People get themselves infected with trojans all the fucking time. Those who run IE, that is -- because they don't want to install an alternative browser on the work PC. I asked some of them whether they'd consider to try FF and see if it helps, and they usually replied, "oh, I use it at home, but I thought at the company I'd better stick to the default".
Well, the move comes late and it's a lot of work. I hope everyone will remember the costly error of coding to IE bugs. VB is more entrenched, though...
We run IE6 with patches as they come, and it's utterly ridiculous what's going on. People get themselves infected with trojans all the fucking time. I suspect myspace as an important vector of some kind, and recently we had lots of infections coming from a malicious ad at merriam-webster.
The wikipedia pages were faster to google, simple. What#s the problem with them, they have links to the projects anyway.
I don't consider these things "things like gkrellm" at all, I'd rather say they are quite exactly in the class of things that Google now brings to the table, and as such I wonder what more Google has to offer.
You need to look at your sample. You don't say. Just as you.
Are you looking at the average work pc or people's home pc? Both work (a lot, many users) and home. Though I agree that they are not "average".
If they have Windows they have IE. Of course, but so what when people don't use it.
Yes Firefox is free but rolling it out to hundreds of PCs in a company isn't. Then you have the problem of legacy systems. 15,000 user global company (HQ in US), top employer. We are in the middle of fixing all standard incompatibilities in the intranet and evaluate FF3, Opera, and IE7 as the company's standard browser. Note that even in the unlikely event that IE7 is chosen, the intranet will be compliant and people are free to use an alternative (which most will, since this is where I see FF used as the internet browser on about 90% of PCs).
I do think IE is under 50% in Germany but in the EU I am pretty sure it is still well over 50%. World wide it is without a doubt over 50%. So what? People doing business on the web can't afford to lose 30% of potential customers either.
I don't know why people don't get urinals installed in their homes... Because grown-up men who have nothing to prove by behaving like dogs can lift the lid and sit down to pee.
IE has a market share of over 50% I'm not so sure about that in Europe. From what I see in Austria and Germany (from personal acquaintances and the general office workers I get to see on the job), the majority of people who browse a lot use Firefox.
Snuff movies are still snuff movies when nobody really dies. No they aren't, since the very definition of a snuff movie is that the depicted acts are real.
what sort of *nix system thinks you don't need a C compiler by default and makes you go looking for it in the repositories? Every security manual recommends leaving compilers off the system unless absolutely needed. And you make it sound as if "looking in the repositories" was some kind of horrendous chore.
I think a good way to do this would be to make ripples spread out from the point of the screen that had been touched. A bit like the xrain screensaver or whatever it's called. Lenovo is already practicing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ltp9nKKzsA
For one thing, that's only evidence that your remote is bad for the task, not that remotes are bad in general. However, I have encountered loads of remotes over the years, and nothing was ever as fast and convenient to operate as the Wiimote + Wii. After using this for a few minutes, all I did was wish that all DVD players, TVs, etc. would always come with such an interface.
Not all flash crash under linux are due to Firefox (and any browser would crash) in the case you are using a distribution with PulseAudio activated. Flash has a nasty bug with PulseAudio which guarantee you a crash if you often use youtube. According to Hardy bug reports I read, this is usually not even flash but libflashsupport. IIRC, at one time during hard development flashplugin-nonfree depended on libflashsupport because it fixed some problems that flash had with pulseaudio. The dependency is removed now, but people who installed flash earlier might still have it. Ah, here it is: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/183943
That's not what I said. And seriously, these statements of yours make absolutely no sense in the context of your alleged POV. In your world view, the "someone" that would dominate [1] is just another part of the same entity.
[1] Not that I agree with that statement, but I let it stand for the sake of argument
And in addition to the other reply: I would guess this (that I consider myself no more important than others) must be the logical thing for you, especially. If it is all one mind, one entity, it is obvious that nothing is won if you try hard to improve your own situation (because you consider your ego the most important thing), when at the same time these efforts change the situation of others (that is, other parts of the same entity) for the worse.
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Well, the move comes late and it's a lot of work. I hope everyone will remember the costly error of coding to IE bugs. VB is more entrenched, though ...
We run IE6 with patches as they come, and it's utterly ridiculous what's going on. People get themselves infected with trojans all the fucking time. I suspect myspace as an important vector of some kind, and recently we had lots of infections coming from a malicious ad at merriam-webster.
The wikipedia pages were faster to google, simple. What#s the problem with them, they have links to the projects anyway.
I don't consider these things "things like gkrellm" at all, I'd rather say they are quite exactly in the class of things that Google now brings to the table, and as such I wonder what more Google has to offer.
Well then you missed at least these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperKaramba
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDesklets
And, not surprisingly, this is what a politician of the Greens in Vienna suggested to do (it's in the article).
I guess you are correct on all 3 accounts :)
Why are you (who can change it easily) more important to cater for than other users who are better off without a compiler?
Vista has the remarkable property of being released years too late and still too soon at the same time.
If I google for extension+compatibility, I get the same information. Jeez!
Editing menu.lst hardly qualifies as a GUI.
I don't know under what jurisdiction you live, but in US code, it simply isn't. This is the last time I'm going to post this link, maybe it will help this time. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00001111----000-.html
That there are special provisions for riots has nothing to to with this, it is a part of riot legislation, http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/search/display.html?terms=incite&url=/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002101----000-.html
And IMHO it's a fascist provision, designed to imprison political enemies.
I see your true colors.
Whatever.
That's not what I said. And seriously, these statements of yours make absolutely no sense in the context of your alleged POV. In your world view, the "someone" that would dominate [1] is just another part of the same entity.
[1] Not that I agree with that statement, but I let it stand for the sake of argument
And in addition to the other reply: I would guess this (that I consider myself no more important than others) must be the logical thing for you, especially. If it is all one mind, one entity, it is obvious that nothing is won if you try hard to improve your own situation (because you consider your ego the most important thing), when at the same time these efforts change the situation of others (that is, other parts of the same entity) for the worse.
I am rational enough to realize that I am not more important than any of the other 6 billion.
Seeing how the proud US of A care for their citizens never ceases to amaze me.