I was just going to say this reminds me a lot of the hype about Wolfram Alpha before it was released. It was meant to understand plain English and the examples they used in the demo were just mindblowing - truly another level of artificial sentience.
Then it actually came out and it turned out that they'd cherrypicked and tuned for some very specific examples, and you pretty much had to use it like you would any other search engine.
Why shoehorn an Apple product into a story that has nothing to do with them? Any laptop capable of running both XP and Vista with Aero would provide a fair basis of comparison.
"If you are a PC owner who's already purchased both HL2 and Episode One, you can buy Half-Life 2 Black Box which contains Portal, HL2 Ep 2, and Team Fortress 2 for $40." All I want to do is play Team Fortress 2. Am I being forced to pay $29.95 + $ 20 + $40 = $89.95 USD to do so? Call me naive but I was expecting to be able to get Ep2, TF2 and Portal for $20-$30.
Something like images.google.com.au will set it off, because putting the full name of a website before an unrelated hostname is a common phishing tactic. images.google.com will be fine.
This isn't a Microsoft conspiracy, it's just sloppy coding.
...and so does the article, really. The only game I can think of that really satisfies this condition is Diablo II. Anyone that's played it for a significant length of time will understand why.
This is 100% true. I totally forget the internet even has popups until I disable it. Grypen's (and JD's) filter set is very polished and has almost no problems with blocking desired popups, yet at the same time manages to wipe out basically every form of ad on the net.
Well, they're a bit clangy, and a bit jammy...
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When I tried to install SP1, it installed with no complaints (generated corp key), but upon a subsequent reboot, I couldn't log in. Windows spat an error message at me about not being able to authenticate and dumped me back at the login screen. Safe mode had the same result.
Fortunately this was a brand new install, so I just started from scratch. I think I'll be passing on SP2, though.
Base: An up to date host file. This can probably block 95% of web nasties, regardless of source, yet is overlooked by most people. Second:Proxomitron. The second browser-independent tool, it's a relatively little-known local proxy that filters the crap (including more ads than virtually every other solution) from a webpage before feeding it to your browser. Also handily removes most of the ActiveX and Javascript that causes these exploits. I simply cannot recommend it enough. In addition, it's fully configurable, and there are plenty of people out there who will write custom filters to get rid of any sort of ad that slips through. Third:Firefox. I hesitate to suggest Opera because I don't feel it's as high a quality a product, and is closed-source, meaning it could be almost as susceptible to this stuff as Internet Explorer, should the bad guys aim their sights on it. Fourth: In-browser plugins such as Adblock, which probably won't do much to stop this particular problem, but are nice to have around regardless.
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I was just going to say this reminds me a lot of the hype about Wolfram Alpha before it was released. It was meant to understand plain English and the examples they used in the demo were just mindblowing - truly another level of artificial sentience. Then it actually came out and it turned out that they'd cherrypicked and tuned for some very specific examples, and you pretty much had to use it like you would any other search engine.
How about not having one?
Why shoehorn an Apple product into a story that has nothing to do with them? Any laptop capable of running both XP and Vista with Aero would provide a fair basis of comparison.
Something like images.google.com.au will set it off, because putting the full name of a website before an unrelated hostname is a common phishing tactic. images.google.com will be fine. This isn't a Microsoft conspiracy, it's just sloppy coding.
Those are some fine looking legs. This kid had a great idea!
...and so does the article, really. The only game I can think of that really satisfies this condition is Diablo II. Anyone that's played it for a significant length of time will understand why.
It's flying (well, relatively) on my P2 400 with 128mb/5400rpm HD. What problems are you having?
This is 100% true. I totally forget the internet even has popups until I disable it. Grypen's (and JD's) filter set is very polished and has almost no problems with blocking desired popups, yet at the same time manages to wipe out basically every form of ad on the net.
Eddie Izzard was ever so right.
When I tried to install SP1, it installed with no complaints (generated corp key), but upon a subsequent reboot, I couldn't log in. Windows spat an error message at me about not being able to authenticate and dumped me back at the login screen. Safe mode had the same result. Fortunately this was a brand new install, so I just started from scratch. I think I'll be passing on SP2, though.
Keep us posted.
Who's going to be the first to test it on a slightly less than legal CD key? :D
It may surprise you to know that in New Zealand, $26,000 is probably still a little too much to consider paying for a computer. Try $1200.
You could do SLI with the TNT and TNT2 as well, with similar performance gains. It never caught on. And they were using standard PCI slots.
Base: An up to date host file. This can probably block 95% of web nasties, regardless of source, yet is overlooked by most people.
Second: Proxomitron. The second browser-independent tool, it's a relatively little-known local proxy that filters the crap (including more ads than virtually every other solution) from a webpage before feeding it to your browser. Also handily removes most of the ActiveX and Javascript that causes these exploits. I simply cannot recommend it enough. In addition, it's fully configurable, and there are plenty of people out there who will write custom filters to get rid of any sort of ad that slips through.
Third: Firefox. I hesitate to suggest Opera because I don't feel it's as high a quality a product, and is closed-source, meaning it could be almost as susceptible to this stuff as Internet Explorer, should the bad guys aim their sights on it.
Fourth: In-browser plugins such as Adblock, which probably won't do much to stop this particular problem, but are nice to have around regardless.