http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxp pro/maintain/sp2netwk.mspx
"Prior to Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows XP shipped with Internet Connection Firewall disabled by default. The user either needed to run a wizard or navigate through the Network Connections folder to manually enable Windows Firewall. This experience proved too difficult for many users, and resulted in many computers not having any firewall protection."
It's not a big deal really but seems to me that I'm right.
I think we're wandering into fairly different territory from the original point here. There's some shitty software out there that requires admin privileges to run, yeah, but that is not the fault of the OS. Blame the developers who code stupid shit like games to require admin. You could make Linux software that does retarded stuff like that too if you really felt the need.
Fair enough, that's a problem. Not one I've ever had the misfortunate to run into but I'll take your word for it. You can still login as administrator and run the applications using Run-As, though, I would assume, so it doesn't seem a massive problem to me.
If you can read and create the documents, why wouldn't you be able to edit them? That seems a somewhat strange distinction to me. If nothing else, you could open the document and then save the changed document to a new PDF, which is the same thing as editing it in effect.
I've yet to run into an old windows 95/98 era game that won't run on XP. Master of Orion 2, Fallout, and the like all run fine for me. I can even play most DOS games well enough without sound.
The first couple of games were well received but I never saw the appeal myself. Played a demo of the first game and spent more time fighting with the bloody camera system than anything else, so I never bothered with the game.
You'd have a point about the beheadings if they weren't just grabbing anyone they could get their hands on. There've been a few relief workers and the like taken by the resistance over there and it's really getting tiresome as far as I'm concerned. It's one thing to kill soldiers occupying your country, it's another entirely to kill random civilians that are actively trying to help your people.
There was absolutely nothing new in GTA3 unless you think taking a game and putting it in 3D is revolutionary. Certainly no risk in it considering how well the original two sold.
No, they make six or seven versions so they can get away with charging an arm and a leg in wealthier countries. The last TV series boxset I bought would have cost half as much if I'd not had to worry about region coding. You can't tell me that encoding for Region 2 and changing the packaging is worth a doubling in the price. Not with a straight face anyway.
And yes I'm aware that for the most part if can be easily bypassed but I can't be bothered to deal with that particular faff on, especially when the new standards and encryption methods will make it even more of a hassle in the future should I choose to get a HD-DVD player when the time comes.
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I used to read it too occasionally. Shame it went to shit so badly towards the end though.
There's a bit of a difference between a console that's wired up to your nice, big widescreen telly and a handheld console.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxp pro/maintain/sp2netwk.mspx
"Prior to Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows XP shipped with Internet Connection Firewall disabled by default. The user either needed to run a wizard or navigate through the Network Connections folder to manually enable Windows Firewall. This experience proved too difficult for many users, and resulted in many computers not having any firewall protection."
It's not a big deal really but seems to me that I'm right.
Didn't Windows XP always have a firewall? Fairly sure it did, myself.
I think we're wandering into fairly different territory from the original point here. There's some shitty software out there that requires admin privileges to run, yeah, but that is not the fault of the OS. Blame the developers who code stupid shit like games to require admin. You could make Linux software that does retarded stuff like that too if you really felt the need.
Fair enough, that's a problem. Not one I've ever had the misfortunate to run into but I'll take your word for it. You can still login as administrator and run the applications using Run-As, though, I would assume, so it doesn't seem a massive problem to me.
And using the Run-As functionality that has been in place since at least Windows 2000 alleviates that problem entirely. Any more smart arse remarks?
If you can read and create the documents, why wouldn't you be able to edit them? That seems a somewhat strange distinction to me. If nothing else, you could open the document and then save the changed document to a new PDF, which is the same thing as editing it in effect.
I downloaded the demo and it worked fine. This is on Windows XP Pro.
I've yet to run into an old windows 95/98 era game that won't run on XP. Master of Orion 2, Fallout, and the like all run fine for me. I can even play most DOS games well enough without sound.
The first couple of games were well received but I never saw the appeal myself. Played a demo of the first game and spent more time fighting with the bloody camera system than anything else, so I never bothered with the game.
You'd have a point about the beheadings if they weren't just grabbing anyone they could get their hands on. There've been a few relief workers and the like taken by the resistance over there and it's really getting tiresome as far as I'm concerned. It's one thing to kill soldiers occupying your country, it's another entirely to kill random civilians that are actively trying to help your people.
Have you ever actually used Firefox? It takes all of about thirty seconds to set it to open links in a new tab instead of a new window.
There was absolutely nothing new in GTA3 unless you think taking a game and putting it in 3D is revolutionary. Certainly no risk in it considering how well the original two sold.
No, they make six or seven versions so they can get away with charging an arm and a leg in wealthier countries. The last TV series boxset I bought would have cost half as much if I'd not had to worry about region coding. You can't tell me that encoding for Region 2 and changing the packaging is worth a doubling in the price. Not with a straight face anyway.
And yes I'm aware that for the most part if can be easily bypassed but I can't be bothered to deal with that particular faff on, especially when the new standards and encryption methods will make it even more of a hassle in the future should I choose to get a HD-DVD player when the time comes.