While I admit I haven't played WoW since vanilla (pre burning crusade). I have to say from my viewpoint at least, it more likely isn't the games focus changing as the players focus. Particularly due to the fact that the working system of PVE is raiding, in which you have 20-40 people gathered up, needing all of them to be geared up with more or lest the best of the previous raid, then having to beat the bosses, which are hard at first as you are learning their tactics, where to stand when etc... and any 1 person in the 20-40 standing in the wrong place constitutes a wipe, after that when you finally get everyone on the same page for each boss, you then have to repeat it, over and over again till you can get each of your 20-40 people the gear they need to move on to the next area, (since only 1-2 items will drop each time and you need to gear up everyone). This IMO leads to some major burnout. So I'd imagine the players that enjoy that style, for the most part lose interest, need long breaks every few months etc... Meaning the PVPers are the ones who aren't getting bored. Also another factor is guilds, In general there are only 2-3 guilds that are at the top of the PVE settings, meaning if you had the gear from the first 2-3 raids, the only raids that would benefit you are the 4th and up raids. Limiting your guild choice to ever get anything to 2-3 guilds tops. When the inevitable guild drama hits, PVE-ers really have nowhere to go and just retire, PVPers aren't even really dependent on having a guild.
An article on here done by one group with no inside connections, they basically went to the manufactures of each part and said "how much would you sell this to me for?", added them up and wrote it down as the manufacturing cost. Completely ignoring possibilities that maybe amazon may have enough pull to get a much better price via buying in bulk. If you call any wholesale seller of coffee makers, or toys or any of the other thousands of random products amazon sells, and ask them how much they would sell you them for, then look at the price on amazon, you would likely also determine that amazon is selling them at a loss too.
I actually liked the zune, my fiance's zune survived longer then any ipod I know of, however while I never thought I'd hear myself saying it, microsoft released a better product, but completely failed in the marketing.
Silverlight on the other hand yes it is worse then flash
Flash: An all platform inclusive slow buggy security hole ridden way to easily make programs for the web
Silverlight: A platform limited slow buggy security hole ridden way to easily make programs for the web
Basically the 2 are equally bad, but silverlight fails significantly in one category. People put things on the web to be accessible by everyone, whether they are using a windows PC, a MAC, an android etc...
Bing it is in general so pathetic that it can't even dent the market with MS's extremely determined marketing, auto bundling it with every PC, making the quantity of hurdles to set any other search engine default in IE etc...
No it's just like any other situation when a troll succesfully generates a flamewar for any hardcore fanbase. Troll makes large statement to draw tons of flames, fanbase gets riled up starts refuting trolls arguements and insulting trolls, Troll keeps trolling fanboys keep screaming at troll Trolls get bored with the same insults, move on to a new audience with fresher insults. This is the circle of life on the internet, and in WBC's case RL.
You mean more likely to site the yeti this way then any other method. "More likely to site the yeti this way then not" implies a high probability of it existing. To me a rise in sitings without a rise in photographic evidence in this day and age, is a tale tell sign it is unlikely to be real. Your average 10 year old has a 3 megapixel camera on their celphone. So if the yeti, bigfoot, the lochness monster etc... exist and are being sited more often by people now then they used to be, why don't we have any non-blurry pictures of them.
Indeed, no shareholders particularly like the idea of "just give them the multi-million dollar market and prove you are the bigger man". Plus even pretending we lived in a world where doing nicer things for the benefit of the customers will get you sales (which it isn't, sony and ubisoft's sales are as good as ever no matter how badly they screw over their users), the customers don't even have the option to buy their tablets right now.
Well samsung is actually doing this in revenge for a hardware patent, admitted a retartedly vague one for a rounded rectangle with a touch screen, but that no less is a hardware patent.
Installing a modern linux OS, is generally easier then windows, even for someone who has never used linux before.
typical linux install, insert CD, boot computer, click the install linux button (by default it will ask to downlaod the updates, and does so in this step), hit next, accept the defaults. computer boots back up, ready to go with a word processor, firefox and almost everything they need ready to go.
windows 7. insert install CD, hit next, accept the defaults, computer boots back up, look for manufacturs CD to install any missing drivers, find printer drivers, find Office CD or go to webpage to download open or libre office, install antivirus, agree to windows updates, reboot, install more updates, reboot. Done.
There are a few exceptions to the list, and it's not uncommon for windows to have all of the drivers ready for you, But oddly in all installs of linux I have done recently, everything I have ever thrown at it has been automatically detected and ready to go on reboot, and I do admit the antivirus would be necessary if linux were to ever fall into the common for average users to get category.
Well in theory, if you rigged a computer with a baseline install, and the 3 major browsers and perhaps flash, ran a script to make it visit random pages, but not download or install any files or programs, upon reboot any process running is almost certainly malicous.
Bottom line for people to be succesful in politics, the shorter your sentance is, the more likely people can remember it and keep it as a quote.
Examples
Bad: There is plenty of evidence to support this (*goes on to show evidence)
Good: Nope that is wrong!
Bad: Here is the explanation for why this is a problem
Good: God wants it this way
Valid science's biggest weakness in politics, is a shortage of 5 second soundbites that work. (and before you say less then 1% of voters know what E=MC squared means.)
That actually is the inteligent way to run a program that is expected to be updated on a frequent basis. UAC is rendered Virtually useless due to the huge flaw of it being expected for everything. If you are warned before doing anything at all at any time for any reason, you stop listening to the warnings and just hitting OK. UAC's vista implimentation would be best analogied by a safety guard made for kids that warns them when they are about to do something dangerous "You are about to cross the street, are you sure the road is safe", which was a good idea, until it got so losely defined everything asked for it. "You are about to stand up, are you sure?, you are about to sit down, are you sure, you are about to drink a glass of water....". After a day of it you go from "oh it prompted me, I should take this seriously", to "gah another bloody prompt, yes". Not to mention, do you really want your browser getting admin privilages, even for a few seconds?
Well what I do have to say, is there is a huge level of competence and screening between your doctor and the TSA people. I would say most, are probably OK, but TSA is a much lower tier of job, with much less accountability and background checking, as well as far less to lose. Your average doctor has probably seen thousands of patients wearing nothing, of both theirs and the oposite sex, though I would bet there are more cases of TSA agents jerking off to the backscatter scanner images, in a year, then there have been of doctors doing similar in your average decade. Mainly because someone is far more likely to take their position for granted as a disgruntled job they kinda fell into after either not attending college or taking the wrong route afterwards vs someone who went to medical school for 8 years slaving away and most likely racking up enough debt and loans to mortgage your average house, to earn the one job they wanted.
With all do respect while I do think linux has a far better security model in many ways, I don't think it would be anywhere close to virus free if it gained high popularity. That being said, I do theorize that if it were the main OS viri themselves would likely be far less of a regular factor. I would bet that AVs on linux would be far more likely to catch things, then they are on windows, and that privilage escalations and rootkits would be a much lesser occorance. IMO the biggest flaw with the windows security model is more or less in how they have trained people to develop for it. Games/common software designed with windows in mind, when they update, want admin privilages etc... Basically microsoft trains the end users to think nothing about clicking that allow button in UAC to any random program that asks. Programs designed in linux, if they have an auto updater tend to design it to download and use the updates within the home directory, if something wants admin rights other then the main package manager, you would think twice. Yes on a user level every OS is equally vulnerable, and that is all a malicious hacker needs to throw up one of those retarted fake AVs or whatever they need, my biggest gripe on fixing windows systems, is how often either the system is rooted (rendering normal AV's worthless). Yes I know that all forms of unix have had rootkits in the past (that's why they are called rootkits), but I do think the linux community is far faster at patching vulns that lead to rootkits then microsoft, and have a high chance that the rootkit makers would give up on the arms race.
Sad thing is if somehow this were to go the other way, MS would be calling their anti-trust lawyers in 10 minutes. Just like how they did when they noticed hotmail was lower then gmail, and google docs ranking above microsofts cloud office on the search engine.
In my experience for typical users it works better, lately checking AV comparitives, MSE is falling lower and lower on the list of effective catches. MSE's greatest stregnth however, is it's ability to work silently, with a small footprint. When working as a PC tech, my greatest nusance was when after removing a virus, I would load up a PC with avira, run them on firefox, install ad-block. Take 30 minutes teaching them about everything, then I would get a call back 2 weeks later and discover, they disabled avira due to being annoyed by "the pop-ups", and used IE, and were flooded with infections again. MSE has the perk of more or less being so out of the way they don't even notice it. Bottom line, users are getting less and less inteligent, and having idiot proof protection that catches 75% of possible threats, for many users is better then a fictional piece of software that eliminates 100% of threats, but is annoying enough that your dumb users turn it off.
Indeed, unfortunately the reason for this, is the limitations of chrome vs firefox, are more built to handle the rapid cycle. Firefox's greatest stregnth is the level of depth it allows it's ad-ons to go. Which is why chrome has a weaker adblock and I don't think chrome even has a noscript. The problem is that deeper level of integration, dosn't particularly like having it's foundation massively modified every 3-5 weeks.
Abstinance alone, on a global scale in roughly one century can whipe out aids, cancer and every other disease from the human race, even solve world hunger and the economy.
Are people seriously modding this troll. I personally don't like the windows phone in what I've seen of it. I don't own one because quite frankly I have little use for it's prime features. That being said, having a different opinion from me and sharing it, is not trolling. Why the heck do those people have mod points seriously.
It isn't from viruses that strike at the boot process, it prevents one that came in through a browser or rogue piece of software, from planting a root kit into the boot sector of the OS.
50/50 there. I do half applaud microsoft for helping to take down part of a threat to their users, in this instance I applaud it, while being terrified of it at the same time. While it is awsome to see large companies helping out with law enforcement to things that hurt their users, it also sets a scary precident. We are allowing large companies to become law enforcement on their own. As we accept it for the things that hurt the little people, they slowly leverage their way into using it to help themselves and hurt the little people. The same legislation that gives microsoft the power to disconect a botnet, will give them power to disconect the pirate bay. Everyone loves a superhero with the power to do good and deliver sweet vigilante justice where the law has failed, but lets face it, in the real world if we could actually give someone superpowers, it would be an 80% chance that it would come back to bite us. The hero would protect the group he likes, and leave the others to fend for themselves. When our best interest and microsoft's best interest are one and the same that is awsome, but what happens when they shift?
Where on earth do you work? Even when doing computer repair jobs for poor and elderly people I haven't run into a system below 512 ram in the last 5 years.
It is good, though this also dosn't cover the idea of minor vs major changes or issues. If a version is released, has a huge critical security flaw in it that is patched the next day. Many people would look and say "oh it's been only a day, I am ok for a while"
While you are correct, the big issue I have with microsoft is they don't tend to patch things quickly. Almost every zero day exploit you hear about, were reported to MS years before being exploited, only microsoft dosn't tend to see them as a priority until someone is already taking advantage of them. On top of that, when it is being exploited, microsoft kicking things into overdrive, they still tend to wait until patch tuesday to release the fixes.
Partially yes, it is a combination of the 2 factors, it was my security was bad enough that someone could get in, and it was that person was both better and more inclined to deal with it. The inteligent response for a home break in is to contact the police and let them do their thing, and to strongly consider a better alarm system, or if it the robber broke in through a painfully stupid mistake of mine (say I left the back window open, door unlocked or any number of stupid things like that) that I fix that mistake. Secondly I don't advertise my house as a safe haven for other peoples things, someone takes advantage of the poor security of my house, who gets screwed over... I do. If I were running a business out of my home, and all of my clients paperwork or something were stolen, I would have to answer to them "why didn't you have a good alarm". If something that wasn't mine was stolen, you could bet your ass the person who's item it was would be furious with me.
Slashdot Mirror
While I admit I haven't played WoW since vanilla (pre burning crusade). I have to say from my viewpoint at least, it more likely isn't the games focus changing as the players focus. Particularly due to the fact that the working system of PVE is raiding, in which you have 20-40 people gathered up, needing all of them to be geared up with more or lest the best of the previous raid, then having to beat the bosses, which are hard at first as you are learning their tactics, where to stand when etc... and any 1 person in the 20-40 standing in the wrong place constitutes a wipe, after that when you finally get everyone on the same page for each boss, you then have to repeat it, over and over again till you can get each of your 20-40 people the gear they need to move on to the next area, (since only 1-2 items will drop each time and you need to gear up everyone). This IMO leads to some major burnout. So I'd imagine the players that enjoy that style, for the most part lose interest, need long breaks every few months etc... Meaning the PVPers are the ones who aren't getting bored. Also another factor is guilds, In general there are only 2-3 guilds that are at the top of the PVE settings, meaning if you had the gear from the first 2-3 raids, the only raids that would benefit you are the 4th and up raids. Limiting your guild choice to ever get anything to 2-3 guilds tops. When the inevitable guild drama hits, PVE-ers really have nowhere to go and just retire, PVPers aren't even really dependent on having a guild.
I know VMware has a free version, though it is only free as in beer rather then FOSS.
An article on here done by one group with no inside connections, they basically went to the manufactures of each part and said "how much would you sell this to me for?", added them up and wrote it down as the manufacturing cost. Completely ignoring possibilities that maybe amazon may have enough pull to get a much better price via buying in bulk. If you call any wholesale seller of coffee makers, or toys or any of the other thousands of random products amazon sells, and ask them how much they would sell you them for, then look at the price on amazon, you would likely also determine that amazon is selling them at a loss too.
Silverlight on the other hand yes it is worse then flash
Flash: An all platform inclusive slow buggy security hole ridden way to easily make programs for the web
Silverlight: A platform limited slow buggy security hole ridden way to easily make programs for the web
Basically the 2 are equally bad, but silverlight fails significantly in one category. People put things on the web to be accessible by everyone, whether they are using a windows PC, a MAC, an android etc...
Bing it is in general so pathetic that it can't even dent the market with MS's extremely determined marketing, auto bundling it with every PC, making the quantity of hurdles to set any other search engine default in IE etc...
No it's just like any other situation when a troll succesfully generates a flamewar for any hardcore fanbase. Troll makes large statement to draw tons of flames, fanbase gets riled up starts refuting trolls arguements and insulting trolls, Troll keeps trolling fanboys keep screaming at troll Trolls get bored with the same insults, move on to a new audience with fresher insults. This is the circle of life on the internet, and in WBC's case RL.
You mean more likely to site the yeti this way then any other method. "More likely to site the yeti this way then not" implies a high probability of it existing. To me a rise in sitings without a rise in photographic evidence in this day and age, is a tale tell sign it is unlikely to be real. Your average 10 year old has a 3 megapixel camera on their celphone. So if the yeti, bigfoot, the lochness monster etc... exist and are being sited more often by people now then they used to be, why don't we have any non-blurry pictures of them.
Indeed, no shareholders particularly like the idea of "just give them the multi-million dollar market and prove you are the bigger man". Plus even pretending we lived in a world where doing nicer things for the benefit of the customers will get you sales (which it isn't, sony and ubisoft's sales are as good as ever no matter how badly they screw over their users), the customers don't even have the option to buy their tablets right now.
Well samsung is actually doing this in revenge for a hardware patent, admitted a retartedly vague one for a rounded rectangle with a touch screen, but that no less is a hardware patent.
typical linux install, insert CD, boot computer, click the install linux button (by default it will ask to downlaod the updates, and does so in this step), hit next, accept the defaults. computer boots back up, ready to go with a word processor, firefox and almost everything they need ready to go.
windows 7. insert install CD, hit next, accept the defaults, computer boots back up, look for manufacturs CD to install any missing drivers, find printer drivers, find Office CD or go to webpage to download open or libre office, install antivirus, agree to windows updates, reboot, install more updates, reboot. Done.
There are a few exceptions to the list, and it's not uncommon for windows to have all of the drivers ready for you, But oddly in all installs of linux I have done recently, everything I have ever thrown at it has been automatically detected and ready to go on reboot, and I do admit the antivirus would be necessary if linux were to ever fall into the common for average users to get category.
Well in theory, if you rigged a computer with a baseline install, and the 3 major browsers and perhaps flash, ran a script to make it visit random pages, but not download or install any files or programs, upon reboot any process running is almost certainly malicous.
Examples
Bad: There is plenty of evidence to support this (*goes on to show evidence)
Good: Nope that is wrong!
Bad: Here is the explanation for why this is a problem
Good: God wants it this way
Valid science's biggest weakness in politics, is a shortage of 5 second soundbites that work. (and before you say less then 1% of voters know what E=MC squared means.)
That actually is the inteligent way to run a program that is expected to be updated on a frequent basis. UAC is rendered Virtually useless due to the huge flaw of it being expected for everything. If you are warned before doing anything at all at any time for any reason, you stop listening to the warnings and just hitting OK. UAC's vista implimentation would be best analogied by a safety guard made for kids that warns them when they are about to do something dangerous "You are about to cross the street, are you sure the road is safe", which was a good idea, until it got so losely defined everything asked for it. "You are about to stand up, are you sure?, you are about to sit down, are you sure, you are about to drink a glass of water....". After a day of it you go from "oh it prompted me, I should take this seriously", to "gah another bloody prompt, yes". Not to mention, do you really want your browser getting admin privilages, even for a few seconds?
Well what I do have to say, is there is a huge level of competence and screening between your doctor and the TSA people. I would say most, are probably OK, but TSA is a much lower tier of job, with much less accountability and background checking, as well as far less to lose. Your average doctor has probably seen thousands of patients wearing nothing, of both theirs and the oposite sex, though I would bet there are more cases of TSA agents jerking off to the backscatter scanner images, in a year, then there have been of doctors doing similar in your average decade. Mainly because someone is far more likely to take their position for granted as a disgruntled job they kinda fell into after either not attending college or taking the wrong route afterwards vs someone who went to medical school for 8 years slaving away and most likely racking up enough debt and loans to mortgage your average house, to earn the one job they wanted.
With all do respect while I do think linux has a far better security model in many ways, I don't think it would be anywhere close to virus free if it gained high popularity. That being said, I do theorize that if it were the main OS viri themselves would likely be far less of a regular factor. I would bet that AVs on linux would be far more likely to catch things, then they are on windows, and that privilage escalations and rootkits would be a much lesser occorance. IMO the biggest flaw with the windows security model is more or less in how they have trained people to develop for it. Games/common software designed with windows in mind, when they update, want admin privilages etc... Basically microsoft trains the end users to think nothing about clicking that allow button in UAC to any random program that asks. Programs designed in linux, if they have an auto updater tend to design it to download and use the updates within the home directory, if something wants admin rights other then the main package manager, you would think twice. Yes on a user level every OS is equally vulnerable, and that is all a malicious hacker needs to throw up one of those retarted fake AVs or whatever they need, my biggest gripe on fixing windows systems, is how often either the system is rooted (rendering normal AV's worthless). Yes I know that all forms of unix have had rootkits in the past (that's why they are called rootkits), but I do think the linux community is far faster at patching vulns that lead to rootkits then microsoft, and have a high chance that the rootkit makers would give up on the arms race.
Sad thing is if somehow this were to go the other way, MS would be calling their anti-trust lawyers in 10 minutes. Just like how they did when they noticed hotmail was lower then gmail, and google docs ranking above microsofts cloud office on the search engine.
In my experience for typical users it works better, lately checking AV comparitives, MSE is falling lower and lower on the list of effective catches. MSE's greatest stregnth however, is it's ability to work silently, with a small footprint. When working as a PC tech, my greatest nusance was when after removing a virus, I would load up a PC with avira, run them on firefox, install ad-block. Take 30 minutes teaching them about everything, then I would get a call back 2 weeks later and discover, they disabled avira due to being annoyed by "the pop-ups", and used IE, and were flooded with infections again. MSE has the perk of more or less being so out of the way they don't even notice it. Bottom line, users are getting less and less inteligent, and having idiot proof protection that catches 75% of possible threats, for many users is better then a fictional piece of software that eliminates 100% of threats, but is annoying enough that your dumb users turn it off.
Indeed, unfortunately the reason for this, is the limitations of chrome vs firefox, are more built to handle the rapid cycle. Firefox's greatest stregnth is the level of depth it allows it's ad-ons to go. Which is why chrome has a weaker adblock and I don't think chrome even has a noscript. The problem is that deeper level of integration, dosn't particularly like having it's foundation massively modified every 3-5 weeks.
Abstinance alone, on a global scale in roughly one century can whipe out aids, cancer and every other disease from the human race, even solve world hunger and the economy.
Are people seriously modding this troll. I personally don't like the windows phone in what I've seen of it. I don't own one because quite frankly I have little use for it's prime features. That being said, having a different opinion from me and sharing it, is not trolling. Why the heck do those people have mod points seriously.
It isn't from viruses that strike at the boot process, it prevents one that came in through a browser or rogue piece of software, from planting a root kit into the boot sector of the OS.
50/50 there. I do half applaud microsoft for helping to take down part of a threat to their users, in this instance I applaud it, while being terrified of it at the same time. While it is awsome to see large companies helping out with law enforcement to things that hurt their users, it also sets a scary precident. We are allowing large companies to become law enforcement on their own. As we accept it for the things that hurt the little people, they slowly leverage their way into using it to help themselves and hurt the little people. The same legislation that gives microsoft the power to disconect a botnet, will give them power to disconect the pirate bay. Everyone loves a superhero with the power to do good and deliver sweet vigilante justice where the law has failed, but lets face it, in the real world if we could actually give someone superpowers, it would be an 80% chance that it would come back to bite us. The hero would protect the group he likes, and leave the others to fend for themselves. When our best interest and microsoft's best interest are one and the same that is awsome, but what happens when they shift?
Where on earth do you work? Even when doing computer repair jobs for poor and elderly people I haven't run into a system below 512 ram in the last 5 years.
It is good, though this also dosn't cover the idea of minor vs major changes or issues. If a version is released, has a huge critical security flaw in it that is patched the next day. Many people would look and say "oh it's been only a day, I am ok for a while"
While you are correct, the big issue I have with microsoft is they don't tend to patch things quickly. Almost every zero day exploit you hear about, were reported to MS years before being exploited, only microsoft dosn't tend to see them as a priority until someone is already taking advantage of them. On top of that, when it is being exploited, microsoft kicking things into overdrive, they still tend to wait until patch tuesday to release the fixes.
Partially yes, it is a combination of the 2 factors, it was my security was bad enough that someone could get in, and it was that person was both better and more inclined to deal with it. The inteligent response for a home break in is to contact the police and let them do their thing, and to strongly consider a better alarm system, or if it the robber broke in through a painfully stupid mistake of mine (say I left the back window open, door unlocked or any number of stupid things like that) that I fix that mistake. Secondly I don't advertise my house as a safe haven for other peoples things, someone takes advantage of the poor security of my house, who gets screwed over... I do. If I were running a business out of my home, and all of my clients paperwork or something were stolen, I would have to answer to them "why didn't you have a good alarm". If something that wasn't mine was stolen, you could bet your ass the person who's item it was would be furious with me.