All big and small players have toolbars as a tool that increases their market share, or access to the customers. Some toolbars are undoubtedly malware, while others aren't (perhaps Google, MSN, AOL, Yahoo tolbars, etc.). But their real goal is the same: to direct you to sites which they promote and get paid in return. Perhaps calling them a malware is too strong word. In the end, user shouldn't limit themselves to single search engine. This is solved nicely in Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 through drop-down menu list. Still, Google made toolbar for Firefox although it is default search option - just to ensure no other ones are being used by customer.
Article itself contains some details about rampant malware in China. This is in my opinion interesting part:
"There's only one browser address bar, and we were all competing for that space," he said. "We all tried to uninstall one another. And we all just went further and further down that road. If you can protect your software from being uninstalled by a competitor's, then imagine how hard it is for a regular user to uninstall."
So, in some way every browser toolbar is a malware.
They are not making same product, and neither will have relative monopoly even after merger.
AMD market share is at best 20%, ATi's at best 1/3 ( other third intel and nVIDIA), and again even with bundling their respective products they don't make any impact, it is not like that they couldn't bundle ATi shi*sets without merger.
As already has been said majority of nForce users will swing away. They are making easier for us to avoid them, as AMD+ATi will always come in combo, so if you don't like one, you don't get the other one; or makes it easier to avoid both while buying laptops (many intel based laptops have ATi graphics)
Glad it works for you, but didn't work for me, and for quite a few unhappy folks at ATi fans hangout, rage3d.com, just open the Linux Driver bulletin board and salvo of problems will appear.
Yes, ATi's drivers are getting better with the time, as the driver and driver team matures. However, ATi's attitude does not: they are making linux drivers just because PR. Not because the custmers. ATi recognizes majority of customers uses Windows, and allocates minimal resources for Linux drivers developement, along the market share line. As long as they don't have honest intention to provide good Linux dirver, I won't be buying in such articles.
Well not only that, but average user has a need to install more or less- malware. The trash software industry that makes junk loaded with spuyware addware and other poorly written software, targets averageuser, not the experts. The amount of software today created, and used in world requires that main user of computer uses his root account at least sparingly.
However, I see the problem of user ignorance as a problem that is not necessarily unsolvable. It is that unsafe practices of its users create additional challenge for defensive software developers that has to be taken into account. For example, see how Unix systems perform well security-wise even without anti-virus software. It is that Microsoft hasn't taken this into account when designing Windows 2000 and XP.
NetBurst came from top - marketing decision to fool the customer into buying GHz number only, regardless of consumption and efficiency. No way that such "lucid" idea would come from designers; they were simply forced to implement it.
Virtual PC 2004 has 100% CPU utilization when just one virtual machine is loaded. There's option to reduce utilization when virtual machine window is not active, and still significant portion of CPU processing power is used in that case.
Now, it is obvious that such wasting of CPU time cannot be good, either from wasted CPU resources that could be used for something useful, power consumption, heat generation. It is like CPU is running an infinite blank loop whenever you turn on virtual machine.
I don't think software pirates care much about size. Indeed it is mroe convinient to copy if it is smaller, but in the end, faster download speed is all waht is needed, and it is dirt cheap today.
I've seen numerous posts on bulletin boards where wanna-be pirates download whole ISO image, and then ask what it does, and "how to open it with WinZip".
and every Linux distro coems today on ~5 CD-ROMs or one DVd...are they trying same method of detering away users?
When it comes to that - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, direct competiting product to SuSE Enterprise 10 still uses... GNOME 2.8 and KDE 3.3. And we all knwo that RedHat has more paying market share than any other distribution. I think entusiasists care about numbers, but actual corporate buyers don't. Users can install additional software just as well on older and on cutting edge versions. Perhaps mature versions are even more stable and compatible.
In other words, GNOME 2.8 and 2.14 look different, but perform same function... just like Windows 2000 and XP.
And there's many people using RHEL 3, that comes with GNOME 2.6.
Why would somebody switch to different (and one with completely different purpose) distribution for a single driver? That Gentoo Broadcom driver is first generetion of reverse engineered driver. I would expect Windows native driver in form of ndiswrapper to perform better, as the ndiswrapper is very mature product.
Over 50% people using internet are already on broadband.
And why not - everybody over 40 could find it interesting. It is about content. AOL has integrated internet into one application - for rest of the world it is good idea.
Anyway, AOL sees end of first itnernet age, and has to move on, or get out of game.
RPM hell? As a Red Hat Network subscriber I enjoy one-click installations of pre-configured software packages that you won't find anywhere else. Plus apt-get works as good as on Ubuntu. Like it or not, RPM is de-facto standard today. Having one more supported format helps, you know?
He could work as human spam filter in prison. If he has good memory, he would remember his own "work", and recognize it faster than anti-spam software.
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That theory is very well elaborated in "Crime and Ponishment".
no big deal, more like PR stunt paid by some PR agency.
All big and small players have toolbars as a tool that increases their market share, or access to the customers. Some toolbars are undoubtedly malware, while others aren't (perhaps Google, MSN, AOL, Yahoo tolbars, etc.). But their real goal is the same: to direct you to sites which they promote and get paid in return. Perhaps calling them a malware is too strong word. In the end, user shouldn't limit themselves to single search engine. This is solved nicely in Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 through drop-down menu list. Still, Google made toolbar for Firefox although it is default search option - just to ensure no other ones are being used by customer.
"There's only one browser address bar, and we were all competing for that space," he said. "We all tried to uninstall one another. And we all just went further and further down that road. If you can protect your software from being uninstalled by a competitor's, then imagine how hard it is for a regular user to uninstall."
So, in some way every browser toolbar is a malware.I don't think he will report himself.
It is 1999, slightly more than 1100.
considering that it takes 1950 years for effects to be sen, we have 0 years from the time we detect the supernova.
They work, as soon as you remove false prefix.
They are not making same product, and neither will have relative monopoly even after merger.
AMD market share is at best 20%, ATi's at best 1/3 ( other third intel and nVIDIA), and again even with bundling their respective products they don't make any impact, it is not like that they couldn't bundle ATi shi*sets without merger.
As already has been said majority of nForce users will swing away. They are making easier for us to avoid them, as AMD+ATi will always come in combo, so if you don't like one, you don't get the other one; or makes it easier to avoid both while buying laptops (many intel based laptops have ATi graphics)
Now you can run same spyware multiple times at the same time.
Glad it works for you, but didn't work for me, and for quite a few unhappy folks at ATi fans hangout, rage3d.com, just open the Linux Driver bulletin board and salvo of problems will appear.
Yes, ATi's drivers are getting better with the time, as the driver and driver team matures. However, ATi's attitude does not: they are making linux drivers just because PR. Not because the custmers. ATi recognizes majority of customers uses Windows, and allocates minimal resources for Linux drivers developement, along the market share line. As long as they don't have honest intention to provide good Linux dirver, I won't be buying in such articles.
Everybody else who says differently has used Linux for 5 minutes (like the author of that "excellent" article).
Well not only that, but average user has a need to install more or less- malware. The trash software industry that makes junk loaded with spuyware addware and other poorly written software, targets averageuser, not the experts. The amount of software today created, and used in world requires that main user of computer uses his root account at least sparingly. However, I see the problem of user ignorance as a problem that is not necessarily unsolvable. It is that unsafe practices of its users create additional challenge for defensive software developers that has to be taken into account. For example, see how Unix systems perform well security-wise even without anti-virus software. It is that Microsoft hasn't taken this into account when designing Windows 2000 and XP.
NetBurst came from top - marketing decision to fool the customer into buying GHz number only, regardless of consumption and efficiency. No way that such "lucid" idea would come from designers; they were simply forced to implement it.
Virtual PC 2004 has 100% CPU utilization when just one virtual machine is loaded. There's option to reduce utilization when virtual machine window is not active, and still significant portion of CPU processing power is used in that case. Now, it is obvious that such wasting of CPU time cannot be good, either from wasted CPU resources that could be used for something useful, power consumption, heat generation. It is like CPU is running an infinite blank loop whenever you turn on virtual machine.
I don't think software pirates care much about size. Indeed it is mroe convinient to copy if it is smaller, but in the end, faster download speed is all waht is needed, and it is dirt cheap today.
I've seen numerous posts on bulletin boards where wanna-be pirates download whole ISO image, and then ask what it does, and "how to open it with WinZip".
and every Linux distro coems today on ~5 CD-ROMs or one DVd...are they trying same method of detering away users?
When it comes to that - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, direct competiting product to SuSE Enterprise 10 still uses... GNOME 2.8 and KDE 3.3. And we all knwo that RedHat has more paying market share than any other distribution. I think entusiasists care about numbers, but actual corporate buyers don't. Users can install additional software just as well on older and on cutting edge versions. Perhaps mature versions are even more stable and compatible. In other words, GNOME 2.8 and 2.14 look different, but perform same function... just like Windows 2000 and XP. And there's many people using RHEL 3, that comes with GNOME 2.6.
Why would somebody switch to different (and one with completely different purpose) distribution for a single driver? That Gentoo Broadcom driver is first generetion of reverse engineered driver. I would expect Windows native driver in form of ndiswrapper to perform better, as the ndiswrapper is very mature product.
Over 50% people using internet are already on broadband. And why not - everybody over 40 could find it interesting. It is about content. AOL has integrated internet into one application - for rest of the world it is good idea. Anyway, AOL sees end of first itnernet age, and has to move on, or get out of game.
List of terrorist organizations...o ns#Religious_Terrorists
(Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist_organizati
Note the large number of orgazniations from single religion.
And you want to shell out $400+ for 2D card?
RPM hell? As a Red Hat Network subscriber I enjoy one-click installations of pre-configured software packages that you won't find anywhere else. Plus apt-get works as good as on Ubuntu. Like it or not, RPM is de-facto standard today. Having one more supported format helps, you know?
And your Ubuntu does not use GNOME 2.1x ? That is why it is so "different"...right.
Ubuntu is not cool. Impress me with Red Hat Entrprise Linux or something else purposeful.
He could work as human spam filter in prison. If he has good memory, he would remember his own "work", and recognize it faster than anti-spam software.