Remember the massive bundle of critical OS X security updates a week ago which patched holes that were being exploited for months?
No, I don't, because nothing was "being exploited for months," and you can't cite a single incident to back up that claim. You just made it up on the spot.
None of the patches were zero-day exploits, and most were patches of UNIX utilities, not Apple software.
Have fun screening all your email from all your contacts in Outlook.
Let me tell you a little something about how news organizations work. They're businesses. Slashdot is a business. This means they're not interested in reporting the news. They're interested in "storylines," because these drive readership and therefore advertising rates. It makes for a flashy storyline to say Novell is forking OpenOffice.org after their patent deal with Microsoft. It gets readers into a tizzy.
The biggest thing I see is a bias in media coverage. For instance, headlines were throbbing with claims of a disastrous hurricane season back in January that would wipe out the nation. It ended up being the least active season in 10 years, but nobody reported the discrepancy in what scientists claimed would happened and what actually happened or that their beloved Al Gore was wrong. Hell, nobody will even talk about how the global temperature record shows no increase in temperature since 1998. The data's right there staring them in the face, and they keep it from the public (much like progress in the Iraq War).
It's just odd how eager they are to carry Al Gore's message to the masses, seemingly without question. They put out the word "consensus" while ignoring guys like the lead hurricane scientist in the U.S. (yes, Hemos, there are many high-profile scientists who don't buy the global warming alarmism).
Worst of all, the media ignores the financial angle. Haven't you wondered why so many of the same scientists get quoted over and over in newspaper articles? These guys are looking for federal funding for their research. Global warming alarmism has a huge monetary motive that the media completely ignores. Same thing with embryonic stem cell research, which has yielded no results compared to adult and cord cells--two types of stem cell research that have gained private investors. In other words, the reason you see so much outcry from certain scientists over embryonic stem cell research is because they can't get any private investors due to lack of results, and so they're seeking to get money from the government. And so it is with many global warming scientists seeking funding.
In 10 years when the environment is just fine and we're onto the next trend in the media, people will look back on this year's alarmism and laugh in the same way we laugh at the global cooling alarmism of the 1970s.
"Everyone" does not tie their browser to their operating system shell, Windows is not the most secure browser, and the fact it's used so extensively doesn't mean it's been "tested so much."
And every article on this subject has ignorant posts like yours that purposely ignore what Microsoft told us all years ago, which was that Internet Explorer was attached to Explorer because it was fundamental to the operating system and that it couldn't be removed without crippling Windows, and that tying it to the shell was absolutely necessary for some reason.
Apple actually shipped Internet Explorer for years until Microsoft discontinued support and forced them to provide their own browser and rendering libraries. Other platforms have not gone down the same path as Microsoft did with Internet Explorer. In fact, even Microsoft has abandoned its older path and decoupled Internet Explorer from the shell.
Yeah, Carmack is so gracious that Slashdotters actively pirate his games. You guys are all against the MPAA and RIAA, but then you turn around and worship Carmack and ignore the fact you guys pirate PC games too, and these smart people are the guys you're screwing over when you do it.
So the next time you're ripping yet another artist off and making sure they don't get paid that day, keep in mind there are real humans behind that piece of work who put a lot of work into it, be it music, movies, or software.
What's funny is that if you take into account Nintendo's portables, they are already the #1 console manufacturer. This is something game journalists ignore. The DS is outselling the PS3 in Japan, and DS games dominate the top-sellers list.
Nintendo is attempting another DS with the Wii, and it looks like they're on their way. At least 4 million are expected to be sold by the end of the year alone. Imagine how many will be sold next year when availability is even higher and more games are out (both for the Wii and on the Virtual Console). It's amazing, but Nintendo really might top Microsoft and Sony in non-portable consoles.
Apple was suffering from a lack of focus and drive, just like Microsoft. Microsoft is bogged down in process and bloat, and they need a major cutting of fat. They have more employees than ever before, and to have achieved such a high headcount requires some lowering of hiring standards. They can't even put out a portable media device application that doesn't crash on their own operating system, and something as simple as the shutdown menu in Vista requires committee meetings. The company is operating in a slow, reactionary way rather than leading the industry like it once did.
Record Mac sales every quarter, market dominance in portable media players, billions in cash, and an earned status of media darling and industry leader. You're right, what a disaster!
By the way, the majority of Windows market share comes from enterprise volume licenses. Take those out of the equation, and Windows market share goes down considerably. Market share is just a percentage of sales in a year, not user base or industry impact. Mercedez-Benz doesn't dominate the automobile industry in market share either.
This is the consequence of design-by-committee. Instead of one or two people dictating a clear focus of design, you get a bunch of voices all trying to justify their existence, and the design becomes bloated and schizophrenic as you try to appeal to everybody and cover every possible option rather than focusing on a few good ones.
Microsoft needs a Steve Jobs-ian spring cleaning. For those unaware, when he returned to Apple, he called project leaders into a conference room and had them justify their existence. If they couldn't do it, the project was scrapped. The company was streamlined to focus on a few core product lines.
No offense, but I don't really care. I'm quoting the standard position of health and fitness experts who state that a minimum of 30 minutes of exercise a day helps a person maintain their weight and fitness.
I just don't think waving a remote control around is going to do that much. Sure, it's a lot better than nothing, but let's be realistic here.
If you're getting into Wii sports, bouncing around and swinging at a tennis ball for an hour, that's burning calories. Ask anyone, they'll tell you they felt it in their muscles the next day. It's excellent news for health experts who have been warning about the nation's lack of exercise.
By 'looking beyond Windows', the company is utilizing fresh blood to come up with new products like the Zune, the Xbox 360, and various online sites.
Wow, totally wrong. Microsoft is always focused on the Windows platform. What the hell do you think the Zune and the XBox 360 exist for? The Zune only runs on Windows and uses Windows audio formats, and the XBox 360 runs Windows and uses DirectX.
This author is arguing that Microsoft is going outside of Windows with these devices, when Microsoft is actually using them to drive even more dependency on Windows and its related technologies. Every single thing Microsoft does can be viewed through the prism of preserving or extending their platform in some way. The Zune is a response to the iPod's Windows-independent digital media, and the XBox was a response to the Playstation's gobbling up of the PC gaming market,.NET and web services was a response to Java, and so forth. The company exhibits a sort of reactionary paranoia to everything that is always intended to preserve the Windows platform.
i really think that Microsoft, Apple, Creative, etc etc etc would prefer not to have any DRM on their devices.
That may be true for Apple, but Microsoft has demonstrated it is quite firmly on the side of DRM and media publishers. They're actually paying Universal for every Zune sold, and of course, there's WGA in their other products like Windows.
Uh, you don't buy music from the RIAA. They're just a representative lobby group for record labels. Second, artists willingly sign contracts with record labels, and they even hire entertainment lawyers to make sure they have favorable contracts. Pirating music just makes sure that artists don't get paid.
"Striking back" at the RIAA by pirating an artists' music is stupid, and it's just a justification used by pirates to make themselves not feel guilty for it. Whenever the artists are mentioned, the conversation always steers back to the RIAA--you just did it in your post. The reason for this is that pirates scapegoat the RIAA to make someone else the bad guy and try to distract from the fact that what they're doing is wrong. So, whenever someone mentions the artists, pirates scramble to make the RIAA the bad guy again and forget about the artists, because it's the artists they're screwing over, not the RIAA.
It takes approximately 30 minutes of exercise a day to maintain a healthy fitness, and if you're working up a sweat hitting virtual tennis balls, you will be burning calories. It's like doing jumping jacks.
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No, I don't, because nothing was "being exploited for months," and you can't cite a single incident to back up that claim. You just made it up on the spot.
None of the patches were zero-day exploits, and most were patches of UNIX utilities, not Apple software.
Have fun screening all your email from all your contacts in Outlook.
The summary isn't deceptive at all. You can't even trust trusted sources.
Let me tell you a little something about how news organizations work. They're businesses. Slashdot is a business. This means they're not interested in reporting the news. They're interested in "storylines," because these drive readership and therefore advertising rates. It makes for a flashy storyline to say Novell is forking OpenOffice.org after their patent deal with Microsoft. It gets readers into a tizzy.
Wrong. Note that even the National Science Board got caught up in the nonsense, all because of cooling temperatures.
The biggest thing I see is a bias in media coverage. For instance, headlines were throbbing with claims of a disastrous hurricane season back in January that would wipe out the nation. It ended up being the least active season in 10 years, but nobody reported the discrepancy in what scientists claimed would happened and what actually happened or that their beloved Al Gore was wrong. Hell, nobody will even talk about how the global temperature record shows no increase in temperature since 1998. The data's right there staring them in the face, and they keep it from the public (much like progress in the Iraq War).
It's just odd how eager they are to carry Al Gore's message to the masses, seemingly without question. They put out the word "consensus" while ignoring guys like the lead hurricane scientist in the U.S. (yes, Hemos, there are many high-profile scientists who don't buy the global warming alarmism).
Worst of all, the media ignores the financial angle. Haven't you wondered why so many of the same scientists get quoted over and over in newspaper articles? These guys are looking for federal funding for their research. Global warming alarmism has a huge monetary motive that the media completely ignores. Same thing with embryonic stem cell research, which has yielded no results compared to adult and cord cells--two types of stem cell research that have gained private investors. In other words, the reason you see so much outcry from certain scientists over embryonic stem cell research is because they can't get any private investors due to lack of results, and so they're seeking to get money from the government. And so it is with many global warming scientists seeking funding.
In 10 years when the environment is just fine and we're onto the next trend in the media, people will look back on this year's alarmism and laugh in the same way we laugh at the global cooling alarmism of the 1970s.
"Everyone" does not tie their browser to their operating system shell, Windows is not the most secure browser, and the fact it's used so extensively doesn't mean it's been "tested so much."
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Shouldn't you be out buying a brown Zune?
And every article on this subject has ignorant posts like yours that purposely ignore what Microsoft told us all years ago, which was that Internet Explorer was attached to Explorer because it was fundamental to the operating system and that it couldn't be removed without crippling Windows, and that tying it to the shell was absolutely necessary for some reason.
Apple actually shipped Internet Explorer for years until Microsoft discontinued support and forced them to provide their own browser and rendering libraries. Other platforms have not gone down the same path as Microsoft did with Internet Explorer. In fact, even Microsoft has abandoned its older path and decoupled Internet Explorer from the shell.
Are you sure you're not actually running Doom 3? Not only does no light reflect off of anything, but no light is emitted in the first place.
Yeah, Carmack is so gracious that Slashdotters actively pirate his games. You guys are all against the MPAA and RIAA, but then you turn around and worship Carmack and ignore the fact you guys pirate PC games too, and these smart people are the guys you're screwing over when you do it.
So the next time you're ripping yet another artist off and making sure they don't get paid that day, keep in mind there are real humans behind that piece of work who put a lot of work into it, be it music, movies, or software.
You're right. One sentence was worth an whole new post instead of an update to the one still on the front page.
Microsoft software is quite a bit different in that regard. It goes bald, its ass sags, and it yells at customers who walk on its lawn.
What's funny is that if you take into account Nintendo's portables, they are already the #1 console manufacturer. This is something game journalists ignore. The DS is outselling the PS3 in Japan, and DS games dominate the top-sellers list.
Nintendo is attempting another DS with the Wii, and it looks like they're on their way. At least 4 million are expected to be sold by the end of the year alone. Imagine how many will be sold next year when availability is even higher and more games are out (both for the Wii and on the Virtual Console). It's amazing, but Nintendo really might top Microsoft and Sony in non-portable consoles.
iTunes has the least restrictive DRM in the business. I've never even noticed it.
Apple was suffering from a lack of focus and drive, just like Microsoft. Microsoft is bogged down in process and bloat, and they need a major cutting of fat. They have more employees than ever before, and to have achieved such a high headcount requires some lowering of hiring standards. They can't even put out a portable media device application that doesn't crash on their own operating system, and something as simple as the shutdown menu in Vista requires committee meetings. The company is operating in a slow, reactionary way rather than leading the industry like it once did.
Record Mac sales every quarter, market dominance in portable media players, billions in cash, and an earned status of media darling and industry leader. You're right, what a disaster!
By the way, the majority of Windows market share comes from enterprise volume licenses. Take those out of the equation, and Windows market share goes down considerably. Market share is just a percentage of sales in a year, not user base or industry impact. Mercedez-Benz doesn't dominate the automobile industry in market share either.
Yes, it does. It runs a derivative of the first XBox's operating system, which utilized a stripped-down version of Windows 2000.
You win. No other comment will best this.
This is the consequence of design-by-committee. Instead of one or two people dictating a clear focus of design, you get a bunch of voices all trying to justify their existence, and the design becomes bloated and schizophrenic as you try to appeal to everybody and cover every possible option rather than focusing on a few good ones.
This problem of bureaucracy and overbearing process is uniform across Microsoft. If you don't believe me, visit MiniMSFT and browse the archives.
Microsoft needs a Steve Jobs-ian spring cleaning. For those unaware, when he returned to Apple, he called project leaders into a conference room and had them justify their existence. If they couldn't do it, the project was scrapped. The company was streamlined to focus on a few core product lines.
No offense, but I don't really care. I'm quoting the standard position of health and fitness experts who state that a minimum of 30 minutes of exercise a day helps a person maintain their weight and fitness.
If you're getting into Wii sports, bouncing around and swinging at a tennis ball for an hour, that's burning calories. Ask anyone, they'll tell you they felt it in their muscles the next day. It's excellent news for health experts who have been warning about the nation's lack of exercise.
Wow, totally wrong. Microsoft is always focused on the Windows platform. What the hell do you think the Zune and the XBox 360 exist for? The Zune only runs on Windows and uses Windows audio formats, and the XBox 360 runs Windows and uses DirectX.
This author is arguing that Microsoft is going outside of Windows with these devices, when Microsoft is actually using them to drive even more dependency on Windows and its related technologies. Every single thing Microsoft does can be viewed through the prism of preserving or extending their platform in some way. The Zune is a response to the iPod's Windows-independent digital media, and the XBox was a response to the Playstation's gobbling up of the PC gaming market,
That may be true for Apple, but Microsoft has demonstrated it is quite firmly on the side of DRM and media publishers. They're actually paying Universal for every Zune sold, and of course, there's WGA in their other products like Windows.
Uh, you don't buy music from the RIAA. They're just a representative lobby group for record labels. Second, artists willingly sign contracts with record labels, and they even hire entertainment lawyers to make sure they have favorable contracts. Pirating music just makes sure that artists don't get paid.
"Striking back" at the RIAA by pirating an artists' music is stupid, and it's just a justification used by pirates to make themselves not feel guilty for it. Whenever the artists are mentioned, the conversation always steers back to the RIAA--you just did it in your post. The reason for this is that pirates scapegoat the RIAA to make someone else the bad guy and try to distract from the fact that what they're doing is wrong. So, whenever someone mentions the artists, pirates scramble to make the RIAA the bad guy again and forget about the artists, because it's the artists they're screwing over, not the RIAA.
It takes approximately 30 minutes of exercise a day to maintain a healthy fitness, and if you're working up a sweat hitting virtual tennis balls, you will be burning calories. It's like doing jumping jacks.