Yeah. Because a ton of DRM, crappy gaming performance, and 600MB memory usage in a fresh install for no genuinely useful new features is really "worth it."
It seems indicated that the account on the Bill Gates for President site has been suspended. Bandwidth? A pro-Linux sysadmin at the ISP? We may never know...
This unsigned driver "feature" is causing hell for those using the x64 version of Vista, which has abysmal driver compatibility. Nobody can now install 32-bit drivers.
What lack of horsepower? The final specs haven't even been revealed yet, except that it will have PowerPC processors. If you're going to be trolling, at least don't be so obvious about it; back up your crap.
If you had read TFA, you would know that they're sticking with 3.3 because of stability issues with newer versions, and that it's probable future releases will include 3.5.
I actually really enjoyed chapter one of IMPS: The Relentless (impstherelentless.com) but it seems to have died. It's a pity; that was probably the best SW fanfilm out now.
I have no idea what M$ was thinking with these "ultra-mobile PCs." They manage to combine the speed of a PDA with the lean-ness of a full Windows with the spaciousness of a small screen, and the result is pathetic. They seem to be trying to doom themselves to a flop far bigger then that of the Newton.
Something that these 'security experts' seem to not understand is that the average user is ignorant of how computers/software work. Most users can't even be bothered to set up a password for their root/admin account. No amount of clever software is going to truly prevent the average user from loading his machine up with some form of malware. A step in the right direction would be simple things, like running as a non-root user by default.
Wikipedia is just an encyclopedia. A cooperative one. So what? We've had cooperative software devel for decades now. It's natural. This guy is overanalyzing "the Wikipedia phenomonon".
What really irritates me is people saying "Oh, Windows is more widely used then UNIX, so THAT's the only reason it's less secure." The fact is that a huge majority of servers run UNIX/Linux then Windows, and said UNIX servers are far more secure then Windows ones. (I speak from experience, as I administer both UNIX servers and Win2k3 ones.)
It seems like "Incredible" is awfully vague. What I really want is out-of-the-box support for my nVidia card (common enough with non-FOSS distros) and my crappy Netgear WG111 wireless USB adapter. In general, wireless, sound, and to a lesser extent graphics support are what plagues Linux. Of course, Windows isn't really any better; they just have the advantages of actually having drivers developed for them by third parties, which is still relatively scarce in the Linux world.
I've been trying to get people in my office to switch away from Outlook for a while now, but Thunderbird doesn't cut it as an outlook replacement. Evolution will (hopefully) be a step in the right direction to Total Office Domination.
For once, this guy is actually making sense. When was the last time M$ actually innovated something? It's been a while. Win95 was the last thing I remember, and even that was strongly influenced by both X and the Mac. Vista has become XP with Glass; Office 2007 is a new UI to look better under Vista. IE7 is a Firefox clone, and Microsoft has been spewing Google-copycat programs for a while now.
The spammers don't innovate, they just use existing technology for their own ends. This would definitely qualify as innovation, so it's not going to happen.
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Yeah. Because a ton of DRM, crappy gaming performance, and 600MB memory usage in a fresh install for no genuinely useful new features is really "worth it."
It seems indicated that the account on the Bill Gates for President site has been suspended. Bandwidth? A pro-Linux sysadmin at the ISP? We may never know...
I found it vaguely amusing/disturbing that the ad I saw below the article was a Novell advertisement for "The Linux you've always wanted."
I'll pass on MS-controlled Linux, thanks...
It's been like this for some weeks now, the PS3 for longer then Wii.
http://flightlinux.gsfc.nasa.gov/ It seems indicated that they do indeed run Linux.
Why not? It's in Linux, and KDE runs on BSD as well as it does on Linux. BSD is a fine category to put it in.
This unsigned driver "feature" is causing hell for those using the x64 version of Vista, which has abysmal driver compatibility. Nobody can now install 32-bit drivers.
Since this is Slashdot, which is not exactly known to be a bastion of maturity, I bet that Wikipedia won't be very terse for long...
This build is not RC1, it's part of the RTM tree. They're currently up to 5731, and this build is about a week old.
What lack of horsepower? The final specs haven't even been revealed yet, except that it will have PowerPC processors. If you're going to be trolling, at least don't be so obvious about it; back up your crap.
If you had read TFA, you would know that they're sticking with 3.3 because of stability issues with newer versions, and that it's probable future releases will include 3.5.
It can be done. If you know where to look, you can find premade OSX VMWare images.
That beta link has been up for some time (at least a few hours.) I signed up at 6AM EST.
I actually really enjoyed chapter one of IMPS: The Relentless (impstherelentless.com) but it seems to have died. It's a pity; that was probably the best SW fanfilm out now.
I have no idea what M$ was thinking with these "ultra-mobile PCs." They manage to combine the speed of a PDA with the lean-ness of a full Windows with the spaciousness of a small screen, and the result is pathetic. They seem to be trying to doom themselves to a flop far bigger then that of the Newton.
Something that these 'security experts' seem to not understand is that the average user is ignorant of how computers/software work. Most users can't even be bothered to set up a password for their root/admin account. No amount of clever software is going to truly prevent the average user from loading his machine up with some form of malware. A step in the right direction would be simple things, like running as a non-root user by default.
Wikipedia is just an encyclopedia. A cooperative one. So what? We've had cooperative software devel for decades now. It's natural. This guy is overanalyzing "the Wikipedia phenomonon".
If the trojan contains a Windows-only executable or vulnerability (as most do), then chances are pretty good it won't infect a Mac.
What really irritates me is people saying "Oh, Windows is more widely used then UNIX, so THAT's the only reason it's less secure." The fact is that a huge majority of servers run UNIX/Linux then Windows, and said UNIX servers are far more secure then Windows ones. (I speak from experience, as I administer both UNIX servers and Win2k3 ones.)
It seems like "Incredible" is awfully vague. What I really want is out-of-the-box support for my nVidia card (common enough with non-FOSS distros) and my crappy Netgear WG111 wireless USB adapter. In general, wireless, sound, and to a lesser extent graphics support are what plagues Linux. Of course, Windows isn't really any better; they just have the advantages of actually having drivers developed for them by third parties, which is still relatively scarce in the Linux world.
Yes. That's what we have ASIC's for. A CPU is overkill.
I've been trying to get people in my office to switch away from Outlook for a while now, but Thunderbird doesn't cut it as an outlook replacement. Evolution will (hopefully) be a step in the right direction to Total Office Domination.
TV shows need a certain amount of plot. This has none. Same goes for American Idol and other scum.
Of course, this may be "sour grapes" because I suck at DDR.
For once, this guy is actually making sense. When was the last time M$ actually innovated something? It's been a while. Win95 was the last thing I remember, and even that was strongly influenced by both X and the Mac. Vista has become XP with Glass; Office 2007 is a new UI to look better under Vista. IE7 is a Firefox clone, and Microsoft has been spewing Google-copycat programs for a while now.
The spammers don't innovate, they just use existing technology for their own ends. This would definitely qualify as innovation, so it's not going to happen.