There is no need to change one line of code for that. My mom never could do that, nor could 3/4 of the population. That's why there is Options-Help-Don't use office asistent. Nothing is black and white. there is a lot of gray there in between and while OS is a completly good and fair option, commercial software is a completly good and fair option as well. Both have their advantages and disadventages, and OS id not the paradise, nor is commercial software the hell....
Hell, another one that is living under s stone. A computer if NOT only Dell/Lenovo/HP. There are a LOT more options (not so known brands or no names) without OS or with the OS you tell them. If you look you find. Now, what if I want Apple hardware without OSX?
What about Ubuntu Dell? of Lenovo? OK, you want a compuer without OS? Easy, talk to some local computer company, they can fix a computer to you with any parts you want, and without OS. You don't need to buy from a BIG company you know? There are a LOT of small companies that can fix a no-name computer, cheaper and with MORE garanties than if you buy from the big guys.
No. A tax is an obligatory payment to some higher powers. You don't want Windows? Good , buy a Mac, use Linuzzzz, Amiga, BeOS or write your own OS. Nobody actually is putting a gun in in your mouth. Maybe your employer, but that is your employer's choise. You can always find another employer. The problem is: this is often a VOLUNTARY "tax". I know this is slashdot and it's cool to use cliches like "M$", "MS tax", "flying chairs" and it's cool to say that I love "insert exotic Linuzzz distro here". Saying that you actually love Windows is definitly not cool here (because you are not part of the cool minority) It's like saying you love Pavarotti to Opera snobs: What Pavarotti, that traitor" Or saying you love Metallica to a real metal lover (What , those sell outs!) Guess what, a lot of people really love Pavarotti with all his defects. A love of people are proud of everything metallica done (even Load and Reload). And a lot of people love Windows (and have tried other systems as well). Yes, it's not cool to say so, but I am a proud Windows user and have not the minimal desire to change that at this moment. In the future? Who knows.
This is one of thos cliche phrases that are, oh boy, so stupid, it's not funny anymore. i don't pay any MS tax! I GLADLY pay to use their products. Even if there are free ones. I like Windows (and am VERY PROUD of being a Windows user), I like programming for Windows, I love Visual studia and.NET. So I am a custommer not a tax payer. End of the story.
In my (little) experience the MS API is a lot clearer and "logical" to my.net trained brain than Google's. But in the end, my experience is that both work reasonable well, and leaving politics and idealogical issues aside, I would say, test both and choose the one you like more.
Then question is WHY would I buy it? Hell, I still have a mobile phone from 2002 and I won't change it. I don't have an ipod and don't want one. I don't even THINK about buying an iPhoney. I really don't need those things, so why would I need a newton? Because Appl has designed it?
Yes, that's precisely my point: E-bay was hacked last week, Amazon has been hacked many times. HotMail has been DOSed several times, and Yahoo too. GMail is now pretty popular, so expect more of this to come.
Why focuse on GMail? Well, for the same reasson hacers and all focuse on Windows: because it's populariy. If GMail keeps on gaining popularity you will see more on this. I mean, why try to hack ObscureMail if you can get access to MILLIONS of accounts hacking GMail? Why hack some ObscureLinuzzz or MakOZ if you can get access to milliard of computesr with one Windows exploit? The best security IS obscurity (and impopularity, may I add) no matter what some people say.
Once again, the weakest link in security is often NOT the software (which could also have problems). The weakest link is often the user: leaving the default password of a router, not activating encryption for wireless networks, using the same ID and password.... And , no, don't try to educate the masses. I have tries as an administrator of a large network. They never learn. Or they learn and the next day, they change their password to "qwerty" back again.
Wow! Apple... lock in? That's news to me.. lets see. I can run OSX on... a mac only. I can *legally* use an iPod with.... iTunes only... Where are the Mac Clones? Gone... Apple... Locked... No shit, Sherlock.
The problem is that these days, it is so much convenient and easier to write for DirectX than to use openGl that is just no funny. Writting 2 versions of the engine takes a lot of times (and money), so if you need to choose, I'd be surprised if you choose openGl (political and ideological reasons aside).
Not only DirectX includes DirectSound, Directinput, Direct, but the grafical part is so much better these days that there is no comparation: it is often faster (better supported by all graphic card makers), the API is a lot more elegant and organized (IMO anyway, which have used both), and as a plus, using DirectX give you an almost automatic ticked to the XBox platform!.
I don't use Linuzz and all (and I'm not planing to) but i would like to see some project to bring DirectX to linuzzz (a'la Mono). Miguel, are you there?
Compiz is the thing that MS gets criticized to death when they dare to use it in their OS (called sometimes bloat, or stupid effects, shit, etc), and that is critically aclaimed when Apple, some Linuzzz distro or use it in their distributions.
Works or don't work that's not the point. I hate ad sponsored software, but hell, if tomorrow Adobe releases a full featured Photoshop with some ads, I'm sure that thousand of people will be glad to use it. I mean, there is nothing that can touch Photoshop (please, don't even mention GIMP, don't make me laugh on my ass), so for some ads there will be a lot of people that will be glad to use an app that cost several thousand bucks. So ad sponsored apps is a OK model, that works some times for some people. So, yes, the article is FUD as almost everything our dear kdawson offers to us.
People, patenting one technology doesn't necesarly means that you are going to USE it. Not at all. There are a LOT of patents that never get use. They are just: a property, defensive patents, maybe-for-the-future patents, part-of-a-bigger-picture patent, stupids patents, etc... So nothing to ses here... Geee... People need really need to exercise their brains nowdays...
Our dear kdawson can't let pass a day without his anti ms fud. Ad-sponsored software is not inherently bad or automatically spyware . There are many applications that have been ad sponsored (Opera was such an app, eudora was another, and I'm sure there are a lot more). The think is, Windows Defender has nothing to do with this. Those who don't want to use an ad sponsored app, just don't use it.
What is really sad is that everybody here blindly trust this "article" without really checking and re-checking other sources. That's the scary thing these days.
So having a MS (or, to speak the/. language, M$) insulting signature would be politically correct in this place? Because this ******seems to be the norm here******** and few pwople react, but my sigs seem to, for some reason, provoque moral panic in this place.... And BTW where is the insult on my sig? Is called sarcasm. Or are you telling me that there are holy things you can't joke about here? Is Linuzz teh Holy Word?
Well, just because, i'm not trolling. It's so easy as that. Yes, it's true that slash dot is full of zealots of every kind and most of the time when they see the world Linuzzz, or Open Source or Apple or Google, most people just salivate, while seeing the word Microsoft just provokes an automatical repulse. Fortunatly, this seems to be changing, and more and more people are trying to *think* instead that acting like Pavlov's dogs and people (yes even here) are beginning to realize that not everything is white or black, but that there is a full spectrum of 32000 colors there in between: MS is not the devil, nor an angel, Stallman is not the devil but neither is he an angel, Apple is a corporation and acts as such, Linuzzz is just another OS with it's good sides (many) and bad sides (many), Open Source is not the Holy Grail, nor are commercial apps, and so on... Thinking is the key. Whith your brains, not with your heart.
Interesting that with all these deals everybody is (as always, duh) critisizing Microsoft for "Extending and Embracing", but almost anybody is failing to see that it is in reallity THE OTHER PARTS who are trying to get some oxygen by teaming with the big guy. It's a SYMBIOSIS, people when everybody involved gets something good for them. And in the end, the winners are we, the users, because if we left the ********funny ideologies********* aside, nothing wrong have come with peace and understanding. Ever.
Oh, so you are using Active Desktop, then you are LETTING explorer acting as your desktop!!!! You are EXPLICITY telling explorer to do that since this is NOT a default setting! And yet, the only thing crashing is the active desktop, which is then replaced by the "normal" desktop automatically. The actual shell "explorer.exe" is intact. Begone troll!
And kill then acroreader.exe AND iexplorer.exe. The shell will be up and running. In fact I have done that RIGHT now (not that IE crashed or something)
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There is no need to change one line of code for that. My mom never could do that, nor could 3/4 of the population. That's why there is Options-Help-Don't use office asistent. Nothing is black and white. there is a lot of gray there in between and while OS is a completly good and fair option, commercial software is a completly good and fair option as well. Both have their advantages and disadventages, and OS id not the paradise, nor is commercial software the hell....
Hell, another one that is living under s stone. A computer if NOT only Dell/Lenovo/HP. There are a LOT more options (not so known brands or no names) without OS or with the OS you tell them. If you look you find. Now, what if I want Apple hardware without OSX?
What about Ubuntu Dell? of Lenovo? OK, you want a compuer without OS? Easy, talk to some local computer company, they can fix a computer to you with any parts you want, and without OS. You don't need to buy from a BIG company you know? There are a LOT of small companies that can fix a no-name computer, cheaper and with MORE garanties than if you buy from the big guys.
No. A tax is an obligatory payment to some higher powers. You don't want Windows? Good , buy a Mac, use Linuzzzz, Amiga, BeOS or write your own OS. Nobody actually is putting a gun in in your mouth. Maybe your employer, but that is your employer's choise. You can always find another employer. The problem is: this is often a VOLUNTARY "tax". I know this is slashdot and it's cool to use cliches like "M$", "MS tax", "flying chairs" and it's cool to say that I love "insert exotic Linuzzz distro here". Saying that you actually love Windows is definitly not cool here (because you are not part of the cool minority) It's like saying you love Pavarotti to Opera snobs: What Pavarotti, that traitor" Or saying you love Metallica to a real metal lover (What , those sell outs!) Guess what, a lot of people really love Pavarotti with all his defects. A love of people are proud of everything metallica done (even Load and Reload). And a lot of people love Windows (and have tried other systems as well). Yes, it's not cool to say so, but I am a proud Windows user and have not the minimal desire to change that at this moment. In the future? Who knows.
This is one of thos cliche phrases that are, oh boy, so stupid, it's not funny anymore. i don't pay any MS tax! I GLADLY pay to use their products. Even if there are free ones. I like Windows (and am VERY PROUD of being a Windows user), I like programming for Windows, I love Visual studia and .NET. So I am a custommer not a tax payer. End of the story.
In my (little) experience the MS API is a lot clearer and "logical" to my .net trained brain than Google's. But in the end, my experience is that both work reasonable well, and leaving politics and idealogical issues aside, I would say, test both and choose the one you like more.
Then question is WHY would I buy it? Hell, I still have a mobile phone from 2002 and I won't change it. I don't have an ipod and don't want one. I don't even THINK about buying an iPhoney. I really don't need those things, so why would I need a newton? Because Appl has designed it?
Yes, that's precisely my point: E-bay was hacked last week, Amazon has been hacked many times. HotMail has been DOSed several times, and Yahoo too. GMail is now pretty popular, so expect more of this to come.
Why focuse on GMail? Well, for the same reasson hacers and all focuse on Windows: because it's populariy. If GMail keeps on gaining popularity you will see more on this. I mean, why try to hack ObscureMail if you can get access to MILLIONS of accounts hacking GMail? Why hack some ObscureLinuzzz or MakOZ if you can get access to milliard of computesr with one Windows exploit? The best security IS obscurity (and impopularity, may I add) no matter what some people say.
Once again, the weakest link in security is often NOT the software (which could also have problems). The weakest link is often the user: leaving the default password of a router, not activating encryption for wireless networks, using the same ID and password.... And , no, don't try to educate the masses. I have tries as an administrator of a large network. They never learn. Or they learn and the next day, they change their password to "qwerty" back again.
Considering that Google is one of the major sponsors of FF, I'm not amazed. Sending the addresses to Yahoo, or MSN, well THAT would be newz.
Wow! Apple ... lock in? That's news to me.. lets see. I can run OSX on... a mac only. I can *legally* use an iPod with.... iTunes only... Where are the Mac Clones? Gone... Apple... Locked... No shit, Sherlock.
Not only DirectX includes DirectSound, Directinput, Direct, but the grafical part is so much better these days that there is no comparation: it is often faster (better supported by all graphic card makers), the API is a lot more elegant and organized (IMO anyway, which have used both), and as a plus, using DirectX give you an almost automatic ticked to the XBox platform!.
I don't use Linuzz and all (and I'm not planing to) but i would like to see some project to bring DirectX to linuzzz (a'la Mono). Miguel, are you there?
Steal more Ferraris... Have you seen the price of those motherfreakeres? I mean, a Ferrari is a HUMAN RIGHT as is music on CDs... is n't it?
Oh really?
Compiz is the thing that MS gets criticized to death when they dare to use it in their OS (called sometimes bloat, or stupid effects, shit, etc), and that is critically aclaimed when Apple, some Linuzzz distro or use it in their distributions.
Works or don't work that's not the point. I hate ad sponsored software, but hell, if tomorrow Adobe releases a full featured Photoshop with some ads, I'm sure that thousand of people will be glad to use it. I mean, there is nothing that can touch Photoshop (please, don't even mention GIMP, don't make me laugh on my ass), so for some ads there will be a lot of people that will be glad to use an app that cost several thousand bucks. So ad sponsored apps is a OK model, that works some times for some people. So, yes, the article is FUD as almost everything our dear kdawson offers to us.
People, patenting one technology doesn't necesarly means that you are going to USE it. Not at all. There are a LOT of patents that never get use. They are just: a property, defensive patents, maybe-for-the-future patents, part-of-a-bigger-picture patent, stupids patents, etc... So nothing to ses here... Geee... People need really need to exercise their brains nowdays...
Our dear kdawson can't let pass a day without his anti ms fud. Ad-sponsored software is not inherently bad or automatically spyware . There are many applications that have been ad sponsored (Opera was such an app, eudora was another, and I'm sure there are a lot more). The think is, Windows Defender has nothing to do with this. Those who don't want to use an ad sponsored app, just don't use it.
What is really sad is that everybody here blindly trust this "article" without really checking and re-checking other sources. That's the scary thing these days.
So having a MS (or, to speak the /. language, M$) insulting signature would be politically correct in this place? Because this ******seems to be the norm here******** and few pwople react, but my sigs seem to, for some reason, provoque moral panic in this place.... And BTW where is the insult on my sig? Is called sarcasm. Or are you telling me that there are holy things you can't joke about here? Is Linuzz teh Holy Word?
Well, just because, i'm not trolling. It's so easy as that. Yes, it's true that slash dot is full of zealots of every kind and most of the time when they see the world Linuzzz, or Open Source or Apple or Google, most people just salivate, while seeing the word Microsoft just provokes an automatical repulse. Fortunatly, this seems to be changing, and more and more people are trying to *think* instead that acting like Pavlov's dogs and people (yes even here) are beginning to realize that not everything is white or black, but that there is a full spectrum of 32000 colors there in between: MS is not the devil, nor an angel, Stallman is not the devil but neither is he an angel, Apple is a corporation and acts as such, Linuzzz is just another OS with it's good sides (many) and bad sides (many), Open Source is not the Holy Grail, nor are commercial apps, and so on... Thinking is the key. Whith your brains, not with your heart.
Interesting that with all these deals everybody is (as always, duh) critisizing Microsoft for "Extending and Embracing", but almost anybody is failing to see that it is in reallity THE OTHER PARTS who are trying to get some oxygen by teaming with the big guy. It's a SYMBIOSIS, people when everybody involved gets something good for them. And in the end, the winners are we, the users, because if we left the ********funny ideologies********* aside, nothing wrong have come with peace and understanding. Ever.
Oh, so you are using Active Desktop, then you are LETTING explorer acting as your desktop!!!! You are EXPLICITY telling explorer to do that since this is NOT a default setting! And yet, the only thing crashing is the active desktop, which is then replaced by the "normal" desktop automatically. The actual shell "explorer.exe" is intact. Begone troll!
And kill then acroreader.exe AND iexplorer.exe. The shell will be up and running. In fact I have done that RIGHT now (not that IE crashed or something)