Steam is working around issues where they sell games for next to nothing in dirt poor countries because some money is better than no money. Their troubles are reseller sites buying thousands of copies in Russia or whatever and reselling them to the west. Still half price for the westerner, shady middle man gets 14$ total profit and steam gets a buck instead of 60.
I guess that's "free market" for you -- and them. Except for the fact that the first to praise it are the very first to work against it when it hurts their bottom line. Talk about double standards...
I can't imagine that Windows FORCES you to stop your work right there and then, with no way to delay it. Is that really so?
Not really. Contrary to what most people are saying:
1) On Windows 10 HOME your patches are indeed downloaded in the background (unless you're on a metered connection -- or pretending to be on one) but the PC never gets rebooted automatically and you get a notification instead. You could even set up so called Working Hours to make sure that the reboot won't happen -- even if you're not actively using the computer at the time.
2) On Windows 10 Pro you can do even better and use the Policy Editor to get back the old behaviour (i.e., be notified about updates being available, download them if you wish, and so on).
In other words: the situation might not be optimal because downloads in the background might use your bandwidth and the Windows Module Installer Worker take some extra cycles off the CPU, but the article is utter rubbish.
You cruel heartless bastard! We have a term for you all. You are called Ed users.
But... but... "Ed is the standard text editor:" when I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
It was a "free upgrade" to a paid service. Such a deal!
What part of
"The Windows Upgrade to Subscription tool, found in the latest Windows Insider builds, helps to manage certain volume licensing upgrades from Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Update to Windows 10 Enterprise. This binary file is not associated with the free consumer upgrade offering nor is it applicable to consumer Windows editions."
Did you miss?
I know, picking on Microsoft is still popular, even rightly so at times, and they might as well be lying or maybe tell the truth now and make a 360 later on, but still...
Even though I don't use those services, I just tried your links. Spotify works and Pandora works as well (Music plays fine). Hulu is the only one that does not work without flash.
Interesting... what browser/OS combination? The latest Safari complains in exactly the same way.
Pandora: "In order to use Pandora internet radio, please upgrade to a more current browser or install a newer version of Flash (v.10 or later)."
Hulu: "Hulu requires Flash Player 11.0.1.152 or higher. Please download and install the latest version of Flash Player before continuing."
I'm sure there are plenty more, but just these three are enough to prove that you're dead wrong -- or just trolling. And no, there's no love lost between Flash and me, either.
So no, I was not the one "Deflecting" (the fact that you were trying to pull the wool over my, and all readers-of-your-comment's eyes); that would be, er, you.
Sigh. I'm counting 24 posts from you on this topic. If you're on your little crusade or just get a kick out of defending Apple no matter what, be my guest. I would feel very embarrassed, but hey! whatever rocks your boat.
Look, it's a big mess and we'll probably never know how big it really is. You can deflect all you want and I could nitpick as well as you, but what's the point? Let's just say that Apple's review process leaves a lot to be desired and leave at that, okay?
The very first thing Apple should do is admit that it is, in fact, possible for malware to get past their screening process.
This meme needs to FINALLY be taken out back and SHOT: As I said elsewhere in this thread; I don't think that APPLE has ever said that. Instead, it seems to be almost universally Fandroids that SAY that Apple (or their Users) have said that.
If you're not using HTML5 by now, you're a fucking dinosaur.
Fair enough, but where are the authoring tools then? Coding everything by hand might be fun for a "look ma, no Flash!" demo, but a full blown application? Not so much. And don't get me started about Google, Apple, etc. pushing their slightly different flavour of HTML5...
Fact: I'm older than you are and I was around when Pac-Man was brand new. Nobody but arcade-going nerds played Pac-Man or any video games, really.
That you are older than the OP might even be a fact, but another fact is that a song about a video game that, according to you, "nobody played" peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in March 1982.
If only FreeBSD would boot my old 08 Macbook but only Ubuntu works on it...someone make a howto if it's possible, Linux blows.
Assuming you're serious and the problem is that you can't get FreeBSD to boot after the installation, check the post installation steps ("gpart" section towards the end) -- they fixed my late 2009 iMac.
And while Intel will "begin offering 3D NAND drives in the second half of next year" Samsung has been doing just that for a few months. For insgtance, here a review from last June: Samsung 850 Pro SSD Review: 3D Vertical NAND Hits Desktop Storage. But, then again, since when has IT World needed any facts?;-)
No. Heartbleed is a security bug in the OpenSSL cryptography library. OpenSSL, in turn, is an open-source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols vailable for most Unix-like operating systems (including Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X and the various open source BSD operating systems), OpenVMS and Microsoft Windows. See? Not OS specific.
Shellshock was caused by a GNU bash bug.
Correct but, again, not OS specific.
Both projects are independent of the Linux Kernel Project. That's the project managed by Linus.
So blaming Linus management for the lost confidence on open source security is, at least, unbased.
True, but the article didn't mention either and, let's face it, a kernel with no applications to run wouldn't be much fun -- or useful.
And the bugs this article refers to are BSD's and GNU's fault.
Would you care to elaborate? The article talks about Heartbleed and Shellshock bugs which, affecting userland components, aren't OS specific.
Actually, I find it odd that you singled out the BSD family, especially considering that bash is not part of the default FreeBSD install and, even if a user decides to install it,/bin/sh is not the same executable as/bin/bash (or rather/usr/local/bin/bash). The FreeBSD went even as far as to disable the "export function" feature by default on 20140926:
20140926:
AFFECTS: users of shells/bash
AUTHOR: bdrewery@FreeBSD.org
Bash supports a feature of exporting functions in the environment with
export -f. Running bash with exported functions in the environment will
then import those functions into the environment of the script being ran.
This resulted in security issues CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169, commonly
known as "shellshock". It also can result in poorly written scripts being
tricked into running arbitrary commands.
To fully mitigate against this sort of attack we have applied a non-upstream
patch to disable this functionality by default. You can execute bash
with --import-functions to allow it to import functions from the
environment. The default can also be changed in the port by selecting the
IMPORTFUNCTIONS option.
Earlier today, we reported that we isolated a handful of servers that were detected to have been impacted by a security flaw. After investigating the situation fully, it turns out that the servers were in fact not affected by Shellshock.
Also, are you sure that Yahoo is running FreeBSD on every server? I can't find anything more recent than this piece from 2011, but it would appear that 75% of Yahoo’s Web sites and services run on Linux".
In particular, Marx does not "view labour as something nobody really wants to do" - wtf do you get that from?
Where are the mod points when you really need them?!? +several million to you for saying something sensible rather than repeating something heard somewhere -- over and over. I just wonder if the people talking in favor or against net neutrality are as clueless as they are when they talk about Marxism or, for that matter, any other sufficiently complex subject.
Oh, and why did you have to post this as AC? I think it was well reasoned and worth reading, actually.
If *most* people were content with one job and a reduced income things would start to really improve - the labor market would be dramatically slashed, and the law of supply and demand means that wages would rise across the board as businesses compete for a limited labor pool.
Apologies for being blunt, but you are delusional. Have you heard about Ireland? People have "accepted" wage cuts just for the privilege of keeping their job BUT:
1) The labor market has NOT improved;
2) Cost of living has NOT gone down;
In other words: things are tough all over.
And dot get me started about the mythical "law of supply and demand", because we might as well be talking about Santa Klaus, the Tooth Fairy or, since I mentioned Ireland, Leprechauns.
The really scary part is that these Twitter minds lack the ability to see outside themselves. If it happens to me, then it happens to all of humanity.
Worse yet, the article uses the plural "researchers" but quotes none except Mrs Wolf who, in turn, is just relating her own experience rather than any factual research. Examples:
Researchers are working to get a clearer sense of the differences [...]
Before the Internet, the brain read mostly in linear ways [...] researchers said.
Some researchers believe that for many people [...]
Researchers say that the differences between text and screen reading should be studied more thoroughly [...]
But, hey, who needs to refer to any research when you can fill an article with anecdotal evidence from Claire Handscombe, Brandon Ambrose, and Ramesh Kurup? I mean, that should plenty to convince anyone, no?;-)
Let's see: the summary mentions that "last September 85% of the NHS's 800,000 computers were running XP" which translates to 680,000 computers. A Chromebook is like $200 a pop, so migrating all of them would cost $136,000,000. Not such a big saving, is it?
Not to mention that being tied hands and feet to [insert any company here] is no better than being tied hands and feet to Microsoft, you'd have a ridiculous amount of local storage and no control whatsoever over how (and where) your other data is stored. And I can easily imagine that they also have lots of custom-made applications that wouldn't run in Chrome OS anyway.
The "race to zero" has done nothing but create a wasteland of crappy "freemium" games. Dungeon Keeper is the culmination of developers' efforts to move the pricing model away from initial purchase and into in-app purchases. The practice has absolutely decimated gaming. I don't necessarily see Steam's move as a good thing.
Speaking of Dungeon Keeper and the flood of "freemium" games I'd like to see less and less of, here's a much a more sane (as in opposite) take on the subject: How In-app Purchases Have Destroyed The Industry
And now, I don't think that what's good good for Apple or Valve is going to be necessarily good for gamers and game developers.
This update had one security fix. The fix for the recent SSL bug. This bug did not affect OSX Snow Leopard or earlier, therefore this update is not needed.
Right so far...
It's not at all a sign that Apple no longer supports Snow Leopard.
But very wrong about this one. This table says that OS X Mavericks is indeed a security update for OS X v10.6.8 and later (18th row in the table). Also, the issue has been discussed before
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Steam is working around issues where they sell games for next to nothing in dirt poor countries because some money is better than no money. Their troubles are reseller sites buying thousands of copies in Russia or whatever and reselling them to the west. Still half price for the westerner, shady middle man gets 14$ total profit and steam gets a buck instead of 60.
I guess that's "free market" for you -- and them. Except for the fact that the first to praise it are the very first to work against it when it hurts their bottom line. Talk about double standards...
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I can't imagine that Windows FORCES you to stop your work right there and then, with no way to delay it. Is that really so?
Not really. Contrary to what most people are saying:
1) On Windows 10 HOME your patches are indeed downloaded in the background (unless you're on a metered connection -- or pretending to be on one) but the PC never gets rebooted automatically and you get a notification instead. You could even set up so called Working Hours to make sure that the reboot won't happen -- even if you're not actively using the computer at the time.
2) On Windows 10 Pro you can do even better and use the Policy Editor to get back the old behaviour (i.e., be notified about updates being available, download them if you wish, and so on).
In other words: the situation might not be optimal because downloads in the background might use your bandwidth and the Windows Module Installer Worker take some extra cycles off the CPU, but the article is utter rubbish.
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So you don't like kittens??
You cruel heartless bastard! We have a term for you all. You are called Ed users.
But... but... "Ed is the standard text editor:" when I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
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It was a "free upgrade" to a paid service. Such a deal!
What part of
"The Windows Upgrade to Subscription tool, found in the latest Windows Insider builds, helps to manage certain volume licensing upgrades from Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Update to Windows 10 Enterprise. This binary file is not associated with the free consumer upgrade offering nor is it applicable to consumer Windows editions."
Did you miss?
I know, picking on Microsoft is still popular, even rightly so at times, and they might as well be lying or maybe tell the truth now and make a 360 later on, but still...
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Even though I don't use those services, I just tried your links. Spotify works and Pandora works as well (Music plays fine). Hulu is the only one that does not work without flash.
Interesting... what browser/OS combination? The latest Safari complains in exactly the same way.
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Does anything but ads actually use Flash in this day and age? I haven't had it installed for several years!
Let's see... these are just some results using Firefox 41.0.1 on OS X Mavericks:
Spotify: "To enjoy Spotify, please install Adobe Flash. It's free."
Pandora: "In order to use Pandora internet radio, please upgrade to a more current browser or install a newer version of Flash (v.10 or later)."
Hulu: "Hulu requires Flash Player 11.0.1.152 or higher. Please download and install the latest version of Flash Player before continuing."
I'm sure there are plenty more, but just these three are enough to prove that you're dead wrong -- or just trolling. And no, there's no love lost between Flash and me, either.
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So no, I was not the one "Deflecting" (the fact that you were trying to pull the wool over my, and all readers-of-your-comment's eyes); that would be, er, you.
Sigh. I'm counting 24 posts from you on this topic. If you're on your little crusade or just get a kick out of defending Apple no matter what, be my guest. I would feel very embarrassed, but hey! whatever rocks your boat.
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Nice try, but no phattie.
Look, it's a big mess and we'll probably never know how big it really is. You can deflect all you want and I could nitpick as well as you, but what's the point? Let's just say that Apple's review process leaves a lot to be desired and leave at that, okay?
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The very first thing Apple should do is admit that it is, in fact, possible for malware to get past their screening process.
This meme needs to FINALLY be taken out back and SHOT: As I said elsewhere in this thread; I don't think that APPLE has ever said that. Instead, it seems to be almost universally Fandroids that SAY that Apple (or their Users) have said that.
Okay, I'll byte: The safest place to download apps for your Mac is the Mac App Store. Apple reviews each app before it’s accepted by the store
Yes, that's about the Mac App Store. Do you want something about the App Store? No problem: We review all apps submitted to the App Store and Mac App Store to ensure they are reliable, perform as expected, and are free of offensive material
It seems as official as it can get, don't you think?
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If you're not using HTML5 by now, you're a fucking dinosaur.
Fair enough, but where are the authoring tools then? Coding everything by hand might be fun for a "look ma, no Flash!" demo, but a full blown application? Not so much. And don't get me started about Google, Apple, etc. pushing their slightly different flavour of HTML5...
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Fact: I'm older than you are and I was around when Pac-Man was brand new. Nobody but arcade-going nerds played Pac-Man or any video games, really.
That you are older than the OP might even be a fact, but another fact is that a song about a video game that, according to you, "nobody played" peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in March 1982.
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If only FreeBSD would boot my old 08 Macbook but only Ubuntu works on it...someone make a howto if it's possible, Linux blows.
Assuming you're serious and the problem is that you can't get FreeBSD to boot after the installation, check the post installation steps ("gpart" section towards the end) -- they fixed my late 2009 iMac.
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And while Intel will "begin offering 3D NAND drives in the second half of next year" Samsung has been doing just that for a few months. For insgtance, here a review from last June: Samsung 850 Pro SSD Review: 3D Vertical NAND Hits Desktop Storage. But, then again, since when has IT World needed any facts? ;-)
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Heartbleed was caused by a FreeBSD bug,
No. Heartbleed is a security bug in the OpenSSL cryptography library. OpenSSL, in turn, is an open-source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols vailable for most Unix-like operating systems (including Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X and the various open source BSD operating systems), OpenVMS and Microsoft Windows. See? Not OS specific.
Shellshock was caused by a GNU bash bug.
Correct but, again, not OS specific.
Both projects are independent of the Linux Kernel Project. That's the project managed by Linus. So blaming Linus management for the lost confidence on open source security is, at least, unbased.
True, but the article didn't mention either and, let's face it, a kernel with no applications to run wouldn't be much fun -- or useful.
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And the bugs this article refers to are BSD's and GNU's fault.
Would you care to elaborate? The article talks about Heartbleed and Shellshock bugs which, affecting userland components, aren't OS specific.
Actually, I find it odd that you singled out the BSD family, especially considering that bash is not part of the default FreeBSD install and, even if a user decides to install it, /bin/sh is not the same executable as /bin/bash (or rather /usr/local/bin/bash). The FreeBSD went even as far as to disable the "export function" feature by default on 20140926:
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For the record, Yahoo, running FreeBSD, was compromised via Shellshock.
No, not really:
Earlier today, we reported that we isolated a handful of servers that were detected to have been impacted by a security flaw. After investigating the situation fully, it turns out that the servers were in fact not affected by Shellshock.
Also, are you sure that Yahoo is running FreeBSD on every server? I can't find anything more recent than this piece from 2011, but it would appear that 75% of Yahoo’s Web sites and services run on Linux".
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No runkeeper app
Did you try Runtastic?
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In particular, Marx does not "view labour as something nobody really wants to do" - wtf do you get that from?
Where are the mod points when you really need them?!? +several million to you for saying something sensible rather than repeating something heard somewhere -- over and over. I just wonder if the people talking in favor or against net neutrality are as clueless as they are when they talk about Marxism or, for that matter, any other sufficiently complex subject.
Oh, and why did you have to post this as AC? I think it was well reasoned and worth reading, actually.
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If *most* people were content with one job and a reduced income things would start to really improve - the labor market would be dramatically slashed, and the law of supply and demand means that wages would rise across the board as businesses compete for a limited labor pool.
Apologies for being blunt, but you are delusional. Have you heard about Ireland? People have "accepted" wage cuts just for the privilege of keeping their job BUT:
1) The labor market has NOT improved;
2) Cost of living has NOT gone down;
In other words: things are tough all over.
And dot get me started about the mythical "law of supply and demand", because we might as well be talking about Santa Klaus, the Tooth Fairy or, since I mentioned Ireland, Leprechauns.
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I'm not aware of a FreeBSD foundation or a NetBSD foundation.
Okay, time to get up to speed then:
The FreeBSD Foundation
Donations to The NetBSD Foundation
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The really scary part is that these Twitter minds lack the ability to see outside themselves. If it happens to me, then it happens to all of humanity.
Worse yet, the article uses the plural "researchers" but quotes none except Mrs Wolf who, in turn, is just relating her own experience rather than any factual research. Examples:
Researchers are working to get a clearer sense of the differences [...]
Before the Internet, the brain read mostly in linear ways [...] researchers said.
Some researchers believe that for many people [...]
Researchers say that the differences between text and screen reading should be studied more thoroughly [...]
But, hey, who needs to refer to any research when you can fill an article with anecdotal evidence from Claire Handscombe, Brandon Ambrose, and Ramesh Kurup? I mean, that should plenty to convince anyone, no? ;-)
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The UK government should follow the example of the London Council and upgrade to Chromebooks and Chromeboxes. London Council Dumping Windows For Chromebooks To Save £400,000
Let's see: the summary mentions that "last September 85% of the NHS's 800,000 computers were running XP" which translates to 680,000 computers. A Chromebook is like $200 a pop, so migrating all of them would cost $136,000,000. Not such a big saving, is it?
Not to mention that being tied hands and feet to [insert any company here] is no better than being tied hands and feet to Microsoft, you'd have a ridiculous amount of local storage and no control whatsoever over how (and where) your other data is stored. And I can easily imagine that they also have lots of custom-made applications that wouldn't run in Chrome OS anyway.
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The "race to zero" has done nothing but create a wasteland of crappy "freemium" games. Dungeon Keeper is the culmination of developers' efforts to move the pricing model away from initial purchase and into in-app purchases. The practice has absolutely decimated gaming. I don't necessarily see Steam's move as a good thing.
Speaking of Dungeon Keeper and the flood of "freemium" games I'd like to see less and less of, here's a much a more sane (as in opposite) take on the subject: How In-app Purchases Have Destroyed The Industry
And now, I don't think that what's good good for Apple or Valve is going to be necessarily good for gamers and game developers.
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A lot of people hate Windows 8... but Microsoft is still justified in terminating support for XP in a couple months.
Except for the fact that Microsoft has extended support for Windows XP until July 2015 -- and let's not forget that in August Windows XP will be 13 years old and OS X Snow Leopard just 5.
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This update had one security fix. The fix for the recent SSL bug. This bug did not affect OSX Snow Leopard or earlier, therefore this update is not needed.
Right so far...
It's not at all a sign that Apple no longer supports Snow Leopard.
But very wrong about this one. This table says that OS X Mavericks is indeed a security update for OS X v10.6.8 and later (18th row in the table). Also, the issue has been discussed before
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