But OK that's the default install option of Windows but what the hell are companies like Dell, Compaq,... doing ? That's ok to blame Microsoft to make an OS that out-of-box is a security nightmare, but why nobody ever blame Dell and the like to spend their time packaging custom icon and wallpaper instead of a secure default config ?
Wood is inherently more inflammable than concrete and yet wooden houses don't burn 2 days after they are built and you would sue the building company if they also built your fireplace 100% in wood.
For most users out there, that the OS still function nicely is the least of their concern. They can always load any 'repair' CD and get a more or less fresh OS again.
However, there is no repair CD to retrieve 5 year of vacation pictures.
The problem with security is that the social engineering is by far the most effective threat and basically that means that whatever the system, hackers will always be able to do what the user can do with his computer.
The only system that is ultimatly safe for a non "computer expert" user is an console type computer. You can only run the application that -whatever vendor- has installed for you, go on internet only via a -vendor controled- network, and save only 'passive' files on the disk ( like plain image, text,... no macro, nothing ). And even then, I -unfortunatly- know people gullible enough to fall for a message like "Unlock the Nude Britney Spear pictures that are hidden on your disk : delete all your mails while pressing the F1 key. If you maintain the F1 key pressed all the time, your mail will not be deleted but you will see a new folder on your disk with the pictures"
We are in a world where after millenium of mugging and scam, people still need to be reminded not to show their wallet full of cash on holliday or not to fall for the classic card/dice scam on the street ! I still see people leaving their car open with engine running while buying some crap...
Not necessarily ! The customer can win by avoiding deception after buying a new 'Vista ready' computer that is just a rebranded WinXP ready machine and need to be upgraded 6 months later.
'Vista Ready' stickers will be used by a lot of small companies as a selling point. Those companies do whatever it takes to have the prices low, including minimising the spec. If they can get the stickers with 128 Meg RAM shared with the integrated Video chipset, they won't hesitate !
At least with those kind of spec, you have more guarantee to have a 'decent' machine, not only for Vista but for whatever operation user expect to do nowadays like music, hires video, storing 10 years of photo, editing video/photo,...
We know that Spammer uses huge botnets of sometimes 100K machines in it. Also you can "rent" some botnet for illegal activity.
So it would be theorically possible that one of your concurrent launches a big "google suggest defacement attack" by doing tons of searches in google that leads google to suggest, for example, "sucks" or "morons" when your company names is entered ?
Well I suppose any 'feedback' technology can be abused those days and it is only a question of who is willing to pay more than what is possible.
Yep that's true there are still quality radio out there !
I was indeed actually talking about the biggest station that play mostly mainstream music.
I guess that's all the paradox of RIAA and other big "artist" association.
IP laws and DRM only creates a "bigger" market for well established artists. People rush to buy Madonna albums whatever if it contains music or not, but if you are a small artist and nobody has ever heard (even "illegaly") your music, who will buy it ? Off course those small artists are I suppose not too happy if they lyrics are replaced by "Radio Contact-tact-tact" while Madonna only have to give a 5 sec crappy sample of a song.
Strange like IP Laws and Patent Laws seems only to raise the entry level on the market instead of lowering it as they were ( and still are ) supposed to do.
They already took action against that. I don't know how it is with XM, but here in Belgium, radio station are not playing the original song.
Every popular radio station has a version of the song "customised" for the Radio. The customisation is for example play the station name in rythm with the song,... Or you have a small interruption after 1 min where a digitalised voice remind you how your radio station is "super". And I'm not counting the fact that generally the beginning and the end of the song are cut... or that sometimes they play a special "radio version" more speed or simply shorter.
and I also have to train my parents to use whois ???
And don't forget that I had first to explain what is a 'OS', 'program' and finally what a 'browser' is.
To result of all the lessons is that my father turned into an Internet paranoid. He is convinced his machine crawled under spywares and that every single website is a phishing attempt. And now, when he needs to access his bank account, I need to connect myself from my machine and tell him the result over the phone. The same when he need to buy something. He never uses his machine for anything remotly personal.
"And if you were to walk around naked in public (male or female)"
Well, in Europe you could be arested, unless if you are in an appropriate zone ( like some beach )
But I was refering in the game;-) In Oblivion, what you wear outside only determine your armor class. ( or in very specific instances, the value of what you wear is important ). People talk to you with or without clothes. And there is no mini-game where sex is used. In fact sex in oblivion does not exist. All you get is to see your player and some other female player you have just kill topless.
I also wonder why a game becomes M-rated because you *can* see some breast *if* you *patch* the game (and even then, nothing is done to erotise the situation, if you walk naked, nobody even look at you or say something) and not because you can kill human being with you bare hands, become a cold blood killer, summon demons,... No I don't really think it should be rated M but at least I could possibly understand the second reason.
He tried to hire only the best of the best for a while and after gave up.
You cannot reward everybody in the company otherwise reward loose its meaning. So you must choose. If you have a team with a guy who is 2 times beter than an average employee in another company, he is still mediocre compared to his colleague who is 2.1 times beter. In addition, the less performant employees are the 'disposable' percentile. At the next company difficulty they know they are terminated, so even if they are top-performers by other companies standards, they still are under basic underperformer pressure.
Even by paying top-salaries for less performing, they were leaving because of the pressure and the lack of consideration.
Ironically, even the top performer were leaving, because in his company they were yet another genius...
Finally he managed beter results keeping some looser in his company ( buffer/fuse employees ). It happened very quickly for him but off course his company was not google, there was no hype to keep employees working there. And also people having his company on their resume were not automatically considered as half-god by concurent companies.
"poor inventor guy who spends his whole life working on his one little invention, and then some large billion dollar company comes along and steals the idea and gets rich, leaving no credit to him. In that case, patents are great."
Even in this case, the poor inventor will have very hard time to defend itself against a company that can afford a whole lawyer company during 100 years.
I would also like to add, that not every 'little invention' is a 'revolutionary invention'. For 1 revolutionary invention (like something like LigthBulb in his time), there are 1000 minor useful inventions.(like something that improve lawnmowner blade durability by 5%) The inventor of a revolutionary invention has a good chance to get CNN/Fox coverage and enough public support to win a case; the minor inventor on the other end is just screwed up !
At first I thought "Yeah, except that you don't hire a serial killer as Expert CSI and give him a suit and a medal instead of jail time", because I was confused by the title of "hacker" in the summary.
But I can't find anything on this guy that would that say he actually did anything illegal in the past. He seems to be a real Hacker as in "Linus is a hacker".
All I found is this 'http://bcswiki.walmsleys.com/NeilBarrett/show?tim e=2005-11-16+17%3A32%3A07' if that's the same guy. Look indeed like a real "IT-CSI", worth respect!
"I don't think that the humans causation of global warming is an open and shut case to the extent that we should trash our economy on uncertain science."
Trash our economy ? We don't know if it will *trash* our economy, it will change our economy. But nothing we need to do for this change is actually bad: most efficient energy production, most efficient business processes, less environmental impact,...
In fact, I don't understand why people are not happy to have the opportunity (even if later it appears manking had nothing to do with global warming) to dump all the old crap technologies still around by some state-of-the-art solution everywhere ? It would be a good way to use the truckload of overly qualified professionals our "First world" countries produce.
It is a potential software pirate that was at least 'willing' to be a consumer.
The problem is with EBay auctions pretending to sell an original Windows copy. If you go on EBay and *buy* a pirated copy of windows like this, you were most likely a genuine interested customer that really though that was a bargain. ( The argument is simple and I have seen it work in real life, not on ebay : a guy just pretend to be a Linux only user and want to get his money back on the Windows he got with his DELL laptop - selling it "cheap" because M$ Sucks ) People seem to trust deeply EBay, and shut their brain off when they see the bargain$$. (see that other story on slashdot : http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/13/052821 4)
For those guys, Microsoft is indeed protecting a 'customer'. ( In the past Microsoft would exchange you a pirated version of Windows for a Real one if you proofed you had been scammed )
On the other hand, to use ebay you need internet access so it is likely that the software pirate wanabe probably helps himself with the countless pirated version available online for free or for $ in some other underground scam.
Anyway, if their website get cracked. That makes their point, no ?
"The world is dangerous and packed with terrorists - Look they just broke into our servers, the very heart of our security !! Please allow us some more budget..."
I'll have too explain my dad to not to download whatever crap on internet, never reply yes when a crap want to install something without asking me first and now... I need to ask him to check the ServicePack version on his six-pack and explain him that bringing russian vodka home can wipe out his harddisk when he turns the TV on?
"Having to give tons of the money that you legally earned and rightfully deserve to social programs you may not even use is freedom."
You already pay for tons of thing you do not directly benefit. Like Army, Police, FireFighters, Roads,...
That's the main purpose of a society. You work and contribute to the society using your taxes. Otherwise, it's anarchy and even money does not exist. Nobody says that you need to get 1 penny worth of service for every penny you put in the system. It is globally universally accepted in western world that the more money you make the more you pay. Bill Gates has no more driving rights than you, he doesn't get what he rightfully deserves.
Now the limit you where you put public service is another matter. In Europe, it is well accepted that Health and Education are a not a priviledge of money but a service provided by the society and therefore it is included in your taxes. In the US the simple idea seems to be repulsive to many. If the problem was simple, it would have been settle 10000 years ago. Society need structure otherwise it's anarchy. Too much structure and nothing move. The question of Roads and Currency has been settle ages ago and everybody aggrees that it is a task beter handled by the State with tax money, Healthcare Education and the rest ? Come back in 100 years
They don't like being compatible with Linux/Unix when we are talking about Windows to Unix. However they are not stupid, they must make sure people can migrate to windows nicely with the less trouble as possible and AFTER lock them in proprietary technologies.
They want to kill Open source ? Sure but I don't think this release in their new killing machine, just a part of their global strategy. In fact, the posix subsystem has been around for a while and is beter know as Interix or Windows Service for Unix. This is already quite powerful, but having it more tighly integrated is really a big plus. There are still lots of border problems occuring. Running 100% unix app. is easy, but when starting to have windows starting to call/pipe themself between subsystems you start to get into troubles. This new release will polish windows/unix cohabitation for example using Visual Studio for debugging or calling Windows API from the unix subsystem.
Now, is that evil Microsoft trying to lock the world ? I think that when a company goes the way of using the Unix Subsystem, they already made the choice of migrating to Windows with everything implied. The new release ease a little bit the pain of the developer and give more flexibility to project manager ( like more option to stage the work ), so for me it is a good thing: those 2 are the workers in the migration, not the decision maker or the one getting the free 1st class trip at Redmond, so a little help is always welcome.
BTW, in our case, thanks to Interix/Cygwin we can sell our Unix application to Windows only customer. That sometimes works the other way around.
I don't think we could realisticaly think that all online retailer including iTunes would shut down their activities in France.
France is a powerfull market. People already buys a lot of stuff online. Shutting everything down risks to be counter productive for shops. Yes they can win (yet, it seems that French Goverment is not easily pressured, see the recent events in France), but they could in the end loose a significant part of their market to filesharing especially after an "insult" to their french customers: French is a top nation and people already needs very little morale justification to start filesharing, I think the message from online stores will be interpreted by Frenchs as "Frenchs are not worth it" before "French governement has made a cruel rule against the poor music label and music store", exacly the kind of message that could stick a 'Hero'-label to every cracker in the world.
Open the window. I already had that kind of problem when playing in an overheated room with not enough fresh air. And try to play for session no longer than when you feel you could start getting sick. It seemed that positive playing experience (i.e. not being sick ) was more encouraging for my body and after a while my bearable session time could increase. ( I had that problem with HL2 and I could barely survive 5-10 min in the beginning. At the end I could bear 1 hour session without problem. )
It seems for that also help to try different setting. I can't give you precise advise but check the refresh rate and your screen resolution. For LCD try to adjust the resolution, I have more problem with mine LCD than with some friend's ( mine is older and has a sligthly worse response time ) and generally much more trouble with LCD than with CRT ( but I never tried the brand new LCD with 8ms response time )
I'm more quickly sick in more agressive light conditions, and using a lower brithness/contrast for games ( to avoid the eye burning white an LCD can produce ) helped a lot.
It seems the product do not even aim at being a photoshop-like application. Maybe this has changed since the beta, but the main purpose was vectorial graphism.
Microsoft is not even talking on its website about anything that could position it against Photoshop. Just see by yourself
Yep, that's so hard... People should be happy that Windows Install can read from the CD it is installed from and stop complaining.
Seriously, I never understood what could be so hard for an install CD to let you briefly put another CD in the drive to read some files.
Even in the old times of Win95 the basic DOS recovery floppy could access all optical drives and you could use this floppy image to build bootable install CD...
"Who is going to defend those plants when the military has become disorganized, undisciplined, and possibly split into competing sides?"
Current reactor design make it hard to explode, and the reactor will stop working well before there is some real risk. Off course some government could tinker the reactor of those plants... sure, but I think if that day ever happen in the US, that will be the least of your concern compared to the threat of actual nuclear weapons like the massive arsenal the US already has. ( and the one of Russia, Pakistan, India, China, Israel,... and probably at the time Iran, North Korea,... )
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That's true !!
... doing ?
But OK that's the default install option of Windows but what the hell are companies like Dell, Compaq,
That's ok to blame Microsoft to make an OS that out-of-box is a security nightmare, but why nobody ever blame Dell and the like to spend their time packaging custom icon and wallpaper instead of a secure default config ?
Wood is inherently more inflammable than concrete and yet wooden houses don't burn 2 days after they are built and you would sue the building company if they also built your fireplace 100% in wood.
For most users out there, that the OS still function nicely is the least of their concern.
... no macro, nothing ). And even then, I -unfortunatly- know people gullible enough to fall for a message like "Unlock the Nude Britney Spear pictures that are hidden on your disk : delete all your mails while pressing the F1 key. If you maintain the F1 key pressed all the time, your mail will not be deleted but you will see a new folder on your disk with the pictures"
...
They can always load any 'repair' CD and get a more or less fresh OS again.
However, there is no repair CD to retrieve 5 year of vacation pictures.
The problem with security is that the social engineering is by far the most effective threat and basically that means that whatever the system, hackers will always be able to do what the user can do with his computer.
The only system that is ultimatly safe for a non "computer expert" user is an console type computer. You can only run the application that -whatever vendor- has installed for you, go on internet only via a -vendor controled- network, and save only 'passive' files on the disk ( like plain image, text,
We are in a world where after millenium of mugging and scam, people still need to be reminded not to show their wallet full of cash on holliday or not to fall for the classic card/dice scam on the street ! I still see people leaving their car open with engine running while buying some crap
Not necessarily ! The customer can win by avoiding deception after buying a new 'Vista ready' computer that is just a rebranded WinXP ready machine and need to be upgraded 6 months later.
...
'Vista Ready' stickers will be used by a lot of small companies as a selling point. Those companies do whatever it takes to have the prices low, including minimising the spec. If they can get the stickers with 128 Meg RAM shared with the integrated Video chipset, they won't hesitate !
At least with those kind of spec, you have more guarantee to have a 'decent' machine, not only for Vista but for whatever operation user expect to do nowadays like music, hires video, storing 10 years of photo, editing video/photo,
We know that Spammer uses huge botnets of sometimes 100K machines in it. Also you can "rent" some botnet for illegal activity.
So it would be theorically possible that one of your concurrent launches a big "google suggest defacement attack" by doing tons of searches in google that leads google to suggest, for example, "sucks" or "morons" when your company names is entered ?
Well I suppose any 'feedback' technology can be abused those days and it is only a question of who is willing to pay more than what is possible.
Yep that's true there are still quality radio out there !
I was indeed actually talking about the biggest station that play mostly mainstream music.
I guess that's all the paradox of RIAA and other big "artist" association.
IP laws and DRM only creates a "bigger" market for well established artists. People rush to buy Madonna albums whatever if it contains music or not, but if you are a small artist and nobody has ever heard (even "illegaly") your music, who will buy it ? Off course those small artists are I suppose not too happy if they lyrics are replaced by "Radio Contact-tact-tact" while Madonna only have to give a 5 sec crappy sample of a song.
Strange like IP Laws and Patent Laws seems only to raise the entry level on the market instead of lowering it as they were ( and still are ) supposed to do.
They already took action against that. I don't know how it is with XM, but here in Belgium, radio station are not playing the original song.
... Or you have a small interruption after 1 min where a digitalised voice remind you how your radio station is "super". ... or that sometimes they play a special "radio version" more speed or simply shorter.
Every popular radio station has a version of the song "customised" for the Radio.
The customisation is for example play the station name in rythm with the song,
And I'm not counting the fact that generally the beginning and the end of the song are cut
For most webusers ( read Mom and Pop ) understanding the structure of a webaddress is completely mad. The first step is to explain why
h ecklogin?user=testuser
...
www.ebay.com is not the same company as www.ebay.com.checkyouraccount.ru because they have to read the address backward and seriously
www.ebay.com.checkyouraccount.ru/~level1/level2/c
becomes really insane !
The problem is that after you ( painfully ) trained them, you notice that a lot of websites use insane url like that and yet perfectly valid one !
Example: Hotmail login
http://login.live.com/login.srf?...
after several loop through passport.com,
and I also have to train my parents to use whois ???
And don't forget that I had first to explain what is a 'OS', 'program' and finally what a 'browser' is.
To result of all the lessons is that my father turned into an Internet paranoid. He is convinced his machine crawled under spywares and that every single website is a phishing attempt.
And now, when he needs to access his bank account, I need to connect myself from my machine and tell him the result over the phone. The same when he need to buy something. He never uses his machine for anything remotly personal.
That's real sad.
"And if you were to walk around naked in public (male or female)"
;-) In Oblivion, what you wear outside only determine your armor class. ( or in very specific instances, the value of what you wear is important ). People talk to you with or without clothes. And there is no mini-game where sex is used. In fact sex in oblivion does not exist. All you get is to see your player and some other female player you have just kill topless.
Well, in Europe you could be arested, unless if you are in an appropriate zone ( like some beach )
But I was refering in the game
I was always wondering, what about commercials in the US ? ( no trolling, genuine question )
...
... No I don't really think it should be rated M but at least I could possibly understand the second reason.
Here in Europe ( France, Belgium at least ) you have tits in almost *every* commercial on TV and at whatever time of the day.
Tits sell Orange Juice,
Tits sell shampoo and soap
Tits sell cars, milk, washing powder, food,
I also wonder why a game becomes M-rated because you *can* see some breast *if* you *patch* the game (and even then, nothing is done to erotise the situation, if you walk naked, nobody even look at you or say something) and not because you can kill human being with you bare hands, become a cold blood killer, summon demons,
A friend of mine run a small company.
...
He tried to hire only the best of the best for a while and after gave up.
You cannot reward everybody in the company otherwise reward loose its meaning. So you must choose. If you have a team with a guy who is 2 times beter than an average employee in another company, he is still mediocre compared to his colleague who is 2.1 times beter.
In addition, the less performant employees are the 'disposable' percentile. At the next company difficulty they know they are terminated, so even if they are top-performers by other companies standards, they still are under basic underperformer pressure.
Even by paying top-salaries for less performing, they were leaving because of the pressure and the lack of consideration.
Ironically, even the top performer were leaving, because in his company they were yet another genius
Finally he managed beter results keeping some looser in his company ( buffer/fuse employees ). It happened very quickly for him but off course his company was not google, there was no hype to keep employees working there. And also people having his company on their resume were not automatically considered as half-god by concurent companies.
"poor inventor guy who spends his whole life working on his one little invention, and then some large billion dollar company comes along and steals the idea and gets rich, leaving no credit to him. In that case, patents are great."
Even in this case, the poor inventor will have very hard time to defend itself against a company that can afford a whole lawyer company during 100 years.
I would also like to add, that not every 'little invention' is a 'revolutionary invention'. For 1 revolutionary invention (like something like LigthBulb in his time), there are 1000 minor useful inventions.(like something that improve lawnmowner blade durability by 5%) The inventor of a revolutionary invention has a good chance to get CNN/Fox coverage and enough public support to win a case; the minor inventor on the other end is just screwed up !
For people working with HIVpositive people on a regular basis, it makes sense.
...
But with the fear factor and efficient commercials:
. Take your pills before you trip to thailand/africa, don't take risks
. Wifes/Husbands cheat on their partner? HIV-Positive people loose their job and friends? Don't take risk, take a pill.
. A lot of teens have unsafe sexual relationship don't take risk,
At first I thought "Yeah, except that you don't hire a serial killer as Expert CSI and give him a suit and a medal instead of jail time", because I was confused by the title of "hacker" in the summary.
m e=2005-11-16+17%3A32%3A07'
But I can't find anything on this guy that would that say he actually did anything illegal in the past. He seems to be a real Hacker as in "Linus is a hacker".
All I found is this 'http://bcswiki.walmsleys.com/NeilBarrett/show?ti
if that's the same guy. Look indeed like a real "IT-CSI", worth respect!
"I don't think that the humans causation of global warming is an open and shut case to the extent that we should trash our economy on uncertain science."
...
Trash our economy ? We don't know if it will *trash* our economy, it will change our economy. But nothing we need to do for this change is actually bad: most efficient energy production, most efficient business processes, less environmental impact,
In fact, I don't understand why people are not happy to have the opportunity (even if later it appears manking had nothing to do with global warming) to dump all the old crap technologies still around by some state-of-the-art solution everywhere ? It would be a good way to use the truckload of overly qualified professionals our "First world" countries produce.
It is a potential software pirate that was at least 'willing' to be a consumer.
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The problem is with EBay auctions pretending to sell an original Windows copy.
If you go on EBay and *buy* a pirated copy of windows like this, you were most likely a genuine interested customer that really though that was a bargain. ( The argument is simple and I have seen it work in real life, not on ebay : a guy just pretend to be a Linux only user and want to get his money back on the Windows he got with his DELL laptop - selling it "cheap" because M$ Sucks )
People seem to trust deeply EBay, and shut their brain off when they see the bargain$$. (see that other story on slashdot : http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/13/05282
For those guys, Microsoft is indeed protecting a 'customer'. ( In the past Microsoft would exchange you a pirated version of Windows for a Real one if you proofed you had been scammed )
On the other hand, to use ebay you need internet access so it is likely that the software pirate wanabe probably helps himself with the countless pirated version available online for free or for $ in some other underground scam.
Anyway, if their website get cracked. That makes their point, no ?
..."
"The world is dangerous and packed with terrorists - Look they just broke into our servers, the very heart of our security !! Please allow us some more budget
It also not very different in concept from a radio-guided missile or a "clever" mine.
I imagine the bright future ...
...
I'll have too explain my dad to not to download whatever crap on internet, never reply yes when a crap want to install something without asking me first and now
I need to ask him to check the ServicePack version on his six-pack and explain him that bringing russian vodka home can wipe out his harddisk when he turns the TV on?
"Having to give tons of the money that you legally earned and rightfully deserve to social programs you may not even use is freedom."
...
You already pay for tons of thing you do not directly benefit. Like Army, Police, FireFighters, Roads,
That's the main purpose of a society. You work and contribute to the society using your taxes. Otherwise, it's anarchy and even money does not exist. Nobody says that you need to get 1 penny worth of service for every penny you put in the system. It is globally universally accepted in western world that the more money you make the more you pay. Bill Gates has no more driving rights than you, he doesn't get what he rightfully deserves.
Now the limit you where you put public service is another matter. In Europe, it is well accepted that Health and Education are a not a priviledge of money but a service provided by the society and therefore it is included in your taxes. In the US the simple idea seems to be repulsive to many.
If the problem was simple, it would have been settle 10000 years ago.
Society need structure otherwise it's anarchy. Too much structure and nothing move. The question of Roads and Currency has been settle ages ago and everybody aggrees that it is a task beter handled by the State with tax money, Healthcare Education and the rest ? Come back in 100 years
They don't like being compatible with Linux/Unix when we are talking about Windows to Unix.
However they are not stupid, they must make sure people can migrate to windows nicely with the less trouble as possible and AFTER lock them in proprietary technologies.
They want to kill Open source ? Sure but I don't think this release in their new killing machine, just a part of their global strategy. In fact, the posix subsystem has been around for a while and is beter know as Interix or Windows Service for Unix. This is already quite powerful, but having it more tighly integrated is really a big plus. There are still lots of border problems occuring. Running 100% unix app. is easy, but when starting to have windows starting to call/pipe themself between subsystems you start to get into troubles. This new release will polish windows/unix cohabitation for example using Visual Studio for debugging or calling Windows API from the unix subsystem.
Now, is that evil Microsoft trying to lock the world ? I think that when a company goes the way of using the Unix Subsystem, they already made the choice of migrating to Windows with everything implied. The new release ease a little bit the pain of the developer and give more flexibility to project manager ( like more option to stage the work ), so for me it is a good thing: those 2 are the workers in the migration, not the decision maker or the one getting the free 1st class trip at Redmond, so a little help is always welcome.
BTW, in our case, thanks to Interix/Cygwin we can sell our Unix application to Windows only customer. That sometimes works the other way around.
I don't think we could realisticaly think that all online retailer including iTunes would shut down their activities in France.
France is a powerfull market. People already buys a lot of stuff online. Shutting everything down risks to be counter productive for shops. Yes they can win (yet, it seems that French Goverment is not easily pressured, see the recent events in France), but they could in the end loose a significant part of their market to filesharing especially after an "insult" to their french customers: French is a top nation and people already needs very little morale justification to start filesharing, I think the message from online stores will be interpreted by Frenchs as "Frenchs are not worth it" before "French governement has made a cruel rule against the poor music label and music store", exacly the kind of message that could stick a 'Hero'-label to every cracker in the world.
Open the window. I already had that kind of problem when playing in an overheated room with not enough fresh air.
And try to play for session no longer than when you feel you could start getting sick. It seemed that positive playing experience (i.e. not being sick ) was more encouraging for my body and after a while my bearable session time could increase. ( I had that problem with HL2 and I could barely survive 5-10 min in the beginning. At the end I could bear 1 hour session without problem. )
It seems for that also help to try different setting. I can't give you precise advise but check the refresh rate and your screen resolution. For LCD try to adjust the resolution, I have more problem with mine LCD than with some friend's ( mine is older and has a sligthly worse response time ) and generally much more trouble with LCD than with CRT ( but I never tried the brand new LCD with 8ms response time )
I'm more quickly sick in more agressive light conditions, and using a lower brithness/contrast for games ( to avoid the eye burning white an LCD can produce ) helped a lot.
It seems the product do not even aim at being a photoshop-like application. Maybe this has changed since the beta, but the main purpose was vectorial graphism.
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Microsoft is not even talking on its website about anything that could position it against Photoshop.
Just see by yourself
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/g
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/overview.
When you tried to 'kill' another product, you generally start to match its features, in this case, both feature list have almost nothing in common.
For me that doesn't make more sense that saying Adobe Illustrator is a Photoshop killer.
BTW, this has already been discussed:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/11/18512
"support for optical drives?"
... People should be happy that Windows Install can read from the CD it is installed from and stop complaining.
...
Yep, that's so hard
Seriously, I never understood what could be so hard for an install CD to let you briefly put another CD in the drive to read some files.
Even in the old times of Win95 the basic DOS recovery floppy could access all optical drives and you could use this floppy image to build bootable install CD
Maybe they just lost the autoexec.bat
"Who is going to defend those plants when the military has become disorganized, undisciplined, and possibly split into competing sides?"
... sure, but I think if that day ever happen in the US, that will be the least of your concern compared to the threat of actual nuclear weapons like the massive arsenal the US already has. ( and the one of Russia, Pakistan, India, China, Israel, ... and probably at the time Iran, North Korea, ... )
Current reactor design make it hard to explode, and the reactor will stop working well before there is some real risk.
Off course some government could tinker the reactor of those plants