Ok, so we have 2 responses here... one says that 10% of users are pirates. The other says 10% of users aren't pirates.
So I took a moment to look up the information available: http://2dboy.com/2008/11/13/90/
Maybe it's accurate, maybe it's not, but I'd like to know where the "only 10% are pirates" guy got his information from. The game has good reviews, no DRM, and is fairly popular so it seems all the usual arguments for a high rate of piracy are out the window, leaving behind only "we're a bunch of cheapskates." Oh well.
Agreed. I just brought it up in a firefox install on XP SP3. The disable and uninstall options are both available. Don't know if this is just poor reporting or if perhaps ANOTHER ms patch "fixed" the uninstall and disable options. Anyone know?
Either way, it's retarded that they pushed it out in the first place.
"All the stability of a Microsoft Product" would be a blessing for a Lotus-branded product, and on top of that Lotus is usually still loading before Outlook even has a chance to crash 3 months later.
I believe you would. I once worked in retail, and we couldn't give away food that was still in date and in good condition to food banks (but which for some reason or another we had to get rid of), because of liability concerns.
Agreed. I've called them bathrooms my whole life, and I've traveled most of the eastern and midwest states. Never met anyone, anywhere, that didn't know what a "bathroom" was.
I do admit the name is slightly odd, though.
Similar situation. I run XP and have had the same install going on 2 years now. No run-time AV as it's a huge performance hog, but i do occasionally run a scan.
The biggest thing is not running as admin, which greatly limits the harm a user initiated (stupid click) attack can have. While it's true there are potentially ways around this, most current attacks ignore them since most of the users out there are admins. It's not worth the effort.
In any event, I did a fully offline scan from bartPE a few weeks ago. Came back clean.
Exactly. It's their site, and they certainly allowed to do with it what they want:). They could do "market research" and ask people how slow it could be, but instead they are collecting real world technical data and gaining insight on to how the performance impacts real people. Hopefully they then use this to decide where to spend time on performance.
If we reach the point where "pay someone else to do it" is the best slashdot can come up with, we may have also reached the point where there is no one left to pay to do it.
Or we could all die of pig flu first. We'll see.
Try this: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2004/07/24/193721.aspx
This rather excellent script promotes the currently running user to admin but in a VERY interesting way.
The user is given a command prompt that has admin rights. It's colored red to show the difference. Anything run from this command prompt has admin rights, but anything run anywhere else as the user does not. Any installs done from the command prompt will be run as the original user but with administrative privileges, thus preventing in 99% of cases the sort of problems you speak of.
No, most people believe they have the "right" to block the intersection in order to get home 12 seconds earlier. By blocking the intersection, they impact dozens (or hundreds) of other drivers. Actions like this, taken by vast numbers of people, are a large part of the reason the traffic is backed up in the first place.
Even this isn't quite sufficient in some cases. The network might be fine for 30 days, but if it falls on it's face halfway through the first year and you have to keep paying anyway, that's rather annoying.
ssh lag is a really bad example. 3g has reasonable bandwidth but rather high latency. Stuff like ssh will always visibly lag, and this is not at all specific to AT&T.
If you are going to use windows 32bit, and you are going to have 4GB ram, you are also going to give up that ram one way or the other.
32 bit consumer windows doesn't support PAE and as such you have 32bits (4GB) of addressing space. If you throw a 512MB graphics card in, it uses (at least) 512MB of that addressing space, even if it's not using the RAM. The most you can reliably count on using in 32 bit windows is a tad above 3GB.
I think making it that broad would be a mistake. There are a number of network devices that use ssl and have a self-signed cert that would fail under these conditions.
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It doesn't matter to them if their software breaks the upgrade... they get to blame MS :)
Ok, so we have 2 responses here... one says that 10% of users are pirates. The other says 10% of users aren't pirates.
So I took a moment to look up the information available: http://2dboy.com/2008/11/13/90/
Maybe it's accurate, maybe it's not, but I'd like to know where the "only 10% are pirates" guy got his information from. The game has good reviews, no DRM, and is fairly popular so it seems all the usual arguments for a high rate of piracy are out the window, leaving behind only "we're a bunch of cheapskates." Oh well.
Agreed. I just brought it up in a firefox install on XP SP3. The disable and uninstall options are both available. Don't know if this is just poor reporting or if perhaps ANOTHER ms patch "fixed" the uninstall and disable options. Anyone know? Either way, it's retarded that they pushed it out in the first place.
Build a bigger car!
"All the stability of a Microsoft Product" would be a blessing for a Lotus-branded product, and on top of that Lotus is usually still loading before Outlook even has a chance to crash 3 months later.
Having kids is really just an excuse to keep playing with their toys, at least for men.
I believe you would. I once worked in retail, and we couldn't give away food that was still in date and in good condition to food banks (but which for some reason or another we had to get rid of), because of liability concerns.
Agreed. I've called them bathrooms my whole life, and I've traveled most of the eastern and midwest states. Never met anyone, anywhere, that didn't know what a "bathroom" was. I do admit the name is slightly odd, though.
Similar situation. I run XP and have had the same install going on 2 years now. No run-time AV as it's a huge performance hog, but i do occasionally run a scan. The biggest thing is not running as admin, which greatly limits the harm a user initiated (stupid click) attack can have. While it's true there are potentially ways around this, most current attacks ignore them since most of the users out there are admins. It's not worth the effort. In any event, I did a fully offline scan from bartPE a few weeks ago. Came back clean.
My pin is SIX digits you insensitive clod!
No. Not unless you are driving a 50 year old car. http://www.slate.com/id/2192187/ is the first google result I came up with. There are plenty more.
Not for 97.6% of those reading your post.
Exactly. It's their site, and they certainly allowed to do with it what they want :). They could do "market research" and ask people how slow it could be, but instead they are collecting real world technical data and gaining insight on to how the performance impacts real people. Hopefully they then use this to decide where to spend time on performance.
I don't understand why parent is modded down... Anyone?
Ummm, no. EVERY application would declare it's message "serious." I don't see this working in any usable fashion :)
Badgers??? Badgers??? WE don't need no STINKING BADGERS!!!
If we reach the point where "pay someone else to do it" is the best slashdot can come up with, we may have also reached the point where there is no one left to pay to do it. Or we could all die of pig flu first. We'll see.
Try this: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2004/07/24/193721.aspx This rather excellent script promotes the currently running user to admin but in a VERY interesting way. The user is given a command prompt that has admin rights. It's colored red to show the difference. Anything run from this command prompt has admin rights, but anything run anywhere else as the user does not. Any installs done from the command prompt will be run as the original user but with administrative privileges, thus preventing in 99% of cases the sort of problems you speak of.
No, most people believe they have the "right" to block the intersection in order to get home 12 seconds earlier. By blocking the intersection, they impact dozens (or hundreds) of other drivers. Actions like this, taken by vast numbers of people, are a large part of the reason the traffic is backed up in the first place.
Even this isn't quite sufficient in some cases. The network might be fine for 30 days, but if it falls on it's face halfway through the first year and you have to keep paying anyway, that's rather annoying.
ssh lag is a really bad example. 3g has reasonable bandwidth but rather high latency. Stuff like ssh will always visibly lag, and this is not at all specific to AT&T.
If you are going to use windows 32bit, and you are going to have 4GB ram, you are also going to give up that ram one way or the other. 32 bit consumer windows doesn't support PAE and as such you have 32bits (4GB) of addressing space. If you throw a 512MB graphics card in, it uses (at least) 512MB of that addressing space, even if it's not using the RAM. The most you can reliably count on using in 32 bit windows is a tad above 3GB.
I think making it that broad would be a mistake. There are a number of network devices that use ssl and have a self-signed cert that would fail under these conditions.
"Wildcard customers should note that industry guidelines prohibit the issuance of wildcard EV Certificates." http://www.networksolutions.com/SSL-certificates/ev.jsp, click on FAQ.
I honestly think we are pretty much there with regards to computing power. The problem is taking peoples freedom to drive recklessly away.