Other Anti-Virus vendors like Symantec, McAfee, and Kaspersky are going to continue to support XP past April, so why should Microsoft concede market share to these competitors?
Also, Microsoft is going to look pretty bad if a new virus makes a major impact, so having their security product database updates continue will mitigate that. Doing otherwise could easily be spun as irresponsible.
These "capacity whores" you're whining about wouldn't cause such negative impact if our highways were growing in pace with need over the last few decades. If you don't have any breathing room, doing anything is harder, but doing nothing is worse.
A long long time ago, Symantec purchased Intel's AV business including what became their corporate product. The bloat increased over time, but was still a halfway decent product for a few Symantec versions. So maybe McAfee's remains will grow into something better.
You mean like how people in the Northern Hemisphere have done for eons?
In the short term, yes we'll use more resources, but I know I won't be the only one looking to increase heating efficiency. In my case, better weather stripping, adding insulation in some spots.
There's many parental control packages out there, both built into Internet Security suites and stand-alone packages. There are even home-use hardware solutions. Why does the government need to mandate something the market has already taken care of?
It's a shame parents are under the belief they need to keep their kids "pure and innocent" from sex, as if it's some great evil that they grow up to enjoy. No matter how many filters you put up, it doesn't matter because there are still print magazines full of naked women. Teens masturbate, even apes and monkeys do, no matter what your deity says. Internet filtering is like circumcision in the Victorian age, a counterproductive strategy to combat what's at worst a lesser evil than the cure. After all, what's more harmful? Used tissues or the suppression of free speech?
So when will we see the greater NYC area turned into a single state?
The trend towards devolution and smaller, more responsive states is brewing in Europe, so it's no surprise it's also happening here. Is it really democracy when your elected leaders are hundreds of miles away?
A number of people in Dev and IT in general started with nothing but their curiosity and have achieved success. The first thing these guilds do is put up barriers to entry to protect the existing workers, which would lock out new blood and new ideas. It's OK if you're not a fan of meritocracy, but I sure wouldn't want to work for or with someone like you.
Don't let Khan near anything. If it breeds, it can take over your ship. Sleeping with the test proctor will let you beat the no-win scenario. If you have a bad feeling about something, it's a trap.
Mossberg's list is pretty good, but a little too device-centric for my tastes. Some of the broader improvements in technology weren't specific to particular devices:
1) The Web Browser Tim Berners-Lee's Nexus -> NCSA Mosaic -> Netscape How we first look for info on any topic moved from rummaging in card catalogs and old encyclopedias to an online way to read about anything. Browsers are everywhere from the desktop to phones to TVs and game consoles.
2) Search Engines AltaVista -> Yahoo -> Google The cream of the web was only to rise to the top with the help of search engines. Early books about the web included specific URLs on various topics.
3) Non-Dial-Up Internet DSL / Cable -> Fiber The web became much more capable with increased end-user bandwidth. Media available online today was only possible because of bigger pipes, without it we'd not have YouTube, Netflix, or torrents.
4) Windows 95 DOS Shell -> Windows 3.x -> Windows 95 The first modern Windows had its flaws, but the interface changed how the average end user accessed his computer. The GUI was simple enough to push OS/2 out of the market and let Microsoft dominate the desktop for the next 15 years.
5) Microsoft Office VisiCalc -> Lotus 123 -> Microsoft Excel Having a single package that allowed every business user write documents, spreadsheets, and email made the computer indispensable both at work and at home. It is a cash-cow that powers Microsoft to this day.
6) Windows XP Windows NT -> Windows 2000 -> Windows XP The relative stability of NT-based Windows came onto the public's computers over a decade ago and is still marching on as its End of Life is on the horizon. Thanks in part to hardware advances, XP meant computers were still useful for longer periods than they were previously.
7) Smartphones Palm -> BlackBerry -> iPhone -> Android In a mirror of so many other young industries, early devices were not standardized, but the potential for something great was there. BlackBerry's killer app of push email made the smartphone professionally useful for the first time. The iPhone made it cool.
8) Digital Music The cassette tape, record stores, and even the CD have started to become things only for old people. With high-speed internet, file sharing and early MP3 players, most radio of the future will be done online.
9) Social Media Geocities -> Friendster -> MySpace -> Facebook Facebook and Twitter made sharing minor updates and day-to-day events into community discussion, without having to know HTML.
10) Linux It's cheaper than Windows, and goes more places, even your toaster. It may be under the hood to end users, but it's there, more ubiquitous than Intel processors.
I don't think pulling people over for research is a reasonable use of police power. Actual enforcement, maybe, but not for research.
It started with 'sobriety checkpoints' and 'Are you a citizen' roadblocks in the Constitition Free Zone within 100 miles of our borders. We used to mock the USSR over 'papers please' and now we do it ourselves. This is not going to end well.
The police work around our rights using intimidation, which is a form of terrorism. It doesn't help it's legal for them to lie to us, but illegal for us to lie to them.
Another defense of the Obama administration has attributed the troubled rollout of Obamacare to the obstruction of Republican governors who wanted to see the law fail as well as a lack of funding.
In the tiered form of American government, states cannot merely be told to do something by the federal government in most cases. This is why highway money is tied to specific road laws (seatbelts, etc), because the federal government has to financially coerce states into action (or losing tax dollars). How the Affordable Care Act doesn't have this coercion, I can only guess.
By voting for which party in our political duopoly? The whole American political system is a mess because with the two entrenched parties, there is almost no ballot space for new ideas.
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So the arms race may be tilted in favor of Skype for now, but in 6 months we'll have an article "Fake profiles up 200% on Skype".
"Ad blockers try to make a distinction between content elements and advertorial elements. We make that distinction impossible,"
So long as you're hosting your ads off-site, or even on a local (ad.example.com) server, we'll be able to block them.
Other Anti-Virus vendors like Symantec, McAfee, and Kaspersky are going to continue to support XP past April, so why should Microsoft concede market share to these competitors?
Also, Microsoft is going to look pretty bad if a new virus makes a major impact, so having their security product database updates continue will mitigate that. Doing otherwise could easily be spun as irresponsible.
These "capacity whores" you're whining about wouldn't cause such negative impact if our highways were growing in pace with need over the last few decades. If you don't have any breathing room, doing anything is harder, but doing nothing is worse.
Online dating for women will get even more awful then.
A long long time ago, Symantec purchased Intel's AV business including what became their corporate product. The bloat increased over time, but was still a halfway decent product for a few Symantec versions. So maybe McAfee's remains will grow into something better.
What's going to happen to the Intel and Symantec Alliance?
You mean like how people in the Northern Hemisphere have done for eons?
In the short term, yes we'll use more resources, but I know I won't be the only one looking to increase heating efficiency. In my case, better weather stripping, adding insulation in some spots.
So rape and PTSD are just learning experiences?
So when the worldwide population multiplies, will water be the new oil?
There's many parental control packages out there, both built into Internet Security suites and stand-alone packages. There are even home-use hardware solutions. Why does the government need to mandate something the market has already taken care of?
It's a shame parents are under the belief they need to keep their kids "pure and innocent" from sex, as if it's some great evil that they grow up to enjoy. No matter how many filters you put up, it doesn't matter because there are still print magazines full of naked women. Teens masturbate, even apes and monkeys do, no matter what your deity says. Internet filtering is like circumcision in the Victorian age, a counterproductive strategy to combat what's at worst a lesser evil than the cure. After all, what's more harmful? Used tissues or the suppression of free speech?
That's because you're using them wrong. Stop using NetBIOS.
So when will we see the greater NYC area turned into a single state?
The trend towards devolution and smaller, more responsive states is brewing in Europe, so it's no surprise it's also happening here. Is it really democracy when your elected leaders are hundreds of miles away?
How would it tell an accident from a sudden stop without an accident? Or even being thrown?
A number of people in Dev and IT in general started with nothing but their curiosity and have achieved success. The first thing these guilds do is put up barriers to entry to protect the existing workers, which would lock out new blood and new ideas. It's OK if you're not a fan of meritocracy, but I sure wouldn't want to work for or with someone like you.
Don't let Khan near anything.
If it breeds, it can take over your ship.
Sleeping with the test proctor will let you beat the no-win scenario.
If you have a bad feeling about something, it's a trap.
Mossberg's list is pretty good, but a little too device-centric for my tastes. Some of the broader improvements in technology weren't specific to particular devices:
1) The Web Browser
Tim Berners-Lee's Nexus -> NCSA Mosaic -> Netscape
How we first look for info on any topic moved from rummaging in card catalogs and old encyclopedias to an online way to read about anything. Browsers are everywhere from the desktop to phones to TVs and game consoles.
2) Search Engines
AltaVista -> Yahoo -> Google
The cream of the web was only to rise to the top with the help of search engines. Early books about the web included specific URLs on various topics.
3) Non-Dial-Up Internet
DSL / Cable -> Fiber
The web became much more capable with increased end-user bandwidth. Media available online today was only possible because of bigger pipes, without it we'd not have YouTube, Netflix, or torrents.
4) Windows 95
DOS Shell -> Windows 3.x -> Windows 95
The first modern Windows had its flaws, but the interface changed how the average end user accessed his computer. The GUI was simple enough to push OS/2 out of the market and let Microsoft dominate the desktop for the next 15 years.
5) Microsoft Office
VisiCalc -> Lotus 123 -> Microsoft Excel
Having a single package that allowed every business user write documents, spreadsheets, and email made the computer indispensable both at work and at home. It is a cash-cow that powers Microsoft to this day.
6) Windows XP
Windows NT -> Windows 2000 -> Windows XP
The relative stability of NT-based Windows came onto the public's computers over a decade ago and is still marching on as its End of Life is on the horizon. Thanks in part to hardware advances, XP meant computers were still useful for longer periods than they were previously.
7) Smartphones
Palm -> BlackBerry -> iPhone -> Android
In a mirror of so many other young industries, early devices were not standardized, but the potential for something great was there. BlackBerry's killer app of push email made the smartphone professionally useful for the first time. The iPhone made it cool.
8) Digital Music
The cassette tape, record stores, and even the CD have started to become things only for old people. With high-speed internet, file sharing and early MP3 players, most radio of the future will be done online.
9) Social Media
Geocities -> Friendster -> MySpace -> Facebook
Facebook and Twitter made sharing minor updates and day-to-day events into community discussion, without having to know HTML.
10) Linux
It's cheaper than Windows, and goes more places, even your toaster. It may be under the hood to end users, but it's there, more ubiquitous than Intel processors.
Our duopoly of political parties are two sides to the same coin.
It started with 'sobriety checkpoints' and 'Are you a citizen' roadblocks in the Constitition Free Zone within 100 miles of our borders. We used to mock the USSR over 'papers please' and now we do it ourselves. This is not going to end well.
The police work around our rights using intimidation, which is a form of terrorism. It doesn't help it's legal for them to lie to us, but illegal for us to lie to them.
At least then we wouldn't have both political parties trying to claim him for contemporary purposes.
In this world, we only have red pills and blue pills. Wonder what happens if you take both?
In the tiered form of American government, states cannot merely be told to do something by the federal government in most cases. This is why highway money is tied to specific road laws (seatbelts, etc), because the federal government has to financially coerce states into action (or losing tax dollars). How the Affordable Care Act doesn't have this coercion, I can only guess.
Americans are reactive, Europeans are proactive. We're just waiting for Nokia to actually screw up to do anything.
Is it OK for streaming communication (YouTube, Netflix) or online gaming (StarCraft 2, FPS) to take precedence over email?
By voting for which party in our political duopoly? The whole American political system is a mess because with the two entrenched parties, there is almost no ballot space for new ideas.