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Is Windows Ready For Joe Longneck?
Carewolf writes "Is Windows ready for the desktop? We have heard it year after year, that now is the time for Windows on the desktop. But is it really time? Richard K. Yamauchi at OSNews don't think so and has writen a piece that list a number of issues that needs to be solved before Windows is really ready for the masses and "Joe Longkneck"."
of course it is, but is he ready for linux :)
"User interface. Look, XP has the best colors on any OS I've ever seen. Why would you use an OS with inferior colors?" Because God knows that's exactly why we should decide on one piece of software over another...
Its funny!
:)
The paragraph on clicking is worth the whole article alone. Why are the funniest things always the closest to the truth.
Always reminded me of the "mac needs a second mouse button" rant. Its true that power users love the second mouse button, but it still makes me want to pull my hair out when people single click on shit that needs double clicking, and even worse, trying to guide somebody through the gui and having them double clicking where they should be single clicking.
Say what you will about Windows, but the clicking conventions are a complete and utter mess. I'm not even sure power users can predict with 100% certainty when a particular drag and drop in a particular context will result in a move, copy, or make shortcut action. (And yes I know about the left click drag - its hilarious, that feature is a total hack for how confusing the drag & drop heuristics are.)
"Old man yells at systemd"
From the article: Once the bugs are worked out, I would love to have Windows in my Chevy Nova
A perfect fit! It took a while for Chevy to figure out that "Nova" mean's "no go" in Spanish. With Windows installed, the car might finally live up to its name.
I doesn't think so.
Richard K. Yamauchi at OSNews don't...
I know this is flamebait, but I think the place for windows IS on the desktop. The only time I ever oppose it is on the grounds of cost.
On the other hand, a Windows Server? What kind of moron would put up a windows server? Desktop fine, but that desktop had best connect to a Linux Router, then a Linux Server, protected by a Linux Firewall. That is unless you LIKE viruses and downtime.
I've got a client who called me up at 9:00am on Saturday wanting me to go down and patch up their MSSQL Server 2000 server to keep their precious precious data safe. It was a real pleasure to say, "Safe? Don't worry, your 150000 dollars worth of MS junk is safe behind the Linux firewall I put together out of a spare computer I found in a basement storeroom."
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
Let's see if the site is still up after slashdot effect...two years without much traffic may be possible with Windows 2000 but how about under heavy load?
I like the following quote, "3. Stability. Netcraft has announced that Windows 2000 server has finally gone for over 2 years without a reboot." After checking netcraft, we can see their server is at byteandswitch.com. So fellow slashdotters, want to give them a hand?
REAL mice have THREE buttons...
I have this neato mouse that has 101 buttons. Unfortunately, it's a bit large and hard to move around, but I find this disadvantage is offset by the large number of buttons available for entering commands.
Now, there's some of you 31337 that are going to say RTMF. Or, WTF, WWF, or OMG. Or WWJD (Windows is What's on Jesus' Desktop)
A middle-aged woman once hauled her entire computer setup - printer, monitor, cables, keyboard, manuals, everything - into our store and asked us if we could fix it. Our tech guy said, "What's wrong with it?" and she said, "I deleted the Internet." He said, "Really, the whole thing?" She said, "Yes, it's gone, I'm so sorry, I didn't even know you could do that." I said, "I think you mean that you deleted your web browser." She said, "No, the Internet is gone, there's no www or email." We were trying to understand what she was getting at, so our tech guy ventured another guess. "Oh, did you delete your dial-up connection?" She said, "No, we have cable." We went back and forth and eventually figured out that she deleted the AOL Installer icon that came pre-installed on her system, after she had tried to use email and the web without setting up any kind of Internet service. She'd heard about cable and since they already had basic cable, she thought they had the internet somehow magically flowing into her computer from the cable outlet, although she never physically connected them.
I don't blame her. My mother is not a stupid person and she still struggles to grasp when to single vs double click. She never had this stuff and it's intimidating. But nowadays she uses the web, books plane tickets and hotel books, uses email competantly, set up Quicken to download her banking stuff by herself, things she'd never have figured out on her own a year ago.
Needless to say, neither my mother or the woman who deleted the Internet will ever use Linux.
"That was a joke son, you missed it." -Foghorn Leghorn
Oh, what has the world come to, when kids can't even properly quote Foghorn Leghorn anymore! Allow me:
Lookit here son, I say son, did ya see that hawk after those hens? He scared 'em! That Rhode Island Red turned white. Then blue. Rhode Island. Red, white, and blue. That's a joke, son. A flag waver. You're built too low. The fast ones go over your head. Ya got a hole in your glove. I keep pitchin' 'em and you keep missin' 'em. Ya gotta keep your eye on the ball. Eye. Ball. I almost had a gag, son. Joke, that is.
Bush Lies Watch
Nope, not the designers; that was the *nix people.
The original interface designer's spec for a Login panel called for a small animated 3D man with a friendly mustache. The friendly man would walk up to you (on the screen) and present you with a giant bar full of buttons, all of which were dancing around, animated, all different colours. Then the man would sing a request to you, in a jaunty tune, asking if you could please identify yourself. You did this by waving the mouse cursor in circles around the one you wanted until it understood. Then the little man ate a sandwich and disappeared.
Yeah, you can thank those *nix bastards for the mess we have now.
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
There's a word for a Windows 2000 machine with 2 years of uptime connected to the Internet.
Honeypot.
That thing must attract every hacker from the four corners of the world! Haven't they ever heard of a Service Pack? Good Lord.
Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
and this is the most important if, if people understood that switching to linux would mean that their 1.8 ghz pentium 4 which right now runs like a 386 because it's so smothered in adware, spyware, and conflicting whatevers, would actually run as fast as it should AND it wouldn't crash 3 times a day;
On linux this is called KDE.
I'ts just like this whole ethernet thing... it's just a fad! I'm sticking with Dr DOS and LapLink!
Nick Powers
Encryption: I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend your right to encrypt it...
"Why not make a mouse that cannot double-click and make everything a single click."
I don't know about the rest of you, but my mouse doesn't "double-click". I do the double-clicking myself.
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The Mac's uptime must be counted similar to how the RIAA counted CD burners after that raid. If the Mac is overclocked, it could achieve 1340 days of uptime in only 1 year!
your job is to say "fine", give the old monitor back and add the flatscreen to your home videowall.
There have been many, many times when I was quite sure that Windows was definitely ready for my 'joe longneck'. The BSOD really sucks.
--"The perfect example of the man of action is the suicide." - William Carlos Williams
I knew that a childish, unfunny potshot at Microsoft would get you a +5 insightful here at