CD proc and some blanks. I'm sure the state of these recovery CDs is questionable. Another year or two they'll be bad and when something goes wrong they won't be usable. I've already experienced this with a backup Windows 2000 installation CD.
So.....what you need to do is re burn all your burned CD's every 1-2 years.
I've come to learn, maybe all of you know this already that you as a poster never see the actually modding done to your posts. Yet you are evaluated and possibly suspended or worse based specifically on that which you never see and never know. Take for example a post - it goes in as a 2. Now 8 people read it and 4 of them mod it down and 4 of them mod it up. It winds up with the same score as it started, but somewhere in the bowels of/. you get 4 black marks in your tally for being modded down 4 times. You never see this, never know it. Until of course you cross some magic Jedi threshold whereby/. has determined you have been modded down too many times and are to be suspended. Also your overall karma has zero bearing on this.
Again, maybe I'm the last person here to know this but I just wanted to share.
Of course IBM is MS's biggest threat. They're both fighting over who can become the slowest most bureaucratic process driven 99 layers of management every year a new paradigm indifferent to customers let's alienate the financial press and ship all of our jobs to Bangalore firm on the planet.
Every few years ol Bob comes out with some doozies like the Internet is going to collapse and end, like all operating systems are doomed to failure, like Vulcan mind meld networking is the wave of the future.
OK you you invented a crucial technology decades ago. Now do a Doug Englebart and be quiet.
I mean this is a game console, yes? Does it smell like ozone? Is the case getting hot? Does it need a case fan that moves a 1000cfm? What exactly is it 'throwing' at the design? I understand "just because it's there to do" projects, but what's the point here? Does it run that much hotter than the underlying PC hardware it is?
MS is free to develop whatever on god's grey earth they like. But after years of us telling them what our problems are, they should at some point start listening to those comments.
It's not bashing it's disgust and frustration at being told to talk to that brick wall over there. Yeah that one.
But I'll believe that when I see it. MS has a long bloody history of protecting you from your own applications, except the MS applications that run a little differently.
Oh sorry, what I meant was Vista will have ever more voracious hardware requirements, 3-D widgets, DRM up the yin yang, 12 different versions so it runs on everything from the computer to the home theater to the microwave oven, bugs crawling out of everywhere from day one and the same broken piece of shit security model wrapped up in corporate hype and buzztalk for only 30% more retail cost than the version of Windows you're running today.
Seriously I get maybe a 100+emails a day and that's after our gateway does its corporate job of despamming us. What's left is still 85% junk. How hard is it to simply dump all that unopened even if the volume is 2 or 3 times what I get. What's left is 15-20 useful emails a day, maybe. I'm sure I can keep in my head what those 15-20 emails are related to and if I can't I'll just reflag them as unread and get back to them later. Everything else gets read, tossed in a folder where it will most likely never get read again - just saved for CYA purposes, and eventually archived.
Maybe it's just me but my colleagues with 750MB email files either have borderline personality disorders or are just being anal.
Because they understand that camera phones are a generation away from being able to replace low end digital snapshot cameras. But it's probably a mistake to think that after the first wave that people will trade what has to be some ease of use including the ability to lay your phone down and print a bunch of pictures for the ability to not carry around a camera. Likewise that a combination device: phone, MP3, camera, PDA, bottle opener, sex toy... will be anything other than limited and low function versions of each of those devices it attempts to replace.
A company would prefer to sell to a cell phone carrier who already beats the phone manufacturer down because they can use that widget to upsell a bunch of overpriced features. An embedded drive in a camera that has 1% of the market has a much much lower markup.
This all assumes that people will want ginormous all in one electronic devices that are phones, PDAs and MP3 players. Probably that's not a safe bet. It's been tried before and people generally don't want the cost and complexity of an all in one. The transition costs for the consumer are quite high. If you for example get a new phone/MP3 player what do you do with the iPod you just paid 300 bucks for?
And how much will the consumer get screwed by the cell phone company which will of course charge a huge premium for the MTV factor alone plus you're still limited by the cell phone carrier itself. We already see that most people - maybe as many as 85% never use most of the features of the picture - ringtone - video etc etc phone they already have today. What would you do with a MP3 player that could only download tunes through the cell phone's carrier for a huge premium? What happens when you drop it?
Why don't they focus on the hand held video camera market which needs this kind of capacity and doesn't give too much of a crap about the iPod-Cribs-Spinners-Nerd I'm so cool I diss myself market?
Walmart sources their PCs now from 3bt and Microtel and offer a cheap-o no OS or Linux OS option for damn close to $300. sub300 (ergo the name) and iDot both offer PCs for less than that. Of course they usually don't have hard drives, CD burners (CDROM only) or more than 256MB RAM. Processors are usually Via C3's or end of life Durons. I'm guessing you could probably squeeze out a little more cost by eliminating serial, LPT, PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports, pulling the power supply out a-la Mini Mac, eliminating the hard drive AND the CDROM and booting the OS from a USB drive and then giving away the OS for free. It would of course be of fairly limited practical use as a thin client but it's possible.
Never even knew it existed at the time. Just wore out the drives. They started to audibly click then video buffer would seize then inability to start the game. CD worked fine on a 'new' machine.
I don't understand the elevated fear that this unofficial patch may cause some problem in the future, compared to the certainty that doing nothing will compared to the certainty that some MS official fixes cause problems of their own.
Yes there is a likelihood this could breaksomething down the road, just as de-registering shimgvw.dll might cause some other problem - probably with in-house apps later on too. That's pretty much the nature of security though, isn't it?
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iTunes, for what it does seems to consume an ungodly amount of PC resource. One would think that if it's NOT spying on you then it's probably the worst written piece of junk ever.
Security is like that. No one wants to pay for it until they need it. Then they want to chisel the price down even though all kinds of flashing red lights and klaxons are going off. See the fact is that MS is simply following the mindset of its customer base. Its customer base thinks of security STRICTLY in terms of identity theft and credit card fraud as per the monthly cable news nuggets. And if their machines crash or slow to a crawl those same customers simply shrug and say "The internet's broken" shut off their machines and hope that it will all magically fix itself soon.
Moreover given that the retail price of MS operating systems hasn't dropped, ever, since 1981, it's unlikely that customers would pay a premium for 'security enhanced MS products. Would you? Would you pay a $50 premium for a fixed version of MS code? I wouldn't.
So here's what MS should be sweating. Apple. Yesterday Apple demoed an iBook they claim runs 3-4x faster on Intel hardware. Combine that with the rugged secure OSX and you have a big hammer with which to smash the MS mindset. If Apple-Intel+ OSX gets anywhere near the price point of MS-Wintel I and millions like me will switch in droves.
Now - will that mean better security? Yes in the short run it will until Apple becomes a big enough target then it will suffer a wave of problems. But once they've let the OSX genie out of the bottle it will be hard to put back in and claim that 'Security's hard' because we'll know that that's not entirely true. Customers will demand and get a better stable BSD based security platform and they'll never look back.
BTW Linux-heads. You ignore this at your own peril too. The value add of Linux versus MacOS X at the price point you'll see on Intel hardware will make Linux irrelevant.
I have a bunch of Windows machines sold with no media, only a recovery CD proc and some blanks. I'm sure the state of these recovery CDs is questionable. Another year or two they'll be bad and when something goes wrong they won't be usable. I've already experienced this with a backup Windows 2000 installation CD.
So.....what you need to do is re burn all your burned CD's every 1-2 years.
I've come to learn, maybe all of you know this already that you as a poster never see the actually modding done to your posts. Yet you are evaluated and possibly suspended or worse based specifically on that which you never see and never know. Take for example a post - it goes in as a 2. Now 8 people read it and 4 of them mod it down and 4 of them mod it up. It winds up with the same score as it started, but somewhere in the bowels of /. you get 4 black marks in your tally for being modded down 4 times. You never see this, never know it. Until of course you cross some magic Jedi threshold whereby /. has determined you have been modded down too many times and are to be suspended. Also your overall karma has zero bearing on this.
Again, maybe I'm the last person here to know this but I just wanted to share.
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I can say to the CEOs of both you suck balls and any fucking moron could do only 50% damage you've managed for one tenth the pay.
Of course IBM is MS's biggest threat. They're both fighting over who can become the slowest most bureaucratic process driven 99 layers of management every year a new paradigm indifferent to customers let's alienate the financial press and ship all of our jobs to Bangalore firm on the planet.
It's an airship. Period.
Every few years ol Bob comes out with some doozies like the Internet is going to collapse and end, like all operating systems are doomed to failure, like Vulcan mind meld networking is the wave of the future.
OK you you invented a crucial technology decades ago. Now do a Doug Englebart and be quiet.
I mean this is a game console, yes? Does it smell like ozone? Is the case getting hot? Does it need a case fan that moves a 1000cfm? What exactly is it 'throwing' at the design? I understand "just because it's there to do" projects, but what's the point here? Does it run that much hotter than the underlying PC hardware it is?
MS is free to develop whatever on god's grey earth they like. But after years of us telling them what our problems are, they should at some point start listening to those comments.
It's not bashing it's disgust and frustration at being told to talk to that brick wall over there. Yeah that one.
But I'll believe that when I see it. MS has a long bloody history of protecting you from your own applications, except the MS applications that run a little differently.
Oh sorry, what I meant was Vista will have ever more voracious hardware requirements, 3-D widgets, DRM up the yin yang, 12 different versions so it runs on everything from the computer to the home theater to the microwave oven, bugs crawling out of everywhere from day one and the same broken piece of shit security model wrapped up in corporate hype and buzztalk for only 30% more retail cost than the version of Windows you're running today.
Yeah that's what I meant to say. Sorry.
Seriously I get maybe a 100+emails a day and that's after our gateway does its corporate job of despamming us. What's left is still 85% junk. How hard is it to simply dump all that unopened even if the volume is 2 or 3 times what I get. What's left is 15-20 useful emails a day, maybe. I'm sure I can keep in my head what those 15-20 emails are related to and if I can't I'll just reflag them as unread and get back to them later. Everything else gets read, tossed in a folder where it will most likely never get read again - just saved for CYA purposes, and eventually archived.
Maybe it's just me but my colleagues with 750MB email files either have borderline personality disorders or are just being anal.
... at least ONE moon landing was real....
Because they understand that camera phones are a generation away from being able to replace low end digital snapshot cameras. But it's probably a mistake to think that after the first wave that people will trade what has to be some ease of use including the ability to lay your phone down and print a bunch of pictures for the ability to not carry around a camera. Likewise that a combination device: phone, MP3, camera, PDA, bottle opener, sex toy... will be anything other than limited and low function versions of each of those devices it attempts to replace.
A company would prefer to sell to a cell phone carrier who already beats the phone manufacturer down because they can use that widget to upsell a bunch of overpriced features. An embedded drive in a camera that has 1% of the market has a much much lower markup.
This all assumes that people will want ginormous all in one electronic devices that are phones, PDAs and MP3 players. Probably that's not a safe bet. It's been tried before and people generally don't want the cost and complexity of an all in one. The transition costs for the consumer are quite high. If you for example get a new phone/MP3 player what do you do with the iPod you just paid 300 bucks for?
And how much will the consumer get screwed by the cell phone company which will of course charge a huge premium for the MTV factor alone plus you're still limited by the cell phone carrier itself. We already see that most people - maybe as many as 85% never use most of the features of the picture - ringtone - video etc etc phone they already have today. What would you do with a MP3 player that could only download tunes through the cell phone's carrier for a huge premium? What happens when you drop it?
Why don't they focus on the hand held video camera market which needs this kind of capacity and doesn't give too much of a crap about the iPod-Cribs-Spinners-Nerd I'm so cool I diss myself market?
Walmart sources their PCs now from 3bt and Microtel and offer a cheap-o no OS or Linux OS option for damn close to $300. sub300 (ergo the name) and iDot both offer PCs for less than that. Of course they usually don't have hard drives, CD burners (CDROM only) or more than 256MB RAM. Processors are usually Via C3's or end of life Durons. I'm guessing you could probably squeeze out a little more cost by eliminating serial, LPT, PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports, pulling the power supply out a-la Mini Mac, eliminating the hard drive AND the CDROM and booting the OS from a USB drive and then giving away the OS for free. It would of course be of fairly limited practical use as a thin client but it's possible.
As opposed to the other, oh 3 dozen titles heavily used. Save the snarkism pal.
Never even knew it existed at the time. Just wore out the drives. They started to audibly click then video buffer would seize then inability to start the game. CD worked fine on a 'new' machine.
Weird.
I don't understand the elevated fear that this unofficial patch may cause some problem in the future, compared to the certainty that doing nothing will compared to the certainty that some MS official fixes cause problems of their own.
Yes there is a likelihood this could breaksomething down the road, just as de-registering shimgvw.dll might cause some other problem - probably with in-house apps later on too. That's pretty much the nature of security though, isn't it?
I wound up replacing 3 PS2s under warranty replacement because of drive damage caused by GTA/SA and only that game. Very odd.
Don't worry it's not a bug, it's a feature.