The police get paid to arrest people and look like they're being competent.
Google gets paid to provide a service to its users to the advertisers have someone to sell product to.
The people I want the police to catch are already good enough at not doing what they do in front of cameras
Most people I know barely benefit from gigabit Ethernet. Most people I know are not running Exchange servers and huge file sharing projects on their LANs but hosting their data on their local PC and using their network for E-mail and the web.
While 10-100Mbit made a huge difference to peoples' networking abilities, and going from that to gigabit helps with smooth transfers of larger files, there's still a lot of people running 100Mbit and quite happy with it because modern switches are pretty good at what they do.
Sure, as a geek, I'd love to have 1Tb/s streaming but its really not that relevant to most small business or home users.
For reference, at 12MB/s (100Mbit), you can transfer a 9GB DVD in about 12.5 minutes. At gigabit speeds, you can do it in just over one minute instead. Jumping up to 10GbE brings that down to around 7 seconds or so
And that, my unreading friend, is why the notebook only offers 25 hours of battery life if you buy an additional battery pack -- because its rarely useful.
Yawn
You did live through IE 3 and 4 right?
Since when is raising the alarm about an *actual* vulnerability FUD? Because when you stop and realize there's an *actual* and *exploitable* vulnerability out there, you should stop claiming its political and realize its a problem.
Yawn, I am actually a sysadmin and I'm thrilled that people do what's necessary to make vendors do their jobs. I spent too many years hoping nobody would exploit Windows systems that were vulnerable with no patches available
Luckily I now maintain primarily Linux boxes, and much of that is because of my history working with NT 3.51 and 4.x
So the old refrain "those who ignore history are bound to repeat it" means nothing to you?
Making decisions based on historical precedent is the only logical course of action.
History tells us that telling Microsoft privately puts it on their radar for three to five years out. Disclosing publicly actually gets a patch to users.
I don't have a weight problem -- I could care less about my weight. I have a joint and asthma problem, neither of which is helped by your suggestions.
cf. actual studies on how fat people spend less time in hospital than skinny people in the UK before you assume so much based on pop culture rather than actual medicine.
I know a lot of people who only buy a used game because they're going to trade it back in.
If you're going to take away that 'value' from the purchaser, they may not make the original purchase at all.
While I own a lot of used games myself, I've always been partial to Sony's mandatory price cut on games that have sold well.
The Greatest Hits program means any PS3 game that's been out for at least 10 months and sold a half million copies will sell at no more than $29.99. The 10 month wait is a bit long but its a great idea and I hope they keep it up on the PS4.
I stopped playing Nintendo games after the N64 because they stopped being innovative and fun and got gimmicky. The only Super Mario game as much fun as the originals took too long to come out and honestly, Ratchet and Clank is a lot more fun and well-made.
If the wiimote were the issue, they'd make the game for PS Move
Sony has no fee for developing on the PSN last I checked, and has a large number of fantastic 'indie' titles from fl0w back near launch to the Cave.
Naughty Dog is a studio that seems to do quite well on the console market alone and simply makes phenomenal games for the PS3 (and PS2 before it).
It would seem to me that most of the whiners didn't make games that would sell, and that's easily fixed by making better games.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
