They should have called it a common word, like "Orange".
Re:Hate to put a damper on the celebration
on
Diablo III Released
·
· Score: 3, Informative
Will the same be true 10 or 15 years from now when the Diablo 3 servers no longer work, or if you should lose your internet connection for some reason (or if Blizzard ever goes belly-up)?
Sure, just Google for a crack to apply to your legally-owned copy. The Internet will always come through.
Some people can't be bothered to install updates themselves and even if they could they don't know how to analyze and see if they need the update or not.
For them automatic updates make the most sense. Of course if the company pushing out the updates isn't competent you probably shouldn't be using their products at all in the first place, manual or automatic updates.
Of course you should take as many steps as possible to ensure you DON'T need to do damage control, but if you, Prey or something like it could be invaluable.
You can install a different OS on a Chromebook. You're specifically allowed to do this, and then you can run Firefox or whatever you want (as long as it runs on Linux, and even if it doesn't, thanks to Wine!)
MS has always been eyed critically for browser share since they've used their monopoly on the OS to force users onto their browser before. Neither Google nor Firefox has such a monopoly to leverage for that purpose.
A "quick" format does not erase the data on the drive. A full format would, however (the drawback being a quick format is extremely fast and does not scale in time based on the drive size).
A full format should be enough to keep most people from recovering the data without cracking the drive open and examining the physical platters.
That was my first reaction, didn't Google already go through this with Chrome? They ended up changing the ToS to be more clear that that part did not cover Chrome.
Pretty sure this has been called. I did, at least, though I surely wasn't the first. Though it would make more sense to run Windows due to the increased compatibility, if they can get enough games running on Linux (even if they use Wine or something to do it) they can save a significant chunk of change and pass that savings on.
If you are concerned that much about anonymity that you turn off JS when you use Tor you should probably be using the Tor Browser bundle instead to ensure you look just like any other Tor user.
Also I doubt a Slashdot editor would let a malicious website get into an article link.
Try stacking up those numbers against any other computer companies defective products in what they did to fix them
Microsoft's infamous problems with the XBox 360 overheating RROD problems come to mind. AFAIK they handled that pretty well, I have never owned an MS console though so I have no personal experience.
Nintendo replaced my GBA and my copy of Mario Kart GBA for free when the warranty was technically voided (I had dropped my GBA one too many times and only that specific game failed to work, though other copies of that game did and the game worked on my brother's GBA). Warranty was voided since I used a Code Breaker (use of such cheat devices typically voids the console's warranty, at least it did then) and I told them as such, they still replaced it for free anyway.:)
Speaking of BASIC, VB.NET allows you to lay out Windows dialog visually via click-and-drag and it is easy to play with stuff and then check out the generated code. Of course you still need to write logic to hook it all together and make it actually do something.
Local storage via several APIs (virtual filesystem, SQL database, simple localStorage) and offline apps (HTML5 offline, completely locally installed apps, and recently storing any file on the virtual filesystem was added) are already fully supported. Just because no one is making them doesn't make it Google's fault. There are a few Web based IDEs out there, assuming stuff like Cloud9 and jsFiddle. As for better hardware, Google seems to have already upped the hardware from their initial spec (Cr-48 is not getting Chrome 19, I can only assume it doesn't meet the requirements).
My mom just got a Vaio laptop. It comes with about 20 preloaded apps. Some seem vaguely useful though (it has a fingerprint reader, does Windows 7 include built-in support for those? It doesn't seem to so the bundled app seems necessary). It also has an annoying Dock-type top bar that appears whenever you try to restore a maximized window and move your mouse too far up. And if you tap or hold the Windows button you get a nice keyboard that shows you all the Win+Key keys. At least it would be nice if it didn't do an annoying distracting popping motion whenever you tapped Win for the start menu. And mom wants most of it around "just in case" she needs it.Oh and the keyboard has specialized buttons specifically to launch some of these applications.
At least I got rid of Bing Bar, some webcam app, Norton trial (she claims she declined some offer, but it was still running in the tray), and Office trial.
Also I got to try out Ninite which was pretty awesome, except when I needed to rerun the actual setup utility for foobar2000 to install the freedb component.
I turned "What's Hot" off just fine. Click on "What's Hot" on the left bar and a helpful notice pops up on the new page telling you how to adjust its display on your main page.
AutoIt is designed to work with native windows controls, so it wouldn't surprise me to learn it has problems with manipulating Qt applications, especially if Qt is handleless under Windows (I dunno if it is).
My college managed to completely block tor (thankfully it was about two weeks before graduation). Tor may have improved since then though. Investigating, it looked like my college had identified and blocked all of tor's "dictionary servers", the hard coded servers it looks for to supply it with IP addresses of tor nodes. No dictionary servers, no tor nodes. No tor nodes, no onion routing.
Sorry, all the file types you mentioned have a file header that clearly identifies the file type even if they're renamed. Anyone who knows this will figure out what you did pretty quickly.
And of course it's stupid simple to automatically scan for such files, you don't even have to look at the whole file so it'll scan pretty quickly.
Mozilla is actually changing to an "assume it works" model where addons will be enabled and version compatibility information will be ignored, since most addons will still work fine. They might only enforce it for major updates or something. So you won't have to do this for much longer.
Slashdot Mirror
They should have called it a common word, like "Orange".
Will the same be true 10 or 15 years from now when the Diablo 3 servers no longer work, or if you should lose your internet connection for some reason (or if Blizzard ever goes belly-up)?
Sure, just Google for a crack to apply to your legally-owned copy. The Internet will always come through.
Some people can't be bothered to install updates themselves and even if they could they don't know how to analyze and see if they need the update or not.
For them automatic updates make the most sense. Of course if the company pushing out the updates isn't competent you probably shouldn't be using their products at all in the first place, manual or automatic updates.
Of course you should take as many steps as possible to ensure you DON'T need to do damage control, but if you, Prey or something like it could be invaluable.
"Online" as in "don't dismount the disk while we fix it, so you can continue to use it".
It probably won't have ActiveX support. So you can bet that will close up most security loopholes right there.
You can install a different OS on a Chromebook. You're specifically allowed to do this, and then you can run Firefox or whatever you want (as long as it runs on Linux, and even if it doesn't, thanks to Wine!)
MS has always been eyed critically for browser share since they've used their monopoly on the OS to force users onto their browser before. Neither Google nor Firefox has such a monopoly to leverage for that purpose.
A "quick" format does not erase the data on the drive. A full format would, however (the drawback being a quick format is extremely fast and does not scale in time based on the drive size).
A full format should be enough to keep most people from recovering the data without cracking the drive open and examining the physical platters.
That was my first reaction, didn't Google already go through this with Chrome? They ended up changing the ToS to be more clear that that part did not cover Chrome.
Pretty sure this has been called. I did, at least, though I surely wasn't the first. Though it would make more sense to run Windows due to the increased compatibility, if they can get enough games running on Linux (even if they use Wine or something to do it) they can save a significant chunk of change and pass that savings on.
Don't forget SkyDrive. Even MS, who knows Windows inside and out, install a special client and just sync files back and forth like everyone else does.
If you are concerned that much about anonymity that you turn off JS when you use Tor you should probably be using the Tor Browser bundle instead to ensure you look just like any other Tor user.
Also I doubt a Slashdot editor would let a malicious website get into an article link.
.tks are just frames to another site. So just bookmark the real one if you're concerned about the .tk breaking.
Microsoft's infamous problems with the XBox 360 overheating RROD problems come to mind. AFAIK they handled that pretty well, I have never owned an MS console though so I have no personal experience.
Nintendo replaced my GBA and my copy of Mario Kart GBA for free when the warranty was technically voided (I had dropped my GBA one too many times and only that specific game failed to work, though other copies of that game did and the game worked on my brother's GBA). Warranty was voided since I used a Code Breaker (use of such cheat devices typically voids the console's warranty, at least it did then) and I told them as such, they still replaced it for free anyway. :)
Fun fact: Apparently Chrome detects this behavior (by trying to load several nonsensical URLs in the background) and blocks it. 3 Chrome.
Speaking of BASIC, VB.NET allows you to lay out Windows dialog visually via click-and-drag and it is easy to play with stuff and then check out the generated code. Of course you still need to write logic to hook it all together and make it actually do something.
Local storage via several APIs (virtual filesystem, SQL database, simple localStorage) and offline apps (HTML5 offline, completely locally installed apps, and recently storing any file on the virtual filesystem was added) are already fully supported. Just because no one is making them doesn't make it Google's fault. There are a few Web based IDEs out there, assuming stuff like Cloud9 and jsFiddle. As for better hardware, Google seems to have already upped the hardware from their initial spec (Cr-48 is not getting Chrome 19, I can only assume it doesn't meet the requirements).
My mom just got a Vaio laptop. It comes with about 20 preloaded apps. Some seem vaguely useful though (it has a fingerprint reader, does Windows 7 include built-in support for those? It doesn't seem to so the bundled app seems necessary). It also has an annoying Dock-type top bar that appears whenever you try to restore a maximized window and move your mouse too far up. And if you tap or hold the Windows button you get a nice keyboard that shows you all the Win+Key keys. At least it would be nice if it didn't do an annoying distracting popping motion whenever you tapped Win for the start menu. And mom wants most of it around "just in case" she needs it.Oh and the keyboard has specialized buttons specifically to launch some of these applications.
At least I got rid of Bing Bar, some webcam app, Norton trial (she claims she declined some offer, but it was still running in the tray), and Office trial.
Also I got to try out Ninite which was pretty awesome, except when I needed to rerun the actual setup utility for foobar2000 to install the freedb component.
I turned "What's Hot" off just fine. Click on "What's Hot" on the left bar and a helpful notice pops up on the new page telling you how to adjust its display on your main page.
Not bad considering Microsoft pushes IE to end-users via it being pre-installed on their operating system...
AutoIt is designed to work with native windows controls, so it wouldn't surprise me to learn it has problems with manipulating Qt applications, especially if Qt is handleless under Windows (I dunno if it is).
My college managed to completely block tor (thankfully it was about two weeks before graduation). Tor may have improved since then though. Investigating, it looked like my college had identified and blocked all of tor's "dictionary servers", the hard coded servers it looks for to supply it with IP addresses of tor nodes. No dictionary servers, no tor nodes. No tor nodes, no onion routing.
Sorry, all the file types you mentioned have a file header that clearly identifies the file type even if they're renamed. Anyone who knows this will figure out what you did pretty quickly.
And of course it's stupid simple to automatically scan for such files, you don't even have to look at the whole file so it'll scan pretty quickly.
Minecraft runs on Java, so it'll stick around for a bit longer whether we like it or not.
Mozilla is actually changing to an "assume it works" model where addons will be enabled and version compatibility information will be ignored, since most addons will still work fine. They might only enforce it for major updates or something. So you won't have to do this for much longer.