The act would require ratings boards to entirely complete the content of a videogame before applying a rating
There's a lot of content in then new-fangled massively multiplayer games, and they seem to be updated with new content quite often. Maybe we'll see some ESRB guild tags.
There are many people who will just use whatever the default is when they get the machine.
If the default is IE, they'll use IE. If the default is Opera, they'll use Opera. As long as it works there isn't any reason for them to change anything.
By setting their products as the default MS is able to increase/maintain its share due to the reticence and/or lack of desire by the user base to change.
The longer the password, the longer it takes to force.
"Ih8c@ts" is seven characters long, contains uppercase, lowercase, a number, and @. But is it really more secure than "ireallyhatecats"? In a system where the same characters as the former are acceptable, the length of the second one means it will require more resources than the former.
At my previous position BartPE was a godsend. If you do physical Windows support, and you aren't aware of this, I strongly urge you to take a peek: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Think Win98 boot floppy on crack. Boots off CD/DVD, does PnP, has network support, the ability to add virus scanners & other nifty tools.
There are Linux boot CDs that do more/less/theSame, but if you're like me and (/gasp) not familiar with Linux then this can be a powerful tool.
As an aside, and a question, has anyone else had trouble with IE7? In keeping with "knowing your enemy", I installed IE7, and it crashes consistently every time I open up a new page in a new tab. Anyone else seen this?
My system is actually more stable running the latest IE7 than it is running the latest Firefox (no extensions). When running Firefox my system will sometimes reboot when opening pages, but this hasn't been an issue with IE7. No BSOD, just a hard reset.
It may have to do with running a 32-bit version of Firefox on 64-bit Pro, while running the 64-bit IE7.
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There are many people who will just use whatever the default is when they get the machine.
If the default is IE, they'll use IE. If the default is Opera, they'll use Opera. As long as it works there isn't any reason for them to change anything.
By setting their products as the default MS is able to increase/maintain its share due to the reticence and/or lack of desire by the user base to change.
The longer the password, the longer it takes to force.
"Ih8c@ts" is seven characters long, contains uppercase, lowercase, a number, and @. But is it really more secure than "ireallyhatecats"? In a system where the same characters as the former are acceptable, the length of the second one means it will require more resources than the former.
Tangent, yes. But...
/linux noob
//working on that
///Farker
At my previous position BartPE was a godsend. If you do physical Windows support, and you aren't aware of this, I strongly urge you to take a peek: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Think Win98 boot floppy on crack. Boots off CD/DVD, does PnP, has network support, the ability to add virus scanners & other nifty tools.
There are Linux boot CDs that do more/less/theSame, but if you're like me and (/gasp) not familiar with Linux then this can be a powerful tool.