Windows has support for multiple users, but we're talking about multiple simultaneous users who are actively using the computer. The kind of thing that the UNIX-likes have been doing since the Big Iron days with mainframes and terminals. Windows allows multiple user accounts, but it's not a multi-user system.
It's been so many years since I've encountered anything I might have actually needed IE to use, I don't have the faintest clue what you're talking about anymore. Examples?
SSD reliability is garbage and it always has been. Even with the flashier new ones, it's all just more wear leveling and more tricks to make it seem like that's not the case.
I'm really curious about the actual reasoning behind all of this hating on NewEgg or any other retailer for the condition of open box and refurbished products. Like you just said, this thing worked fine out of the box for a few weeks, and the problems either didn't appear or weren't noticed for MONTHS. I have to ask, how do you expect NewEgg to test for that kind of failure? I must reiterate - IT WORKED FOR YOU FOR WEEKS. They may not have tested it but if they did, IT WOULD HAVE PASSED.
I'm currently using an open-box MSI motherboard from NewEgg. It's in my primary workstation and it's been working perfectly fine for almost a year now. If it had broken down at some point during that time, or if it breaks down sometime later, I really don't see how I can say it's NewEgg's testing policies that led to my equipment failing.
Who are edging closer and closer to being at real risk of being shut down on the basis of the content that passes through their pipes. They've only narrowly avoided the bullet by handing over their customers whenever they can. The ISPs trying to pull AOL redux are Big Media, and the rest of them are being screwed like all of us. What do we do?
Downloaded content is only flagged when you downloaded that content with a program that snuggles nicely into the Windows security framework. Any program that does downloading can just ignore that such facilities exist and not use them. Mainstream browsers, sure - but what about all those auto-updating programs and the filesharing network of the moment? That's really laughable as a layer of security.
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downloaded files are flagged noexecute and there's a confirmation dialog before any downloaded file can be executed
Let's note that this only applies to methods of downloading which are playing nicely within the bolted-on security framework within Windows. If the user is downloading something in a method other than using a mainstream browser or windows file sharing, this doesn't kick in. Reminds me of all the crapware on KaZaA and similar services.
(unless the file has been cryptographically signed by a source the user trusts)
Given the rash of certificate security issues recently, it's pretty clear that signatures are not security. There are also lots of Windows drivers that aren't signed, so users who plug in hardware that isn't covered under an OS-built-in driver are quite familiar with the process of ignoring signature issues.
*This might also be present in Windows XP.
I do believe that SP2 or SP3 enabled this in XP, but it's been quite some time so I'm not sure.
Except that MySQL is the default solution for SQL databases. When you sign up for decent web hosting, you don't get access to an 'SQL Database', you get access to a 'MySQL database'. This has nothing to do with the quality of database versus database. It's the lowest cost solution. I've heard plenty of good about PostGreSQL, and have seen it gaining some apparently well-deserved recognition. Oracle, well, I've heard plenty about the guy you have to pay to make it work right, and the scale of those numbers. But MySQL is the default, it's what your average SQL database admin is going to know if they're not in a Microsoft shop. From a business perspective, you go for your top mindshare competitor, whether or not they're the most technically mature.
An 18 year old, a legal adult. Meh. There are lines being drawn that simply don't need to be. The fact that someone thinks it's appropriate to block communication between a student and a teacher simply because it happens outside of school, well, let's not get into it. We already know how bad the educational systems are, this is just another turd on the pile.
I was just given an old HP N5440 with the S3 Savage GPU. I was so happy, being able to revive it with Linux. Going to make a sweet little mobile workstation out of it... except now, what limited 3D support it has is being dropped? wahhhhhhhhhhhh.
Exactly! We have too much information over too short a period of time to legitimately analyze it. Regardless of what we find based on what we're capable of observing now, we can't say the findings mean anything in particular because we just don't have a large enough (by time) sample size to make good long term educated guesses. Earth is reeling from this sudden technological leap and hasn't put itself back into perspective yet.
The HFCS itself is not necessarily the problem, but the fact that mercury is a vital component in the processing of it and studies have found that over 30% of products on the market containing HFCS are contanimated with mercury.
Mercury is a toxic substance. It collects in the body, poisons and eventually kills. Looking at the sheer numbers of products using HFCS these days, it gets really worrying really quickly. How many people in the world today are slowly killing themselves with contaminated HFCS?
Too true. I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that the way Apple went for a two button mouse was to take their one button Pro Mouse and give it a touch sensitive shell so it could determine which side it was pressed on (the Mighty Mouse). Instead of something like, I dunno, giving it a second button?
While there are certain similarities between an assembly line worker and a software developer, you've taken the analogy beyond its use and have tried to fit software into a box that it just doesn't fit in. On an assembly line, each component has a very specific place to be installed and a very specific procedure to follow. If these things are not followed to the letter, bad things can and do happen. Contrast that with a software specification being followed by a software developer, where the specification is purposefully vague because the designer is not working within reality and cannot be that specific. Assembly lines are the production stage, software development is the development stage. This whole analogy is crossing a very firm line and forcing falsehoods to make it work. You can't think of developing software like assembling a car, you might be better off thinking of developing software as developing a car. The programmer takes a specification and develops the design (code) that the assembly line (developer toolchain) puts together to form the product (software). The guy writing the specification is likely doing so without the knowledge and experience required to perform the rest of the steps. The developer is where you want your specification writer to be, and you're severely undervaluing him.
Your nerd card has been revoked. Please turn off and dismantle your computer immediately, you are no longer permitted to be exposed to mind expanding substances such as the Internet. The processes of abstract thought that you engage in while riding the hormone rollercoaster of browsing wide and varied content is illicit and wrong and is causing real damage to me by the fact that you would even think of doing it.
Doesn't take much observation to realize that just about everything the human does is for a high. Doesn't take much observation to realize that abuse of prescription drugs has taken off to a degree that puts the drug war to even worse shame. If you're an honest nerd, nerd out and learn something, rather than anti-nerding like this:P
I wish you were correct, I really do. But you're so dead wrong that I can't believe you even said that. Go take a look at recent Apple releases. Look at what they did to Final Cut Pro. Read up on how they made a hybrid of Express and Pro, removed the ability to load older project files, made massive changes to the user interface, basically told the entire top tier of the film editing industry that uses Final Cut Pro to go fuck themselves.
It gets worse.
If your spill your drink on your recent Mac laptop, it's gone. Toast. Number one priority in such an event is to pull the battery and let the thing dry out. REMOVE POWER. But you can't, because the battery is SCREWED INSIDE. It is designed to fail by the silliest little misstep that happens all the damn time. I had a Dell laptop get 32 ounces of water poured right into it, I pulled the battery immediately and let it dry, it worked fine for years after. My friend recently spilled a drink on their Mactop, and there wasn't an option, that's it, it's done. Bzzzzzt.
Apple is screwing their users just as hard as everyone else is these days. We have a lot of room for progress out there, but the large players have utterly failed us at this point.
Right, lower those bumpers about 8-12 inches, right into the heads under the roof of the just-barely-clearing-it car. There's a balance here that isn't even remotely being approached:/
Just like every other operating system - has there ever been an instance where changing screen resolution didn't effect the other running GUI applications? I certainly no stranger to having programs on Windows flip out because the screen settings changed suddenly. X is strict about it, avoiding the issues by not allowing such a silly thing to happen normally, but it's not like the others do it any better.
Apparently I replied to my own comment by mistake, this new discussion system jumps around too damn much.
I don't consider the OS role in this minor at all given that the widespread worms such as Sasser and Blaster on Windows replicated through vulnerabilities in the base operating system services. To say that the OS is so inconsequential makes the entire idea of "once Linux gets popular enough to attract malware" have no meaning whatsoever. This discussion has reached a point of incoherence, lad.
I don't consider the OS role in this minor at all given that the widespread worms such as Sasser and Blaster on Windows replicated through vulnerabilities in the base operating system services. To say that the OS is so inconsequential makes the entire idea of "once Linux gets popular enough to attract malware" have no meaning whatsoever. This discussion has reached a point of incoherence, lad.
And thusly we entered the chambers of the mighty dragon, a powerful beast with untold riches... they still have the smoke and mirrors, and we're still the prey.
Linux actually is popular enough, and it is actively targeted. As an end-user, you can be forgiven for your assumption that it's not, from your side of things it looks like a pretty thoroughly Windows world. But from the other side of things, the side where your information is being pumped through this global sewage system we call the internet, Linux is more popular than you may be able to comprehend. The raw number of Linux servers out there, did you see that estimate that Google is running about 900,000 servers? I find it highly unlikely that they've got anywhere near a million Windows servers kicking it over there. Hacking Linux opens up the information of the entire world, your music and porn just isn't that interesting.
Y'know, there was a time when Enlightment was considered excessive eyecandy with a heavy footprint. It's not all that different now than it was then, but we sure have some perspective now, eh?
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You've misinterpreted the problem.
Windows has support for multiple users, but we're talking about multiple simultaneous users who are actively using the computer. The kind of thing that the UNIX-likes have been doing since the Big Iron days with mainframes and terminals. Windows allows multiple user accounts, but it's not a multi-user system.
You know what all those environmental regulations mean when it comes to the megacorporations that do the polluting?
Exempt. Exempt. Exempt.
Some burden.
But it's the same either way. How can you demonize one party for something that they ALL do?
It's been so many years since I've encountered anything I might have actually needed IE to use, I don't have the faintest clue what you're talking about anymore. Examples?
SSD reliability is garbage and it always has been. Even with the flashier new ones, it's all just more wear leveling and more tricks to make it seem like that's not the case.
I'm really curious about the actual reasoning behind all of this hating on NewEgg or any other retailer for the condition of open box and refurbished products. Like you just said, this thing worked fine out of the box for a few weeks, and the problems either didn't appear or weren't noticed for MONTHS. I have to ask, how do you expect NewEgg to test for that kind of failure? I must reiterate - IT WORKED FOR YOU FOR WEEKS. They may not have tested it but if they did, IT WOULD HAVE PASSED.
I'm currently using an open-box MSI motherboard from NewEgg. It's in my primary workstation and it's been working perfectly fine for almost a year now. If it had broken down at some point during that time, or if it breaks down sometime later, I really don't see how I can say it's NewEgg's testing policies that led to my equipment failing.
Please, can you explain it to me?
Who are edging closer and closer to being at real risk of being shut down on the basis of the content that passes through their pipes. They've only narrowly avoided the bullet by handing over their customers whenever they can. The ISPs trying to pull AOL redux are Big Media, and the rest of them are being screwed like all of us. What do we do?
Downloaded content is only flagged when you downloaded that content with a program that snuggles nicely into the Windows security framework. Any program that does downloading can just ignore that such facilities exist and not use them. Mainstream browsers, sure - but what about all those auto-updating programs and the filesharing network of the moment? That's really laughable as a layer of security.
downloaded files are flagged noexecute and there's a confirmation dialog before any downloaded file can be executed
Let's note that this only applies to methods of downloading which are playing nicely within the bolted-on security framework within Windows. If the user is downloading something in a method other than using a mainstream browser or windows file sharing, this doesn't kick in. Reminds me of all the crapware on KaZaA and similar services.
(unless the file has been cryptographically signed by a source the user trusts)
Given the rash of certificate security issues recently, it's pretty clear that signatures are not security. There are also lots of Windows drivers that aren't signed, so users who plug in hardware that isn't covered under an OS-built-in driver are quite familiar with the process of ignoring signature issues.
*This might also be present in Windows XP.
I do believe that SP2 or SP3 enabled this in XP, but it's been quite some time so I'm not sure.
Except that MySQL is the default solution for SQL databases. When you sign up for decent web hosting, you don't get access to an 'SQL Database', you get access to a 'MySQL database'. This has nothing to do with the quality of database versus database. It's the lowest cost solution. I've heard plenty of good about PostGreSQL, and have seen it gaining some apparently well-deserved recognition. Oracle, well, I've heard plenty about the guy you have to pay to make it work right, and the scale of those numbers. But MySQL is the default, it's what your average SQL database admin is going to know if they're not in a Microsoft shop. From a business perspective, you go for your top mindshare competitor, whether or not they're the most technically mature.
An 18 year old, a legal adult. Meh. There are lines being drawn that simply don't need to be. The fact that someone thinks it's appropriate to block communication between a student and a teacher simply because it happens outside of school, well, let's not get into it. We already know how bad the educational systems are, this is just another turd on the pile.
I was just given an old HP N5440 with the S3 Savage GPU. I was so happy, being able to revive it with Linux. Going to make a sweet little mobile workstation out of it... except now, what limited 3D support it has is being dropped? wahhhhhhhhhhhh.
Exactly! We have too much information over too short a period of time to legitimately analyze it. Regardless of what we find based on what we're capable of observing now, we can't say the findings mean anything in particular because we just don't have a large enough (by time) sample size to make good long term educated guesses. Earth is reeling from this sudden technological leap and hasn't put itself back into perspective yet.
The HFCS itself is not necessarily the problem, but the fact that mercury is a vital component in the processing of it and studies have found that over 30% of products on the market containing HFCS are contanimated with mercury.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601831.html
Mercury is a toxic substance. It collects in the body, poisons and eventually kills. Looking at the sheer numbers of products using HFCS these days, it gets really worrying really quickly. How many people in the world today are slowly killing themselves with contaminated HFCS?
Too true. I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that the way Apple went for a two button mouse was to take their one button Pro Mouse and give it a touch sensitive shell so it could determine which side it was pressed on (the Mighty Mouse). Instead of something like, I dunno, giving it a second button?
id has said they aren't licensing the id Tech 5 engine. Might have something to do with how poorly id Tech 4 did as a licensed engine, but who knows.
While there are certain similarities between an assembly line worker and a software developer, you've taken the analogy beyond its use and have tried to fit software into a box that it just doesn't fit in. On an assembly line, each component has a very specific place to be installed and a very specific procedure to follow. If these things are not followed to the letter, bad things can and do happen. Contrast that with a software specification being followed by a software developer, where the specification is purposefully vague because the designer is not working within reality and cannot be that specific. Assembly lines are the production stage, software development is the development stage. This whole analogy is crossing a very firm line and forcing falsehoods to make it work. You can't think of developing software like assembling a car, you might be better off thinking of developing software as developing a car. The programmer takes a specification and develops the design (code) that the assembly line (developer toolchain) puts together to form the product (software). The guy writing the specification is likely doing so without the knowledge and experience required to perform the rest of the steps. The developer is where you want your specification writer to be, and you're severely undervaluing him.
Your nerd card has been revoked. Please turn off and dismantle your computer immediately, you are no longer permitted to be exposed to mind expanding substances such as the Internet. The processes of abstract thought that you engage in while riding the hormone rollercoaster of browsing wide and varied content is illicit and wrong and is causing real damage to me by the fact that you would even think of doing it.
:P
Doesn't take much observation to realize that just about everything the human does is for a high. Doesn't take much observation to realize that abuse of prescription drugs has taken off to a degree that puts the drug war to even worse shame. If you're an honest nerd, nerd out and learn something, rather than anti-nerding like this
I wish you were correct, I really do. But you're so dead wrong that I can't believe you even said that. Go take a look at recent Apple releases. Look at what they did to Final Cut Pro. Read up on how they made a hybrid of Express and Pro, removed the ability to load older project files, made massive changes to the user interface, basically told the entire top tier of the film editing industry that uses Final Cut Pro to go fuck themselves.
It gets worse.
If your spill your drink on your recent Mac laptop, it's gone. Toast. Number one priority in such an event is to pull the battery and let the thing dry out. REMOVE POWER. But you can't, because the battery is SCREWED INSIDE. It is designed to fail by the silliest little misstep that happens all the damn time. I had a Dell laptop get 32 ounces of water poured right into it, I pulled the battery immediately and let it dry, it worked fine for years after. My friend recently spilled a drink on their Mactop, and there wasn't an option, that's it, it's done. Bzzzzzt.
Apple is screwing their users just as hard as everyone else is these days. We have a lot of room for progress out there, but the large players have utterly failed us at this point.
Right, lower those bumpers about 8-12 inches, right into the heads under the roof of the just-barely-clearing-it car. There's a balance here that isn't even remotely being approached :/
Just like every other operating system - has there ever been an instance where changing screen resolution didn't effect the other running GUI applications? I certainly no stranger to having programs on Windows flip out because the screen settings changed suddenly. X is strict about it, avoiding the issues by not allowing such a silly thing to happen normally, but it's not like the others do it any better.
Apparently I replied to my own comment by mistake, this new discussion system jumps around too damn much.
I don't consider the OS role in this minor at all given that the widespread worms such as Sasser and Blaster on Windows replicated through vulnerabilities in the base operating system services. To say that the OS is so inconsequential makes the entire idea of "once Linux gets popular enough to attract malware" have no meaning whatsoever. This discussion has reached a point of incoherence, lad.
I don't consider the OS role in this minor at all given that the widespread worms such as Sasser and Blaster on Windows replicated through vulnerabilities in the base operating system services. To say that the OS is so inconsequential makes the entire idea of "once Linux gets popular enough to attract malware" have no meaning whatsoever. This discussion has reached a point of incoherence, lad.
And thusly we entered the chambers of the mighty dragon, a powerful beast with untold riches ... they still have the smoke and mirrors, and we're still the prey.
Linux actually is popular enough, and it is actively targeted. As an end-user, you can be forgiven for your assumption that it's not, from your side of things it looks like a pretty thoroughly Windows world. But from the other side of things, the side where your information is being pumped through this global sewage system we call the internet, Linux is more popular than you may be able to comprehend. The raw number of Linux servers out there, did you see that estimate that Google is running about 900,000 servers? I find it highly unlikely that they've got anywhere near a million Windows servers kicking it over there. Hacking Linux opens up the information of the entire world, your music and porn just isn't that interesting.
Y'know, there was a time when Enlightment was considered excessive eyecandy with a heavy footprint. It's not all that different now than it was then, but we sure have some perspective now, eh?