To be fair it does try to explain what is new in Vista Forever compared to the earlier incarnations. The blurb is a little brief though and I wasn't exactly getting excited reading it, but then I am not the target market. I am sure some people get excited about the new true transparency effects, which is the only thing I can see that would make me upgrade (the continuous promises of upgrading to get more security sound good - but I no longer believe it).
the new Reliability Monitor, which sifts through event logs and helps you track down the cause of crashes and slowdowns.
Well at least they finally admitted that Windows can crash. I wish they had called it the Unreliability Monitor though.;)
Video games are easier; they're basically just moving cartoons.
If you play modern first person shooters, they can be very realistic. The graphics are superb these days. Not 100% perfect, but far better than 'moving cartoons'. You can get totally immersed in the game and begin to think about the game also when you are not playing it. The level of realism possible will only improve in the future. Obviously the author has never played this sort of game, and ought to try it before claiming to know about games.
However it is still correct that it is the parents' responsibility to ensure that their children play games that they consider suitable for their age, and to limit the number of hours they play. Just please don't pretend that it's OK for children to play all games because they are like cartoons. Some aren't.
I bet your friend had got into trouble many times before they were expelled for a Mohican haircut. The reason given was probably just something easy that they can pick on and many people will support them without thinking for themselves.
The real reason they were expelled (for being a brat, or perhaps a complete failure?) is more difficult to admit. Perhaps there was even something secret that you are not aware about. A blackmail attempt perhaps. Things are rarely as simple as 'I got banned for my haircut'.
That statement is ridiculous - it should be the opposite.
I guess that depends on whether you think the laws are fair or not.
Are you saying that all laws are fair? How about the 'Hand over your encryption keys or go to jail?' law in the UK.
Shouldn't we take each law on a case by case basis and determine whether or not it is OK to break that law in certain circumstances, rather than just saying that anyone who breaks a law is automatically evil and should be punished?
Yes, I know it would be better if the law makers made this decision this for us, but they have proved thir incompetence/corruption (probably the first) already and I no longer trust them to decide what is right or wrong.
What's the downside to tightening the threshold of the definition of monopoly?
There's nothing wrong with the current definition of a monopoly.
The problem is that noone is taking any action. The few organisations that are powerful enough to do anything about it (governments) choose not to. The EU is too scared of upsetting Microsoft that they still aren't collecting any money from the fines they imposed ages ago.
Meanwhile customers are happy to pay up, so life goes on. Microsoft's only problem is that their older products are sufficiently good (in most people's eyes) that people would rather keep using what they have and not upgrade. The best way Microsoft can force people to upgrade is to change the file format to make it incompatible with older versions, and encourage people to start distributing documents in the new format. I'm sure we will see them pushing their new 'open' (patented) document format.
Don't wait for the government to save your arse. Vote with your wallet today.
In Linux, applications are not executable by default. You have to first download it, save it somewhere in your home folder, change its permissions to allow execution and then run it. It gives you more time to realise that what you are doing is stupid. I think the average user that just wants to email and so on (the typical use who would get infected) wouldnt bother to learn all these steps.
But won't this make things harder for n00bs to play their stupid games? Not at all. Programs will in the future will be written to use a sandbox so that it will run with one click like always. Otherwise no-one will know how to run it. This is a good thing.
Recessive genes survive because you can carry the gene and suffer no side-effects. You will pass it on to half of your children (on average), who will like you, become carriers but show no symptoms. If each carrier has an average 2 children, you can expect that the number of carriers will stay roughly constant from one generation to the next.
For a child to show symptoms, both of their parents must be carriers of the recessive gene, and even then there is only a one-in-four chance of a child receiving two copies of the gene in question.
Fatal genetic diseases can survive in the gene pool indefinitely if the gene that causes it is recessive.
In each study, two of the 135 cases possessed mutations in either CAV3 or RyR2.
So one case of each mutation was found in each trial, and 266 of the 270 cases remain unsolved. It sounds like it is barely above a statistical anomaly.
If you take a random sample of 270 people that like fishing, there will be some mutation that is common between two or more of them, but that's hardly enough to claim that this mutation makes you enjoy fishing.
It looks like there is still a lot more research to do before we understand what the effects of different genes / mutations are.
To even have a BASIC understanding of evolution you have to know that it means species evolve to fit new environments. This, at its very basic, means that if the climate is hotter, the species adapts to the extra heat. DUH. When a new predator comes along, the prey... adapts to defend/hide from that predator. DUH.
Not really. It's more like this...
Random mutations occur all the time and whilst most of them result in serious deformation or death, some can offer advantages. In some cases these advantages are enough to increase the probability of survival of the organism.
Organisms that are poorly suited to their environment do not survive to pass on their genes.
If we aren't using the communications equipment in Iraq, shouldn't the troops be knocking down the cell towers and cutting net access so the insurgents can't use it either?
What a great way to win the support of the Iraqi population. They will be glad to be rid of their communication network. No more phone bills. Yippee!
Melissa was a macro. Macros are a feature, not a bug, and therefore doesn't count as a zero day exploit. You can easily protect yourself from Melissa by disabling macros in Word.
It means that the exploit was discovered by crackers before any patch has been made available to the public. In other words there is nothing you can do except not open any.doc files unless you want to run the risk of being cracked.
But of course, everyone knows that Word is full of holes because no-one has really attempted to use it as an attack vector yet since there are many easier ways.
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Nah... to be fair they should post at least 30 stories about people getting it working, to be a fair represntativ sample.
Because you know, every time a program works as intended, it deserves a Slashdot story.
To be fair it does try to explain what is new in Vista Forever compared to the earlier incarnations. The blurb is a little brief though and I wasn't exactly getting excited reading it, but then I am not the target market. I am sure some people get excited about the new true transparency effects, which is the only thing I can see that would make me upgrade (the continuous promises of upgrading to get more security sound good - but I no longer believe it).
;)
the new Reliability Monitor, which sifts through event logs and helps you track down the cause of crashes and slowdowns.
Well at least they finally admitted that Windows can crash. I wish they had called it the Unreliability Monitor though.
Video games are easier; they're basically just moving cartoons.
If you play modern first person shooters, they can be very realistic. The graphics are superb these days. Not 100% perfect, but far better than 'moving cartoons'. You can get totally immersed in the game and begin to think about the game also when you are not playing it. The level of realism possible will only improve in the future. Obviously the author has never played this sort of game, and ought to try it before claiming to know about games.
However it is still correct that it is the parents' responsibility to ensure that their children play games that they consider suitable for their age, and to limit the number of hours they play. Just please don't pretend that it's OK for children to play all games because they are like cartoons. Some aren't.
Wow it runs on at least one computer. Excellent! Good job Microsoft.
Anyone one else got it working yet? Maybe you can get your story posted to Slashdot too.
I bet your friend had got into trouble many times before they were expelled for a Mohican haircut. The reason given was probably just something easy that they can pick on and many people will support them without thinking for themselves.
The real reason they were expelled (for being a brat, or perhaps a complete failure?) is more difficult to admit. Perhaps there was even something secret that you are not aware about. A blackmail attempt perhaps. Things are rarely as simple as 'I got banned for my haircut'.
That statement is ridiculous - it should be the opposite.
I guess that depends on whether you think the laws are fair or not.
Are you saying that all laws are fair? How about the 'Hand over your encryption keys or go to jail?' law in the UK.
Shouldn't we take each law on a case by case basis and determine whether or not it is OK to break that law in certain circumstances, rather than just saying that anyone who breaks a law is automatically evil and should be punished?
Yes, I know it would be better if the law makers made this decision this for us, but they have proved thir incompetence/corruption (probably the first) already and I no longer trust them to decide what is right or wrong.
What's the downside to tightening the threshold of the definition of monopoly?
There's nothing wrong with the current definition of a monopoly.
The problem is that noone is taking any action. The few organisations that are powerful enough to do anything about it (governments) choose not to. The EU is too scared of upsetting Microsoft that they still aren't collecting any money from the fines they imposed ages ago.
Meanwhile customers are happy to pay up, so life goes on. Microsoft's only problem is that their older products are sufficiently good (in most people's eyes) that people would rather keep using what they have and not upgrade. The best way Microsoft can force people to upgrade is to change the file format to make it incompatible with older versions, and encourage people to start distributing documents in the new format. I'm sure we will see them pushing their new 'open' (patented) document format.
Don't wait for the government to save your arse. Vote with your wallet today.
Swing slow?
x .jsp
http://www.javalobby.org/articles/swing_slow/inde
You forgot to link the original source! You... you... PLAGIARIST! *GASP*
Here is the link.
First post!
The "man" command doesn't work anymore? I know "man woman" definitely does not work. :P
Try "man man" first, to understand how it works.
This is the best free anti-virus product by far.
It's a bit risky mentioning 'the Other operating system' on a story which only Windows users need to read. They have safety in numbers here.
In Linux, applications are not executable by default. You have to first download it, save it somewhere in your home folder, change its permissions to allow execution and then run it. It gives you more time to realise that what you are doing is stupid. I think the average user that just wants to email and so on (the typical use who would get infected) wouldnt bother to learn all these steps.
But won't this make things harder for n00bs to play their stupid games? Not at all. Programs will in the future will be written to use a sandbox so that it will run with one click like always. Otherwise no-one will know how to run it. This is a good thing.
It's symmetrical not symetrical.
I know that the editors don't look at the summaries, but don't they even check the heading for spelling errors any more?
Recessive genes survive because you can carry the gene and suffer no side-effects. You will pass it on to half of your children (on average), who will like you, become carriers but show no symptoms. If each carrier has an average 2 children, you can expect that the number of carriers will stay roughly constant from one generation to the next.
For a child to show symptoms, both of their parents must be carriers of the recessive gene, and even then there is only a one-in-four chance of a child receiving two copies of the gene in question.
Fatal genetic diseases can survive in the gene pool indefinitely if the gene that causes it is recessive.
In each study, two of the 135 cases possessed mutations in either CAV3 or RyR2.
So one case of each mutation was found in each trial, and 266 of the 270 cases remain unsolved. It sounds like it is barely above a statistical anomaly.
If you take a random sample of 270 people that like fishing, there will be some mutation that is common between two or more of them, but that's hardly enough to claim that this mutation makes you enjoy fishing.
It looks like there is still a lot more research to do before we understand what the effects of different genes / mutations are.
Nice to see an honorable company like AOL standing up to the government.
Wait... wasn't the goverment supposed to be protecting the people from corporations?
To even have a BASIC understanding of evolution you have to know that it means species evolve to fit new environments. This, at its very basic, means that if the climate is hotter, the species adapts to the extra heat. DUH. When a new predator comes along, the prey ... adapts to defend/hide from that predator. DUH.
Not really. It's more like this...
Random mutations occur all the time and whilst most of them result in serious deformation or death, some can offer advantages. In some cases these advantages are enough to increase the probability of survival of the organism.
Organisms that are poorly suited to their environment do not survive to pass on their genes.
If we aren't using the communications equipment in Iraq, shouldn't the troops be knocking down the cell towers and cutting net access so the insurgents can't use it either?
What a great way to win the support of the Iraqi population. They will be glad to be rid of their communication network. No more phone bills. Yippee!
Melissa was a macro. Macros are a feature, not a bug, and therefore doesn't count as a zero day exploit. You can easily protect yourself from Melissa by disabling macros in Word.
If there were no laws there would be no such thing as crime. To reduce crime, we should remove laws, not add more.
Hmm the Wikipedia page doesn't really explain it very well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_day so let me try.
.doc files unless you want to run the risk of being cracked.
It means that the exploit was discovered by crackers before any patch has been made available to the public. In other words there is nothing you can do except not open any
But of course, everyone knows that Word is full of holes because no-one has really attempted to use it as an attack vector yet since there are many easier ways.
Patch available: http://www.openoffice.org/
If people are willing to pay the higher price, businesses would be foolish to lower it, since all they care about is maximising profit.
You'd have to be a complete idiot to be using 64 bit on anything other than a server.
32 bits should be enough for anyone.