I think that if rtf was the default file type for saving in word everybody would be using it.
I just hope that ODF being standard kind of forces MS to have it as default filetype for file-save else it would just be a meaningless standard, seriously.
I want a recount, first of all how come knowing which platform the first virus ever invented targeted is any useful for my security knowledge?
Then the serious complaints:
Q: Windows is nagging you to update the operating system. What do you do?
Alleged correct answer: "Install the updates as soon as they become available" , wtf? What if I don't want any WGA trojan?
Q: You need to choose a password for the account you have set up at an online shop. What do you do?
The answer for most is "Pick one that combines letters and numbers that make it hard to guess" but the answer to me is someone that is closer to "Use the same one as you use on every other site", in fact it is a combination of both, you would have like 3 different passwords, one very simple that you use for things that don't matter (I seriously don't have much issues about losing the account I use to comment youtube videos...) Another one for medium importance things, and a big one I only use on the very important ones.
The problem with the utopical approach to passwords (choose a different one for every single site, and always a long alphanumeric one) Is that you don't get to remember the passwords, so people tend to need a big file or paper with the passwords written and that's a real vulnerability if you ask.
This is a very strange conclusion considering that such a market battle of this kind has happened plenty of times before and the paid services could always survive and do pretty well.
I am not sure about the radio stations time, but I think people did pay for tapes even though they could listen to their favorite music for free from the radio stations.
But in the case of TV I have definitely paid more for cable service over the usual free TV based on ads...
And well, the fact is that people tend to like quality and tend to get annoyed by ads (Surprising? I don't think so) So I am sure that as long that people have the money to spare on it, video itunes will work.
seriously, "-amazon -ebay -wikipedia", that guy is on crack or something, google would max show 2 results per site, and it doesn't really burn too much neurons to go to the second page...
U3+DRM = Apocallypse! seriously, I wouldn't expect such horrible thing to happen but MS (not surprised) just did. We are going to have them combined and the worst is that almost every flash disk will come with it and most users won't get to be able to remove it. This is terrible news.
It is not the case for all of them, my Kingston drive kept the U3 stuff in the firmware and I had to download http://www.u3.com/uninstall/ to get rid of it.
So yeah, we will enjoy some more tropical weather, of course, we'll need to get along with the frigging mosquitoes and war will be for water and not oil, that's better!
The basic concept was known for a lot of time unless I am mistaking, I do remember than in language classes there were a lot of guidelines about how to redact text correctly specially paragraphs and that stuff I even remember a rule that said a good paragraph does not have more than 3 or 5 sentences and that there ought to be correct spacing between paragraphs also notice how the +5 insightful comments tend to be presented the way I am talking about, it is easier to read them and mods are more likely to give points to text they can easily read I think that the other problem for online text is the screen resolution that keeps getting wider and wider so if you want readability you'll eventually need to cut lines yourself the method in mention seems to be just taking the old readability and paragraphing guidelines to the extreme and I think it actually works just like identation works when you program.
Now compare:
The basic concept was known for a lot of time unless I am mistaking.
I do remember that in language classes there were a lot of guidelines
about how to redact text correctly, specially paragraphs and that stuff.
I even remember a rule that said a good paragraph does not have more
than 3 or 5 sentences and that there ought to be correct spacing between
paragraphs.
Also notice how the +5 insightful comments tend to be presented the
way I am talking about. It is easier to read them and mods are more likely
to give points to text they can easily read.
I think that the other problem for online text is the screen resolution,
it keeps getting wider and wider. So, if you want readability you'll
eventually need to cut lines yourself.
The method in mention seems to be just taking the old readability and
paragraphing guidelines to the extreme, and I think it actually works.
Just like identation works when you program
I don't really think any of those distros for end users should come with WINE preinstalled. It is a very chessy road, you always have to get the newest WINE version instead of the packages and that means compiling in the case of WINE else you have to wait months for the packages. And it is actually pretty indeterministic to know if it will actually run an application, cause there are cases in which it works in some computers and it doesn't in others. We should seriously leave WINE to the advanced users.
Is WINE an amazing piece of OS software? Yes.
Does WINE work for many applications? Yes.
Is it very unfriendly? Yes, it is . Try configuring its windows colors...
Is it unable to run the windows apps that actually make windows important? Yes, it cannot run 3dsmax, it cannot run latest photoshop, it virtually can't run any of he latest versions of the actually important windows apps, or it doesn't do it correctly. I know that the apps themselves are to blame here, they should actually try getting a cross platform framework, I just don't get it why would they do stuff for windows only when they could embrace more market, seriously.
There's a lot for WINE to become mainstream, for once it should get integration with gnome or KDE so it shares their color scheme, which is possible to do manually, and not
3 weeks ago I used windows XP on vmware in an Ubunut Linux host, I have 768MB of RAM and it actually performed pretty well, I was able to use an IDE and compile from it... My Video RAM is 128MB, but I was not able to use any 3d app, not like using 3d apps in virtualization is actuall a sane thing to do...
"Microsoft has just released seven advisories -- all rated critical -- with patches for at least 19 vulnerabilities affecting the Windows operating system, the widely deployed Office productivity suite and the dominant Internet Explorer browser. Six of the 19 vulnerabilities affect Windows Vista. 'There are patches for 7 different vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution attacks against Word, Excel and Office. Users of Microsoft Exchange are also urged to pay attention to one of the critical bulletins, which cover 4 different flaws. A cumulative IE update addresses six potentially dangerous bugs. There are the six that apply to IE 7 on Windows Vista. The last bulletin in this month's batch apples to CAPICOM (Cryptographic API Component Object Model) and could also put users at risk of complete system hijack attacks.
I guess:
Market leader Microsoft cares about security, and have fixed 19 security flaws proving that their software is always up to the fight against wholes and demonstrating that Vista is a medium that fights security in revolutionary ways.
Would have been less of that accusatory tone you are talking about.
Well, if your thesis was true and we were living in a world that would fall into such a war because of a whiny company, I would applaud the total destruction of this world.
Just feels good to know that isn't true.
And Merck doesn't have to share, that Indian company already knows the formula/method to create it, so it doesn't matter if Merck decides to stop being nice.
I am not against paying good companies for their good products, the issue lies when entities decide that you are forced to pay them. Look at the Spanish example, they literally pay an extra tax for each blank CD, flash disk or whatever piece of hardware that might be used to copy one byte of music, and they pay their author organization for all of it, no matter what thing you would pirate, in fact they assume that you want to pirate and just make you paid, it is pretty odd.
I also dislike the fact that companies just reduce the value of their product instead of improving it and they actually expect to get earnings from that, why does DRM exist? It seems it is just to piss off the legitimate customer.
As a matter of fact, many guys who commit "piracy" have already paid a lot of licenses , and would just need the right to use their music, software, and movies in a legit way. With all those things that won't let you play movies you bought to component output, and all those things that come with games that hurt performance of your OS or just the fact that game companies have decided to force you to use the costly original CD all the time with the risk of scratching or even breaking it. Or music that decided it should only work in one operating system.
You can understand what makes some of us applaud when the DRM protection is broken or when a crack/hole to some game's CD protection is found.
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Should I point out thepiratebay doesn't really host any copyrighted material or did that argument get old already?
I think that if rtf was the default file type for saving in word everybody would be using it.
I just hope that ODF being standard kind of forces MS to have it as default filetype for file-save else it would just be a meaningless standard, seriously.
I want a recount, first of all how come knowing which platform the first virus ever invented targeted is any useful for my security knowledge?
Then the serious complaints:
Q: Windows is nagging you to update the operating system. What do you do?
Alleged correct answer: "Install the updates as soon as they become available" , wtf? What if I don't want any WGA trojan?
Q: You need to choose a password for the account you have set up at an online shop. What do you do?
The answer for most is "Pick one that combines letters and numbers that make it hard to guess" but the answer to me is someone that is closer to "Use the same one as you use on every other site", in fact it is a combination of both, you would have like 3 different passwords, one very simple that you use for things that don't matter (I seriously don't have much issues about losing the account I use to comment youtube videos...) Another one for medium importance things, and a big one I only use on the very important ones.
The problem with the utopical approach to passwords (choose a different one for every single site, and always a long alphanumeric one) Is that you don't get to remember the passwords, so people tend to need a big file or paper with the passwords written and that's a real vulnerability if you ask.
A one line version of the article: "Free software doesn't exist because it is now profitable"
This is a very strange conclusion considering that such a market battle of this kind has happened plenty of times before and the paid services could always survive and do pretty well.
I am not sure about the radio stations time, but I think people did pay for tapes even though they could listen to their favorite music for free from the radio stations.
But in the case of TV I have definitely paid more for cable service over the usual free TV based on ads...
And well, the fact is that people tend to like quality and tend to get annoyed by ads (Surprising? I don't think so) So I am sure that as long that people have the money to spare on it, video itunes will work.
seriously, "-amazon -ebay -wikipedia", that guy is on crack or something, google would max show 2 results per site, and it doesn't really burn too much neurons to go to the second page...
The word you tried to spell was "paranoid" not concerned. Seriously people get serious.
sorry but a two weeks delay doesn't count as "almost immediately" to me.
U3+DRM = Apocallypse! seriously, I wouldn't expect such horrible thing to happen but MS (not surprised) just did. We are going to have them combined and the worst is that almost every flash disk will come with it and most users won't get to be able to remove it. This is terrible news.
It is not the case for all of them, my Kingston drive kept the U3 stuff in the firmware and I had to download http://www.u3.com/uninstall/ to get rid of it.
more population + less water = !
So yeah, we will enjoy some more tropical weather, of course, we'll need to get along with the frigging mosquitoes and war will be for water and not oil, that's better!
The basic concept was known for a lot of time unless I am mistaking.
I do remember that in language classes there were a lot of guidelines
about how to redact text correctly, specially paragraphs and that stuff.
I even remember a rule that said a good paragraph does not have more
than 3 or 5 sentences and that there ought to be correct spacing between
paragraphs.
Also notice how the +5 insightful comments tend to be presented the
way I am talking about. It is easier to read them and mods are more likely
to give points to text they can easily read.
I think that the other problem for online text is the screen resolution,
it keeps getting wider and wider. So, if you want readability you'll
eventually need to cut lines yourself.
The method in mention seems to be just taking the old readability and
paragraphing guidelines to the extreme, and I think it actually works.
Just like identation works when you program
Is WINE an amazing piece of OS software? Yes.
Does WINE work for many applications? Yes.
Is it very unfriendly? Yes, it is . Try configuring its windows colors...
Is it unable to run the windows apps that actually make windows important? Yes, it cannot run 3dsmax, it cannot run latest photoshop, it virtually can't run any of he latest versions of the actually important windows apps, or it doesn't do it correctly. I know that the apps themselves are to blame here, they should actually try getting a cross platform framework, I just don't get it why would they do stuff for windows only when they could embrace more market, seriously.
There's a lot for WINE to become mainstream, for once it should get integration with gnome or KDE so it shares their color scheme, which is possible to do manually, and not
If you actually follow HBO's logic then the new name for rape would be "assisted pleasure".
So, why is this comment insightful?
well the sys requirements gp posted for running XP correctly on vmware seemed inflated to me, that's the reason I posted.
3 weeks ago I used windows XP on vmware in an Ubunut Linux host, I have 768MB of RAM and it actually performed pretty well, I was able to use an IDE and compile from it... My Video RAM is 128MB, but I was not able to use any 3d app, not like using 3d apps in virtualization is actuall a sane thing to do...
My god, is Joel that surprised that it has first class functions?
Seriously though, lot's of lawsuits but none of them has actually become more than a lawsuit and this whole Thailand King stuff is ridiculous.
Can I take the place to mention that those four things are very different things? I certainly oppose to the three former, not the later...
Well, if your thesis was true and we were living in a world that would fall into such a war because of a whiny company, I would applaud the total destruction of this world.
Just feels good to know that isn't true.
And Merck doesn't have to share, that Indian company already knows the formula/method to create it, so it doesn't matter if Merck decides to stop being nice.
huh? Is that you, Steve B. ?
I am not against paying good companies for their good products, the issue lies when entities decide that you are forced to pay them. Look at the Spanish example, they literally pay an extra tax for each blank CD, flash disk or whatever piece of hardware that might be used to copy one byte of music, and they pay their author organization for all of it, no matter what thing you would pirate, in fact they assume that you want to pirate and just make you paid, it is pretty odd.
I also dislike the fact that companies just reduce the value of their product instead of improving it and they actually expect to get earnings from that, why does DRM exist? It seems it is just to piss off the legitimate customer.
As a matter of fact, many guys who commit "piracy" have already paid a lot of licenses , and would just need the right to use their music, software, and movies in a legit way. With all those things that won't let you play movies you bought to component output, and all those things that come with games that hurt performance of your OS or just the fact that game companies have decided to force you to use the costly original CD all the time with the risk of scratching or even breaking it. Or music that decided it should only work in one operating system.
You can understand what makes some of us applaud when the DRM protection is broken or when a crack/hole to some game's CD protection is found.