The requirements for Windows 9.x will make people turn to OS/2
Windows 9.x? That's Windows 9.0 and better.
Wow, that's about 3 times better than Windows 3.1 and about 80% better than Windows XP (5.1)
Sure, after the world sees Windows 9.0 hell will freeze and people will start using OS/2.
I've read somewhere that MS are making just one version of Windows because people thought Home and Starter were crap and that Media Center and Tablet Edition aren't for desktops and simply bought Pro. Now, with seven versions of Windows they will be experiencing what most people bash about Linux: distro forking. Most users are too confused to make the right choice. So now we have 5 versions of Win95 (classic win95,OSR2, 98,98SE, Me), four versions of Windows 2000 (Pro, Server, Advanced Server and Datacenter Server), about 5 versions of Winxp and SEVEN versions of Vista. Pre-Vista versions won't be for sale, but still I think that 7 are a bit much. That's about the number of BSD distros avaliable!
If the company worked with Google for 15 months, maybe they've heard inside rumors of Google possibly launching their mail service registered the trademark then waited for Google to take the bait. The wait for 1.5 years to make sure Gmail is a recognised brand and then sue Google for as much as possible.
I like this kind of reviews. A bit of what packaging looks like (noone writes that, although it's quite interesting for me personally: how does packaging for a $10000 unit differ from a $300 maching), a bit of a view from the inside, a bit about the software. Nothing too complicated, because that would make the article dull to read. What the article provides is the general feel of the product. One thing I wonder is that Google can probably use the included modem to download private company data which the server caches (if the company bought the server for internal use).
> Tell me more... * I beg your pardon? > What about your own pardon? * I don't know what you're talking about > Do you sometimes wish you were talking about? * Well, I guess so > I'm not sure I understand you fully. * It's me who doesn't understand you fully! > Oh... fully?
My favorites were -What about your own pardon? -Do you sometimes wish you were talking about? Obviously, it's a bot. However, I find the bot included in EMACS to be quite intelligent. And it's because the bot listens to you and just says stuff like "go on". That's what bots fail to do: telling you anything or answering your questions. Ask a bot who's Steve Ballmer and how is he related to the monkeyboy (ask the bot to Google if he refuses) and the bot will reveal its electronic nature.
The point is that Flash isn't present in Firefox by default, just like Flashblock. It would be nice if Firefox developers created a Flash+Flashblock bundle.
Install the Flashblock extension for Firefox. This will make Flash clips appear as empty boxes with a "play" button which starts the Flash for that clip. The problem is that Flash is the De Facto standart in web animation. Even if SVG is to become the standart, Flash will still be used for old clips made in the pre-SVG period. However I do agree that flash is crap. Is sucks resources on even the most powerful PCs and 4 or 5 flash banners make a page impossible to use.
The BOFH would have definetly liked that. "Insert your paper upside down to print on the other side. Oh, not again! You know, this printer appears to be faulty. Never mind, that document was crap anyway."
So, what the review is actually saying is: 1) That OOo is cross-platform 2) That it is better designed when it comes to placing headers and footers 3) It's free 4) OOo Writer can be used as a replacement to Word 5) You can actually write articles in it 6) OpenOffice is approaching MS Office in other apps like Impress, Base etc. Most users don't care whether it's opensourced or cross-platform. However lots of users know about 1% of Word's features and will have trouble learning a new interface. So OOo is probably making a right move when trying to resemble Office. It even looks like Office 2003. But until OOo 2.0 is released, OOo is good only for non-Windows people or people who don't want to spend money on Office.
Shouldn't they arrest or at least fire the developers responsible for creating the vulnerability in the first place and thus making these viruses possible? It's like your house has a 2 metre hole in the wall because the builders forgot to close it. And you can't close it yourself because it's against the law to examine the house.
...but I burn or tear to really small pieces every envelope with the PIN inside it (after reading the PIN of course) and then change my PIN. Most PIN envelopes suggest destroying the paper with the PIN on it immediately after reading it. I'm using this on mobile phone SIM packages, but I'm not sure if you are allowed to change a credit card PIN.
A CD-MP3/AAC/WMA/OGG whatever iPod. I think traditional CD-Audio players are no longer made by anyone. And your diskman skipped because it didn't buffer anything. I have a Diskman like that in my garage and I completely understand what you mean. Antishock memory buffering has been introduced about 8 years ago.
Well, that's the point. In my opinion, Apple in number one in usability and iRiver is number two. Yes, they make great hardware and decent software but I like Apple more.
I may be wrong but Apple just feels better.
I use Linux. To make a simple resident virus that loads automagically you'll have to recompile the kernel on the target machine (that's what most users hate: having to recompile the kernel to install their new WiFi card) or at least typethe root password. And a user certainly won't do something he hates or doesn't know how to do if a virus tells him to do so.
You can do a network scan of your harddisk from a friend who DOES have an antivirus and then press Reset to make sure any viruses resident in the memory but not on the harddrive are killed.
...or even a DVD-iPod. What I don't like about harddrives is that thowing them around isn't good at all. In addition, they rotate at 5200 RPMs at minimum which isn't good for the battery. And constantly stopping the drive reduces its life rapidly. Actually, shutting down (even correctly!) a harddisk is the most damaging thing that can happen to it. Flash memory is slow to write, and it wears off in rewrite cycles. Actually, all Siemens S45i phones I've seen had their flash memory broken because the phone constantly rewrote the addressbook. If you buy a flashdrive, it will probably have a notice about it supporting no more than 1000-10000 rewrites. I don't know if there's any progress happening, but I'm know that it was the situation 3 years ago . CDs on the other hand can be easily thrown away if broken. Also, they can have DRM that doesn't discriminate the user: for example, for each song recorded there can be an included license for the specific playback device. The song can have the license included directly at iTunes Store and then burned to the CD without having to be saved anywhere at the harddisk. The user can be allowed to copy the CD because it won't play on any device except the one listed in the license.
>pretty hard for AV to catch coz there is *no* >signatire. And that's exactly how these viruses are caught. A normal program never changes itself while a virus acts suspiciously trying to avoid the antivirus. If a program edits an executable file 50 times a minute, something's wrong here. In addition, polymorphous viruses still have some unchanging parts because it's simply hard to write a program which completely changes itself. It has to have a very sophisticated AI (or the virus writer has to be a genius) and if it's ever developed it will probably a major breakthrough in computer science. One thing I've noticed in the past years is that more and more virii makers are scriptkiddies who get a ready-made exploit from Securityfocus and add the virus bits. Or simply write a.vbs script. It surprises me how many computers were infected with the LoveLetter virus. It was a simple.vbs script with nothing exceptional in, and yet it got to the news headlines and caused major disaster. My guess is that most previous virusmakers with great skills either got themselves proper jobs or got themselves involved in OSS projects which are IMHO just as (or even more) interesting as doing evil.
Just follow the simple rules: 1) Never install stuff from the browser (like ActiveX etc.) 2) Never open email attachments that are executable (most mailer warn about it) 3) Never download software from third-party sites, only from the vendor's site 4) Scan all suspicious files with an online scanner (or send them through a virus-protected mailbox) 5) Configure your firewall properly (close all ports you don't need) If you follow these rules you aren't likely to get any infection at all. I didn't have ANY anti-virus software when I had Windows and didn't get ANY infection in about ten years. Antivirus software on the other hand requires constant updates, slows down PCs (I can determine if an antivirus is running without pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del or looking at the taskbar) and eats your money. What's more, if a virus is new and the user doesn't have the latest updates, he can be easily infected. The only users of antivirus software should be Windows users with relatively no computer experience. This way, the antivirus will probably protect evil from happening when a user doesn't understand what's happening to his PC. Oh, and some (but not all) antivirus programs are simply a waste of time and money. This applies to most mobile device software. I remember a Norton Antivirus For PalmOS which had an impressive database of FOUR variations of ONE virus. That's all. And yet it cost something like $30 and required yearly subscription in order to receive updates.
>IBM is cool now because they're actively >3) contributing to linux Actually, I found a great tutorial for GNUplot on IBM's website: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/librar y/l-gnuplot/ Not to mention their contribution to the Eclipse project. Anyway, I doubt Google is evil in Microsoft or the fallen IBM Empire style. They don't spread FUD, they don't close their specs (actually, they have for example a complete manual on how to use Gaim with Google Talk), they don't bribe/blackmail governments, they even funded the Summer Of Code project. They are the most legal and fair way of getting mindshare: they make truly great products. If you hate Google, you don't have to use their stuff. A non-Gmail user doesn't need a Gmail account or some hacked mailbox to receive mail from a Gmail user etc.
My favorite is: I had a very damaged Starcraft CD. When playing a Protoss mission, there was a characted who said "I repeat, I will never surrender". Well, the computer was trying to read the CD and failed. This resulted in the character repeating his phrase over and over again until the PC was rebooted.
What rendering engine does it use? Gecko, KHTML, IE or something completely new & Google-made? (I don't have Windows so I can't test it). If the thing depends on another browser, it can never become a completely independent browser. It won't get IE source code and it would have to be GPLd if it wants to use Mozilla/KHTML, which I'm sure won't happen. So Google would have to develop its own rendering engine if it wants to "take shape as a browser in itself" as the article's author thinks. Rather, a more likely scenario would be the creation of browser plugins to integrate Google Desktop as closely with modern browsers as possible.
If you compile the thing, you'll still need the.pak files with all the levels, characters, weapons etc which are STILL not open-source. You can download some third-party levels to be able to test the game or get a CD with the original Quake3 levels. Even DOOM1 levels can't be freely redistributed in the Net. This open-source release of Quake is intended for developers and not end-users. So if you're not interested in development, you won't really benefit from this release.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things!
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No chairs flying, no bad language or insults, no monkeydancing - is that an interview with a Microsoft executive?
However, I like the quote
Our [MSN] search API is way better than their [Google's] search API.
Sure, just as Ballmer mentioned, Google is gonna fucking die.
The pace of software innovation today is as fast as it has ever been.
I won't comment on that. The more patents issued, the more innovation.
the error rates have come down, down, down, down
Developers, developers, developers are working hard on that.
There will be some shock among users. But pretty quickly (people get used to it).
What does he mean by THAT? That shocking customers is OK because they are already used to it?
The requirements for Windows 9.x will make people turn to OS/2
Windows 9.x? That's Windows 9.0 and better. Wow, that's about 3 times better than Windows 3.1 and about 80% better than Windows XP (5.1) Sure, after the world sees Windows 9.0 hell will freeze and people will start using OS/2.
I've read somewhere that MS are making just one version of Windows because people thought Home and Starter were crap and that Media Center and Tablet Edition aren't for desktops and simply bought Pro.
Now, with seven versions of Windows they will be experiencing what most people bash about Linux: distro forking. Most users are too confused to make the right choice.
So now we have 5 versions of Win95 (classic win95,OSR2, 98,98SE, Me), four versions of Windows 2000 (Pro, Server, Advanced Server and Datacenter Server), about 5 versions of Winxp and SEVEN versions of Vista. Pre-Vista versions won't be for sale, but still I think that 7 are a bit much. That's about the number of BSD distros avaliable!
If the company worked with Google for 15 months, maybe they've heard inside rumors of Google possibly launching their mail service registered the trademark then waited for Google to take the bait. The wait for 1.5 years to make sure Gmail is a recognised brand and then sue Google for as much as possible.
I like this kind of reviews. A bit of what packaging looks like (noone writes that, although it's quite interesting for me personally: how does packaging for a $10000 unit differ from a $300 maching), a bit of a view from the inside, a bit about the software. Nothing too complicated, because that would make the article dull to read. What the article provides is the general feel of the product.
One thing I wonder is that Google can probably use the included modem to download private company data which the server caches (if the company bought the server for internal use).
And here's the output (> - bot, * - me):
> Tell me more...
* I beg your pardon?
> What about your own pardon?
* I don't know what you're talking about
> Do you sometimes wish you were talking about?
* Well, I guess so
> I'm not sure I understand you fully.
* It's me who doesn't understand you fully!
> Oh... fully?
My favorites were
-What about your own pardon?
-Do you sometimes wish you were talking about?
Obviously, it's a bot.
However, I find the bot included in EMACS to be quite intelligent. And it's because the bot listens to you and just says stuff like "go on".
That's what bots fail to do: telling you anything or answering your questions. Ask a bot who's Steve Ballmer and how is he related to the monkeyboy (ask the bot to Google if he refuses) and the bot will reveal its electronic nature.
The point is that Flash isn't present in Firefox by default, just like Flashblock. It would be nice if Firefox developers created a Flash+Flashblock bundle.
Install the Flashblock extension for Firefox.
This will make Flash clips appear as empty boxes with a "play" button which starts the Flash for that clip.
The problem is that Flash is the De Facto standart in web animation. Even if SVG is to become the standart, Flash will still be used for old clips made in the pre-SVG period.
However I do agree that flash is crap. Is sucks resources on even the most powerful PCs and 4 or 5 flash banners make a page impossible to use.
The BOFH would have definetly liked that.
"Insert your paper upside down to print on the other side. Oh, not again! You know, this printer appears to be faulty. Never mind, that document was crap anyway."
So, what the review is actually saying is:
1) That OOo is cross-platform
2) That it is better designed when it comes to placing headers and footers
3) It's free
4) OOo Writer can be used as a replacement to Word
5) You can actually write articles in it
6) OpenOffice is approaching MS Office in other apps like Impress, Base etc.
Most users don't care whether it's opensourced or cross-platform. However lots of users know about 1% of Word's features and will have trouble learning a new interface.
So OOo is probably making a right move when trying to resemble Office. It even looks like Office 2003.
But until OOo 2.0 is released, OOo is good only for non-Windows people or people who don't want to spend money on Office.
Shouldn't they arrest or at least fire the developers responsible for creating the vulnerability in the first place and thus making these viruses possible?
It's like your house has a 2 metre hole in the wall because the builders forgot to close it. And you can't close it yourself because it's against the law to examine the house.
...but I burn or tear to really small pieces every envelope with the PIN inside it (after reading the PIN of course) and then change my PIN. Most PIN envelopes suggest destroying the paper with the PIN on it immediately after reading it.
I'm using this on mobile phone SIM packages, but I'm not sure if you are allowed to change a credit card PIN.
A CD-MP3/AAC/WMA/OGG whatever iPod.
I think traditional CD-Audio players are no longer made by anyone.
And your diskman skipped because it didn't buffer anything. I have a Diskman like that in my garage and I completely understand what you mean. Antishock memory buffering has been introduced about 8 years ago.
Well, that's the point. In my opinion, Apple in number one in usability and iRiver is number two. Yes, they make great hardware and decent software but I like Apple more.
I may be wrong but Apple just feels better.
I use Linux. To make a simple resident virus that loads automagically you'll have to recompile the kernel on the target machine (that's what most users hate: having to recompile the kernel to install their new WiFi card) or at least typethe root password. And a user certainly won't do something he hates or doesn't know how to do if a virus tells him to do so.
You can do a network scan of your harddisk from a friend who DOES have an antivirus and then press Reset to make sure any viruses resident in the memory but not on the harddrive are killed.
...or even a DVD-iPod.
What I don't like about harddrives is that thowing them around isn't good at all. In addition, they rotate at 5200 RPMs at minimum which isn't good for the battery. And constantly stopping the drive reduces its life rapidly. Actually, shutting down (even correctly!) a harddisk is the most damaging thing that can happen to it.
Flash memory is slow to write, and it wears off in rewrite cycles. Actually, all Siemens S45i phones I've seen had their flash memory broken because the phone constantly rewrote the addressbook. If you buy a flashdrive, it will probably have a notice about it supporting no more than 1000-10000 rewrites.
I don't know if there's any progress happening, but I'm know that it was the situation 3 years ago .
CDs on the other hand can be easily thrown away if broken.
Also, they can have DRM that doesn't discriminate the user:
for example, for each song recorded there can be an included license for the specific playback device. The song can have the license included directly at iTunes Store and then burned to the CD without having to be saved anywhere at the harddisk. The user can be allowed to copy the CD because it won't play on any device except the one listed in the license.
>pretty hard for AV to catch coz there is *no* .vbs script. It surprises me how many computers were infected with the LoveLetter virus. It was a simple .vbs script with nothing exceptional in, and yet it got to the news headlines and caused major disaster.
>signatire.
And that's exactly how these viruses are caught. A normal program never changes itself while a virus acts suspiciously trying to avoid the antivirus. If a program edits an executable file 50 times a minute, something's wrong here. In addition, polymorphous viruses still have some unchanging parts because it's simply hard to write a program which completely changes itself. It has to have a very sophisticated AI (or the virus writer has to be a genius) and if it's ever developed it will probably a major breakthrough in computer science.
One thing I've noticed in the past years is that more and more virii makers are scriptkiddies who get a ready-made exploit from Securityfocus and add the virus bits. Or simply write a
My guess is that most previous virusmakers with great skills either got themselves proper jobs or got themselves involved in OSS projects which are IMHO just as (or even more) interesting as doing evil.
Just follow the simple rules:
1) Never install stuff from the browser (like ActiveX etc.)
2) Never open email attachments that are executable (most mailer warn about it)
3) Never download software from third-party sites, only from the vendor's site
4) Scan all suspicious files with an online scanner (or send them through a virus-protected mailbox)
5) Configure your firewall properly (close all ports you don't need)
If you follow these rules you aren't likely to get any infection at all. I didn't have ANY anti-virus software when I had Windows and didn't get ANY infection in about ten years.
Antivirus software on the other hand requires constant updates, slows down PCs (I can determine if an antivirus is running without pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del or looking at the taskbar) and eats your money. What's more, if a virus is new and the user doesn't have the latest updates, he can be easily infected. The only users of antivirus software should be Windows users with relatively no computer experience. This way, the antivirus will probably protect evil from happening when a user doesn't understand what's happening to his PC.
Oh, and some (but not all) antivirus programs are simply a waste of time and money. This applies to most mobile device software. I remember a Norton Antivirus For PalmOS which had an impressive database of FOUR variations of ONE virus. That's all. And yet it cost something like $30 and required yearly subscription in order to receive updates.
>IBM is cool now because they're activelyr y/l-gnuplot/
>3) contributing to linux
Actually, I found a great tutorial for GNUplot on IBM's website: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/libra
Not to mention their contribution to the Eclipse project.
Anyway, I doubt Google is evil in Microsoft or the fallen IBM Empire style. They don't spread FUD, they don't close their specs (actually, they have for example a complete manual on how to use Gaim with Google Talk), they don't bribe/blackmail governments, they even funded the Summer Of Code project.
They are the most legal and fair way of getting mindshare: they make truly great products. If you hate Google, you don't have to use their stuff. A non-Gmail user doesn't need a Gmail account or some hacked mailbox to receive mail from a Gmail user etc.
My favorite is:
I had a very damaged Starcraft CD. When playing a Protoss mission, there was a characted who said "I repeat, I will never surrender". Well, the computer was trying to read the CD and failed. This resulted in the character repeating his phrase over and over again until the PC was rebooted.
What rendering engine does it use? Gecko, KHTML, IE or something completely new & Google-made? (I don't have Windows so I can't test it).
If the thing depends on another browser, it can never become a completely independent browser. It won't get IE source code and it would have to be GPLd if it wants to use Mozilla/KHTML, which I'm sure won't happen.
So Google would have to develop its own rendering engine if it wants to "take shape as a browser in itself" as the article's author thinks. Rather, a more likely scenario would be the creation of browser plugins to integrate Google Desktop as closely with modern browsers as possible.
If it's opensourced, it's easier to get broken.
Like
set enableDRM = FALSE;
If you compile the thing, you'll still need the .pak files with all the levels, characters, weapons etc which are STILL not open-source. You can download some third-party levels to be able to test the game or get a CD with the original Quake3 levels.
Even DOOM1 levels can't be freely redistributed in the Net.
This open-source release of Quake is intended for developers and not end-users. So if you're not interested in development, you won't really benefit from this release.
Now, a graveyard can be used as a really powerful computer to calculate something difficult, after all the tombstones stay idle for 99% of all the time.
Or turning them to the Dark Side using them as spam zombies.