And this is why I tell friends and family to run Adblock plus and keep it updated so you have a lot lower chance (if any) to see ads from websites you *believe* are safe delivering malicious code via ads.

Agreed. It's not an active memory scanner but it's good for when you need it to do the occasional scans of programs or program updates you download. Along with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware scanner, and finally a lightweight firewall such as Privatefirewall it does help a lot. Also, using Firefox along with Adblock Plus, Noscript, Ghostery, Cookie Controller, and Social Fixer (Facebook) you basically eliminate a good 99% of all that wonderful infested malicious code in ads on various websites since one can only assume most servers that serve up ads are already compromised and serving up all that garbage.

I run two older Intel dual core machines here (1.86ghz 6300) with 1gb of ram using Windows XP SP3 (one for myself and one for my fiance) and even though they both have Intel Q965 integrated chipsets using 256mb of that ram I wouldn't dare bother with on demand scanners from any company, period. I did leave MSE scanner on my fiance's machine though as she's somewhat of a computer ludite and all she does is go on firefox to watch Netflix and go on facebook, and if she accidentally clicked on something she shouldn't have, at least I have several Linux live CD distro's available to boot from just in case along with a dual boot of Ubuntu on that machine in case she somehow manages to hose her Windows install bad enough but miracousely doesn't damage grub!

Come 2014 I may just end up switching my machine at least to Linux Mint XFCE or Xubuntu because of microsoft not patching Windows XP anymore.

Only thing that pisses me off with Linux though is that Adobe can't be bothered to have flash properly use graphics acceleration you literally need to install Google Chrome in your favorite distro unless it comes with it already, and use the built in flash in that browser to actually GET the same flash performance you do on a Windows machine. But then you come across a catch 22 in that yea google chromes built in flash runs faster on linux then adobe flash in Firefox but then you're missing out on the most needed extensions such as Adblock plus (Crippled in chrome compared to firefox), and Noscript.

And speaking of anti virus scanners I'm suprised no one has mentioned that there actually is anti virus scanners too for Linux such as avast, bitdefender etcetera. But again probably active scanners slowing down your linux machine.

It could be worse! If they got Bey or Abrahms to do it then we'd see more lense flares and ultra fast fight scenes and no story followed by more lense flares and more female terminators with big boobs that open up to be machine gun cannons or flame throwers.

A lot of people are bringing up the whole malware/viruses issue alongside performance issues as well. What I haven't seen mentioned much is that *IF* Linux were the mainstream OS on the desktop you would see a lot more malware and viruses for Linux distro's. I mean hell Android alone has been hit so hard with malware and viruses it's become more of a joke then anything especially when some of it comes from the official google play store hidden in various apps. Same applies to Mac OS/X which also has seen an increase in malware and viruses the last few years.

Hell even MS-DOS back in the 80's and 90's were affected by viruses when that was the mainstream OS and when Windows 3.0x and 3.1x releases came about we started seeing more viruses affecting them and then it took off with Windows 9x releases and so on and so forth. Heck let's even say if Microsoft and IBM had decided to play nice years ago and kept co-developing OS/2 together and had released that in 1990 instead we might have been in a world of Microsoft OS/2 today and still dealing with viruses and malware.

Part of the problem is that Microsoft encouraged bad computer user habits for the average user that unfortunately still exists today for most people who have no interest in learning how to defend yourself from the vast majority of shitware and viruses out there. Automatically clicking on file(s) attached to e-mails if using Outlook, downloading various free, trial, or even commercial programs, especially from CNET, where it's bundled in with so much adware/scareware/crapware/malware you name it, that you have to uncheck several boxes and click through more prompts to confirm that, yes, I do not want this toolbar or this search engine or this software installed. Even now some uninstallers try to install more adware/malware when you remove the original program which is just downright nasty.

Then we wonder why so many people are (or should be using) programs such as Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Spybot Search & Destroy, and at least a half assed decent anti virus like Avast if you need realtime scanning, or Clamwin AV if you just feel the need to scan executable files you download along with a decent firewall such as Privatefirewall or, god forbid if you like buggy pieces of shit firewalls, Comodo or Zonealarm. And linux users arent immune either in that sometimes people who arent familiar with the terminal will randomly copy and paste sudo command lines from various "Linux help sites" to install this program or that and don't verify that what they are copying and pasting is actually what it says on screen. I mean hell you could have it say onscreen "sudo apt-get netflix-desktop" but when pasted into terminal a user in a rush might not realize it says "sudo apt-get malware-sucker-package" and boom your linux box is now targeted for god knows what.

Same goes for the browser too. Too many people still use Internet Explorer which for over a decade now has been so full of security holes its no wonder windows systems get fucked up so hardcore. Using firefox along with Adblock plus, Noscript, Ghostery (or DNT+ if you prefer) goes a hell of a long way on windows to stop a lot of the "visit said website or get re-directed to a website and have software installed without your permission" often through something as innocent looking as flash ads, banner ads, or sites insisting you have to "download codec to play video" when you don't need it to do so.

And finally for performance it's easy enough to tweak in both Linux and Windows. Disable services and startups you dont need in both operating systems, honest to god de-fragment your hard drive in windows once a month even with free programs like Defraggler, keep the registry clean and learn what the hell is running in both operating systems at boot time, and what you have installed. I still have friends who don't bother to learn how to tweak windows or linux, how it all works, how to keep it operating smoothly and malware/virus free especially when browsing even if you use firefox and or chrome and don't have critical plugins/extensions like ABP and Noscript to give you better control, and then wonder why they have tons of toolbars and popups in firefox and chrome, and several toolbar and other "apps" in control panel and why windows 7 or 8 is running like a piece of shit exhausting RAM and swapping to the swapfile like a mofo slowing it all down.

In short if people would stop actually learn more about how to use Windows and various linux distrubitions safely and practice safe browsing to defeat all the ads and drive by viruses/malware that comes with those ads to begin with, and not drink the microsoft kool aid that tries to convince you Bing and Internet Explorer are the "shiznit" of the web, we'd all be better off. But because a lot more apps have been made over the years for MS-DOS + 16/32/64 bit Windows apps then any amount of native linux apps combined we will all be pretty much stuck using various version of windows as a main desktop, using virtual machine solutions to run software that may be 10 to 30+ years old, or dual boot systems even.

Safeway for example at least in the USA and Canada was or still is using OS/2 to operate the tills. As recently as six months ago I remembered watching a manager reboot a till and on a 17 inch LCD screen it looked like OS/2 rebooting then bringing up their own till software.

Ogg vorbis support is needed to be supported a lot better then it is now. Currently if you want to play Vorbis music files you have to transfer the files manually to your iDevice and use a different music player that supports the format. However, I doubt the chances of this happening may unfortunately be slim to none. Ogg vorbis IMHO is a much better format then AAC but god forbid Apple supporting it on the devices and in iTunes.

Steve should have fired the team that makes the Windows version of iTunes. That software is in the same league as "The most shittiest software in the world" such as Samsung Keis. iTunes especially is just so much junk.

You forgot to add they will eventually add in their own versions of so called popular games from facebook such as Songpop and Candy Crush. Hell they even did their own version of Plants and Zombies and all just to get a very annoying singing pet that you just want to squash into oblivion and an achievment.

I would resub as well if TBC was going on too. Vanilla, TBC, and WOTLK were a lot easier on system requirements especially with older computers and video cards. Didn't want shadows enabled that would be a huge fps hit on older systems? Turn it off and you could have an enjoyable playing experience. But since the Cataclysm and MoP expansions they permantely forced shadows on and with MoP all of a sudden recommended dual core or better cpu's for an almost ten year old game?

All they did was just add more glitz and shine with fancy effects that newer video cards are capable of with no slowdown but if you weren't able to upgrade your pc or video card blizzard just basically told you "Ah well you're screwed bye bye"... I used to raid with guys back during TBC and WOTLK that at the time were using -10 year old pc's with old school AGP graphics cards and it was playable.

Have to agree with you here too. On the american server i played on (Alexstrasza) it wasn't always the best or greatest server but like every other server on the old message forums blizzard ran there was lists of good people and bad people, assholes, jerks, and honest players. You basically HAD to not act like a prick on your server to get anywhere. But again with LFR, LFD and CRZ boy oh boy did it ever bring out the pricks en masse for bad behaviour because they knew they could get away with it until blizzard finally got forced into adding a method to report players even though it doesn't do much.

And then remember all the fun with LFD first came out in WOTLK and the problems they had for months on end with instance servers being full and you'd physically go to the entrance of a dungeon and see dozens of people clustered around the gate constantly trying to push into it to get in.

Death Knights to this day are pretty much the king of soloing old school raids. Stuff that used to be 40 man or 20 man is now in MoP so easily soloable it just makes you sad. There's literally dozens of videos on youtube of DK's soloing some of the most toughest raid end bosses from TBC, WOTLK, and even Cata because of how the runes system works with DK's and if done properly you pretty much could do anything.

They actually used to do a lot more free transfers years ago and more often too.

Agreed it should not be for gear progression. It just encourages more solo playing by yourself with no guild and in a way being a hermit doing dailies for months while not associating with anyone else.

But overall I agree with everything you've said 100% but unfortunately you and me and everyone else knows Blizzard will not listen to anyone while they will introduce new pets, mounts to buy online and I really do suspect eventually fancy looking gear addons/pieces and one day the auction house system from D3 that deals with real money.

They are going to milk WoW as much as they can until there's under one million subs left at which point it'll be closer to SWTOR with under 1 mil subs and maybe then it'll finally die off.

Yes but there's not much left they can really do storywise for expansions. Either base the next one on the emerald dream, the original homeworlds of the Draenai and the Orcs, or take the fight to the Burning Legion directly on all the planets they have conquered once and for all.

I'm not suprised. MoP added in so much freaking dailies and even more of a grindfest for everything it's getting almost as bad as any korean mmo like Silkroad Online for grinding.

I may be a hardass for saying this or be in the minority for sure but if Blizzard had never been touched by Activision to begin with and if they had kept the model of Burning Crusade where you needed to do attunement quests to do raids with your guild as well as getting gear but just expanded upon the storyline of the burning legion and *MAYBE* WOTLK but without removing the things that made vanilla wow and BC unique, a game aimed towards hardcore players who actually wanted to spend time to do everything, read into everything in the storyline, and felt a sense of accomplishment for all you did, especially when battleground games like Alterac Valley could last 12 hours or longer, that was super epic.

Now ever since cata and especially MoP it's so blatantly aimed towards a casual player that anyone now can make a character and within a month of just doing random dungeons/heroics and the dozens upon dozens of dailies and rep grinds be geared up enough to start raiding with a guild to get more gear.. and god praise the lord if you actually know how to not stand in the fire, listen to your raid leader on ventrillo, and learn how to properly spec your character and use it's abilities to the fullest you may actually not be labeled yet another casual sheep to the warcraft slaughter.

My best gaming memories with warcraft are from 2007 when Burning Crusade was still the current expansion playing a night elf warrior and it always will be before this game slowly got ruined over the next six years and millions of other peoplw who think like me left.

Maybe viagra didn't work anymore to get it up and they had to resort to this to get the core rod up so to speak? *Shrug*

Sometimes even the most tasty and tightest pussy is not worth it if she tries to kill you no matter what!

Until it becomes the kind of abuse where she takes a very sharp knife and cuts off your penis and shoves it down a garburator in the sink or tries to flush it down the toilet while you are on the floor or bed bleeding out to death between your legs.

My first thoughts seeing this picture were...

1) Ok she has large boobs... definetly a plus but then are they fake?

2) At least she isn't an anorexic woman weighing 80 pounds that would snap in half if you banged her in bed. Gotta have some meat on a woman to look healthy

3) Oh god help me.. she looks like a crazy batshit woman already when you look up at the face. The kind that is very jealous and over-protective of "her man" and would not think twice of beating the living shit out of him for not paying 100% attention to her.

So yeah I'd say any man would be smart and avoid this one.