I can go to a five different vendors for my WMA music but only one for iPod music due to Apple's refusal to open their Fair-Play DRM. At least Microsoft has licensed their DRM for use by other companies. I applaud them for that.
First of all, VIA has always made piss-poor drivers, so blame VIA. That is one reason why I will never buy a motherboard with a VIA chipset, their 4-in-1 drivers suck big time.
If the ATi chipset drivers are anything like their graphics card drives (bloated and buggy), then no way! nVidia's nForce line has never let me down, I for one will stay with the nForce line.
Maybe the sales are declining because the MOVIES SUCK! Yeah, that's right! The movies suck! No plot, all special effects. Movies are nothing but a "who can do the best special effects" contest.
Yes, but the only reason why Intel moved forward with designing new, better, and faster chips is because of AMD. If not for AMD, we would still be stuck with that POS 31-stage pipeline Prescot.
You can pretty much bet that if a hostile corporate takeover were to occur at MySQL, some employee would be whipping out his USB drive and downloading all the source to it and the next day, you will find a SourceForge.net Project Page for the new project fork.
That's why the OSS community has something called "code review". Thousands of eyeballs pour over the code looking for exactly that, bugs and then fix them.
Wouldn't it seem a bit fishy that all of a sudden, something broke yet last week it worked and it suddenly broke right after Oracle made a patch for InnoDB? You can't tell me that people won't be pointing fingers at Oracle, because they most definitely will be.
Which begs the question....are services offering anonymous domain name registration a good idea? Because a domain's WHOIS record is completely public and contains address info.
Better yet, try connecting an external hard drive via USB2...slow as heck. Sure, it is fast at first but then goes downhill from then. FireWire = FAST!
You know, the person who posted that image is the kind of immature idiot that needs to be taken out back and castrated, we don't need more idiots like that.
If MS changed Windows so that it requires an admin to password to modify the registry, install anything, or for a remote user to run anything on your comptuer you'd see a marked improvement right away.
That is what is happening with Vista.
There will be a system in which users will be able to run as Administrator, but in reality, it isn't Administrator. Any time software wants to modify the system, a big nasty message box will come up telling you that something is trying to modify the system and that allowing it is potentially dangerous. It would then ask for the Administrator (the true Administrator) account password.
What does this sound like? Oh yeah, SUDO in Linux!
How can we trust Google to not collect that data even if the checkbox is not checked? Yep, we can't.
Personally, I like Google but not to that extent. I refuse to install their desktop search utility. I don't want anyone to know what I have on my hard drive.
You obviously are one of those "Linux can't do any wrong" people. Let me tell you, Linux is nowhere near being able to be used by Joe Somebody.
For instance, if Joe Somebody walks into Best Buy and buys a piece of shrink wrapped software, he is going to expect it to work out of the box with no issues. He is not going to expect to have to hack config files and compile the thing before he uses it.
Until there is universal binary support for everything under the sun, Linux will never be able to be run by Joe Somebody.
And don't get me started on the updating procedure. Joe Somebody is not going to want to spend a weekend recompiling his kernel just because there is a security issue. And lets not forget that sometimes, you may end up with an unbootable kernel. Then what? Do you expect Joe Somebody to know how to recover from that? I sure as hell don't.
Why just look at your standard home machine filled with spyware, viruses, and who knows what. If they can't keep their computer clean of malware, how do you expect them to know how to recover from a failed kernel compile.
This is where part of the Linux architecture has to change, and Microsoft has it partially right in the coming version of Windows, not Vista. The idea is to make the core kernel small and tiny, a micro-kernel if you will, and then larger sub-modules that fit into the micro-kernel. If something were to go wrong with an update, the system would continue to work so that the failed update could be corrected.
The core micro-kernel would contain only what is needed to load the core of the OS and load the various sub-modules.
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and what it is doing to the marketplace, but things have to change before Linux can be run by Joe Somebody AKA someone who wouldn't know a RAM chip from a CPU.
Linux may not be king of the desktop, but it sure is when it comes to the server market. 85% of all web servers run Linux. Why? Because it is rock-solid stable and it takes hit after hit and keeps on coming back for more. Windows can't do that and I am not afraid to admit it!
Linux, Apache, PHP, Perl, and MySQL...a match made in heaven!
I vouch for you on that one. I took a class in Java Programming, nothing was ever mentioned about making sure that input was correct.
Now, being a person who knows that vulnerablities can exist, I mentioned that you have to be careful when handling user input, but the professor just pushed it off and said that we would talk about that later. Later never came.
It don't crash on my Windows XP machine. Then again, I have damn good blacklist loaded into my FireFox AdBlock extension. It ends up blocking close to 98% of all Internet ads.
Also, having DEP (Data Execution Protection) enabled helps too.
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Yeah, but unfortunately the people here are so blinded by their hate for Microsoft that they blame them when the sun sets.
By the way, good statement. Finally, some logic here.
::groan:: Bad, just really bad. ::laughs::
It is said that Andreas Katsulas died of lung cancer. His friends often described him as a person who smoked like a chimney.
SCO, just go back home to your mommas you little whiny bitches.
Hello! Is anyone home? :: knock knock :: Nope, nobody's home. Empty head.
I can go to a five different vendors for my WMA music but only one for iPod music due to Apple's refusal to open their Fair-Play DRM. At least Microsoft has licensed their DRM for use by other companies. I applaud them for that.
First of all, VIA has always made piss-poor drivers, so blame VIA. That is one reason why I will never buy a motherboard with a VIA chipset, their 4-in-1 drivers suck big time.
If the ATi chipset drivers are anything like their graphics card drives (bloated and buggy), then no way! nVidia's nForce line has never let me down, I for one will stay with the nForce line.
I learned on VB6, then VB.NET, and now I am making web sites with PHP and MySQL writing complex queries using sub-queries and JOINs.
Maybe the sales are declining because the MOVIES SUCK! Yeah, that's right! The movies suck! No plot, all special effects. Movies are nothing but a "who can do the best special effects" contest.
Yes, but the only reason why Intel moved forward with designing new, better, and faster chips is because of AMD. If not for AMD, we would still be stuck with that POS 31-stage pipeline Prescot.
Guys, like it or not, DRM is here to stay. Get used to it. I have.
No, that doesn't mean I like it, but I have accepted it. It is a necessary evil.
Yeah, I keep thinking about Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and the case known as the "Laughing Man."
You can pretty much bet that if a hostile corporate takeover were to occur at MySQL, some employee would be whipping out his USB drive and downloading all the source to it and the next day, you will find a SourceForge.net Project Page for the new project fork.
That's why the OSS community has something called "code review". Thousands of eyeballs pour over the code looking for exactly that, bugs and then fix them.
Wouldn't it seem a bit fishy that all of a sudden, something broke yet last week it worked and it suddenly broke right after Oracle made a patch for InnoDB? You can't tell me that people won't be pointing fingers at Oracle, because they most definitely will be.
Which begs the question....are services offering anonymous domain name registration a good idea? Because a domain's WHOIS record is completely public and contains address info.
Better yet, try connecting an external hard drive via USB2...slow as heck. Sure, it is fast at first but then goes downhill from then. FireWire = FAST!
Dvorak, you are so full of shit your eyes are turning brown!
You know, the person who posted that image is the kind of immature idiot that needs to be taken out back and castrated, we don't need more idiots like that.
There will be a system in which users will be able to run as Administrator, but in reality, it isn't Administrator. Any time software wants to modify the system, a big nasty message box will come up telling you that something is trying to modify the system and that allowing it is potentially dangerous. It would then ask for the Administrator (the true Administrator) account password.
What does this sound like? Oh yeah, SUDO in Linux!
YES! FINALLY, A NON-"switch to Linux and your issue is solved" REPLY! OH YES! COMMON SENSE!
Thing is, I run Windows XP Professional and yes, I admit, I run as Administrator all the time, but I don't get crap.
What browser do I use? Yeah, that's right, FireFox. I can't remember when I had a virus or spyware, it has been too long ago.
True, I have an antispyware application installed on my machine and it scans nightly, but you know what? All it ever finds is tracking cookies.
How can we trust Google to not collect that data even if the checkbox is not checked? Yep, we can't.
Personally, I like Google but not to that extent. I refuse to install their desktop search utility. I don't want anyone to know what I have on my hard drive.
You obviously are one of those "Linux can't do any wrong" people. Let me tell you, Linux is nowhere near being able to be used by Joe Somebody.
For instance, if Joe Somebody walks into Best Buy and buys a piece of shrink wrapped software, he is going to expect it to work out of the box with no issues. He is not going to expect to have to hack config files and compile the thing before he uses it.
Until there is universal binary support for everything under the sun, Linux will never be able to be run by Joe Somebody.
And don't get me started on the updating procedure. Joe Somebody is not going to want to spend a weekend recompiling his kernel just because there is a security issue. And lets not forget that sometimes, you may end up with an unbootable kernel. Then what? Do you expect Joe Somebody to know how to recover from that? I sure as hell don't.
Why just look at your standard home machine filled with spyware, viruses, and who knows what. If they can't keep their computer clean of malware, how do you expect them to know how to recover from a failed kernel compile.
This is where part of the Linux architecture has to change, and Microsoft has it partially right in the coming version of Windows, not Vista. The idea is to make the core kernel small and tiny, a micro-kernel if you will, and then larger sub-modules that fit into the micro-kernel. If something were to go wrong with an update, the system would continue to work so that the failed update could be corrected.
The core micro-kernel would contain only what is needed to load the core of the OS and load the various sub-modules.
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and what it is doing to the marketplace, but things have to change before Linux can be run by Joe Somebody AKA someone who wouldn't know a RAM chip from a CPU.
Linux may not be king of the desktop, but it sure is when it comes to the server market. 85% of all web servers run Linux. Why? Because it is rock-solid stable and it takes hit after hit and keeps on coming back for more. Windows can't do that and I am not afraid to admit it!
Linux, Apache, PHP, Perl, and MySQL...a match made in heaven!
Yeah, but Joe Sixpack doesn't build his own computers like we do. Joe Sixpack is more likely to go out and buy some slow POS Dell.
I vouch for you on that one. I took a class in Java Programming, nothing was ever mentioned about making sure that input was correct. Now, being a person who knows that vulnerablities can exist, I mentioned that you have to be careful when handling user input, but the professor just pushed it off and said that we would talk about that later. Later never came.
It don't crash on my Windows XP machine. Then again, I have damn good blacklist loaded into my FireFox AdBlock extension. It ends up blocking close to 98% of all Internet ads. Also, having DEP (Data Execution Protection) enabled helps too.