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eBay? I vaguely recall the name from back in the late 90's. Neat. They're still around.
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I used to use Avast but I've moved to Clam for myself. Most users will be fine with Microsoft Security Essentials. If you're only dealing with .zip file then Windows handles them natively, same for burning. NVidia actually cleans up it's driver refuse if you choose a clean install now which removed my need/desire for CCCleaner. VLC: damn good. Open Office...? Still no. I use MS Office myself but I've used Google Docs quite a bit and it's better than Open Office.
Still, a good list. Gets people thinking about and looking for alternatives.
Gariott!? By whom? He has yet to do anything since Ultima that actually succeeds.
I've never owned a console after my 1st one went largely unused unless I had folks over to play on it. Now when people visit we don't play games... well... online via wireless sometimes... but still!
For gaming a PC just can't be beat.
I haven't carried cash over here in the colonies for years. It used to be bank debit card (cash directly from my account), but as more and more vendors accept it I've been using my credit card for everything. Coffee for $1.25? Credit card.
My credit card company uses PayPass which is the name of their NFT system, but I can still use the chip even if the vendor doesn't support NFT yet.
To me, cash died in the 90's.
Own horn and all that. I use Secunia's PSI application on a couple of my machines and love it. It's CSI offering is under consideration at work as well for patch management.
Re: the actual topic though, poorly written 3rd party drivers cause the vast majority of Windows crashes. So of course 3rd party vulns account for the majority of the required patches.
It's a racket. Always has been, just ask the Mafia.
I'd rather have every PC without antivirus installed get SE pushed onto it. If the other companies products are so awesome and great the user would have already installed it. If they don't know how, or that they need one, then one needs to be PUT on there for them.
Goldman Sachs was one of those offered bail-out cash because of poor fiscal responsibility and lack of view. They took around $12B USD and then STILL had the gall to hand out bonuses to top execs. You can trust them about as much as you can trust FOX News.
I think Crusader Hillis needs to chill a bit. Why use a word if it can be misconstrued as some form of slur? The teacher didn't change it because 'Oh gays are backwards and wrong and are all going to hell.' It was due to the typical response of kids everywhere to laugh at some words until they grow up... maybe they still laugh then. Ha! Dick jokes.
Anyway, calm down rump-ranger. Nobody's trying to keep you down. Well maybe Mister Master, but that's what you pay him for.
If I pay for something I WANT that something. I don't want to pay (guessing) $1.99 for a movie rental every time I want to watch it. After a couple of views I should have just bought it. Digital delivery is a good thing. Digital delivery followed by digital take-backs is not.
How does this work for TV anyway? Do I rent by the episode? By the season? Ten eps for a fiver?
Damn! Internet's down. Guess I'll watch some TV or movies... oh wait.. shit.
I'm really just waiting for all household surfaces to be inductive so I can live the dream of the future where everything is always charged and there are no wires anywhere in the universe.
I can see this thing being useful once more devices are compatible and I have more than 1 or 2 devices. Curve? Check. Uhm... that's it.
...on another pointless lawsuit? If there's a 3rd party already making a living doing it, MS can't add it without buying said companies or licensing the same tech you install.
I'd love them (MS) to integrate a ton of features and put these piss-ant little companies out of business. But then along come the money grubbing sue-monkeys and mounting an ISO end up costing MS 350 million bucks before fees, etc. All from companies that haven't even made 20 million on their own.
I went to the EFF site and checked how to turn off the auto-personalization. Turns out it wasn't enabled. Just like the last big FB privacy scare. Then again maybe it's because I never had just the default settings on. I always restricted what was available to people, including friends.
He can say what he wants. True or not, businesses can't just stop using it. Critical line of business apps were created for IE6.
How would you like to go to you insurance company or bank and be told "Well we've updated to <insert favourite browser here>, but we can't see your account information anymore. Just to be safe we've suspended your account."
Is IE6 bad? Yes. Should people update? Yes. Can the majority of users update and still be able to work? No.
I game. Thus, I use Windows 7. Microsoft is the only supporter in town and honestly, they do it damn well. Don't throw an emulator or WINE into the mix, they suck, plain and simple.
Office looks good and integrates all the products with each other neatly and conveniently. It's better than pretty much any other 'office' suite I've tried.
I have Ubuntu 9.10 running in a VM on my laptop just for kicks, but I don't actually DO anything with it other than browse the web.
iTunes? No thanks. Never. Ever.
MSSE? Just use Avast or Avira or $yourfreeAVchoice.
Skype? Okay, it's not bad. Not even close to necessary though.
OOoOOoOOO or whatever the hell they're calling it now... eat me. Never putting that piece of shit anywhere near a computer again. Long story. Many flaws. Not usable.
"Quite apart from anything else, trying to lock down OSX to an app store after it's been on the market for so long *and* already has a reasonably large software base is likely to be pretty much impossible, especially as anyone really huffed could just load another OS on the machine and walk away."
You'll take what they give you and be glad to pay them.