Ok, Vista's to have several major SP, the first of which is in the works. We're looking at 5-6 years just for Vista to get adopted at acceptable levels.
The next major Windows realistically will come at least 7-8 years from now, take around 5-6 years again to get adopted.
So we're talking around 2020.
And never mind what Microsoft support, the majority of software is expected to support previous OS for a few more years, as is customary.
So we're talking around 2025.
Raise you hand everyone who uses 18 year old laptop. Anyone? Well, Mac users got nothing to worry about then.
Unless your talking about a really big fing bomb (which these terrorist generally don't use and if they had wouldn't need cellphones etc to use) the blast range is a few feet at best. Meaning it will receive the jamming long before there is anything interesting to blow up.
Imagine a terrorist got a Javelin launcher, and a nice spot to shoot from (which for the Javelin is just about anywhere). A Javelin follows its target electronically, so the terrorist can move immediately after launching the missile, before it hits the target, and the missile itself strikes top down and can blow up a whole tank.
What I'm trying to get at, you can't stop anyone who wants to kill Bush, so maybe he should just give up and resign from the job.
Now, don't even try to find logical fallacies in my construction up there, I don't like that.
I am sure that this isn't the only countermeasure that they are taking. Its good to publish this one, though, so people know in advance their cell phones won't work. The other counter measures probably don't affect personal electronic devices in the same manner.
Well, most of the big terrorist acts in the late years involved people who bombed themselves together with the bomb.
To kill Bush, you'll find enough people ready to die for the chance to do it. If you don't care for your life, there are hundreds of ways to sneak a bomb in close enough radius to kill one man. Actually, it may not even need a whole bomb to begin with.
I hope they have brain activity jamming device (it's safe for Bush).
Nothing stops him, but he'd still be creating an index only for his own site. He'd be free to distort his own index to his heart's content of course, but it won't affect anyone else. It would only distort the information searchable on his own site.
Would you mind detailing what's your idea. In-site search engines aren't exactly unheard of. In-site search engine is in no way, form or shape a replacement for Google / Yahoo / Live, because the problem is how you get to the site in first place.
And if it's distributed, it'll be abused, and if it's not.. then.. well that's what we have today.
Where's the third option that different from those?
After all, individual sites are far better placed to index their resources than a generic crawler can ever be, for a number of reasons. They have far more efficient access to their local data for starters, and are able to do the indexing instantaneously as things change.
Simple: sites can't be trusted. There are millions of sites trying to outcheat Google today. We don't want to end the battle prematurely, go home, and leave those sites take over the Internet, do we.
Consider this: how successful a 100% P2P program can be in filtering out illegal content. You have no index you control, you don't have the content. Basically you're powerless. People will share their nastiness never mind what you do.
You can research why meta keyword tags are no longer used in indexing, the reason is the same.
OK seriously, are people going to live in the past forever? While I don't intend on getting rid of the mp3's I do have, it isn't mp3's that people should be making, and especially, buying, now. MP4/AAC has been around for a while now, and there is no excuse for non-WMA stores to not be selling it... the quality at any given bitrate is significantly better... and even if you can't notice it because of poor ears, a poor audio system, or just general lack of caring... it's the future.
In a casual conversation, "my AAC player" wouldn't ring a bell, and "buy AAC from Amazon" wouldn't either.
The fact they said "we'll sell DRM free mp3" doesn't mean they're in love with MP3. They need to get the message across first, and one we have stable economics with DRM free music, they can work on informing their clients of the better options.
You gotta be happy we seem to be taking the first steps of getting rid of DRM here. But some people always whine never mind what.
DRM will likely remain as a model for renting music/video (movies on demand, most likely you'll run directly from your browser).
But there's someone who's pretty majorly screwed if DRM is no longer used on sold media. Microsoft: they invested millions upon millions to get the DRM in Vista, and Vista suffers significantly from all the DRM in it. Imagine if it turns out in 2 years no one wants it, and they have to remove it in a SP.
Imagine all the lost resources, time, and the bad PR consequences for Vista with all they are doing DRM... Bad, bad.
Ok, I'm not a scientist. How exactly we *reverse* baldness (notice the term) in grown people, by finding the *gene* responsible.
Do we take a magical serum that alters our DNA or something? You know, like in movies, where if an alien bites you, you don't just die from a bad infection or anything, oh no. You instead turn into a hybrid, 'cause, you see, the alien DNA infected you.
But wait, no, if they can make all our development and design tools run INSIDE their 3D world, on virtual computers, and make their workers use the virtual computers to work, then we know they lost it.
Seeing from what we have here though, I wouldn't be surprised if they're already working on it.
By their definition, the fly makes a decision about what it will do and hence has "free will". I.e., it's not constrained to a single choice by its environment, and it's not making a random selection between available choices.
Yes, it's an actual creature with very basic intelligence, that makes choices better than a piece of rock does.
Linus: Fine, you've agreed to a meeting, and you know what this is about.
BillG: Yup. So what are we guys gonna do. Maybe a little contract where each Linux user owes us $20 for patent license?
Linus: Oh yea, this is exactly what I had in mind! I like your sense of humor. No, I'm here to ask which line of code violates which patent. And get this fixed.
BillG: I'm not telling.
Linus: Oh yea? Ok. File kernel.c. Does line 1 infringe?
BillG: No. And I told you, I'm not telling!
Linus: Does line 2 infringe?
BillG: No.
Linus: Line 3?
BillG: No.
Linus: Line 4?
BillG: No.
... ...
Linus: Line 4032?
BillG:...
Linus: Well?
BillG:...
Linus: All right. I have a numbered list of all your software patents here.. So, does line 4032 violate the first patent?
We asked the three top consoles, what's the key for new games:
XBOX360: Well, hot detailed graphics are definitely a key.
PS3 [looks in question list]: Hey! That's my line, you jerk! Anyway.. Blue Ray's a key too. You can make bigger games on Blue Ray to fit all the hot graphics, so I can have hotter graphics than any of you guys.
Wii and XBOX360: Yea.. Sure.. [chuckling].
XBOX360: Micro-transactions are a key as well. We sell gamers crippled games, and make them pay to buy assets. It's kinda like Scientology: by the time you understand it's all a bunch of bull, you've already paid, so you gotta keep playing and paying. Aaa.. and... and.. it also makes gaming more engaging, and bitter, just like real life is.
PS3: User content is also key. You allow the gamers to create anything they want in a game, guns, cars, roads... Wait.. this kinda doesn't fly with transactions...
XBOX360: Shhhh... damn it! Another key is online gameplay. I integrate all games with consistent online experience, which builds a great community of gamers.
PS3: Me too!
XBOX360: You too what?
PS3: I build a clone of your service by integrating a clone of Second Life in my clone exp.. I mean core experience.
XBOX360: Oh.. right...
Wii: A key in new games, and old games, is fun an inventive gameplay, you guys. You shouldn't forget that.
XBOX360 and PS3: Hahahaha. Idiot...
Wii: And new fun ways to interface with game with innovative sensor controller!
XBOX360: Hahahaha, you're making our day, Wii.
PS3: [hides the 6-axis controller behind his back] Hu-hu-hu:(
How is offering a Zune download link proof that Zune can't stand on its own? iPod must *really* be struggling to stand on its own, given the number of iPod links and accessories out there.:|
Maybe you don't understand the subtle difference. There's lots of iPod links out there since there's a lot of demand for them.
While with Zune, Microsoft tries to sprinkle Zune links everywhere on its own sites, in attempt to make it seem as if there's demand. But in fact, the relation is reversed: Microsoft hopes this somehow will help Zune's adoption.
If it's not clear yet, I'll give example. You know how during the first bubble one-man companies tried to replicate the success of big companies by creating shiny sites so presented as if they're some big corporation with top clients, and everyone uses their service? They kinda thought that if they replicate the language and look of the best sites out there, they'll replicate also their success. But alas, people see through those things.
And they see through Microsoft's desparate attempts to market Zune and Vista too. Now, you won't hear me whining about "M$" and the quality of MS software and so on. I'm not a random MS basher. I use and like much of Microsoft's software. Windows, Office, Visual Studio: they're ranging from good to great for their purpose. But Microsoft heroic marketing efforts to boost Microsoft's stillborn products are truly hilarious.
Jack: Here's the new material "New planet made of vapour under pressure".
Chief: Damn it, that sounds dry. We need to get Bob, our marketing-slash-copywriter-slash-pr guy fix it a little.
Jack: But it...
Bob: Yep, ok.. Lemme think, vapour under pressure, how much pressure? So much that it's the same density as hard material
Jack: Lots of pressure, but to be hard it...
Bob: Good enough for me. So it's kinda like ice, isn't it.. "New planet made of hard vapour", wait.. I got it "New planet made of hot ice"!
Chief: Amazing!
Jack: It's totally not "ice" dude...
Bob: Whatever.. but it's still too pedestrian, "new planet". We gotta hint there's something more interesting on there, "alien planet", right.. "alien world". Sounds more epic. "Alien world made of hot ice!".
Chief: Perfect! We want to stress how odd all of this is. You know, not your run-of-the-mill hot ice planet though. Put "strange" in front, strange stuff is interesting.
I'm sick of people hyping stuff a million years before release. unless you are gullible enough to 'pre-order' a game, who cares about any of them until they are in stores? or maybe a month away if you need to put money aside?
You were modded as flamebait (do people know what this means? how can you possibly start a flamewar from your claims?).
But what you're talking about is an actual problem with tech news sites and news in general. If you look at the news we read here, over 3/4 of it is speculation about upcoming things or just speculation for whatever.
It's nice to know things in advance, but this is approaching the usefulness of white noise when in overdose, and it's harder to see what's going on NOW, buried in the sea of "coming up at some point maybe!" articles.
Halo 3 isn't supposed run on XP, you'll have to upgrade to Vista.....
It's worse. This is Halo 2 you're talking about. It's 2 that requires Vista. 3 isn't even coming on a PC any time soon. I suppose they'll release Halo 3 in few years, and it'll run only on Vienna (the next major windows release).
It's quite sad really. You can't make someone upgrade to Vista to run a 5 year old game that could run just as well on Windows 98. Just like you can't give Zune prizes and imagine people will not notice it's not an iPod.
Microsoft should maybe start thinking how their product may stand on their own, versus going for a multitude of random cheapshots like this.
I love it when Microsoft pretends to be oblivious to the trends and situation on the market:
"including some information on the tie-in Zune device Microsoft is offering to enflame fanboy passions"
The subtle (or maybe not) stupidity of this struck me first when I saw the following list of options on the MIX 2007 video streams:
Stream live (Silverlight). Download (WMV). Download for Zune.
Great, thanks buddies! So although I have the latest ever WMP, the only option I have to stream it live is a crashing beta plugin that has no stable release out there.
But the funnier thing was the "download for Zune". You see, many sites offer "download for iPod" links. This is because a huge number of people have iPods. I guess in Microsoft-land, what matters is artificially push your product in tie-ins and integrating it in your sites, in the hope someone buys a Zune just to watch the MIX 2007 streams on the go.
The only thing they've proven so far, is Zune can't stand on its own.
I guess you should also consider how many people install crapware by following links that say bologna along the lines of "Your pc is at risk. Click here for... ".
True, but this is an old and known fact. There's no way to prevent a user on any OS from willfully installing and running a program that he believes is doing something good for his computer.
I knew a guy who thought just the mere fact he clicked on an ad "speed up my internet" (and doing nothing further),... speeded up his internet.
But keep in mind that these people are virtually ALL running Windows and they just clicked a ad which promised to install malware on their computers. They arent the brightest cookies in the jar.
You have no way of knowing what they thought when clicking this.
First of all, this is just a mind trick. Many people would read this ad in a hurry as an ad for antivirus software. The fact that it said "click here to infect your pc" doesn't make the ad more dangerous than if it said otherwise.
If you actually read what it exactly said, it looks like a joke. Have you seen a single scam that says "this is a scam, please install this spyware to steal your credit card"?
So, in this context, how is a clicking a link saying "infect me" any more dangerous than clicking a link that says "click here for totally harmless content".
You're free to have your fun at the expense of few curious or confused people who clicked a simple link for whatever reason, but it's really all just that, a funny joke. It means nothing else.
Well, you know. Chemistry started as alchemistry, where a bunch of weirdos tried to turn everything they could find into gold.
As long as he doesn't hurt anyone, let him do whatever he wants, something good may evolve out of it. I for one, won't even pretend I have a clue what on earth a two state machine with three colors should be.
Given the demographic involved in this case, it's almost certainly the same thing.
You wouldn't like when Windows users call your favorite distro totally user-unfriendly, unusable as a desktop system, or good for nothing more that a toy to hack in your free time.
It's the same thing when people bend the truth of Windows to fit their little propaganda and misfit elitism.
Pretty much reflects total market share almost 1:1. When 90% of the consumer market uses MS as their OS, is it terribly surprising that 85% of consumer *morons* use it?
There should always someone wrecking a good bashing with some plain logic, isn't there.
But boring jokes aside, it brings another topic into descussion. What would be the % of infected systems, if that WOULD be a malicious site.
On a patched up XP or Vista right now, are there active drive-by-downloads you can exploit on IE, Opera, Firefox? If so, next question is, how many of them rely on JavaScript being enabled.
I'm not familiar with an active IE exploit for a patched up IE6/7 right now. Also on IE7 in Vista, an active exploit wouldn't be able to write the file to the disk and execute it, or modify system files and configuration.
Bottom line is, people clicked on a curious link, clicking a link isn't so terribly dangerous on a secure system.
I wonder if average users of AV software look at their "quarantined files" and do a rough calculation of how much each of them cost..
"Hmm, I paid $60 for AV software this year and I've had a grand total of 4 files quarantined.. that's $12.50 per file."
That puts my life insurance in perspective. I paid hundreds of dollars for it this year, and I've had a grant total of zero deaths. That' uhmm.. division by zero exception per death, I guess.
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Ok, Vista's to have several major SP, the first of which is in the works. We're looking at 5-6 years just for Vista to get adopted at acceptable levels.
The next major Windows realistically will come at least 7-8 years from now, take around 5-6 years again to get adopted.
So we're talking around 2020.
And never mind what Microsoft support, the majority of software is expected to support previous OS for a few more years, as is customary.
So we're talking around 2025.
Raise you hand everyone who uses 18 year old laptop. Anyone? Well, Mac users got nothing to worry about then.
Unless your talking about a really big fing bomb (which these terrorist generally don't use and if they had wouldn't need cellphones etc to use) the blast range is a few feet at best. Meaning it will receive the jamming long before there is anything interesting to blow up.
Imagine a terrorist got a Javelin launcher, and a nice spot to shoot from (which for the Javelin is just about anywhere). A Javelin follows its target electronically, so the terrorist can move immediately after launching the missile, before it hits the target, and the missile itself strikes top down and can blow up a whole tank.
What I'm trying to get at, you can't stop anyone who wants to kill Bush, so maybe he should just give up and resign from the job.
Now, don't even try to find logical fallacies in my construction up there, I don't like that.
I am sure that this isn't the only countermeasure that they are taking. Its good to publish this one, though, so people know in advance their cell phones won't work. The other counter measures probably don't affect personal electronic devices in the same manner.
Well, most of the big terrorist acts in the late years involved people who bombed themselves together with the bomb.
To kill Bush, you'll find enough people ready to die for the chance to do it. If you don't care for your life, there are hundreds of ways to sneak a bomb in close enough radius to kill one man. Actually, it may not even need a whole bomb to begin with.
I hope they have brain activity jamming device (it's safe for Bush).
Nothing stops him, but he'd still be creating an index only for his own site. He'd be free to distort his own index to his heart's content of course, but it won't affect anyone else. It would only distort the information searchable on his own site.
.. well that's what we have today.
Would you mind detailing what's your idea. In-site search engines aren't exactly unheard of. In-site search engine is in no way, form or shape a replacement for Google / Yahoo / Live, because the problem is how you get to the site in first place.
And if it's distributed, it'll be abused, and if it's not.. then
Where's the third option that different from those?
After all, individual sites are far better placed to index their resources than a generic crawler can ever be, for a number of reasons. They have far more efficient access to their local data for starters, and are able to do the indexing instantaneously as things change.
Simple: sites can't be trusted. There are millions of sites trying to outcheat Google today. We don't want to end the battle prematurely, go home, and leave those sites take over the Internet, do we.
Consider this: how successful a 100% P2P program can be in filtering out illegal content. You have no index you control, you don't have the content. Basically you're powerless. People will share their nastiness never mind what you do.
You can research why meta keyword tags are no longer used in indexing, the reason is the same.
You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to work , when you pay your taxes.
Aha, a glitch in the Google.
OK seriously, are people going to live in the past forever? While I don't intend on getting rid of the mp3's I do have, it isn't mp3's that people should be making, and especially, buying, now. MP4/AAC has been around for a while now, and there is no excuse for non-WMA stores to not be selling it... the quality at any given bitrate is significantly better... and even if you can't notice it because of poor ears, a poor audio system, or just general lack of caring... it's the future.
In a casual conversation, "my AAC player" wouldn't ring a bell, and "buy AAC from Amazon" wouldn't either.
The fact they said "we'll sell DRM free mp3" doesn't mean they're in love with MP3. They need to get the message across first, and one we have stable economics with DRM free music, they can work on informing their clients of the better options.
You gotta be happy we seem to be taking the first steps of getting rid of DRM here. But some people always whine never mind what.
DRM will likely remain as a model for renting music/video (movies on demand, most likely you'll run directly from your browser).
But there's someone who's pretty majorly screwed if DRM is no longer used on sold media. Microsoft: they invested millions upon millions to get the DRM in Vista, and Vista suffers significantly from all the DRM in it. Imagine if it turns out in 2 years no one wants it, and they have to remove it in a SP.
Imagine all the lost resources, time, and the bad PR consequences for Vista with all they are doing DRM... Bad, bad.
I only see the altered layout on the home page, but nothing universal about it? anyone got an exact link?
Ok, I'm not a scientist. How exactly we *reverse* baldness (notice the term) in grown people, by finding the *gene* responsible.
Do we take a magical serum that alters our DNA or something? You know, like in movies, where if an alien bites you, you don't just die from a bad infection or anything, oh no. You instead turn into a hybrid, 'cause, you see, the alien DNA infected you.
Now we now Sun has totally lost it.
But wait, no, if they can make all our development and design tools run INSIDE their 3D world, on virtual computers, and make their workers use the virtual computers to work, then we know they lost it.
Seeing from what we have here though, I wouldn't be surprised if they're already working on it.
By their definition, the fly makes a decision about what it will do and hence has "free will". I.e., it's not constrained to a single choice by its environment, and it's not making a random selection between available choices.
Yes, it's an actual creature with very basic intelligence, that makes choices better than a piece of rock does.
Why is this news to anyone.
Great, I like exciting announcements!
And it will tie in perfectly with this, my next car!
Linus: Fine, you've agreed to a meeting, and you know what this is about.
...
...
BillG: Yup. So what are we guys gonna do. Maybe a little contract where each Linux user owes us $20 for patent license?
Linus: Oh yea, this is exactly what I had in mind! I like your sense of humor. No, I'm here to ask which line of code violates which patent. And get this fixed.
BillG: I'm not telling.
Linus: Oh yea? Ok. File kernel.c. Does line 1 infringe?
BillG: No. And I told you, I'm not telling!
Linus: Does line 2 infringe?
BillG: No.
Linus: Line 3?
BillG: No.
Linus: Line 4?
BillG: No.
...
...
Linus: Line 4032?
BillG:
Linus: Well?
BillG:
Linus: All right. I have a numbered list of all your software patents here.. So, does line 4032 violate the first patent?
BillG: No.
Linus: The second?
BillG: No.
Linus: The third?
BillG: No.
...
...
We asked the three top consoles, what's the key for new games:
:(
XBOX360: Well, hot detailed graphics are definitely a key.
PS3 [looks in question list]: Hey! That's my line, you jerk! Anyway.. Blue Ray's a key too. You can make bigger games on Blue Ray to fit all the hot graphics, so I can have hotter graphics than any of you guys.
Wii and XBOX360: Yea.. Sure.. [chuckling].
XBOX360: Micro-transactions are a key as well. We sell gamers crippled games, and make them pay to buy assets. It's kinda like Scientology: by the time you understand it's all a bunch of bull, you've already paid, so you gotta keep playing and paying. Aaa.. and... and.. it also makes gaming more engaging, and bitter, just like real life is.
PS3: User content is also key. You allow the gamers to create anything they want in a game, guns, cars, roads... Wait.. this kinda doesn't fly with transactions...
XBOX360: Shhhh... damn it! Another key is online gameplay. I integrate all games with consistent online experience, which builds a great community of gamers.
PS3: Me too!
XBOX360: You too what?
PS3: I build a clone of your service by integrating a clone of Second Life in my clone exp.. I mean core experience.
XBOX360: Oh.. right...
Wii: A key in new games, and old games, is fun an inventive gameplay, you guys. You shouldn't forget that.
XBOX360 and PS3: Hahahaha. Idiot...
Wii: And new fun ways to interface with game with innovative sensor controller!
XBOX360: Hahahaha, you're making our day, Wii.
PS3: [hides the 6-axis controller behind his back] Hu-hu-hu
How is offering a Zune download link proof that Zune can't stand on its own? iPod must *really* be struggling to stand on its own, given the number of iPod links and accessories out there. :|
Maybe you don't understand the subtle difference. There's lots of iPod links out there since there's a lot of demand for them.
While with Zune, Microsoft tries to sprinkle Zune links everywhere on its own sites, in attempt to make it seem as if there's demand. But in fact, the relation is reversed: Microsoft hopes this somehow will help Zune's adoption.
If it's not clear yet, I'll give example. You know how during the first bubble one-man companies tried to replicate the success of big companies by creating shiny sites so presented as if they're some big corporation with top clients, and everyone uses their service? They kinda thought that if they replicate the language and look of the best sites out there, they'll replicate also their success. But alas, people see through those things.
And they see through Microsoft's desparate attempts to market Zune and Vista too. Now, you won't hear me whining about "M$" and the quality of MS software and so on. I'm not a random MS basher. I use and like much of Microsoft's software. Windows, Office, Visual Studio: they're ranging from good to great for their purpose. But Microsoft heroic marketing efforts to boost Microsoft's stillborn products are truly hilarious.
Jack: Here's the new material "New planet made of vapour under pressure".
Chief: Damn it, that sounds dry. We need to get Bob, our marketing-slash-copywriter-slash-pr guy fix it a little.
Jack: But it...
Bob: Yep, ok.. Lemme think, vapour under pressure, how much pressure? So much that it's the same density as hard material
Jack: Lots of pressure, but to be hard it...
Bob: Good enough for me. So it's kinda like ice, isn't it.. "New planet made of hard vapour", wait.. I got it "New planet made of hot ice"!
Chief: Amazing!
Jack: It's totally not "ice" dude...
Bob: Whatever.. but it's still too pedestrian, "new planet". We gotta hint there's something more interesting on there, "alien planet", right.. "alien world". Sounds more epic. "Alien world made of hot ice!".
Chief: Perfect! We want to stress how odd all of this is. You know, not your run-of-the-mill hot ice planet though. Put "strange" in front, strange stuff is interesting.
Bob: "Strange alien world made of hot ice!"
Chief: Perfect!!! Start the presses.
Jack: Sigh...
I'm sick of people hyping stuff a million years before release. unless you are gullible enough to 'pre-order' a game, who cares about any of them until they are in stores? or maybe a month away if you need to put money aside?
You were modded as flamebait (do people know what this means? how can you possibly start a flamewar from your claims?).
But what you're talking about is an actual problem with tech news sites and news in general. If you look at the news we read here, over 3/4 of it is speculation about upcoming things or just speculation for whatever.
It's nice to know things in advance, but this is approaching the usefulness of white noise when in overdose, and it's harder to see what's going on NOW, buried in the sea of "coming up at some point maybe!" articles.
Halo 3 isn't supposed run on XP, you'll have to upgrade to Vista.....
It's worse. This is Halo 2 you're talking about. It's 2 that requires Vista. 3 isn't even coming on a PC any time soon.
I suppose they'll release Halo 3 in few years, and it'll run only on Vienna (the next major windows release).
It's quite sad really. You can't make someone upgrade to Vista to run a 5 year old game that could run just as well on Windows 98. Just like you can't give Zune prizes and imagine people will not notice it's not an iPod.
Microsoft should maybe start thinking how their product may stand on their own, versus going for a multitude of random cheapshots like this.
I love it when Microsoft pretends to be oblivious to the trends and situation on the market:
"including some information on the tie-in Zune device Microsoft is offering to enflame fanboy passions"
The subtle (or maybe not) stupidity of this struck me first when I saw the following list of options on the MIX 2007 video streams:
Stream live (Silverlight).
Download (WMV).
Download for Zune.
Great, thanks buddies! So although I have the latest ever WMP, the only option I have to stream it live is a crashing beta plugin that has no stable release out there.
But the funnier thing was the "download for Zune". You see, many sites offer "download for iPod" links. This is because a huge number of people have iPods. I guess in Microsoft-land, what matters is artificially push your product in tie-ins and integrating it in your sites, in the hope someone buys a Zune just to watch the MIX 2007 streams on the go.
The only thing they've proven so far, is Zune can't stand on its own.
I guess you should also consider how many people install crapware by following links that say bologna along the lines of "Your pc is at risk. Click here for ... ".
... speeded up his internet.
True, but this is an old and known fact. There's no way to prevent a user on any OS from willfully installing and running a program that he believes is doing something good for his computer.
I knew a guy who thought just the mere fact he clicked on an ad "speed up my internet" (and doing nothing further),
But keep in mind that these people are virtually ALL running Windows and they just clicked a ad which promised to install malware on their computers.
They arent the brightest cookies in the jar.
You have no way of knowing what they thought when clicking this.
First of all, this is just a mind trick. Many people would read this ad in a hurry as an ad for antivirus software. The fact that it said "click here to infect your pc" doesn't make the ad more dangerous than if it said otherwise.
If you actually read what it exactly said, it looks like a joke. Have you seen a single scam that says "this is a scam, please install this spyware to steal your credit card"?
So, in this context, how is a clicking a link saying "infect me" any more dangerous than clicking a link that says "click here for totally harmless content".
You're free to have your fun at the expense of few curious or confused people who clicked a simple link for whatever reason, but it's really all just that, a funny joke. It means nothing else.
I don't know...looks like a cult to me... ;-)
Well, you know. Chemistry started as alchemistry, where a bunch of weirdos tried to turn everything they could find into gold.
As long as he doesn't hurt anyone, let him do whatever he wants, something good may evolve out of it. I for one, won't even pretend I have a clue what on earth a two state machine with three colors should be.
Given the demographic involved in this case, it's almost certainly the same thing.
You wouldn't like when Windows users call your favorite distro totally user-unfriendly, unusable as a desktop system, or good for nothing more that a toy to hack in your free time.
It's the same thing when people bend the truth of Windows to fit their little propaganda and misfit elitism.
Pretty much reflects total market share almost 1:1. When 90% of the consumer market uses MS as their OS, is it terribly surprising that 85% of consumer *morons* use it?
There should always someone wrecking a good bashing with some plain logic, isn't there.
But boring jokes aside, it brings another topic into descussion. What would be the % of infected systems, if that WOULD be a malicious site.
On a patched up XP or Vista right now, are there active drive-by-downloads you can exploit on IE, Opera, Firefox?
If so, next question is, how many of them rely on JavaScript being enabled.
I'm not familiar with an active IE exploit for a patched up IE6/7 right now. Also on IE7 in Vista, an active exploit wouldn't be able to write the file to the disk and execute it, or modify system files and configuration.
Bottom line is, people clicked on a curious link, clicking a link isn't so terribly dangerous on a secure system.
That puts my life insurance in perspective. I paid hundreds of dollars for it this year, and I've had a grant total of zero deaths. That' uhmm.. division by zero exception per death, I guess.