It's an operating system's responsibility to read my mind and block sensitive files from going through the firewall without my expressed approval. Clearly Windows fails here.
I have no idea what that list even is. I have a Windows Mobile phone from HTC and it came with nearly everything on that list. Opera Mobile, Pocket Outlook (which is a dame fine mobile email client), Contacts w/ Caller Photo ID, TouchFlo 3D which makes everything snazzy looking, Windows Mobile Media player plays MP3s movies and more, Internet Sharing and dial-up (who uses that anymore anyway?), the built-in Calculator is just fine, the built-in keyboard is fine, it came with Mobile Acrobat Reader, and a Notes taker which does text, drawing, and speech. And tons more.
Every single cherry install of XP or Vista I've ever done, without exception, has failed to load ethernet, wireless, video, or soundcard drivers. Every. Single. One.
My experience, and I've got plenty of it loading XP and Vista, has been quite different.
For example, right now I'm using a three-year-old Dell that I loaded Vista on. Everything works, right out of the box, with the exception of Hibernate. I did not have to download a single driver.
On my desktop, where I most recently loaded Vista, nearly everything worked. I needed to download a newer video driver, though the old one worked just did not do the fancy Aero stuff, and a better printer driver so I would have full access to the printer's features.
.. or did you mean micro-USB, or mini-USB, or mini-B, or micro-B, or AB...
While the number of Micro-USB components I have is a pretty good percentage, it's still far from "universal" as far as the connector itself is concerned.
And even when they fit, they still might not work. I can't take my laptop and plug it into a Motorola phone to charge it, but that works fine with my HTC phone. Not to mention the proprietary USB connections that HTC has for audio/video.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't these users *opt* to downgrade knowing there would be an additional charge?
Not to mention that the charge is from Dell or HP or whatever OEM, and not Microsoft, but the customer opted for it.
I'm sure there's a poor car analogy for this, but I don't even need one to point out how dumb this appears on the surface. Maybe there's just something I'm not seeing?
I read that Avast has an update they are working on to prevent the UAC from appearing.
As for XFire and O&O Defrag, I would hope that they're doing the same. They should have never designed these programs to run as administrator on every run. Upon installation, sure.
If it's going to keep nagging me whenever I start some application I use several times a day,
But that's just it. It doesn't.
It earned its reputation pre-SP1 when it would prompt you 2-3 times whenever you moved a system file or change something in your start menu, a control panel setting, something like that.
I have never seen any of that behaviour since SP1.
There might very well be certain applications that are doing that, but I would consider that to be the app's fault for requesting an operation that would require admin access. Quickbooks, for example, does not need to run as admin. And I'd hesitate to check "Always let this program do whatever it wants" in the event that it becomes compromised.
But what happens if an application that you previously trusted is then discovered to have a fault that can be taken advantage of?
Suppose you trust Firefox, and then a few months later someone finds a vulnerability that allows some script to be run or whatever.
With the way people like to "set it and forget it", I don't think that would be a very good idea. I would rather know whenever an application is trying to do something critical. And for how rare that is, I'm happy to confirm that with a UAC prompt.
I wish more school districts would take that approach, rather than requiring you remove the school board before they'll change off a destined-for-doom plan.
Your suggestion has been received and will be reviewed upon our next closed-door meeting.
That's exactly where this could lead if Microsoft wanted to push it.
All they would have to do is dust off their old Mac IE browser, give it a new version number, and then "sue" Apple to force them to remove Safari from Mac OS.
Hell, why not go a step further and demand that Safari also come off iPhones, since it's unfair competition with Pocket IE?
Likewise with Chrome on Andriod (Google Phone OS).
These are dangerous cans they are about to open, and if I were Microsoft I wouldn't hesitate to play any of those cards if they were forced to.
Getting a link to a movie on Slashdot. How much did they pay you for that?
Seriously, even if the movie hadn't been released anywhere, there are still plenty of opportunities to see it. Producers hold previews all the time, and it wouldn't surprise me if they modernized things by encouraging those previewers to post their comments right at the theatre lobby.
This happens on Amazon.Com quite often, with products that are not yet released. Do I consider it fraud? Not necessarily. Once the masses weigh in, the law of averages will too.
I'm no expert on this, but can't Linux users with Firefox run the Moonlight plug-in? I understand it to be a opensource version of Silverlight, which even has official backing by Microsoft and is funded by Novell.
It looks like Moonlight is in beta release with its support of Silverlight 2.
TFA has six pages, almost all of which were praise for Windows 7, and yet the "summary" picks out three choice sentences that were negative.
Nevermind the new features (both under the hood and with the UI), nevermind all the annoyances of Vista that this undoes, nevermind the ZDNet tests that show 7 to be faster than XP and Vista.
No, let's scan the entire article and post the most damning phrases we can find and call that a summary.
I dunno, but I've never had the need to swap out cards.
I have cards of various sizes in my camera, digital photo frame, and cell phone. But have never had the need to swap cards in and out of devices unless temporarily to load data.
I buy cards that are large enough to hold all the data I could ever want for that device, and presto, no swapping.
Like a lot of my colleagues, I have several white and black, and blue children for various purposes: school, work, social, etc. These things are handy to have around, offer easy and significant entertainment, but are very easily lost. We have also have run into some instances where it wasn't clear whose children were whose, and have also started to see a need for a storage mechanism. I have seen child 'drawers' and such, but have never seen anyone actually use one. So: How do you manage and keep track of your children?
More and more people are buying iPhones (and other handhelds) and using them to surf the web.
Not to replace their normal browsing, just to browse the web more.
This report is very slim on details (it doesn't even say where the metrics came from), but I'm going on a hunch here that it's not so much Firefox is gaining in popularity, but that overall usage of the web is increasing and moreso with devices that IE is not on.
Some simplified math: If 8 people use IE and 2 use Firefox, IE has an 80% share. Now add 2 more people to the party, both on iPhone/Safari, and IE's market share drops to 66%.
I honestly don't think Firefox is making a dent in IE for the desktop, when you compare it to the beating it's taking elsewhere. It's clear that Microsoft, if it wants to retain dominance in the browser market, needs to do something with the handheld sector and quickly. PocketIE is great for sites that are mobile-ready, but for everything else it lacks and is driving people away.
Um, no thank you. If you don't want a company storing your card, then don't use them.
I buy from Amazon on a weekly basis, sometimes twice a week, and I would be incredibly frustrated if I had to type in my billing information every time, even if I only had to type in the CVN.
The convinience is precisely why I shop so much at Amazon, and why I always look there first when I want something. On the rare time that I have to shop somewhere else online, I always find myself frustrated by their annoying checkout systems which are far more complex than they need to be.
If our government wants to set standards on how card information is stored, fine. But we all know that the very next day everyone at/. will be complaining that it's not the right format, too proprietary, or too costly for the little guy.
If our government wants to require this to be opt in, then that's fine by me. In fact, every website which I've used that stores your credit card information is opt in already. I don't recall one that isn't.
So no, please don't take away my 1-Click or my opt-in billing information.
Or the advertising community will agree on something short like this:
web: www.ford
Or something like this:
For more information, visit mustang.ford
Or email me at david@us.ford
It's really not that hard to think of some examples where people will understand what you're saying. And with enough advertising, people will catch on very quickly just like they know what "ford.com" means today.
There could even be a symbol, like a globle or arror or something like we see today, when placed next to a word indicates that it is a domain name.
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At least those women, who do not have a cervix, can proudly proclaim that they do not have cervical cancer.
See, that's what early detection and repeated testing can get you!
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to get my own pap test.
-David
It's an operating system's responsibility to read my mind and block sensitive files from going through the firewall without my expressed approval. Clearly Windows fails here.
I have no idea what that list even is. I have a Windows Mobile phone from HTC and it came with nearly everything on that list. Opera Mobile, Pocket Outlook (which is a dame fine mobile email client), Contacts w/ Caller Photo ID, TouchFlo 3D which makes everything snazzy looking, Windows Mobile Media player plays MP3s movies and more, Internet Sharing and dial-up (who uses that anymore anyway?), the built-in Calculator is just fine, the built-in keyboard is fine, it came with Mobile Acrobat Reader, and a Notes taker which does text, drawing, and speech. And tons more.
And it was all free with the phone.
Every single cherry install of XP or Vista I've ever done, without exception, has failed to load ethernet, wireless, video, or soundcard drivers. Every. Single. One.
My experience, and I've got plenty of it loading XP and Vista, has been quite different.
For example, right now I'm using a three-year-old Dell that I loaded Vista on. Everything works, right out of the box, with the exception of Hibernate. I did not have to download a single driver.
On my desktop, where I most recently loaded Vista, nearly everything worked. I needed to download a newer video driver, though the old one worked just did not do the fancy Aero stuff, and a better printer driver so I would have full access to the printer's features.
You mean like USB and, I dunno... maybe mini-USB?
.. or did you mean micro-USB, or mini-USB, or mini-B, or micro-B, or AB ...
While the number of Micro-USB components I have is a pretty good percentage, it's still far from "universal" as far as the connector itself is concerned.
And even when they fit, they still might not work. I can't take my laptop and plug it into a Motorola phone to charge it, but that works fine with my HTC phone. Not to mention the proprietary USB connections that HTC has for audio/video.
Oh, and USB 3 is coming out, too.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't these users *opt* to downgrade knowing there would be an additional charge?
Not to mention that the charge is from Dell or HP or whatever OEM, and not Microsoft, but the customer opted for it.
I'm sure there's a poor car analogy for this, but I don't even need one to point out how dumb this appears on the surface. Maybe there's just something I'm not seeing?
I read that Avast has an update they are working on to prevent the UAC from appearing.
As for XFire and O&O Defrag, I would hope that they're doing the same. They should have never designed these programs to run as administrator on every run. Upon installation, sure.
I'd be curious to know which applications are doing this. Could you list them?
Usually it's because the developer has ignored best-practice programming techniques which have been documented by Microsoft for almost a decade now.
I hope you've reported them to Microsoft using the Send Feedback tool.
If it's going to keep nagging me whenever I start some application I use several times a day,
But that's just it. It doesn't.
It earned its reputation pre-SP1 when it would prompt you 2-3 times whenever you moved a system file or change something in your start menu, a control panel setting, something like that.
I have never seen any of that behaviour since SP1.
There might very well be certain applications that are doing that, but I would consider that to be the app's fault for requesting an operation that would require admin access. Quickbooks, for example, does not need to run as admin. And I'd hesitate to check "Always let this program do whatever it wants" in the event that it becomes compromised.
But what happens if an application that you previously trusted is then discovered to have a fault that can be taken advantage of?
Suppose you trust Firefox, and then a few months later someone finds a vulnerability that allows some script to be run or whatever.
With the way people like to "set it and forget it", I don't think that would be a very good idea. I would rather know whenever an application is trying to do something critical. And for how rare that is, I'm happy to confirm that with a UAC prompt.
I wish more school districts would take that approach, rather than requiring you remove the school board before they'll change off a destined-for-doom plan.
Your suggestion has been received and will be reviewed upon our next closed-door meeting.
Sincerely,
Your Local School Board
You don't have any idea what the 'trust' in 'antitrust' is do you?
I certainly wouldn't claim to be an expert, no.
But rather than educate me, please feel free to belittle my existence and ridicule me. It's far more entertaining, I'm sure.
Has there been a similar suit against Macintosh?
That's exactly where this could lead if Microsoft wanted to push it.
All they would have to do is dust off their old Mac IE browser, give it a new version number, and then "sue" Apple to force them to remove Safari from Mac OS.
Hell, why not go a step further and demand that Safari also come off iPhones, since it's unfair competition with Pocket IE?
Likewise with Chrome on Andriod (Google Phone OS).
These are dangerous cans they are about to open, and if I were Microsoft I wouldn't hesitate to play any of those cards if they were forced to.
Getting a link to a movie on Slashdot. How much did they pay you for that?
Seriously, even if the movie hadn't been released anywhere, there are still plenty of opportunities to see it. Producers hold previews all the time, and it wouldn't surprise me if they modernized things by encouraging those previewers to post their comments right at the theatre lobby.
This happens on Amazon.Com quite often, with products that are not yet released. Do I consider it fraud? Not necessarily. Once the masses weigh in, the law of averages will too.
You call it a bribe.
I call it a refund.
I'm no expert on this, but can't Linux users with Firefox run the Moonlight plug-in? I understand it to be a opensource version of Silverlight, which even has official backing by Microsoft and is funded by Novell.
It looks like Moonlight is in beta release with its support of Silverlight 2.
TFA has six pages, almost all of which were praise for Windows 7, and yet the "summary" picks out three choice sentences that were negative.
Nevermind the new features (both under the hood and with the UI), nevermind all the annoyances of Vista that this undoes, nevermind the ZDNet tests that show 7 to be faster than XP and Vista.
No, let's scan the entire article and post the most damning phrases we can find and call that a summary.
And no I'm not new here.
if we encourage people in the meantime to read a book, go to the library, use the computer there and read the news and so on, that's bad? Really?
I predict a sudden surge of new babies born in November 2009.
Perhaps we'll call it the Blackout Boom.
I dunno, but I've never had the need to swap out cards.
I have cards of various sizes in my camera, digital photo frame, and cell phone. But have never had the need to swap cards in and out of devices unless temporarily to load data.
I buy cards that are large enough to hold all the data I could ever want for that device, and presto, no swapping.
Like a lot of my colleagues, I have several white and black, and blue children for various purposes: school, work, social, etc. These things are handy to have around, offer easy and significant entertainment, but are very easily lost. We have also have run into some instances where it wasn't clear whose children were whose, and have also started to see a need for a storage mechanism. I have seen child 'drawers' and such, but have never seen anyone actually use one. So: How do you manage and keep track of your children?
Apparently it could not predict its need for sufficient bandwidth.
More and more people are buying iPhones (and other handhelds) and using them to surf the web.
Not to replace their normal browsing, just to browse the web more.
This report is very slim on details (it doesn't even say where the metrics came from), but I'm going on a hunch here that it's not so much Firefox is gaining in popularity, but that overall usage of the web is increasing and moreso with devices that IE is not on.
Some simplified math: If 8 people use IE and 2 use Firefox, IE has an 80% share. Now add 2 more people to the party, both on iPhone/Safari, and IE's market share drops to 66%.
I honestly don't think Firefox is making a dent in IE for the desktop, when you compare it to the beating it's taking elsewhere. It's clear that Microsoft, if it wants to retain dominance in the browser market, needs to do something with the handheld sector and quickly. PocketIE is great for sites that are mobile-ready, but for everything else it lacks and is driving people away.
I think that would be a fine law -- to require opt-in to store billing information.
But I believe the person I replied to was suggesting that they make it outright illegal.
Um, no thank you. If you don't want a company storing your card, then don't use them.
I buy from Amazon on a weekly basis, sometimes twice a week, and I would be incredibly frustrated if I had to type in my billing information every time, even if I only had to type in the CVN.
The convinience is precisely why I shop so much at Amazon, and why I always look there first when I want something. On the rare time that I have to shop somewhere else online, I always find myself frustrated by their annoying checkout systems which are far more complex than they need to be.
If our government wants to set standards on how card information is stored, fine. But we all know that the very next day everyone at /. will be complaining that it's not the right format, too proprietary, or too costly for the little guy.
If our government wants to require this to be opt in, then that's fine by me. In fact, every website which I've used that stores your credit card information is opt in already. I don't recall one that isn't.
So no, please don't take away my 1-Click or my opt-in billing information.
Or the advertising community will agree on something short like this:
web: www.ford
Or something like this:
For more information, visit mustang.ford
Or email me at david@us.ford
It's really not that hard to think of some examples where people will understand what you're saying. And with enough advertising, people will catch on very quickly just like they know what "ford.com" means today.
There could even be a symbol, like a globle or arror or something like we see today, when placed next to a word indicates that it is a domain name.