Dumb. Even if all you could do was install software to your user's home directory, you could still become infected by all of these things in Linux. If, sometime in the far future, most Linux distributions take on an OS X-like system where users can grant processes root priveleges when needsd, things will be just the same as it is on Windows right now.
You don't think too deeply before you comment, do you?
I agree with you on Atlantis, too. SG-1 started out gritty and low-budget, and it worked remarkably well. The mix of sci-fi and realistic modern military tech worked. It was a sci-fi show without the glamorous special effects and super high-tech devices seen in other shows. I feel like Atlantis threw this winning formula out of the window. SG-1 always had some forced humor involved, but some of the characters on Atlantis just take it over the edge. Every other thing McKay says is some lame one-liner.
Oh well.. I guess the ratings and money got to them.
I'm a huge sci-fi fan, and one of my favorite British Sci-Fi Comedies was Red Dwarf. I've just never found anything in Dr. Who to be of particular amusement. The feel I get from it, is that the humor is quite high-brow, or at least trying to be. You are probably right, in that the current writers are trying to emulate the style of Dr. Who's original writers, but just can't cut it.
There's humor in Dr. Who? I guess I never noticed. Or it could be the fact that I'm not British, and so jokes about having tea on your spaceship after high noon don't really have much of an effect on me.
Is it beneficial for the average family to require the support of a dual income? Perhaps the availability of women in the workforce is good for the economy as a whole. For individual families, it doesn't seem so wonderful.
Interesting that you would be modded as flamebait. What you are saying is absolutely true. Anyone with half a brain can see, looking back through history of the past few decades, that once women declared that they intended to enter the workforce en masse, the economy "responded." Overall, average wages dropped. Living expenses increased. Overnight, the economy went from one where one member of the family typically brought in the bacon, to one where dual incomes became absolutely necessary.
Now we're caught in a bind here. Many women now want return to raising children, or taking care of many tasks at home. However, most families can't do this now. They need two incomes to even pay the bills. I hope we're not stuck in this new dual-incomes-required economy.
A patent on FAT doesn't really have much of a use for them now; at least none that I can think of. Just let the filesystem become an open standard now, MS.
I use Windows as a limited privelege user on a daily basis with little to no headache. Internet Explorer works fine as a limited user.
Please stop making it sound like being a limited user is absolutely terrible. Very few applications have required me to run them as Administrator or Power User. Those that do, usually require a few tweaks to their home directory or registry key permissions, and you're good to go. Get with the program, developers. Windows can have more than one user now, and we're not all Administrators.
The majority of system files were rebuilt with stack-smashing protection in the compiler. Many buffer overflows have been eliminated as such. Enabling DEP also helps to mitigate the effect that any exploit may have on an unpatched buffer overflow.
Gates has given massive amounts of money to various charities ever since Microsoft became successful. This isn't anything new. Maybe, just maybe, Gates is a genuine philanthropist? Of course, if you already hate the man, which so many here do, you could probably never come to accept that.
Get over it. He doesn't have any alterior motives here. There's no smoke and mirrors. He's just continuing to do what he has done for decades.
What does it matter? There's little advantage to Microsoft selling to any workstation platform other than PowerPC, and agreements with Apple seem to be keeping them from doing that. Microsoft offered Windows for multiple architectures before, and nobody cared enough to buy it. Why would they continue maintaining NT ports that go unused?
If your vehicle is classified by the manufacturer as a "Flex Fuel" vehicle, it's already prepared to run off of ethanol. Many Ford V6 cars and trucks since the mid '90s are Flex Fuel listed, but I'm not sure about other manufacturer's vehicles.
The WMF format has been around quite a while, since Windows 3.0 IIRC. I'm not saying it's not possible, but not too likely. I don't know how many open-source vector graphics libraries existed around 1990.
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Dumb. Even if all you could do was install software to your user's home directory, you could still become infected by all of these things in Linux. If, sometime in the far future, most Linux distributions take on an OS X-like system where users can grant processes root priveleges when needsd, things will be just the same as it is on Windows right now.
You don't think too deeply before you comment, do you?
Wheras as a gentoo user, everything on my machine is updated with one command.
And judging from what I've seen on many Gentoo and Linux IRC channels, it rarely works the way you'd expect it to.
My music SUX too.
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Maybe nobody downloads your crappy tracks of drumbeats superimposed over random clips of people talking because they SUCK.
BadAnalogyGuy, you truly are BadAnalogyGuy.
I agree with you on Atlantis, too. SG-1 started out gritty and low-budget, and it worked remarkably well. The mix of sci-fi and realistic modern military tech worked. It was a sci-fi show without the glamorous special effects and super high-tech devices seen in other shows. I feel like Atlantis threw this winning formula out of the window. SG-1 always had some forced humor involved, but some of the characters on Atlantis just take it over the edge. Every other thing McKay says is some lame one-liner.
Oh well.. I guess the ratings and money got to them.
I'm a huge sci-fi fan, and one of my favorite British Sci-Fi Comedies was Red Dwarf. I've just never found anything in Dr. Who to be of particular amusement. The feel I get from it, is that the humor is quite high-brow, or at least trying to be. You are probably right, in that the current writers are trying to emulate the style of Dr. Who's original writers, but just can't cut it.
There's humor in Dr. Who? I guess I never noticed. Or it could be the fact that I'm not British, and so jokes about having tea on your spaceship after high noon don't really have much of an effect on me.
Is it beneficial for the average family to require the support of a dual income? Perhaps the availability of women in the workforce is good for the economy as a whole. For individual families, it doesn't seem so wonderful.
You've provided confirmation of all of his key points. Congratulations.
Interesting that you would be modded as flamebait. What you are saying is absolutely true. Anyone with half a brain can see, looking back through history of the past few decades, that once women declared that they intended to enter the workforce en masse, the economy "responded." Overall, average wages dropped. Living expenses increased. Overnight, the economy went from one where one member of the family typically brought in the bacon, to one where dual incomes became absolutely necessary.
Now we're caught in a bind here. Many women now want return to raising children, or taking care of many tasks at home. However, most families can't do this now. They need two incomes to even pay the bills. I hope we're not stuck in this new dual-incomes-required economy.
Umm, okay. I just did. It runs fine.
A patent on FAT doesn't really have much of a use for them now; at least none that I can think of. Just let the filesystem become an open standard now, MS.
I use Windows as a limited privelege user on a daily basis with little to no headache. Internet Explorer works fine as a limited user.
Please stop making it sound like being a limited user is absolutely terrible. Very few applications have required me to run them as Administrator or Power User. Those that do, usually require a few tweaks to their home directory or registry key permissions, and you're good to go. Get with the program, developers. Windows can have more than one user now, and we're not all Administrators.
Sorry, I meant to mention that SP2 includes versions of system files compiled with stack-smashing protection.
The majority of system files were rebuilt with stack-smashing protection in the compiler. Many buffer overflows have been eliminated as such. Enabling DEP also helps to mitigate the effect that any exploit may have on an unpatched buffer overflow.
Hey, it looks just like the real thing! I couldn't tell the difference!
So you couldn't afford to live in Colonial Williamsburg, eh?
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Your average participant in a usenet "discussion" will have their computer absolutely terrified of them 24/7.
Gates has given massive amounts of money to various charities ever since Microsoft became successful. This isn't anything new. Maybe, just maybe, Gates is a genuine philanthropist? Of course, if you already hate the man, which so many here do, you could probably never come to accept that.
Get over it. He doesn't have any alterior motives here. There's no smoke and mirrors. He's just continuing to do what he has done for decades.
What does it matter? There's little advantage to Microsoft selling to any workstation platform other than PowerPC, and agreements with Apple seem to be keeping them from doing that. Microsoft offered Windows for multiple architectures before, and nobody cared enough to buy it. Why would they continue maintaining NT ports that go unused?
If your vehicle is classified by the manufacturer as a "Flex Fuel" vehicle, it's already prepared to run off of ethanol. Many Ford V6 cars and trucks since the mid '90s are Flex Fuel listed, but I'm not sure about other manufacturer's vehicles.
The WMF format has been around quite a while, since Windows 3.0 IIRC. I'm not saying it's not possible, but not too likely. I don't know how many open-source vector graphics libraries existed around 1990.