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sopssa writes:
Since the very beginning, Microsoft's been accused of copying the look, feel, and functionality of Apple's operating systems. Now Microsoft has admitted — after more than a year of trying to correct the spin of Apple's 'I'm a PC' ads — that it drew inspiration for Windows 7 from Apple. 'One of the things that people say an awful lot about the Apple Mac is that the OS is fantastic, that it's very graphical and easy to use. What we've tried to do with Windows 7 — whether it's traditional format or in a touch format — is create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics. We've significantly improved the graphical user interface, but it's built on that very stable core Vista technology, which is far more stable than the current Mac platform, for instance.'
6817436
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sopssa writes:
"A couple of months ago you may have noticed an indie game doing the rounds called 'Lose/Lose'. In said game, players took part in a space invaders clone with a twist — each alien represented a file on their computer, and destroying a baddie would actually delete the file." Symantec has now flagged the game as malware, several months after it's release. Both the website and game warns the user that killing enemies will delete actual files in his home folder. Both Mac users and other security researchers have criticized the move. "Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the player's computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the player's ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted." Symantec's writeup also declares the game as trojan and never mentions users are warned many times what the game will do. Does Symantec know what Trojan horse means?
5416225
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sopssa writes:
Visual Studio is the favourite IDE for lots of programmers and without a doubt still the one thats considered best there is. However I've started doing some Linux programming along with other languages that could be developed on Linux (PHP, Delphi/Kylix). However the IDE's I've tested dont seem to compare with Visual Studio or even Delphi's IDE. In most cases they're mostly somewhat advanced text editors and building and debugging is more inconvenient. They just dont feel like complete IDE's where you can do your work. Is there such professional suites available on Linux and if not, what could be done to improve the existing IDE's and tools to that level?
4865423
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sopssa writes:
Bing has set up another domain just for porn images and videos. "general manager of Microsoft Bing said in a blog post that potentially explicit images and video content now will be coming from one separate domain — explicit.bing.net. 'This is invisible to the end customer, but allows for filtering of that content by domain which makes it much easier for customers at all levels to block this content regardless of what the SafeSearch settings might be'. When Bing was first launched, there was some online chatter about explicit images popping up when videos were "previewed" in the search results." This means the thumbnails and videos are served from that domain, allowing easy filter of them in corporate and school networks. Users still normally use www.bing.com. Instead of heavily filtering the results, this is quite good move.
