Internet Explorer advisories (5 pages)
Google Chrome advisories (1 page, total of 13 advisories)
Number of advisories is not the problem. It's how quickly the issues were fixed. I'd worry about how long a known exploit remains open for before I'd worry about how many exploits they've had in the past. In this regard both MS and Apple have very bad records.
Evergreen had a *huge* lead over pre-Fermi nVidia chips, and still leads in 32-bit precision (and by extension most of what the mass market cares about), but 64-bit precision lags Fermi. Of course, Evergreen beat Fermi to market by a large large margin.
It alternates between the two. First Nvidia is in the lead, ATI (AMD) takes a step forward and now ATI is in the lead. Then Nvidia takes a step forward and Nvidia regains top spot. So on and so forth, this is the best kind of competition you can hope for in a duopoly. Realistically, at both ATI's and Nvidia's top of the line procs the bottle neck will appear somewhere else in your system (same with high end Intel and AMD procs). I just ordered a 10K RPM disk for my gaming rig as my bottleneck was the ancient 320 GB drive I was using.
Bringing religion with the sword has been wildly successful. Islam, for example, is the largest religion in the world today precisely because of its military efforts in the first few centuries of its existence.
You mean the British empire.
Islam spread into Asia on the back of the British who had holdings in modern Iraq, Palestine and Israel back in the 19th century. This was the port of call of ships heading to British Malaya and other places in Asia (Indonesia, Philippines). The British let go of their ME holdings after WWI, Malaya (now Malaysia) gained independence in the late 50's.
As for the first few centuries of Islam's existence, the sword was on the other foot. A lot of people from good Christian Europe came down to the holy lands with the express intent of driving Islam out of various holy cities. Then there was that Spanish mob, I forget what they were called but no-one expected them. They succeeded in completely forcing the Moors out of Spain (along with Jews and other heathens). Islam spread mainly because the middle east was a hub for trade. In the same way that trade spread the influence of the British and before them the Romans it was trade that spread Islam.
But hey, don't let the facts get in the way of your baseless xenophobia. It's fashionable to hate Islam, all the cool kids are doing it.
I think you have it backwards - the price of NG has to drop below a certain level for them to use it, or the price of electricity has to rise above a certain level.
This depends on where you live. In Western Australia (and Australia in general) it's cheaper to fill you car with LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas, made from Natural Gas) then it is with Petrol. Nearly half the price for LPG then for unleaded. Also for power generation, a bit cheaper then coal as we just pipe it down from the north west shelf.
In case you were interested, the largest importer of Western Australian Natural Gas is China.
doesn't exempt you from all commitments. I feel bad for her that she lost her husband but a contract is an obligation.
I don't know what contract law is like in the US but in Australia/UK/Canada most contracts are pretty much considered unenforceable when the contractor is deceased. Only in a few cases can the debtor chase the estate (mortgages, but this is enforced by law and not by the bank). A communications provision contract will be considered null and void when the signee shuffles off the mortal coil.
Your problem is that you don't work in the make-believe world of television shows and movies - which is pretty much the only place I can think of that has the characters/stereotypes the GP seems to be railing against.
Whilst the GP is hyperbole, there are arsehole programmers, sysadmins, DBA's and overcompensating gadget freaks the same as there are arsehole managers, accountants, sales people and so forth. On the other side of this there are good programmers, syadmins DBA's and people who just love gadgets (and are often the source of cheap, relatively new, used gadgets) the same as there are also good managers, accountants, sales people and so forth. Arseholes exist in all walks of life and often this just depends on your perspective. I am either a helpful, knowledgeable and resourceful sysadmin or an arrogant, self-important, utterly useless bastard operator from hell, depending on who you ask.
Really? My statement date for my Visa+Mastercard account, for example, is 15th of the month. So, if I buy something on 15th, I get until the statement on the following 15th plus 25 days. 56 days.
This differs from bank to bank and country to country but I think the minimum is actually 21 days. In AU it's hard to find one with less then 40 days (our regulators get cranky when banks try to screw people too hard).
If your card isn't fully paid off every month, yes.
This sentiment and most of your post is what I agree with. If you cant pay a credit card off with the money you have (I.E your savings) you shouldn't have a credit card. In AU our levels of personal debt has become a bit alarming. Banks were handing out loans and credit cards like no tomorrow at one point. I think a fair amount of blame has to fall to the lenders who do not asses a credit risk properly. Realistically if you earn A$50,000 a year you can get a credit card. They don't asses you're expenditure at all (also at A$40K hardly anyone would speak to me despite putting A$1K + into savings per month). I've also never heard of someone having their credit card taken off for being irresponsible them when the bank wasn't threatened.
Excepting where you wish to remain anonymous - then cash wins, as always.
And exchange rates.
I've just come back from 3 weeks overseas, I took A$4500 in cash and travellers cheques and I expected to spend a few 100 more then that. When I came back I found I still had A$500. I did not decrease my spending, instead I got to shop around for rates and avoided the rather excessive fees for ATM withdrawals overseas as well as the woefully low exch rates offered by Australian banks.
I will sell you a paperclip for $4.88 plus shipping. I will wrap it in four one dollar bills; my studies have shown that US currency never fails to protect paperclips from damage in transit.
The shipping will cost US$24.99.
Seeing as the Parent did not specific currency, feel free to pay for the product using JMD.
Too early to tell that one. The Lisa sold like hotcakes when it was first released because people though it would be like the Apple II. Lets try this one again in a few months shall we.
And I think you misunderstand history in this context
I understand history fine, I just dont understand the revisionist history you seem to be preaching.
First, Microsoft did not save Apple.
Yes they did, Microsoft bought 150 Million USD of Apple stocks when they were about to go under. MS did this to get Anti-trust regulators off their backs.
Second, this is not the late 70's, early 80's, the landscape is much different.
Yet Apple keeps making the same mistakes. This is quickly turning into the 90's MK II for Apple. Trivial Lawsuits, locked down products. The parallels are astounding.
But of course keep believing your revisionist history. Mac sales are not growing, in fact world wide they are shrinking even when Apple ties Mac and Idevice sales together. People are getting sick of Apple's iLockin and are looking for alternatives. Google and now Nokia are giving them high end alternatives (I'm a android fan, but I look forward to the expansion of MeeGo as a bit of actual competition and innovation is good).
That story is a sales pitch for anti-malware and uses the fact that applications explicitly ask for permission to make phone calls and SMS's when installing. See here. This is how the local security on Android works, you expressly give permission to access API's on install.
Did you bother to read the article or even the summary? You seemed to take the inflammatory headline and run with it without actually verifying if it is true. But then again, you're doing this on your "beleif" so actual fact does not matter.
The patent lawsuit is the new "look and feel" lawsuit.
Those who dont learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Apple has the same hubris that bought it down the first time, now MS has no impetus to save them this time given the fact that they are now a convicted monopoly and have no chance of losing that status.
This is a very important distinction. We voted for a party under a specific leader, if that leader changes without an election we have effectively had an unelected change of government. If you cannot understand why this is bad then you probably should kill yourself. This wasn't Rudd stepping down due to public pressure, the party decided, without public consultation to replace him.
Fortunately an election can only be postponed another 9 months before one is forcefully called.
Howard introduced the worst IR reforms this nation has ever seen. Howard also neglected infrastructure choosing to give tax breaks to the rich. Schools right now cant spend money responsibly because they haven't had this kind of money for over a decade and much of their infrastructure is over 20 years old. Same with health, so many things need fixing and no-one can prioritise. The money should have been released more slowly, but over 15 years of neglect left too many urgent issues. Howard may have been able to help the economy but he did so only by selling off all our public assets. Abbott will have no such assets to sell off.
Abbott will not be any better then Rudd, in fact he'll be worse as he doesn't have the stones to control the extremists in the Coalition like Howard did. If Abbott gets in it will be an extremist right wing free for all. The Nationals and extremists will end up running the show with Abbott as a figurehead.
How does the PS3 decide which stores I am and am not allowed to buy from? Sorry but you fail here.
The grocer decides what they will offer for sale.
But I have the choice to go to a different grocer, or talk to the distributors directly. I'm not beholden to a single distribution source. You fail here also.
Xbox 360.
See PS3. Fail number three for you.
Bullshit. They control the store.
And what runs on the device, and what browser you use, and what mail client you use, and what UI the developers are allowed to use. It's almost like they control everything. I mean it's not like you can't install an alternate browser from the web on an Iphone, no wait... you cant.
This isn't something Apple is doing, it's the app developer.
And when Apple is the developer. Itunes will refuse to let you install applications if you dont agree to Apple's terms and conditions. So it really is Apple's doing.
To provide location-based services on Apple products, Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. This location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you and is used by Apple and our partners and licensees to provide and improve location-based products and services. For example, we may share geographic location with application providers when you opt in to their location services.
Some location-based services offered by Apple, such as the MobileMe "Find My iPhone" feature, require your personal information for the feature to work.
Its as visible as the inside of my mailbox. Also illegal to read, copy, and store.
Wrong.
I can not see inside your mailbox unless I open it. If you have a wifi network broadcasting I can see it without going onto your property and looking inside anything.
Do you understand how consumer wireless networks work?
And before you say Google provides opt-out, read their policy very carefully. There are certain points you need to pay attention to.
Care to cite them. Apple expressly said it intends to sell your data (share with third parties) and the opt out is not a simple procedure nor is it 100% opt out.
The news value here being a Prime Minister's gender is condescending to Julia Gillard as a politician.
Also Julia Gillard was not elected as Prime Minister, she was voted head of the current ruling party by the caucus and did not actually win the election.
it is not hard to SHH into a server and look at the logs directly.
I suppose I expected too much of/.
What I meant was when I said "Bob sends sends me the entire web site and I'd like to read the changelog whilst on the road." I expected people to figure out that I meant an unpublished web site that Bob would like to use to update the live version. SSHing in and reading the log files wont tell me what Bob has changed in this version as well as any special notes that Bob has left for me that may be important in the implementation.
what will we develop mac applications on? Windows boxes?
IOS development already requires an OS X Mac which is includes the IDE. It would not be a stretch of the imagination for this IDE to be turned into iDevelop which is included with desktop and laptop versions of IOS. Apple does not need an x86-64 development environment for developing IOS applications, it just needs a development environment. This can easily be an environment running on an ARM based Imac or Macbook running IOS.
Apple wants to kill the Mac OS desktop. Thus far I've been called a Troll, Naive and Insane. Now I am vindicated as developers have said the same thing.
Apple isn't going to kill the Imac and Macbook lines, they will simply replace the current NEXT based OS with the future versions of IOS and naturally more complex systems are more prone to unexpected issues. Moving the hardware to ARM is trivial as they've already got the HW expertise and OS to do it. The only thing they need to do is get SW makers to fall in line, MS will with their standard half-arsed attempt at Office:Mac and so will Adobe with CS (Adobe dont have the balls to tell Steve to stuff it). Realistically they just need to add more keyboard and mouse support to the Ipad.
Apple wants to do this for three reasons.
1. It just works(TM). Mac OSX can go wrong more then the Iphone. This is because, as fanboys point out OSX is a lot more complex then IOS. Apple does not want users to have to deal with their own problems so they seek to eliminate the chance of it happening. Apple's current strategy is to cut features out that don't work perfectly.
2. Homogeneity. Apple prides itself on the fact that everything works together, that choices are simple. Having two disparate OS lines is detrimental to the long term success of this goal.
3. Control. Fanboys may defend Apple's control for various reasons, mostly using cognitive dissonance (it's for your own good and other such excuses) but you cant deny that Apple wants control. They want to stop the hackintosh, they want to prevent more clones and they want to control what the end users experiences.
This wont happen overnight, not even the RDF turned to eleven could pull that one off. It will happen over time in baby steps and be hailed by the fanboys.
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Your days of leaving words out of sentences are over, Grammor.
I have no strong feelings on the issue.
Number of advisories is not the problem. It's how quickly the issues were fixed. I'd worry about how long a known exploit remains open for before I'd worry about how many exploits they've had in the past. In this regard both MS and Apple have very bad records.
It alternates between the two. First Nvidia is in the lead, ATI (AMD) takes a step forward and now ATI is in the lead. Then Nvidia takes a step forward and Nvidia regains top spot. So on and so forth, this is the best kind of competition you can hope for in a duopoly. Realistically, at both ATI's and Nvidia's top of the line procs the bottle neck will appear somewhere else in your system (same with high end Intel and AMD procs). I just ordered a 10K RPM disk for my gaming rig as my bottleneck was the ancient 320 GB drive I was using.
You mean the British empire.
Islam spread into Asia on the back of the British who had holdings in modern Iraq, Palestine and Israel back in the 19th century. This was the port of call of ships heading to British Malaya and other places in Asia (Indonesia, Philippines). The British let go of their ME holdings after WWI, Malaya (now Malaysia) gained independence in the late 50's.
As for the first few centuries of Islam's existence, the sword was on the other foot. A lot of people from good Christian Europe came down to the holy lands with the express intent of driving Islam out of various holy cities. Then there was that Spanish mob, I forget what they were called but no-one expected them. They succeeded in completely forcing the Moors out of Spain (along with Jews and other heathens). Islam spread mainly because the middle east was a hub for trade. In the same way that trade spread the influence of the British and before them the Romans it was trade that spread Islam.
But hey, don't let the facts get in the way of your baseless xenophobia. It's fashionable to hate Islam, all the cool kids are doing it.
This depends on where you live. In Western Australia (and Australia in general) it's cheaper to fill you car with LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas, made from Natural Gas) then it is with Petrol. Nearly half the price for LPG then for unleaded. Also for power generation, a bit cheaper then coal as we just pipe it down from the north west shelf.
In case you were interested, the largest importer of Western Australian Natural Gas is China.
I don't know what contract law is like in the US but in Australia/UK/Canada most contracts are pretty much considered unenforceable when the contractor is deceased. Only in a few cases can the debtor chase the estate (mortgages, but this is enforced by law and not by the bank). A communications provision contract will be considered null and void when the signee shuffles off the mortal coil.
Whilst the GP is hyperbole, there are arsehole programmers, sysadmins, DBA's and overcompensating gadget freaks the same as there are arsehole managers, accountants, sales people and so forth. On the other side of this there are good programmers, syadmins DBA's and people who just love gadgets (and are often the source of cheap, relatively new, used gadgets) the same as there are also good managers, accountants, sales people and so forth. Arseholes exist in all walks of life and often this just depends on your perspective. I am either a helpful, knowledgeable and resourceful sysadmin or an arrogant, self-important, utterly useless bastard operator from hell, depending on who you ask.
This differs from bank to bank and country to country but I think the minimum is actually 21 days. In AU it's hard to find one with less then 40 days (our regulators get cranky when banks try to screw people too hard).
This sentiment and most of your post is what I agree with. If you cant pay a credit card off with the money you have (I.E your savings) you shouldn't have a credit card. In AU our levels of personal debt has become a bit alarming. Banks were handing out loans and credit cards like no tomorrow at one point. I think a fair amount of blame has to fall to the lenders who do not asses a credit risk properly. Realistically if you earn A$50,000 a year you can get a credit card. They don't asses you're expenditure at all (also at A$40K hardly anyone would speak to me despite putting A$1K + into savings per month). I've also never heard of someone having their credit card taken off for being irresponsible them when the bank wasn't threatened.
And exchange rates.
I've just come back from 3 weeks overseas, I took A$4500 in cash and travellers cheques and I expected to spend a few 100 more then that. When I came back I found I still had A$500. I did not decrease my spending, instead I got to shop around for rates and avoided the rather excessive fees for ATM withdrawals overseas as well as the woefully low exch rates offered by Australian banks.
The shipping will cost US$24.99.
Seeing as the Parent did not specific currency, feel free to pay for the product using JMD.
More accurately, its a Java Virtual Machine. So long as the hardware runs the VM, most applications should not have a problem.
You missed out the bit where it happens before an election.
Too early to tell that one. The Lisa sold like hotcakes when it was first released because people though it would be like the Apple II. Lets try this one again in a few months shall we.
I understand history fine, I just dont understand the revisionist history you seem to be preaching.
Yes they did, Microsoft bought 150 Million USD of Apple stocks when they were about to go under. MS did this to get Anti-trust regulators off their backs.
Yet Apple keeps making the same mistakes. This is quickly turning into the 90's MK II for Apple. Trivial Lawsuits, locked down products. The parallels are astounding.
But of course keep believing your revisionist history. Mac sales are not growing, in fact world wide they are shrinking even when Apple ties Mac and Idevice sales together. People are getting sick of Apple's iLockin and are looking for alternatives. Google and now Nokia are giving them high end alternatives (I'm a android fan, but I look forward to the expansion of MeeGo as a bit of actual competition and innovation is good).
That story is a sales pitch for anti-malware and uses the fact that applications explicitly ask for permission to make phone calls and SMS's when installing. See here. This is how the local security on Android works, you expressly give permission to access API's on install.
Did you bother to read the article or even the summary? You seemed to take the inflammatory headline and run with it without actually verifying if it is true. But then again, you're doing this on your "beleif" so actual fact does not matter.
Ipad is the new Lisa,
The patent lawsuit is the new "look and feel" lawsuit.
Those who dont learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Apple has the same hubris that bought it down the first time, now MS has no impetus to save them this time given the fact that they are now a convicted monopoly and have no chance of losing that status.
Yes, it was done entirely by smothering.
Yes we are a constitutional Monarchy.
Please do so, immediately.
This is a very important distinction. We voted for a party under a specific leader, if that leader changes without an election we have effectively had an unelected change of government. If you cannot understand why this is bad then you probably should kill yourself. This wasn't Rudd stepping down due to public pressure, the party decided, without public consultation to replace him.
Fortunately an election can only be postponed another 9 months before one is forcefully called.
Howard introduced the worst IR reforms this nation has ever seen. Howard also neglected infrastructure choosing to give tax breaks to the rich. Schools right now cant spend money responsibly because they haven't had this kind of money for over a decade and much of their infrastructure is over 20 years old. Same with health, so many things need fixing and no-one can prioritise. The money should have been released more slowly, but over 15 years of neglect left too many urgent issues. Howard may have been able to help the economy but he did so only by selling off all our public assets. Abbott will have no such assets to sell off.
Abbott will not be any better then Rudd, in fact he'll be worse as he doesn't have the stones to control the extremists in the Coalition like Howard did. If Abbott gets in it will be an extremist right wing free for all. The Nationals and extremists will end up running the show with Abbott as a figurehead.
How does the PS3 decide which stores I am and am not allowed to buy from? Sorry but you fail here.
But I have the choice to go to a different grocer, or talk to the distributors directly. I'm not beholden to a single distribution source. You fail here also.
See PS3. Fail number three for you.
And what runs on the device, and what browser you use, and what mail client you use, and what UI the developers are allowed to use. It's almost like they control everything. I mean it's not like you can't install an alternate browser from the web on an Iphone, no wait... you cant.
And when Apple is the developer. Itunes will refuse to let you install applications if you dont agree to Apple's terms and conditions. So it really is Apple's doing.
Citation, taken from the summary
. So what colour is the sky in your world.
Wrong.
I can not see inside your mailbox unless I open it. If you have a wifi network broadcasting I can see it without going onto your property and looking inside anything.
Do you understand how consumer wireless networks work?
Care to cite them. Apple expressly said it intends to sell your data (share with third parties) and the opt out is not a simple procedure nor is it 100% opt out.
Also Julia Gillard was not elected as Prime Minister, she was voted head of the current ruling party by the caucus and did not actually win the election.
I suppose I expected too much of /.
What I meant was when I said "Bob sends sends me the entire web site and I'd like to read the changelog whilst on the road." I expected people to figure out that I meant an unpublished web site that Bob would like to use to update the live version. SSHing in and reading the log files wont tell me what Bob has changed in this version as well as any special notes that Bob has left for me that may be important in the implementation.
IOS development already requires an OS X Mac which is includes the IDE. It would not be a stretch of the imagination for this IDE to be turned into iDevelop which is included with desktop and laptop versions of IOS. Apple does not need an x86-64 development environment for developing IOS applications, it just needs a development environment. This can easily be an environment running on an ARM based Imac or Macbook running IOS.
Apple wants to kill the Mac OS desktop. Thus far I've been called a Troll, Naive and Insane. Now I am vindicated as developers have said the same thing.
Apple isn't going to kill the Imac and Macbook lines, they will simply replace the current NEXT based OS with the future versions of IOS and naturally more complex systems are more prone to unexpected issues. Moving the hardware to ARM is trivial as they've already got the HW expertise and OS to do it. The only thing they need to do is get SW makers to fall in line, MS will with their standard half-arsed attempt at Office:Mac and so will Adobe with CS (Adobe dont have the balls to tell Steve to stuff it). Realistically they just need to add more keyboard and mouse support to the Ipad.
Apple wants to do this for three reasons.
1. It just works(TM). Mac OSX can go wrong more then the Iphone. This is because, as fanboys point out OSX is a lot more complex then IOS. Apple does not want users to have to deal with their own problems so they seek to eliminate the chance of it happening. Apple's current strategy is to cut features out that don't work perfectly.
2. Homogeneity. Apple prides itself on the fact that everything works together, that choices are simple. Having two disparate OS lines is detrimental to the long term success of this goal.
3. Control. Fanboys may defend Apple's control for various reasons, mostly using cognitive dissonance (it's for your own good and other such excuses) but you cant deny that Apple wants control. They want to stop the hackintosh, they want to prevent more clones and they want to control what the end users experiences.
This wont happen overnight, not even the RDF turned to eleven could pull that one off. It will happen over time in baby steps and be hailed by the fanboys.