actually your definition of kill date is different to mine. A Kill date is a date at which time if you are running upto date browsers and software it will stop working by default. It doesn't mean you can't turn it back on for yourself (albeit unsupported) or that you can't use legacy versions. It simply means only those that absolutely need it enabled for legacy reasons will have it. by being off by default instead of a slow tail off of use over many MANY years it will be a steep drop.
Flash is a diseased animal in pain, it needs to be put out of its misery. It is going to die on its own, Adobe may as well save a little face and do Flash and the world a kindness by euthanizing it.
because the audience that buys Linux machines is very VERY different to the ones that buy a commodity windows laptop. The crapware vendors rely on making their money back from users too technically lacking to have the skills or knowledge to nuke the installed image from space. While under windows that audience is a large percentage, under Linux it is a fraction of a percent of a much smaller target audience, i.e. it aint worth their time and money.
Microsoft has a hidden agenda behind this donation?
Microsoft wants to see BSD succeed, that is hardly a hidden agenda. They have leveraged BSD assets greatly over the years (as well as contributed back to them).
A refund for what? It's not like he's paid for the copy of Windows that comes with it.
Then who did pay for it? I was under the impression that PC makers paid about $60 per copy for a lawful Windows install. Or are you claiming that publishers of Windows-only trialware completely subsidize the Windows license?
no, generally the crapware they ship with it pays for it, actually it usually more than pays for it to the point where coming without windows actually is more expensive for most PC Makers.
If you can cut something from 3lb to 2lb, that just means you have room for 1lb more battery.
Same thing applies with phones. Stop making them thinner, and use the saved space for more battery!
On my phone yes, much rather more battery. on my tablet/portable laptop NO, I want it as light as possible with just enough battery life to be practical. weight is everything when you have to lug it around with you everywhere and require mobility. I currently use a Lenovo and an ASUS both were chosen first and foremost on weight, battery life was second, power/look 3rd.
how is this unusual behaviour? perhaps the author needs to get out more. this has been a well used approach by various hacking groups and malware for a long time to maintain exclusivity to compromised machines.
No it isn't, it is a preview of all the possible options that could be included so you can provide good and bad feedback, it is also full of debug code and test code. a preview version is a poor indicator of current state, it is only an indicator of what may be in the final product as all the test and preview stuff that gets dropped makes it appear far less complete than it actually is.
The preview I installed (~2 weeks ago) was shockingly unstable and slow. I was appalled at the state of an OS, especially when it is slated for release in July.
(For example, my start... panel... thing... completely hosed itself for no apparent reason, a couple days after I installed the OS, leaving me nothing with a bunch of coloured boxes with class names in them).
You were on preview versions, In addition to bugs they are chocked full of debug code and test features that they were previewing and deciding whether to keep, dump or polish. The difference between what you ran 2 weeks and today is light and day. huge speed, stability and polish increases as all the preview stuff that didn't make the cut has been dumped and all the test and debug stuff removed.
Sooo your answer to being called out for being blatantly wrong in an insult to someone else is to bring up other irrelevant facts? childish at best, you would make a good Greek finance minister as that is the type of behavior they seem to favour in the position. Besides which I would hardly call 32 billion Euros a pittance.
I wish you knew how ignorant you sound. Go do some research on where the greek debt came from and where (or should i say to who?) the "bailout" money goes (incl the interest) and you will understand.
Is this a serious post? Greeks loaned money and can't repay it and somehow it is the fault of those that lent them the money? that is some serious shit you a smoking. No matter how you twist this the problem was created by Greece, enabled by greedy bankers sure. but WHAT THE FUCK were they doing taking out huge loans to fund a lifestyle choices like low retirement ages, huge military and public service, lax tax enforcement etc etc.
Austerity has been disproven? citation please?. Austerity is a horrible thing, it may not have even been the best solution, but Greece had and still does have a massively imbalanced economic situation with huge percentage of GDP just to pay things like pensions, public servants and military. Their are not a lot of options short of massive financial growth (which was always unlikely) that can solve such imbalances.
It's no worse than the rest of the browser names. Except for Internet Explorer and Netscape they are all bloody aweful, Who the fuck thought of names like Opera, firefox, lynx, Safari, chrome (actually while I hate the browser it is about the best name of the rest considering you can sort of associate the web as a safari).
Read the details of the exploit. Even a successful exploitation of this yields Sweet fuck All for the attacker. You need to be running on 32 bit, have some sort of software that publishes cookies on localhost like a local website and all you get is the cookie. The vulnerability would be applicable to a fraction of a percent of machines and even then it isn't exactly giving up the crown jewels.
I wouldn't even say it is interesting from a business perspective. 2 years ago 4k was already well under way, everyone that was producing OS's, media players or consumption devices was requesting content for testing.
But why should it be regulated? It isn't going to do harm, other than perhaps someone not getting real medical treatment
you answered your own question. It should be regulated or listed as fraud simply because many falsely believe it to work and may use homeopathy as apposed to seeking real medical treatment. This has knockon ramifications for healthcare costs as by the time the person realises they are were conned they may be far sicker (sometimes terminally so), the knockon effects go to family costs, social services and many others. homeopathy is simply fraud, it has both financial and medical consequences for people and society in general.
Monster Cables at least actually work for the basic purpose. yes they are massively, hideously overpriced and prey on the gullible that believe you can make 1's and 0's more crisp, but they still perform the basic role. Homeopathy does not do anything, the only possible benefit is as a placebo, it does not actually work as a medical treatment.
nope, it means the game was refused classification and it is illegal to sell it or import. Even after they opened up the classification laws we still have a range of games that will never be legal to be sold here, anything that shows illegal drug use, violence on woman etc etc. The summary makes it sound like the bans have gotten worse, in actual fact the laws have become far more relaxed here in the last few years with the introduction of an R classification, just the proliferation of people trying to cash in on cheap gimmick apps to attract immature buyers has increased 100 fold.
China especially is a far closer friend than the US to Russia, history has shown the US is far more likely to be engaged in rat fucking given the past 30 years of meddling in politics in the region.
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actually your definition of kill date is different to mine. A Kill date is a date at which time if you are running upto date browsers and software it will stop working by default. It doesn't mean you can't turn it back on for yourself (albeit unsupported) or that you can't use legacy versions. It simply means only those that absolutely need it enabled for legacy reasons will have it. by being off by default instead of a slow tail off of use over many MANY years it will be a steep drop.
That is a pretty sad indictment on the state of vsphere.
Flash is a diseased animal in pain, it needs to be put out of its misery. It is going to die on its own, Adobe may as well save a little face and do Flash and the world a kindness by euthanizing it.
Activation isn't important at this stage. The RTM version will be out long before the Activation protection kicks in.
because the audience that buys Linux machines is very VERY different to the ones that buy a commodity windows laptop. The crapware vendors rely on making their money back from users too technically lacking to have the skills or knowledge to nuke the installed image from space. While under windows that audience is a large percentage, under Linux it is a fraction of a percent of a much smaller target audience, i.e. it aint worth their time and money.
Microsoft has a hidden agenda behind this donation?
Microsoft wants to see BSD succeed, that is hardly a hidden agenda. They have leveraged BSD assets greatly over the years (as well as contributed back to them).
A refund for what? It's not like he's paid for the copy of Windows that comes with it.
Then who did pay for it? I was under the impression that PC makers paid about $60 per copy for a lawful Windows install. Or are you claiming that publishers of Windows-only trialware completely subsidize the Windows license?
no, generally the crapware they ship with it pays for it, actually it usually more than pays for it to the point where coming without windows actually is more expensive for most PC Makers.
If you can cut something from 3lb to 2lb, that just means you have room for 1lb more battery.
Same thing applies with phones. Stop making them thinner, and use the saved space for more battery!
On my phone yes, much rather more battery. on my tablet/portable laptop NO, I want it as light as possible with just enough battery life to be practical. weight is everything when you have to lug it around with you everywhere and require mobility. I currently use a Lenovo and an ASUS both were chosen first and foremost on weight, battery life was second, power/look 3rd.
how is this unusual behaviour? perhaps the author needs to get out more. this has been a well used approach by various hacking groups and malware for a long time to maintain exclusivity to compromised machines.
No it isn't, it is a preview of all the possible options that could be included so you can provide good and bad feedback, it is also full of debug code and test code. a preview version is a poor indicator of current state, it is only an indicator of what may be in the final product as all the test and preview stuff that gets dropped makes it appear far less complete than it actually is.
The preview I installed (~2 weeks ago) was shockingly unstable and slow. I was appalled at the state of an OS, especially when it is slated for release in July.
(For example, my start... panel... thing... completely hosed itself for no apparent reason, a couple days after I installed the OS, leaving me nothing with a bunch of coloured boxes with class names in them).
You were on preview versions, In addition to bugs they are chocked full of debug code and test features that they were previewing and deciding whether to keep, dump or polish. The difference between what you ran 2 weeks and today is light and day. huge speed, stability and polish increases as all the preview stuff that didn't make the cut has been dumped and all the test and debug stuff removed.
Sooo your answer to being called out for being blatantly wrong in an insult to someone else is to bring up other irrelevant facts? childish at best, you would make a good Greek finance minister as that is the type of behavior they seem to favour in the position. Besides which I would hardly call 32 billion Euros a pittance.
Poland is a contributing member of the IMF idiot. They most definitely ARE lending them something.
I wish you knew how ignorant you sound. Go do some research on where the greek debt came from and where (or should i say to who?) the "bailout" money goes (incl the interest) and you will understand.
Is this a serious post? Greeks loaned money and can't repay it and somehow it is the fault of those that lent them the money? that is some serious shit you a smoking. No matter how you twist this the problem was created by Greece, enabled by greedy bankers sure. but WHAT THE FUCK were they doing taking out huge loans to fund a lifestyle choices like low retirement ages, huge military and public service, lax tax enforcement etc etc.
debt had already exceeded their GDP prior to any austerity.
Austerity has been disproven? citation please?. Austerity is a horrible thing, it may not have even been the best solution, but Greece had and still does have a massively imbalanced economic situation with huge percentage of GDP just to pay things like pensions, public servants and military. Their are not a lot of options short of massive financial growth (which was always unlikely) that can solve such imbalances.
It's no worse than the rest of the browser names. Except for Internet Explorer and Netscape they are all bloody aweful, Who the fuck thought of names like Opera, firefox, lynx, Safari, chrome (actually while I hate the browser it is about the best name of the rest considering you can sort of associate the web as a safari).
Read the details of the exploit. Even a successful exploitation of this yields Sweet fuck All for the attacker. You need to be running on 32 bit, have some sort of software that publishes cookies on localhost like a local website and all you get is the cookie. The vulnerability would be applicable to a fraction of a percent of machines and even then it isn't exactly giving up the crown jewels.
I wouldn't even say it is interesting from a business perspective. 2 years ago 4k was already well under way, everyone that was producing OS's, media players or consumption devices was requesting content for testing.
But why should it be regulated? It isn't going to do harm, other than perhaps
someone not getting real medical treatment
you answered your own question. It should be regulated or listed as fraud simply because many falsely believe it to work and may use homeopathy as apposed to seeking real medical treatment. This has knockon ramifications for healthcare costs as by the time the person realises they are were conned they may be far sicker (sometimes terminally so), the knockon effects go to family costs, social services and many others. homeopathy is simply fraud, it has both financial and medical consequences for people and society in general.
Monster Cables at least actually work for the basic purpose. yes they are massively, hideously overpriced and prey on the gullible that believe you can make 1's and 0's more crisp, but they still perform the basic role. Homeopathy does not do anything, the only possible benefit is as a placebo, it does not actually work as a medical treatment.
nope, it means the game was refused classification and it is illegal to sell it or import. Even after they opened up the classification laws we still have a range of games that will never be legal to be sold here, anything that shows illegal drug use, violence on woman etc etc. The summary makes it sound like the bans have gotten worse, in actual fact the laws have become far more relaxed here in the last few years with the introduction of an R classification, just the proliferation of people trying to cash in on cheap gimmick apps to attract immature buyers has increased 100 fold.
So is this new retarded fucking share button on Slashdot BETA 2. FIRE YOUR DESIGNERS Slashdot and find someone with half a fucking clue.
China especially is a far closer friend than the US to Russia, history has shown the US is far more likely to be engaged in rat fucking given the past 30 years of meddling in politics in the region.
12 million in licensing fees? so they only sold 12 cables in that time?