I'll tell you whats really annoying... Yes, they "force" on you google as the default engine and home page. Not a big deal, change it, someone may say. The problem is , as a consultant, I meet people DAILY that not only have an idea that it can be done. They really THINK that the internet = Google, because of this: this is the fromt page they ever get.
And to make things more annoying: there are more and more free software these days that install Googlr Toolbar AND google desktop with it's annoying (bad) indexing on it. yes, you can unselect (often) the damn things when you install, but those same people never do. The result? Poogle Desktop slowing down their already blaoted computers even more? Hell, it's not only freeware. Last time I checked, even Adobe reader was bunded with G. Toolbar...
And to make things MORE annoying. More ans more sites are pushing on you some activeX control to install the toolbar as well. Thanks god for the new IE that stops those ActiveX by default.
I tell you, they are becoming the next Alexa. They ARE a plague, just now.
Don't be naive. if you really are a commercial software developer, you just license your code. if you don't , then you are a freeware developer, in which case, this is your choice. I am both: I develope a freeware application and I get nothing when it's used. Tha'ts my choice. But I am also a developer for a commercial application and I license it world wide. Yes, there are people that use it without paying, but hey, if I only could they sure would need to pay me, but that's life.
And this is exactly why the writers are now on strike. They get nothing from the distribution online while the broadcasting companies gets all the income generated from ads, etc. But even worst: they get nothing from the distribution on DVD in some cases.
Technical yellow press.. That's the sad state of many IT sites now day (not only, but especially/.)... Who said what, who bashed who... Stuff that matters. Bleh
I am the developer of a quite succesful shareware program. The program can be downloaded for free AND without limitations or nag screen. Nothing. It just works and the users would pay if they want. The "official" price is 25 USD. Counting the the "phoning home" update feature unique hits and the money that came in, I calculate that only a 10-12% of the user pays for the program.
Well, of course, it culd be that not all the users are keeping the program, they may be testing, etc... but I am counting the hits that the server register from the same address within a month... So the program has being used a month more or less....
So judging by that, music consumers have a more happy pocket than software users.
but I'm sure Apple will have this fixed pretty quick.
Well, the problem is, this bug exists even in TIGER and has been repported many times! And no, not fixed yet. Abble is a coorporation like any other, and not the superpower that some users seem to think they are.
but NEW system have even more bugs. Every new system have children diseases: some simple bugs, cosmetical, but also critical. A modern OS is a VERY complex thing, and Abbles MakOS is not different.
I guess, more bugs are to be revealed when the number of users continue to rise, but they will also be fixed, so the system will become more and more stable with the time.
The difference is, how the media and people in general reacts to an error of such a kind. Could yu imagine what people would scream and cry is Vista happened to just loss a bite of information? Oh, christ, I don't want to even THINK about this. Now, Abble, does that mistake, and... that's OK, nobody is perfect... Will get fixed.... People have double standards, but in the end, Vista was not THAT bad, and Abble's OSX was not THAT good. The true, is as always there, somewhere in the middle.
You are right. This is as surprising as seeing some Linuzzz user bashing MS on slashdot.
What people forget is that those 2 bloggers are expressing their "private" opinions, which may have nothing to do with the official opinion of MS as a corporation.
Hell, in my blog I have spoken pests about all thing Abble (considering that I am obligated to use a Abble Makintosh), but this is not the official position of my university. Not at all... and if you read the disclaimer on those MS bloggers you will note that the same thing apply to them.
The director of the CIA last week said the U.S. will set up a defense center to combat the growing threat of terrorists and criminals out to bring down vital network systems.
CIA Director John Deutch said the threat of organized information warfare is likely to grow, raising the prospect of an "electronic Pearl Harbor."
KC owns the copyright BUT I'm sure they don't have the distribution rights. Often when a band or solo artist (even big ones like Metallica or Madonna) are under some label, say Sony, EMI, Music for NAtions (RIP), etc, they are giving the distribution rights to those companies, effectively losing the right to publish, sell or market the albums themselves. Yes, they own the copyright, but that's all. And if some band tries to get out that format, the consequences ARE often very bad. Just ask Prince.
Sorry. I was talking about THIS MACARENA virus. Oh, and here we have one more: The Leap virus. Nah...it's an illusion... NOT. But because the critical mass of MakOs is so little that if the virus spreads on the internet the pprobability of it landing on one of the 5 MakOS users in the worls is... lets see... almost zero, cero, null, noll, nil.... Easy like that.
The fact is, it ISN'T easy to do because of the security measure Apple has consciously put in place.
Oh, I understand: like the new fantastic Leopard firewall? Or one of these 105 critical unpatched vulnerabilities? Oh, and you wanted to see one virus for Makos? Meybe this macarena virus is the wonder that you were waiting for? Nahh,, it's imposible. We KNOW that the wonderful and incredibly secure makOs is invulnerable to kryptonite.
hmmm... in which year are you lving? IIS 7 and 8 are reported with 0 critical vulnerabilities and have not been seriously threatened. Now if you tell me II4, then... that was another five cents.
Hmm,,, when was the last time you used Windows? The same steps are requited in XP/2003 and Vista. ANS there is one more step: the file is marked with an alternated stream as downloaded from the internet, so you get a extra nag screen. Of couurse this won't stop the/thousand/ of users that will go through the 5 steps and get infected anyway.
And your point is Einstein....? Both Malware, viriii, worms , trojans can these days (and often will try) spread by sending themselves via network connections or attachments , irc, and even simpleftp. The key words hera are CRITICAL MASS. If the Mak would have 92% of the desktop market, do you think malware and virii writers would ever botter to write for Windows?
People still believe that there are few virii for the Mak/Linuzzz just because those systems are more secure. The truth is that more or less secure, all systems have holes that will be used sooner or later by virii, malware, trojans, etc. The reason why there are few virii for less popular platforms can be described with two words: CRITICAL MASS.
In nuclear physics, critical mass is the mass where there can be an effective chain reaction. If your mass is less than the critical mass, the population of neutrons introduced to a subcritical assembly will exponentialy decrease, until the chain reaction dies. If your mass is bigger than the critical mass, your population of neutrons will exponentially raise until the chain reaction is then unstopable.
The same thing happens here: Firts of all, malware writters are interested in targeting the platform that will give them the more number of users. This way, their porn links, spam letters, etc will get a bigger audience. Becuase the critical mass is bigger with Windows there is a big chance that, when spreading via network, letters, etc, the new target will also be a PC with Windows. With a Mak or Linuzzz, the chance that a virus that sends itself comes to another Mak or Linuzzz machine is minimal: not enough critical mass.
When Maks and Linuzzz gets more and more popular with the time, we will see that those systems will be getting more and more interesting for malware writers. Fortunatly, the critical mass for those systems is not high enough and we will not see chain reactions like the Love letter or something similar. Not in a near future anyway.
Office for students cost 99 USD, and if your college/university has the Campus agreement, it costs USD 45. For me, as an uiversiy worker with the Select agreement, it cost USD 25. So I rathere pay (hell, even USD200 if needed) but I rather use MS office with all integration between it's parts than OO even if it's free.
Hey, but that's just me (and thousand of co-workers here), but please, feel free to use what you want. Only don't preach, please...
I know a professor that was very critisized for his bad use of PP. His long and boring PP presentations are still legendary at my university. After several claims from the students, he doesn't use PP anymore. Instead, he just prints his lines on some overheads and.. well, I've heard that the students are secretly screaming to get back his PP presentations.
My point is: PP is not worse than old good overhead presentations, or stenciled copies, or lines on a blackboard. It's just that, when the presentation sucks or it's boring, people seem to blame the program...but guess again, the same boring and poor presentation would be boring and poor on some other medium as well.
As any new OS out there, these are childre diseases. Every new system will have problems: small problems and big problesm. The difference is that some will get praise anyway and some others will get "defectivebydesign" or "haha" tags.
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And to make things more annoying: there are more and more free software these days that install Googlr Toolbar AND google desktop with it's annoying (bad) indexing on it. yes, you can unselect (often) the damn things when you install, but those same people never do. The result? Poogle Desktop slowing down their already blaoted computers even more? Hell, it's not only freeware. Last time I checked, even Adobe reader was bunded with G. Toolbar...
And to make things MORE annoying. More ans more sites are pushing on you some activeX control to install the toolbar as well. Thanks god for the new IE that stops those ActiveX by default.
I tell you, they are becoming the next Alexa. They ARE a plague, just now.
Don't be naive. if you really are a commercial software developer, you just license your code. if you don't , then you are a freeware developer, in which case, this is your choice. I am both: I develope a freeware application and I get nothing when it's used. Tha'ts my choice. But I am also a developer for a commercial application and I license it world wide. Yes, there are people that use it without paying, but hey, if I only could they sure would need to pay me, but that's life.
And this is exactly why the writers are now on strike. They get nothing from the distribution online while the broadcasting companies gets all the income generated from ads, etc. But even worst: they get nothing from the distribution on DVD in some cases.
Yes, I'll get an iPhone and 2 replacement batter...Ooopssss
Technical yellow press.. That's the sad state of many IT sites now day (not only, but especially /.)... Who said what, who bashed who... Stuff that matters. Bleh
Now let's the conspiration theories fly, but often the reality is much simpler and mundane...
Well, of course, it culd be that not all the users are keeping the program, they may be testing, etc... but I am counting the hits that the server register from the same address within a month... So the program has being used a month more or less....
So judging by that, music consumers have a more happy pocket than software users.
Great, more work for the IT folk in Chicago. The Quincy data center has created employment for 1200 persons... Not a bad thing.
No, understand it. It's not critical for Abble. If the problem was in Vista it would be .. OMFG, M$ are teh suxxx!
I guess, more bugs are to be revealed when the number of users continue to rise, but they will also be fixed, so the system will become more and more stable with the time.
The difference is, how the media and people in general reacts to an error of such a kind. Could yu imagine what people would scream and cry is Vista happened to just loss a bite of information? Oh, christ, I don't want to even THINK about this. Now, Abble, does that mistake, and... that's OK, nobody is perfect... Will get fixed.... People have double standards, but in the end, Vista was not THAT bad, and Abble's OSX was not THAT good. The true, is as always there, somewhere in the middle.
What people forget is that those 2 bloggers are expressing their "private" opinions, which may have nothing to do with the official opinion of MS as a corporation.
Hell, in my blog I have spoken pests about all thing Abble (considering that I am obligated to use a Abble Makintosh), but this is not the official position of my university. Not at all... and if you read the disclaimer on those MS bloggers you will note that the same thing apply to them.
Freedom of speech anyone?
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3649/is_199607/ai_n8752654
KC owns the copyright BUT I'm sure they don't have the distribution rights. Often when a band or solo artist (even big ones like Metallica or Madonna) are under some label, say Sony, EMI, Music for NAtions (RIP), etc, they are giving the distribution rights to those companies, effectively losing the right to publish, sell or market the albums themselves. Yes, they own the copyright, but that's all. And if some band tries to get out that format, the consequences ARE often very bad. Just ask Prince.
Sorry. I was talking about THIS MACARENA virus. Oh, and here we have one more: The Leap virus. Nah...it's an illusion... NOT. But because the critical mass of MakOs is so little that if the virus spreads on the internet the pprobability of it landing on one of the 5 MakOS users in the worls is... lets see... almost zero, cero, null, noll, nil.... Easy like that.
hmmm... in which year are you lving? IIS 7 and 8 are reported with 0 critical vulnerabilities and have not been seriously threatened. Now if you tell me II4, then... that was another five cents.
Hmm,,, when was the last time you used Windows? The same steps are requited in XP/2003 and Vista. ANS there is one more step: the file is marked with an alternated stream as downloaded from the internet, so you get a extra nag screen. Of couurse this won't stop the /thousand/ of users that will go through the 5 steps and get infected anyway.
And your point is Einstein....? Both Malware, viriii, worms , trojans can these days (and often will try) spread by sending themselves via network connections or attachments , irc, and even simpleftp. The key words hera are CRITICAL MASS. If the Mak would have 92% of the desktop market, do you think malware and virii writers would ever botter to write for Windows?
In nuclear physics, critical mass is the mass where there can be an effective chain reaction. If your mass is less than the critical mass, the population of neutrons introduced to a subcritical assembly will exponentialy decrease, until the chain reaction dies. If your mass is bigger than the critical mass, your population of neutrons will exponentially raise until the chain reaction is then unstopable.
The same thing happens here: Firts of all, malware writters are interested in targeting the platform that will give them the more number of users. This way, their porn links, spam letters, etc will get a bigger audience. Becuase the critical mass is bigger with Windows there is a big chance that, when spreading via network, letters, etc, the new target will also be a PC with Windows. With a Mak or Linuzzz, the chance that a virus that sends itself comes to another Mak or Linuzzz machine is minimal: not enough critical mass.
When Maks and Linuzzz gets more and more popular with the time, we will see that those systems will be getting more and more interesting for malware writers. Fortunatly, the critical mass for those systems is not high enough and we will not see chain reactions like the Love letter or something similar. Not in a near future anyway.
Hey, but that's just me (and thousand of co-workers here), but please, feel free to use what you want. Only don't preach, please...
Wait a minut. I though that there was imposible to get a computer without Windows.
My point is: PP is not worse than old good overhead presentations, or stenciled copies, or lines on a blackboard. It's just that, when the presentation sucks or it's boring, people seem to blame the program...but guess again, the same boring and poor presentation would be boring and poor on some other medium as well.
Oh boy, say bye to your karma...
As any new OS out there, these are childre diseases. Every new system will have problems: small problems and big problesm. The difference is that some will get praise anyway and some others will get "defectivebydesign" or "haha" tags.