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Comparing Tiger and Vista Beta 1
UltimaGuy writes "This article is an excellent comparison between the features of Apple Tiger and Windows Vista Beta 1. The point it raises - 'Windows Vista Beta 1 is a much-needed demonstration that Microsoft can still churn out valuable Windows releases, after years of doubt. For Mac OS X users, however, Windows Vista Beta 1 engenders a sense of déjà vu."
Not only will you get the news a day earlier on http://www.osnews.com/ but you'll also get a lot more interesting stuff that doesn't make it to /.
Looters Around The City Cleaning Out Stores
At first it just seemed that the Wal-Mart in New Orleans' Lower Garden District was doing a very brisk post-hurricane business yesterday: The parking lot was full, people were leaving with brimming baskets, and city police and firefighters were there as if to oversee it all.
But people weren't going through the front door. They were squeezing between boards meant to protect the now-shattered glass from Hurricane Katrina's winds. One man was packing his van so full of computers, televisions and DVD players that he had trouble closing the rear doors. One woman was carrying three jugs of laundry detergent in a city with no power to run a washer.
As in so many past disasters elsewhere when crisis and chaos have replaced order and normalcy, a beleaguered New Orleans was beset by looters.
The widespread plundering started before Katrina had finished its onslaught Monday. That afternoon, looters broke into an emptied sporting-goods warehouse in Mid-City, a grocery in Treme, and the hardware center Uptown. In one instance, witnesses said, police were called but did nothing until one man shot another.
People said they had heard Wal-Mart had opened its doors to provide supplies for law-enforcement agencies sheltering the 10,000- plus people in the Louisiana Superdome. A Wal-Mart spokeswoman, Sharon Weber, said law enforcement, emergency-management teams, and relief agencies had "unwritten permission" to help themselves to whatever they need from Wal-Mart stores in times of crisis, but that standard procedure was for the police or aid officials to "leave us a list of what they take so they can pay us later."
At the Lower Garden District Wal-Mart, among the items seen being loaded into police cars were dozens of T-shirts, DVDs, and dog food.
But when law-enforcement officials went to get their goods, others - people of all ages and races - followed.
"They just came and no one could stop them," said David Brown, 38, a Port of New Orleans employee.
Brown and a coworker were filling their vehicle with dozens and dozens of canned goods - stews and chilis and Spaghetti-O's. Brown said the food would be used to feed the port's police and its employees, many of whom, like him, had worked nonstop since Saturday.
They were only taking essentials, he said, though a copy of Queen Latifah's Beauty Shop movie had apparently made that list.
Brown said the work showed no sign of easing.
"It's pretty bad," he said. "They've been calling for body bags all day."
Most streets in New Orleans were empty yesterday except for the hub around the Wal-Mart, in a section of the city that remained dry. People were everywhere: in cars and trucks, pushing goods in carts and baby carriages, dragging full trash cans and laundry baskets. The steady stream of cars caused a traffic jam on the streets near the store - the type of traffic jam last seen here when people tried to evacuate.
"Is everything free?" asked a woman who pulled up in a red car. Hearing "yes," she started to chant: "TV! TV! TV!"
Inside, a teenage boy held up a pair of blue lacy panties and snickered, "I want to see somebody in these so bad," before tossing them in his basket.
Another man used a table to break into one of the last unscathed jewelry cases.
A rumor that the National Guard had arrived sent people running toward the store's exit, shouting: "Come on! Come on!" But no one put down any merchandise, and the Guard rumor turned out to be false.
Some shoppers were oddly selective. One woman said she was taking only facial-care products. Another was pushing a cart filled with silk roses and baby's breath. In the pharmacy aisle, she leaned over
No? Then at least one fundamental point is different between the two OSes.
Slashdot News for nerds, stuff that matters [ faq | code | awards | journals | subscribe | older stuff | rob's page | preferences | submit story | advertising | supporters | past polls | topics | about | bugs | tech jobs | hof ] Slow Down Cowboy! Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment. It's been 9 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment Chances are, you're behind a firewall or proxy, or clicked the Back button to accidentally reuse a form. Please try again. If the problem persists, and all other options have been tried, contact the site administrator. Preview Comment So... (Score:) by Anonymous Coward on 2005-08-31 11:15 ...are they going to move the menus to the top of the screen (from the tops of the Windows)?
No? Then at least one fundamental point is different between the two OSes.
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Radeon 9200s and 7500s are ancient crap? I guess I should feel pretty bad having a Geforce2 on my XP machine and a 4MB ATI (now that is admittedly a piece of crap) in my laptop running 2000. I dunno though, they seem to do me fine, though I wish I had a bit better in the laptop from time to time. I have to admit that I've been seriously thinking of picking up something like a Radeon 9600 or such to play the second Deus Ex game and a few other things. The actual desktop computer is only about 3 years old, I just never bothered to get a new video card since I gutted the old computer when I put it together.
I have to say that I prefer microsoft desktop search (via the additional msn download) over GDS2 for the following reasons: 1. GDS has tons of bugs (ie. for some users it doesn't even index all of the files... ...look at the google desktop group for more info on this)
2. Google provides very little control (ie. there is no option to reindex the system, and it doesn't even tell you which files its currently indexing)
3. Clumsy interface, this is because they rely heavily on the browser (ie. when your serch results are presented you are not allowed to view the file/move the file/delete it/rename it... only open it). Microsft's plugs in well into the os.
4. ...there are plenty of more reasons but i'll stop now.
Because of this, I believe they can pull off better search capabilities (along with fast searching) in longhorn/vista.