1. In what way does the malware use the VM? Can it collect data from within the VM (thus making it a security hole in.NET), or does it run as a normal process and use the VM for displaying data?
2. Is this possible to happen behind a firewall, of say, SP2? I've heard of malware that slips through it, though I haven't encountered it (I run slack 10:)). But I'm concerned since my family runs windows, and I'll be the one to clean it. I'm sure I'm not the only/.'er who feels this way.
an popular scenario, but highly unlikely, for two reasons.
An species survises the best if it is highly adopted to it's enviroment. There are no humans living on martian soil. Thus, the bacteria that might live on mars, wil not be adapted to humans. Thus, they shall not attack humans. It is in fact very unlikely that they will be able to live on earth, since it has a high oxygen concentration which mars lacks.
Second of all, there is this thing we call a-specific imunno-defense. Put shortly, it consists out of cells which kill everything that is not of our own body, such as bacteria, viri, and some tumor cell. They even try to kill our babys when a woman gets pregnant.
for (ibm; linux == future; ++money)
++kernel-development
In other words, the 100M USD will probably be spend on kernel development. IBM sees bussiness in linux. IBM makes money out of linux. They would be stupid not to invest in it.
Quite a few people make a switch towards a OSS platform, such as GNU/linux, today. There will be more in 2006 when longhorn is scheduled to be released. In the meantime, GNU/linux will have improved, as will desktops such as GNOME and KDE. Indeed, much of MS's perceived advantage in user-interface will have eroded. Also, platforms such as mono will have largely copied.NET's features.
What exactly is your strategy when that will happen? Moreover, how will you win back the people that have switched before that day?
Second. One of Linux' (and in much more ways: *BSD unix) main advantages in a server enviroment is that the system will run on a multitude of cpu architectures, such as SPARC, PowerPC and x86.
Is there any MS strategy considering other hardware platforms, such as the PowerPC line, SPARC, or the Cell processor line to name a few?
Xine 1.0 supports wmv out of the box. It is included with slackware 10 and totem movie player uses it without a problem.
I'm not sure about mac support. My point is that wmv support is not that bad at all, though browser plugin support is. It is possible to use wmv multi-platform
All the right in the world, I'm afraid. It is a stupid move - warez really are the only thing that can save windows in the long run - but they have this right if you agree with their licensing.
One thing that bothers me. If you place the old hd in the dell, will that work? Probably not. What parts do have to be replaced to call it another computer? If I change network cards (which I do frequently) is my system then different? Do I have a different computer? Microsoft's policy says I do, and when you agree with their terms, you have little choice.
It is however pure arrogance that MS thinks it can not only decide what you do with your software (read MS EULA for that,'bout connections) but also what you can do with your hardware.
It is very funny that people even buy this from them.
I'm a starting (as in: learning) developer, and my platform of choice is linux. I write mostly in C. So if I compile my stuff with in elf format, it'll run perfectly on linux 2.4.26 with glibc 2.3.2 and the likes, but thats about it.
Now if I however compile it with gcj (which works perfectly), I can share it with all my friends with much rejoice:-) I can actually get feedback from my windows-using friends.
Now please convince me java is good for nothing.
it sure looks nice, and its transparant backdrop thingy is definitly cool:) It is lichtweigth and works friendly enough.
It is, however, definitely no replacement voor gnome/kde in any way. It's filebrowser can't match konqueror/nautilus. It's control center is useless. It's program bar completely ignores menu, and for some reason allways stays on top, which is just annoying. So no, for a 'desktop gui', it isn't my choice.
I find windowmaker to be a far nicer gui:) srry folks at xfce, but xfce stil requires some touches for it to be my favorite windowmanager.
'Nautilus has no viewer capable of viewing MicrosoftAntiSpyware.exe' *grin*:-)
Btw, microsoft's certificate is invalid, according to FF.
Talkin' about support, Win 98, 98SE and ME are all unsupported, and they are still being used on large scale. A bit of an arrogant 'go to hell' mentality if you ask me. There is no real technical reason why it can't work at a 9x system.
When the scrotum is kept at a temperature to high (think 37 degrees celsius, or 98,6 degrees fahrenheit, yes, your sperm will die. That is common knowledge, or at least it should be.
But since the complete amount of sperm one man can contain (which is still very little, 'bout one percent of the total 'fluid', the rest is sugar and water) can be replaced in 3 days, there's no need to worry.
Just be warned: after a vacation trip of a week, you are fertile as hell:)
Anyone also looking forward to try to run linux on this?
First of all, it has more computing power (it has to display/decode images realtime while still playing music). It also has more storage space and battery life, making it more intressting.
Also, it has a color screen o.O So linux on this version might actually be usefull...
Wether iTMS will do this or anyone else, is irrelevant. There could be a music service that lets you download and search music for free (usership) which can only be played for a limited time/1 pc. And at the same time it allows you to buy music once you like it (ownership). This music can then be burned on cd, transferred to iPod, used on multiple PC, whatever. In normal words: unDRM'd bought music, DRM'd free music.
I shall call this model (I'm not sure wether anyone made it up earlier than me so don't shoot me:) the 'user-owner-model' , or UOM.
I believe this model is a good idea, because not only does it make everybody happy, it also delivers more possibilities for both artists. labels and consumers.
I wouldn't have known a fraction of my nowadays (legal) music collection if it wasn't for P2P sharing. I would have sticked to top 40 music chart. That might be the way te music industry likes it, I don't. I prefer having the ability of selecting music myself, instead of it being selected for me by big labels. I believe most people do.
So the argument 'it is damaging the industrie' is BS. The thing that is really damaging is radio stations that all play the same songs and leave no room for diversity, because it leaves so many artists undiscovered (and thereby, cd's unsold).
P2P is creating a greater demand for music and I'll be dammed if that isn't good for the industry.
Antipersirants are bad for you, especially for your skin:)
That left aside, when I lent other people my iPod when return it to me, saying 'I want this as well'. Practically everybody likes the device, especially the interface. No device is able to counter that, though I admit usb audiokeys are usefull as well.
This form of usability is what sets the iPod apart from other players. No DRM is going to change that.
I think the price drop was a good move as well, making it a): a better deal and b): possible for more people to buy it.
This article shows, along with other articles in the last week, that microsoft is virtually panicking.
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sure left some questions unanswered.
.NET), or does it run as a normal process and use the VM for displaying data?
:)). But I'm concerned since my family runs windows, and I'll be the one to clean it. I'm sure I'm not the only /.'er who feels this way.
1.
In what way does the malware use the VM? Can it collect data from within the VM (thus making it a security hole in
2.
Is this possible to happen behind a firewall, of say, SP2? I've heard of malware that slips through it, though I haven't encountered it (I run slack 10
Cheers
What you describe are human interface guidelines, and this has been done in GNOME for quite some time.
You can find these guidelines at gnome.org
an popular scenario, but highly unlikely, for two reasons.
An species survises the best if it is highly adopted to it's enviroment. There are no humans living on martian soil. Thus, the bacteria that might live on mars, wil not be adapted to humans. Thus, they shall not attack humans. It is in fact very unlikely that they will be able to live on earth, since it has a high oxygen concentration which mars lacks.
Second of all, there is this thing we call a-specific imunno-defense. Put shortly, it consists out of cells which kill everything that is not of our own body, such as bacteria, viri, and some tumor cell. They even try to kill our babys when a woman gets pregnant.
So I guess we will be able to live through this.
google's toolbar came preinstalled with the laptop computer my mother bought just a week ago. Now given it has this modern smart-tag kind of thing.
Doesn't that make for the same situation we would have had if MS had done it? If so, why would MS's smarttags be evil, and google's service not?
Odd people....
for (ibm; linux == future; ++money)
++kernel-development
In other words, the 100M USD will probably be spend on kernel development. IBM sees bussiness in linux. IBM makes money out of linux. They would be stupid not to invest in it.
First.
.NET's features.
Quite a few people make a switch towards a OSS platform, such as GNU/linux, today. There will be more in 2006 when longhorn is scheduled to be released.
In the meantime, GNU/linux will have improved, as will desktops such as GNOME and KDE. Indeed, much of MS's perceived advantage in user-interface will have eroded. Also, platforms such as mono will have largely copied
What exactly is your strategy when that will happen? Moreover, how will you win back the people that have switched before that day?
Second.
One of Linux' (and in much more ways: *BSD unix) main advantages in a server enviroment is that the system will run on a multitude of cpu architectures, such as SPARC, PowerPC and x86.
Is there any MS strategy considering other hardware platforms, such as the PowerPC line, SPARC, or the Cell processor line to name a few?
Any of the above will bdo.
no
spammers need network bandwith, not computing power, which is what this solution delivers
Google vs MSN
Bubble sort
G - A usefull site
M - A portal
Abiword crash copying
G - the correct site with the bug report
M - no helpfull site
The cure
G - www.thecure.com
M - msn music & ringtone site
All in all MSN search looks nice but performs dissapointing.
Btw, how to change it so it will search in international sites first instead of just dutch sites?
sure right, we all use firefox because we really hurt M$ if we do... or apple for that matter
note sarcasm
Xine 1.0 supports wmv out of the box. It is included with slackware 10 and totem movie player uses it without a problem. I'm not sure about mac support. My point is that wmv support is not that bad at all, though browser plugin support is. It is possible to use wmv multi-platform
All the right in the world, I'm afraid. It is a stupid move - warez really are the only thing that can save windows in the long run - but they have this right if you agree with their licensing.
One thing that bothers me. If you place the old hd in the dell, will that work? Probably not. What parts do have to be replaced to call it another computer? If I change network cards (which I do frequently) is my system then different? Do I have a different computer? Microsoft's policy says I do, and when you agree with their terms, you have little choice.
It is however pure arrogance that MS thinks it can not only decide what you do with your software (read MS EULA for that,'bout connections) but also what you can do with your hardware.
It is very funny that people even buy this from them.
I'm a starting (as in: learning) developer, and my platform of choice is linux. I write mostly in C. So if I compile my stuff with in elf format, it'll run perfectly on linux 2.4.26 with glibc 2.3.2 and the likes, but thats about it. Now if I however compile it with gcj (which works perfectly), I can share it with all my friends with much rejoice :-) I can actually get feedback from my windows-using friends.
Now please convince me java is good for nothing.
well, it depends...
:) It is lichtweigth and works friendly enough.
:) srry folks at xfce, but xfce stil requires some touches for it to be my favorite windowmanager.
it sure looks nice, and its transparant backdrop thingy is definitly cool
It is, however, definitely no replacement voor gnome/kde in any way. It's filebrowser can't match konqueror/nautilus. It's control center is useless. It's program bar completely ignores menu, and for some reason allways stays on top, which is just annoying. So no, for a 'desktop gui', it isn't my choice.
I find windowmaker to be a far nicer gui
'Nautilus has no viewer capable of viewing MicrosoftAntiSpyware.exe' :-)
*grin*
Btw, microsoft's certificate is invalid, according to FF.
Talkin' about support, Win 98, 98SE and ME are all unsupported, and they are still being used on large scale. A bit of an arrogant 'go to hell' mentality if you ask me. There is no real technical reason why it can't work at a 9x system.
Dissapointing...
English is almost as much of an PITA as dutch...
anyhoo, dutch refers to the old word that was used for the dutch language, 'duits'. Which is in effect now used for the german language...
To the point: I've created an translation of BOF's open letter. Its not perfect, so please send corrections to bartwiegmans@gmail.com
It's located at home.kabelfoon.nl/~bwiegm/index.html
never keeps his promises....
:)
anyhow, nothing has been done yet, so let's not be too quick on judgements...
though I wonder why they did this.... licking heels of american companies hasn't helped us the last time (Joint Strike Fighter, anyone?)
And, yes, I'm from holland
damm you people surprise me...
this is, after all, high school biology
When the scrotum is kept at a temperature to high (think 37 degrees celsius, or 98,6 degrees fahrenheit, yes, your sperm will die. That is common knowledge, or at least it should be.
But since the complete amount of sperm one man can contain (which is still very little, 'bout one percent of the total 'fluid', the rest is sugar and water) can be replaced in 3 days, there's no need to worry.
Just be warned: after a vacation trip of a week, you are fertile as hell :)
it's 25 km/l (tnx google calc :))
Thats decent. Not as decent as my moped (35 km/l | 82 mpg) but still, very nice.
you are definitly able to run windows... At least, 'till problems arise
Anyone also looking forward to try to run linux on this?
First of all, it has more computing power (it has to display/decode images realtime while still playing music). It also has more storage space and battery life, making it more intressting.
Also, it has a color screen o.O
So linux on this version might actually be usefull...
It's worse. iFast doesn't have a user privacy policy
Here's my somewhat good idea :)
:) the 'user-owner-model' , or UOM.
The current situation:
-crippled paid legal downloads
-functional free illegal downloads
Notice that for the costumer there is little difference between 'free' and 'illegal'. What if we would change this to:
-functional paid legal downloads
-crippled free illegal downloads
Wether iTMS will do this or anyone else, is irrelevant. There could be a music service that lets you download and search music for free (usership) which can only be played for a limited time/1 pc. And at the same time it allows you to buy music once you like it (ownership). This music can then be burned on cd, transferred to iPod, used on multiple PC, whatever. In normal words: unDRM'd bought music, DRM'd free music.
I shall call this model (I'm not sure wether anyone made it up earlier than me so don't shoot me
I believe this model is a good idea, because not only does it make everybody happy, it also delivers more possibilities for both artists. labels and consumers.
I wouldn't have known a fraction of my nowadays (legal) music collection if it wasn't for P2P sharing. I would have sticked to top 40 music chart. That might be the way te music industry likes it, I don't.
I prefer having the ability of selecting music myself, instead of it being selected for me by big labels. I believe most people do.
So the argument 'it is damaging the industrie' is BS. The thing that is really damaging is radio stations that all play the same songs and leave no room for diversity, because it leaves so many artists undiscovered (and thereby, cd's unsold).
P2P is creating a greater demand for music and I'll be dammed if that isn't good for the industry.
Antipersirants are bad for you, especially for your skin :)
That left aside, when I lent other people my iPod when return it to me, saying 'I want this as well'. Practically everybody likes the device, especially the interface. No device is able to counter that, though I admit usb audiokeys are usefull as well.
This form of usability is what sets the iPod apart from other players. No DRM is going to change that.
I think the price drop was a good move as well, making it a): a better deal and b): possible for more people to buy it.
This article shows, along with other articles in the last week, that microsoft is virtually panicking.