I agree with you, but from the Microsoft standpoint this is only a beta release. In order to really judge this as a Microsoft product we really have to wait until the first final release is available. Thats really all I'm saying.
Actually, those were the default settings when you install Windows on your PC. Those are the same settings that Giant had in their software before they were bought out by Microsoft. So far what I've seen in this thread is everyone tearing the program apart, and blaming everything on Microsoft, when in reality it looks like the only thing Microsoft did to this software was take Giant's code and replace any instance of Giant with Microsoft.
said no to all the "Do you want me to be intrusive and make all your decisions for you?" typical Microsoft crap (didn't matter, it loaded itself anyway)
Actually, in the original version of Giant's Antispyware, this is a default feature. The majority of Microsoft's beta version looks and acts almost exactly like Giant's latest version before they were bought out. I'd say that so far 99% of the code has been left untouched. However, Microsoft did remove the innoculate option from the Advanced Options menu.
That is part of the problem right there. All of you are talking about a lot of complex issues that the common user knows absolutely nothing about, and no one has mentioned this. How about making it intuitive and simple enough so that my grandmother could use it. Maybe then you'd see more people using it than Windows...
Despite all the arguments that this service is way too expensive, the money would be better used elsewhere, and that the clones don't have the same personalities, I believe this project is a great step forward. With this service currently being made available, who knows what the future holds for commercial cloning. I'm sure the government is interested in this, sure as hell would make building an army a lot cheaper...
Well, they aren't going to make money if they piss off all their fans, now are they? They won't have people voting for the construction of new stadiums or anyone buying tickets if they piss all over everyone. So you are right that all they really care about is money, but in order to make money they have to make us happy.
The cover and the first page are attached to this story (future pages in coming days)
It says right in the summary of the post that the future pages will be coming in a few days. All you had to do was read the tiny ass paragraph. For all of you who bitch about not reading the full article, what about those lazy asses that can't even read the full summary? And they get modded insightful on top of it? What does the parent offer insight to, his laziness and illiteracy?
I've said this so many times that I'm almost tired of saying it. There is proof in the fossil record, mainly from the rings of pretrified trees from around the world, known as dendrochronology, that shows that the climate has steadily been chaning for the past 200 million years.
El Nino is controlled by the climate. If Global Warming were to exist, then the frequency of El Nino would increase. By studying the rings of these 200 million year old fossilized tree rings, and comparing them to modern rings, not only can we determine the frequencies of El Nino, but also that the frequency has not changed over the past 200 million years.
And I also believe that you completely misunderstand the concept of comparing human CO2 emission to that of volcanos. Its true that humans might emit more CO2 than volcanos do now, but thats mainly because we don't have hundreds or thousands of active volcanos errupting everyday like there were millions of years ago. Human CO2 emissions are trivial when compared to prehistoric CO2 emissions, and the planet didn't die because of it, so why should it die because of us?
Has anyone tried to download this program since Microsoft has acquired Giant Company? Every single link I have found to any pre-Microsoft versions have been taken down.
The better argument for allowing immigrants to work here, and one that also appears to be in this book, is that the economy works better if we have the people who are best at doing a job do those jobs. If we can take the best and the brightest from other countries and have them work in our companies and produce better product for us, we should steal every single one of them we can get. If this means that Americans who are less qualified for those jobs have to do something else (like sell cars to our better-qualified immigrants), that's fine.
This is basically Aristotle's philosopher-king theory, found in Plato's The Republic. I disagree with this theory though. There is already a limited amount of skilled professionals in this country, as well as a limited amount of resources and occupations. If we bring in more skilled professionals from other countries, then we might find our resources and available occupations to be stretching thin, and keep in mind that when I say occupations and resources I'm talking specifically about IT jobs. 10 million people with bachelor's degrees competing for 5 million jobs doesn't seem too advantageous to the economy in my eyes. But then again, I am no expert.
And what is to happen to those who cannot find work because they simply aren't the best people for the job? What do they do when they find there are no jobs? If they are American citizens, they can apply to the Welfare system, or they can become part of the army of homeless that already walk the streets in this country.
I am very conflicted when this topic is brought up, because as a member of the IT community, it does in some way influence my own career.
Um, here's a problem. Something as stupid and simple as a kid renting or buying a Mortal Kombat game will have more severe consequences than me getting a ticket for littering, pissing into the river at the Riverwalk in San Antonio TX (don't ask) or being pulled over with an open container (in which states where there are open container laws). As a matter of fact, I could walk into a bar with an unconcealed handgun and spend less money and/or time in jail.
A $5000 fine or a year in prison is an incredible overreaction.
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion dollars developing a pen that writes in zero gravity upside-down on almost any surface including glass and at below freezing to over 300 C.
That's funny because Madden, Grand Theft Auto and Tony Hawk are some of the best-made, most consistently quality titles being released right now.
Are you fucking serious? Madden? How the hell could you ever call Madden one of the best-made games with consistent quality? The game is consistent alright, because they release the same fucking game every year. The only difference between releases is some minor roster changes and graphics tweaks.
Even though I'm a gamer, I have to tell all of you Madden fans out there to get a life. If you want to play football, then play football, outside, with friends. If you want to go on a murderous rampage, then sit down and play some GTA.
I saw Video Game awards show in 2003. It was the worst thing I had ever seen, so I turned it off about 15 minutes in. Horrible music, backup dancers, and the actual awards were really just a gauge of how much the producers spent on advertising. I believe some Madden game won game of the year...
I don't understand why people making backups of things on CD's is a Windows attitude. Things like personal documents and pictures usually aren't an emerge or apt-get away, as well as any personal projects that one might be working on. So if anyone felt compelled to wipe out your system and any open source projects that you might be working on, maybe then you'd wish you had a different attitude.
In my experience, the lies don't stop with the advertising. My bosses are both salesmen. The only thing they do at the small company that I work at is sell our software, and they'll tell anyone whatever it is they want to hear so that they'll buy it. But I've noticed that this is definately not the end of their dishonesty. They treat their staff, me included, just like a buyer. They promise us stuff like compensation for working weekends, etc, but then just like our software, they fail to deliver.
I have a huge problem with salespeople and advertisements specifically because of my bosses. IMHO everyone who works in sales is nothing but a glorified 419 scam artist. Politics really aren't any different either.
That is why I like open source so much. Almost everything is free, so there's no reason to lie.
I hate it when people give an answer like this. You do realize that as soon as the majority of the computing population begins to use Linux or some other variety of open source, that the assholes that create and release viruses and spyware/adware will start writing such things for Linux. The only reason they don't do so now (well, they do, but it isn't nearly as common as Windows malware) is because Windows dominates the market, mainly because the average person won't use Linux because they don't know how or want to recompile the kernel everytime they want to upgrade their video card.
China's government makes another idiotic decision and restricts its people's freedoms, such as speech. It is a ficticious game but based on real countries and places, so it would be like the United States banning the original Command & Conquer because you could destroy the Whitehouse at the end. As for someone modding my original post as flamebait... well, it was probably in the spirit of Chinese oppression.
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I agree with you, but from the Microsoft standpoint this is only a beta release. In order to really judge this as a Microsoft product we really have to wait until the first final release is available. Thats really all I'm saying.
Actually, those were the default settings when you install Windows on your PC. Those are the same settings that Giant had in their software before they were bought out by Microsoft. So far what I've seen in this thread is everyone tearing the program apart, and blaming everything on Microsoft, when in reality it looks like the only thing Microsoft did to this software was take Giant's code and replace any instance of Giant with Microsoft.
said no to all the "Do you want me to be intrusive and make all your decisions for you?" typical Microsoft crap (didn't matter, it loaded itself anyway)
Actually, in the original version of Giant's Antispyware, this is a default feature. The majority of Microsoft's beta version looks and acts almost exactly like Giant's latest version before they were bought out. I'd say that so far 99% of the code has been left untouched. However, Microsoft did remove the innoculate option from the Advanced Options menu.
Unix is free. "OS X" is not. 'nuff said.
Too bad OSX isn't free, and the hardware required to run it is more expensive than PC hardware.
That is part of the problem right there. All of you are talking about a lot of complex issues that the common user knows absolutely nothing about, and no one has mentioned this. How about making it intuitive and simple enough so that my grandmother could use it. Maybe then you'd see more people using it than Windows...
Damn, and we were all trying so hard to get you to come here...
after all, it is snowing in Houston Texas right now...
Despite all the arguments that this service is way too expensive, the money would be better used elsewhere, and that the clones don't have the same personalities, I believe this project is a great step forward. With this service currently being made available, who knows what the future holds for commercial cloning. I'm sure the government is interested in this, sure as hell would make building an army a lot cheaper...
Well, they aren't going to make money if they piss off all their fans, now are they? They won't have people voting for the construction of new stadiums or anyone buying tickets if they piss all over everyone. So you are right that all they really care about is money, but in order to make money they have to make us happy.
Too bad someone modded the parent off-topic. It was actually a joke
The cover and the first page are attached to this story (future pages in coming days)
It says right in the summary of the post that the future pages will be coming in a few days. All you had to do was read the tiny ass paragraph. For all of you who bitch about not reading the full article, what about those lazy asses that can't even read the full summary? And they get modded insightful on top of it? What does the parent offer insight to, his laziness and illiteracy?
I've said this so many times that I'm almost tired of saying it. There is proof in the fossil record, mainly from the rings of pretrified trees from around the world, known as dendrochronology, that shows that the climate has steadily been chaning for the past 200 million years.
El Nino is controlled by the climate. If Global Warming were to exist, then the frequency of El Nino would increase. By studying the rings of these 200 million year old fossilized tree rings, and comparing them to modern rings, not only can we determine the frequencies of El Nino, but also that the frequency has not changed over the past 200 million years.
And I also believe that you completely misunderstand the concept of comparing human CO2 emission to that of volcanos. Its true that humans might emit more CO2 than volcanos do now, but thats mainly because we don't have hundreds or thousands of active volcanos errupting everyday like there were millions of years ago. Human CO2 emissions are trivial when compared to prehistoric CO2 emissions, and the planet didn't die because of it, so why should it die because of us?
Has anyone tried to download this program since Microsoft has acquired Giant Company? Every single link I have found to any pre-Microsoft versions have been taken down.
The better argument for allowing immigrants to work here, and one that also appears to be in this book, is that the economy works better if we have the people who are best at doing a job do those jobs. If we can take the best and the brightest from other countries and have them work in our companies and produce better product for us, we should steal every single one of them we can get. If this means that Americans who are less qualified for those jobs have to do something else (like sell cars to our better-qualified immigrants), that's fine.
This is basically Aristotle's philosopher-king theory, found in Plato's The Republic. I disagree with this theory though. There is already a limited amount of skilled professionals in this country, as well as a limited amount of resources and occupations. If we bring in more skilled professionals from other countries, then we might find our resources and available occupations to be stretching thin, and keep in mind that when I say occupations and resources I'm talking specifically about IT jobs. 10 million people with bachelor's degrees competing for 5 million jobs doesn't seem too advantageous to the economy in my eyes. But then again, I am no expert.
And what is to happen to those who cannot find work because they simply aren't the best people for the job? What do they do when they find there are no jobs? If they are American citizens, they can apply to the Welfare system, or they can become part of the army of homeless that already walk the streets in this country.
I am very conflicted when this topic is brought up, because as a member of the IT community, it does in some way influence my own career.
Um, here's a problem. Something as stupid and simple as a kid renting or buying a Mortal Kombat game will have more severe consequences than me getting a ticket for littering, pissing into the river at the Riverwalk in San Antonio TX (don't ask) or being pulled over with an open container (in which states where there are open container laws). As a matter of fact, I could walk into a bar with an unconcealed handgun and spend less money and/or time in jail.
A $5000 fine or a year in prison is an incredible overreaction.
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion dollars developing a pen that writes in zero gravity upside-down on almost any surface including glass and at below freezing to over 300 C.
The Russians used a pencil.
That's funny because Madden, Grand Theft Auto and Tony Hawk are some of the best-made, most consistently quality titles being released right now.
Are you fucking serious? Madden? How the hell could you ever call Madden one of the best-made games with consistent quality? The game is consistent alright, because they release the same fucking game every year. The only difference between releases is some minor roster changes and graphics tweaks.
Even though I'm a gamer, I have to tell all of you Madden fans out there to get a life. If you want to play football, then play football, outside, with friends. If you want to go on a murderous rampage, then sit down and play some GTA.
I saw Video Game awards show in 2003. It was the worst thing I had ever seen, so I turned it off about 15 minutes in. Horrible music, backup dancers, and the actual awards were really just a gauge of how much the producers spent on advertising. I believe some Madden game won game of the year...
a waste of time and a windows attitude imho.
I don't understand why people making backups of things on CD's is a Windows attitude. Things like personal documents and pictures usually aren't an emerge or apt-get away, as well as any personal projects that one might be working on. So if anyone felt compelled to wipe out your system and any open source projects that you might be working on, maybe then you'd wish you had a different attitude.
In my experience, the lies don't stop with the advertising. My bosses are both salesmen. The only thing they do at the small company that I work at is sell our software, and they'll tell anyone whatever it is they want to hear so that they'll buy it. But I've noticed that this is definately not the end of their dishonesty. They treat their staff, me included, just like a buyer. They promise us stuff like compensation for working weekends, etc, but then just like our software, they fail to deliver.
I have a huge problem with salespeople and advertisements specifically because of my bosses. IMHO everyone who works in sales is nothing but a glorified 419 scam artist. Politics really aren't any different either.
That is why I like open source so much. Almost everything is free, so there's no reason to lie.
We have, It's called Linux.
I hate it when people give an answer like this. You do realize that as soon as the majority of the computing population begins to use Linux or some other variety of open source, that the assholes that create and release viruses and spyware/adware will start writing such things for Linux. The only reason they don't do so now (well, they do, but it isn't nearly as common as Windows malware) is because Windows dominates the market, mainly because the average person won't use Linux because they don't know how or want to recompile the kernel everytime they want to upgrade their video card.
China's government makes another idiotic decision and restricts its people's freedoms, such as speech. It is a ficticious game but based on real countries and places, so it would be like the United States banning the original Command & Conquer because you could destroy the Whitehouse at the end. As for someone modding my original post as flamebait... well, it was probably in the spirit of Chinese oppression.
"People's" Republic indeed...
is where I went to school. Last I heard they were also suing this online degree factory.