While that probably is true, that doesn't mean that he has any freaking clue what is going on inside the sun. Bad analogy: A moron is more developed than an idiot, but neither one has much of a clue.
Becuase the announcements, so far, are not backed by any action. When sales in the SE Asia market drops 75% in a quarter, then you'll see the street react.
Try out adaware on those computers with the incorrect uninstalls rather than formating the drive or send them to someone that knows what the hell they're doing. Jeeze.
Why? Because there are bastards out there still using ISA cards in their machines. There are people still using DOS applications in windowed mode on XP boxes that would freak the fuck out if MS removed those ancient bloated libraries.
You mean Apple can leverage their hardware monopoly by forcing features that users don't want or need. Where PC manufacturers compete for business and to lower costs they don't include things people don't want (since there is a rich aftermarket industry for PCs).
Um, no they aren't outselling the GCN. From IGN, and the reason Sony is dropping the price: "On September 25th, Nintendo decided to drop the GameCube's price once again -- from $149 to $99. While many gauged this as a final act of desperation, the new purchase price has had the desired affect.
Within the first few days of the announcement, some retailers were selling as many as 70 GameCubes a day (although sales appear to be declining). Last week's sales data shows that the GameCube outsold the Playstation 2 by 20% and the Xbox by 145%."
Except your analogy is bogus. No one broke in and stole anything. They used an idea that many others have shown had been around for a while and seems obvious to someone trained in the field. Remember that IP is imaginary property.
They are, actualy 1 guy is. This is exactly what is meant when people talk about malicious applications of patent. He has no desire or goal but to cause Microsoft pain. And while all the./ crowd is in their mom's basement giggling and pretending that xbox doesn't own them; if this can be done to a company with nearly endless resources to throw at the problem, what'll happen when someone comes for your free software?
I think you're misanalyzing the problem. Out of the box my portable cd player can play cds. Unfortunately that's all it will ever be able to do. Out of the box, a computer can't do anything, but it has the abiltiy to do damn near anything. This is the greatest strength and weakness of the computer. It will always be incomplete, because its potential can never be fully realized.
Of course, you can't infect a normal exectuable from a normal user on Win2k either, you just have to take that extra step and create a user account and not use the administrator account.
If you could choose to not search lame blogs, message boards and shopping sites I'd sign up instantly. Anymore all you can find on a search is people selling something or asshat idiots discussing it. Used to be you could find information from someone who knew what the hell they were talking about.
I work for a public institution and several times in the past two years the campus network has slowed to a crawl due to dorm activites. When admin departments can't open e-mail or get to shared folders because of people swapping MP3s, porn, or the obviously bullshit example of downloading ISOs of public software it's gone too far. The problem where I work is that the dorms weren't segmented from the rest of campus. The solution is that we monitor what is coming out of the boxes (no invasive scanning). If your port is impacting your segment the switch dynamically limits your port. If the traffic looks like a virus they notify you. If the traffic is a DOS they shut the port off.
If you think admins are bad about patching computers, most students don't even know that it is possible. Scanning the machines has become a requirement. Trust me, there's no budget or staff allocated for something like this, but they HAVE TO DO IT or else the campus network is flooded with crap from these machines. It's also part of the TOS to connect your PC to the campus network.
NO! NO! NO! Shitty admin didn't do their job. Some people say that MS is so easy to use incorrectly that they are to blame still, but if the admin had patched their workstations, or installed a firewall or read the CERT, MS and DoHS alerts they wouldn't have been infected.
I'm not sure that accepting user ignorance is a proper attitude, no matter what the situation or company in question. Properly trained users cause enough problems as it is without encouraging the ignorant because it pleases your own biases.
If we were talking about Nightline talking about how delicious and refreshing Coke is, maybe. I think the debate here is over a can of Coke in everyone's hands during the premier of Friends. Who fscking cares?
You've mistaken shitty apps with memory leaks for a Windows problem. Users often make this mistake, choosing to blame everything PC related on Microsoft. I've heard everything from Palm not bundling the full version of Intellisync to failed hardware blamed on MS. Save the condemnation for RPC holes and blame the crappy software you use for your day to day problems.
1. Call your buddy to clean the computer, or do it yourself since it's simple 2. Call IT support 3. Lie to the overworked underpaid slave/student who doesn't actually care 4. Laugh at all the dumbasses who formatted their computers.
My God! I've checked one of his books out from the library and read it without buying the book! My God again! The printed book industry is going to collapse if this kind of thing keeps up.
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While that probably is true, that doesn't mean that he has any freaking clue what is going on inside the sun. Bad analogy: A moron is more developed than an idiot, but neither one has much of a clue.
Becuase the announcements, so far, are not backed by any action. When sales in the SE Asia market drops 75% in a quarter, then you'll see the street react.
Try out adaware on those computers with the incorrect uninstalls rather than formating the drive or send them to someone that knows what the hell they're doing. Jeeze.
Why? Because there are bastards out there still using ISA cards in their machines. There are people still using DOS applications in windowed mode on XP boxes that would freak the fuck out if MS removed those ancient bloated libraries.
You mean Apple can leverage their hardware monopoly by forcing features that users don't want or need. Where PC manufacturers compete for business and to lower costs they don't include things people don't want (since there is a rich aftermarket industry for PCs).
Um, no they aren't outselling the GCN. From IGN, and the reason Sony is dropping the price: "On September 25th, Nintendo decided to drop the GameCube's price once again -- from $149 to $99. While many gauged this as a final act of desperation, the new purchase price has had the desired affect.
Within the first few days of the announcement, some retailers were selling as many as 70 GameCubes a day (although sales appear to be declining). Last week's sales data shows that the GameCube outsold the Playstation 2 by 20% and the Xbox by 145%."
Plus the PS2 looks like ass in a bag.
Except your analogy is bogus. No one broke in and stole anything. They used an idea that many others have shown had been around for a while and seems obvious to someone trained in the field. Remember that IP is imaginary property.
They are, actualy 1 guy is. This is exactly what is meant when people talk about malicious applications of patent. He has no desire or goal but to cause Microsoft pain. And while all the ./ crowd is in their mom's basement giggling and pretending that xbox doesn't own them; if this can be done to a company with nearly endless resources to throw at the problem, what'll happen when someone comes for your free software?
I think you're misanalyzing the problem. Out of the box my portable cd player can play cds. Unfortunately that's all it will ever be able to do. Out of the box, a computer can't do anything, but it has the abiltiy to do damn near anything.
This is the greatest strength and weakness of the computer. It will always be incomplete, because its potential can never be fully realized.
Bullshit. I have more than 300 users, not a one of them is anything more than a user.
Of course, you can't infect a normal exectuable from a normal user on Win2k either, you just have to take that extra step and create a user account and not use the administrator account.
BS, it isn't trivial, but OE sure as hell can be removed from Win2k.
If you could choose to not search lame blogs, message boards and shopping sites I'd sign up instantly. Anymore all you can find on a search is people selling something or asshat idiots discussing it. Used to be you could find information from someone who knew what the hell they were talking about.
I work for a public institution and several times in the past two years the campus network has slowed to a crawl due to dorm activites. When admin departments can't open e-mail or get to shared folders because of people swapping MP3s, porn, or the obviously bullshit example of downloading ISOs of public software it's gone too far. The problem where I work is that the dorms weren't segmented from the rest of campus. The solution is that we monitor what is coming out of the boxes (no invasive scanning). If your port is impacting your segment the switch dynamically limits your port. If the traffic looks like a virus they notify you. If the traffic is a DOS they shut the port off.
If you think admins are bad about patching computers, most students don't even know that it is possible. Scanning the machines has become a requirement. Trust me, there's no budget or staff allocated for something like this, but they HAVE TO DO IT or else the campus network is flooded with crap from these machines. It's also part of the TOS to connect your PC to the campus network.
NO! NO! NO! Shitty admin didn't do their job. Some people say that MS is so easy to use incorrectly that they are to blame still, but if the admin had patched their workstations, or installed a firewall or read the CERT, MS and DoHS alerts they wouldn't have been infected.
Probably just a extension of the APPLICATION Attribute
Indicates whether the content of the object is an HTML Application (HTA) and, therefore, exempt from the browser security model.
You sure you didn't have to authenticate to the server or anything before it could execute?
I'm not sure that accepting user ignorance is a proper attitude, no matter what the situation or company in question. Properly trained users cause enough problems as it is without encouraging the ignorant because it pleases your own biases.
If we were talking about Nightline talking about how delicious and refreshing Coke is, maybe. I think the debate here is over a can of Coke in everyone's hands during the premier of Friends. Who fscking cares?
You've mistaken shitty apps with memory leaks for a Windows problem. Users often make this mistake, choosing to blame everything PC related on Microsoft. I've heard everything from Palm not bundling the full version of Intellisync to failed hardware blamed on MS. Save the condemnation for RPC holes and blame the crappy software you use for your day to day problems.
Yea, putting the network cord and power cord into a home based router sure is hard.
You also failed to note that once they go subscription ALL chatrooms with be MONITORED 24/7. That's what your fee gets you.
Of course when no one applies the patches, you'll get some nasty events.
Even more likely:
1. Call your buddy to clean the computer, or do it yourself since it's simple
2. Call IT support
3. Lie to the overworked underpaid slave/student who doesn't actually care
4. Laugh at all the dumbasses who formatted their computers.
My God! I've checked one of his books out from the library and read it without buying the book! My God again! The printed book industry is going to collapse if this kind of thing keeps up.