If you run an AV how can you tell your computer doesn't have a rootkit that it can't detect? At some point you have to just cross your fingers and hope for the best. Myself I do run an offline scanner every few months just as a double checking of things, and on occasion I check the process logs, start up applications etc... Even run a rootkit scanner etc... I've never caught a virus. My fiance's computer has antivirus on it, and it was infected when our 5 year old son was playing with it, going through random flash games.
Didn't B&N get a general concept of several of the patents? or at least a vague summery of what microsoft was calling them on. If I recall they were vague obvious things that have been done regularly in the computer world like "loading the text before the images on a web page" and something about scrollbars if I remember right. Barns and nobel described them all as general non-essential parts of the operating system. Most likely something that google could easilly fix in a few hours, if they could get an exact list on what MS was calling infringement. That is the biggest issue I think, microsoft is hiding the details from the company that can actually fix it.
Noscript, adblock etc... there are dozens of ways to dodge things and reduce the chance of infection to.0000001% (there is always the hypothetical possibility of some rogue worm that breaks past a firewall/router, or heck someone breaking into your house and manually running a virus on your system with physical access). If this guy was endorsing or recommending the average joe to use no AV you would have valid reason to insult him, he isn't. Plenty of very tech savy people can safely use a computer with no AV with little to no risk, while many tech unsavy people will fill a computer with virus no matter what protection they use.
I'd say it is pretty obvious why they jumped so rapidly from 4th to 5th. Basically the 3.5 to 4th edition involved too many drastic simplifications to the game. (now admitted I'm a youngin so I can't really say much on 1st to second transition, but I have read over the 2nd ed rules), 2nd to 3rd while adding more rules they also added more in the way of character options, multiclassing etc.. became more streamlined etc... players liked this, 3.5 to 4th... was a rapid reduction of options, multiclassing removed etc... Almost everything was about simplifying concepts, and then there were a few things that I thought had no place in an P&P game, like level restrictions on gear etc... Paizo also didn't like the direction wizards of the coast went, in addition to changing the game, they also scrapped the OGL (Open gaming license Think open source for tabletop, it allowed 3rd parties to release extras). Paizo after being cut from the ability to develop content, developed their own system, pathfinder, based off of the OGL and 3.5 but expanding upon it, and the sales reflected that the market liked it better http://www.geeknative.com/24060/pathfinder-tops-summer-rpg-sales/ Pathfinder won more or less every quarter of 2010, WOTC is realizing, that dungeons and dragons can no longer be number 1, via name recognition alone.
There have been a couple malware issues in the official market. Admitted the issues are still ridiculously small for the hype they get. Oh yeah it's as bad as a PC... Even in windows 7 days, I would bet at the least, 1 in 5 windows 7 users have had a virus infection. While I would estimate the android numbers to be 1 in 5,000 or so, and the majority of those stem from people attempting to pirate apps via shady chinese marketplaces. Androids policies are done intelligently, they have a location that is safe and basic for the dumb users to go to, but freedom to the outside world. The windows 8 phone does most of this pretty well, but I do wonder if they will be vulnerable to attacks due to, 1. Being a very large target (cross-platform malware that works on your PC and tablet) and 2. Dumb users are used to going to random webpages to get applications on windows, and just by nature will be more inclined to do it on a windows phone than on an android.
Well there is the part where it is horrible in it's standards compliance with html 5, which I believe is going to be a huge roadblock to html 5 actually starting widespread usage due to Microsoft's continual high market share. Other then microsoft's bogus tests where they specifically rig it to be 99.9%, every test I have seen has shown IE9 to meet 40-60% of html 5, while chrome and FF 80-100%.
Cheap PCs run linux, and if every application you use works in linux there is no reason not to. Same for XP, if everything you use works, then there is no incentive to upgrade. The quanity of applications that require windows 7 and won't run on XP, is rather insignificant. If none of the features of windows 7 are over $100 worth of good, then it is silly to upgrade. Also a good variable on security, if you are regularly going into your bank account, then yeah 7 is a better idea than XP, linux is a better idea then 7 (even if you believe the only advantage of linux is security by obscurity, that will still be the case for years to come, linux attacks will still be focusing on compromising web servers, not planting a keylogger).
Nope, a virus is a self replicating self installing piece of software, a Trojan tricks people into installing it by claiming to do something desired.
Thus McAffee and Norton are high grade trojans, and some of the few that can trick you into paying to install them.
Well I don't think it is as much earth is unique, as all planets are unique. Saturn is nothing like mars, which is nothing like neptune. I do also have to point out the quanity of planets we can observe, is pretty darn negligable by comparison to how many we estimate there are. Estimated planets in the milkyway, probably billions, number of galaxies that could also have billions of planets, also billions. Number of planets/dwarf planets close enough that we could possibly land a probe on in our lifetime 9. Number of planets other then earth that we have landed a man on, 0.
There could be 50 or less equally common types of planets, of which water holding life supporting are just as common as the other 49 types, and we wouldn't know because we can only really make any significant observations on.00000001% of them.
It would be nice, but the question is how and who. The tea party wasn't originally founded with their heads perpetually up their respective asses. That came later and mostly once they started picking candidates, and then of course taking bribes from larger companies to fund the movement. I agree OWS should form into a political party... but the eternal mystery that has been plauging our country for years, how does a candidate get put on the ballot, and even moreso get on the ballet and have enough money to advertise who he is and what he stands for... without picking up all the corruption/bribes etc... that he is supposed to be against.
I think the biggest issue, is there are very few apps that do anything that isn't expected of free software in the PC world. 95% of the games are more or less repackaged flash games that we have been playing for years, most of the productivity apps are weaker than google docs or libre/open-office which we have had for ages, and most of what's left is basic generic things that have been free for years. Bottom line there just aren't many apps that aren't exact duplicates of programs that have been free on the PC for years, has nothing to do with apples management it is just the trend of the entire software market. Right now in software people will pay for on any platform
Top of the line office software, IE only Microsoft Office
Top of the line AAA games, IE Skyrim
Other then that... corporate users need security software, and gullible home users will also buy it (reason I say gullible is primarily because there are few to no features or increased reliability of free vs paid antivirus's that I've seen). Had nothing to do with how the tablet market was set on launch day, the phones were based on the market of software, and in the end phones and tablets do not currently support much in the way of software that people aren't used to having for free.
Well agnostic atheism makes sense in a scientific standpoint, even true atheism is not contradictory to science. The scientific method requires one to start out with no assumptions until evidence to support an assumption is brought up. Dismissing the possibility that invisible undetectable pink unicorns are pushing everything to the ground before starting experiments on gravitational theory does not make your science poor. Starting with no assumptions does not mean assuming everything is a possibility, it means making no assumptions, observing a phenomenon, come up with a theory, then test that theory. Something must have initial evidence to add it to the list of possibilities, and have a testable repeatable phenomenon to test to go from a vague idea to an actual theory.
It is actually quite a bit fewer the higher up and more educated they get if I recall the last numbers from the national academy of science showed about 93% as atheist, and if I recall that number goes up even further in the fields of geology, paleontology and microbiology.
I also forgot to mention the extreme irony of the nickle. I think you would agree that the idea of writing "In god we trust", next to a picture of a man who took a bible and a pair of scissors, and cut out every mention of supernatural events and miracles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible
Actually this is a misnomer. The US was established on freedom of and from oppressive religion. Many of our founding fathers were atheists/Deists (For the pre-darwin time I would consider deism pretty close to atheism, considering they more or less believed that god takes no active part in the world today). In god we trust was added to our money, and "under god" was added to our pledge in the 1950's. Both spit in the face of what the founding fathers had intended with separation of church and state.
I have to agree, especially in this economy, people who need a functional device for 200 or less is a growing barely tapped market. Much like why the netbook market suddenly plummeted when most stores stopped carrying the $200 models and shifted all of their focus onto the $400-500 models. Companies tried to claim this was due to the ipad, but at least from what I saw, the vast majority of people I saw buying netbooks, were people who could not afford a laptop, but wanted something cheap and simple that they could take notes, check e-mail and update facebook on. Now that could be regional, I live in the south where we have far more people who are hesitant on technology then we do people who have tons of money and always want the latest and greatest.
Some companies yes.. people have sued over frying their poodle in a microwave when attempting to dry it off etc... Sony has been sued over removing features after the fact (other OS), and for PSN going down and the comprimise of all of their users data and possibly credit card numbers... that isn't a little thing.
So who will be the first to sue this one, Apple or the content owners for star trek. They took the time to have the tricorder apps pulled, what makes google think they aren't going to go for any ideas based on them.
Because there are 2 forms of living. One can lock themselves up in a hospital bed, hook up IV tubes, shelter themselves from almost everything, and probably get their own lifespan up to 125-150 years, in exchange for having no experiences. Or one can do what makes them social, what inspires them to write, what more or less makes them feel alive. I know I would rather Live for 50 years, then be alive for 100.
That being said, from what I have observed, Hitchens himself was a pretty severe grade of an alcoholic. Just watching some of his standup routines, and his interview on the daily show. I think he was drunk as heck while doing those (on the daily show in addition to his speech patterns, stumbling on stage, and carrying his own cup). I think deep down his own intellect may have lead to that. I think he intellectually was above most of the people he was around, and thus to actually communicate on even terms with normal people, needed to bring himself down to talk on their level.
Indeed, the more accurate statement is to "some" pirates. The video was not completely unpirated. But there is no condition that non-piracy can happen. The type of pirate that will only watch it for free will only watch it for free, even if they have to settle for an image made by a camera recording a TV screen. (even crappy recordings of movies in theaters get lots of downloads, if every method of DRM on DVDs and downloads hasn't easily been cracked, we'd see the same thing)
I find it amusing that the link itself and the link the site refers to, both say the opposite things. The article basically has him saying he dosn't think any if many people stole it at all, the article he links to says at least 500 people stole it. Now what would be more fair to say would be that the piracy is the same or less then if the video had the DRM, and that the piracy did not appear to have reduced sales at all.
I'd say a better analogy would be if your car came with an HD radio, and the car manufacturer cut a deal with a music manufacturer, and thus decided to remove the HD radio from all cars and replace them with CD players.
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If you run an AV how can you tell your computer doesn't have a rootkit that it can't detect? At some point you have to just cross your fingers and hope for the best. Myself I do run an offline scanner every few months just as a double checking of things, and on occasion I check the process logs, start up applications etc... Even run a rootkit scanner etc... I've never caught a virus. My fiance's computer has antivirus on it, and it was infected when our 5 year old son was playing with it, going through random flash games.
Didn't B&N get a general concept of several of the patents? or at least a vague summery of what microsoft was calling them on. If I recall they were vague obvious things that have been done regularly in the computer world like "loading the text before the images on a web page" and something about scrollbars if I remember right. Barns and nobel described them all as general non-essential parts of the operating system. Most likely something that google could easilly fix in a few hours, if they could get an exact list on what MS was calling infringement. That is the biggest issue I think, microsoft is hiding the details from the company that can actually fix it.
Noscript, adblock etc... there are dozens of ways to dodge things and reduce the chance of infection to .0000001% (there is always the hypothetical possibility of some rogue worm that breaks past a firewall/router, or heck someone breaking into your house and manually running a virus on your system with physical access). If this guy was endorsing or recommending the average joe to use no AV you would have valid reason to insult him, he isn't. Plenty of very tech savy people can safely use a computer with no AV with little to no risk, while many tech unsavy people will fill a computer with virus no matter what protection they use.
I'd say it is pretty obvious why they jumped so rapidly from 4th to 5th. Basically the 3.5 to 4th edition involved too many drastic simplifications to the game. (now admitted I'm a youngin so I can't really say much on 1st to second transition, but I have read over the 2nd ed rules), 2nd to 3rd while adding more rules they also added more in the way of character options, multiclassing etc.. became more streamlined etc... players liked this, 3.5 to 4th... was a rapid reduction of options, multiclassing removed etc... Almost everything was about simplifying concepts, and then there were a few things that I thought had no place in an P&P game, like level restrictions on gear etc... Paizo also didn't like the direction wizards of the coast went, in addition to changing the game, they also scrapped the OGL (Open gaming license Think open source for tabletop, it allowed 3rd parties to release extras). Paizo after being cut from the ability to develop content, developed their own system, pathfinder, based off of the OGL and 3.5 but expanding upon it, and the sales reflected that the market liked it better http://www.geeknative.com/24060/pathfinder-tops-summer-rpg-sales/ Pathfinder won more or less every quarter of 2010, WOTC is realizing, that dungeons and dragons can no longer be number 1, via name recognition alone.
The only thing I can fairly see apple suing for, is the apple logo, Jobs' face should be protected under paordy or something. And really, I'm no expert but I don't believe that his drivers license or birth certificate said "Steve Jobs©" Faces are common, I'm sure there are dozens if not hundreds of Steve Jobs look alikes in the world, can they be sued if they wear glasses, jeans and a black sweater?. A large part of his popularity came from dressing like your every day Joe in very common outfits. So yeah I'll give apple the benefit of "their logo", the word iPhone (even though that isn't even 100% original), but you can't sue for the face of an employee. Heck did Jobs ever sign a contract granting apple ownership of his likeness? If for some reason while he was still alive, and Jobs quit or was fired again, and he went to work for microsoft, would apple have been able to sue him for having his picture taken on a microsoft ad?
There have been a couple malware issues in the official market. Admitted the issues are still ridiculously small for the hype they get. Oh yeah it's as bad as a PC... Even in windows 7 days, I would bet at the least, 1 in 5 windows 7 users have had a virus infection. While I would estimate the android numbers to be 1 in 5,000 or so, and the majority of those stem from people attempting to pirate apps via shady chinese marketplaces. Androids policies are done intelligently, they have a location that is safe and basic for the dumb users to go to, but freedom to the outside world. The windows 8 phone does most of this pretty well, but I do wonder if they will be vulnerable to attacks due to, 1. Being a very large target (cross-platform malware that works on your PC and tablet) and 2. Dumb users are used to going to random webpages to get applications on windows, and just by nature will be more inclined to do it on a windows phone than on an android.
Well there is the part where it is horrible in it's standards compliance with html 5, which I believe is going to be a huge roadblock to html 5 actually starting widespread usage due to Microsoft's continual high market share. Other then microsoft's bogus tests where they specifically rig it to be 99.9%, every test I have seen has shown IE9 to meet 40-60% of html 5, while chrome and FF 80-100%.
Cheap PCs run linux, and if every application you use works in linux there is no reason not to. Same for XP, if everything you use works, then there is no incentive to upgrade. The quanity of applications that require windows 7 and won't run on XP, is rather insignificant. If none of the features of windows 7 are over $100 worth of good, then it is silly to upgrade. Also a good variable on security, if you are regularly going into your bank account, then yeah 7 is a better idea than XP, linux is a better idea then 7 (even if you believe the only advantage of linux is security by obscurity, that will still be the case for years to come, linux attacks will still be focusing on compromising web servers, not planting a keylogger).
Nope, a virus is a self replicating self installing piece of software, a Trojan tricks people into installing it by claiming to do something desired. Thus McAffee and Norton are high grade trojans, and some of the few that can trick you into paying to install them.
Well I don't think it is as much earth is unique, as all planets are unique. Saturn is nothing like mars, which is nothing like neptune. I do also have to point out the quanity of planets we can observe, is pretty darn negligable by comparison to how many we estimate there are. Estimated planets in the milkyway, probably billions, number of galaxies that could also have billions of planets, also billions. Number of planets/dwarf planets close enough that we could possibly land a probe on in our lifetime 9. Number of planets other then earth that we have landed a man on, 0. There could be 50 or less equally common types of planets, of which water holding life supporting are just as common as the other 49 types, and we wouldn't know because we can only really make any significant observations on .00000001% of them.
It would be nice, but the question is how and who. The tea party wasn't originally founded with their heads perpetually up their respective asses. That came later and mostly once they started picking candidates, and then of course taking bribes from larger companies to fund the movement. I agree OWS should form into a political party... but the eternal mystery that has been plauging our country for years, how does a candidate get put on the ballot, and even moreso get on the ballet and have enough money to advertise who he is and what he stands for... without picking up all the corruption/bribes etc... that he is supposed to be against.
Top of the line office software, IE only Microsoft Office
Top of the line AAA games, IE Skyrim
Other then that... corporate users need security software, and gullible home users will also buy it (reason I say gullible is primarily because there are few to no features or increased reliability of free vs paid antivirus's that I've seen). Had nothing to do with how the tablet market was set on launch day, the phones were based on the market of software, and in the end phones and tablets do not currently support much in the way of software that people aren't used to having for free.
Well agnostic atheism makes sense in a scientific standpoint, even true atheism is not contradictory to science. The scientific method requires one to start out with no assumptions until evidence to support an assumption is brought up. Dismissing the possibility that invisible undetectable pink unicorns are pushing everything to the ground before starting experiments on gravitational theory does not make your science poor. Starting with no assumptions does not mean assuming everything is a possibility, it means making no assumptions, observing a phenomenon, come up with a theory, then test that theory. Something must have initial evidence to add it to the list of possibilities, and have a testable repeatable phenomenon to test to go from a vague idea to an actual theory.
It is actually quite a bit fewer the higher up and more educated they get if I recall the last numbers from the national academy of science showed about 93% as atheist, and if I recall that number goes up even further in the fields of geology, paleontology and microbiology.
I also forgot to mention the extreme irony of the nickle. I think you would agree that the idea of writing "In god we trust", next to a picture of a man who took a bible and a pair of scissors, and cut out every mention of supernatural events and miracles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible
Actually this is a misnomer. The US was established on freedom of and from oppressive religion. Many of our founding fathers were atheists/Deists (For the pre-darwin time I would consider deism pretty close to atheism, considering they more or less believed that god takes no active part in the world today). In god we trust was added to our money, and "under god" was added to our pledge in the 1950's. Both spit in the face of what the founding fathers had intended with separation of church and state.
I have to agree, especially in this economy, people who need a functional device for 200 or less is a growing barely tapped market. Much like why the netbook market suddenly plummeted when most stores stopped carrying the $200 models and shifted all of their focus onto the $400-500 models. Companies tried to claim this was due to the ipad, but at least from what I saw, the vast majority of people I saw buying netbooks, were people who could not afford a laptop, but wanted something cheap and simple that they could take notes, check e-mail and update facebook on. Now that could be regional, I live in the south where we have far more people who are hesitant on technology then we do people who have tons of money and always want the latest and greatest.
Some companies yes.. people have sued over frying their poodle in a microwave when attempting to dry it off etc... Sony has been sued over removing features after the fact (other OS), and for PSN going down and the comprimise of all of their users data and possibly credit card numbers... that isn't a little thing.
So who will be the first to sue this one, Apple or the content owners for star trek. They took the time to have the tricorder apps pulled, what makes google think they aren't going to go for any ideas based on them.
Well the more important part is human disection. Can a doctor still practice on a cadaver?
That being said, from what I have observed, Hitchens himself was a pretty severe grade of an alcoholic. Just watching some of his standup routines, and his interview on the daily show. I think he was drunk as heck while doing those (on the daily show in addition to his speech patterns, stumbling on stage, and carrying his own cup). I think deep down his own intellect may have lead to that. I think he intellectually was above most of the people he was around, and thus to actually communicate on even terms with normal people, needed to bring himself down to talk on their level.
The article itself actually has a link referencing that, as usual the brilliant editing of TFS implies things incorrectly.
Indeed, the more accurate statement is to "some" pirates. The video was not completely unpirated. But there is no condition that non-piracy can happen. The type of pirate that will only watch it for free will only watch it for free, even if they have to settle for an image made by a camera recording a TV screen. (even crappy recordings of movies in theaters get lots of downloads, if every method of DRM on DVDs and downloads hasn't easily been cracked, we'd see the same thing)
I find it amusing that the link itself and the link the site refers to, both say the opposite things. The article basically has him saying he dosn't think any if many people stole it at all, the article he links to says at least 500 people stole it. Now what would be more fair to say would be that the piracy is the same or less then if the video had the DRM, and that the piracy did not appear to have reduced sales at all.
I'd say a better analogy would be if your car came with an HD radio, and the car manufacturer cut a deal with a music manufacturer, and thus decided to remove the HD radio from all cars and replace them with CD players.