And of course they are trying to shove XP out the door before a remedy... I have heard from a employee of MS that XP has been "done" for two months, and OEMs should be seeing copies and day.
ahh, but dlls ARE a problem because not only do they destroy system performance, but, they still can become active in sneaky ways like, browser plugins, activeX controls, etc.
the joke is, it dosen't uninstall even when you press uninstall, it still leaves its dlls active in the system, commet cursor does the same damn thing. The only way to get the damn thing out of your system is to use ad-aware or hunt the dlls down yourself (can be difficult sometimes)
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The sopranos season 2 box set is due nov 6, two days before the xbox. Buy that and make HBO happy:) I guarantee it will be more entertaining then the xbox.
I wonder how it is that software manufacturers have been able to escape most liability...
We need laws to make software companies liable for one reason -- US software already has a reputation for being of poor quality [read microsoft]. In 5 years that could become a SERIOUS economic issue for the US, maybe german software will become the avant guard (like german engineering is thought of now), or japanese software will be the highest quality (like japanese steel is now). And suddenly we'll find outselves out of the software market like were out of the car market and out of the electronics market
before the internet was avaliable en mass, floppies WERE the internet, it was called "sneaker net" (because you had to walk the disks from one place to another)
GTE did similiar tricks. I knew a few guys who ran a ISP in my small town 5 years before GTE started theirs (in our area atlest). Once their service was ramped up, they changed the ISP's dialup number to long distance, and the 2000 customers of the ISP got a 1000$ phone bill for the month -- when you called to have it corrected they would suggest "you know this would never happen with GTE internet service..."
Later the same year GTE shut off their leased line serveral times with no explanation, the longest "outage" was almost a week and ended when the ISP threatened to sue the local GTE office -- 30 mintues later it was miraculously working...
These antics cost the isp about half of its customer base over the course of a year.
Everything i've bought from them hasn't worked right or as advertised...
Hawkeye Motion Sensor: Detects motion about half of the time.
Wall Switch Units: All of mine shorted out (yes, I can wire a wall switch)
Compact Keychain remote: its huge!
Remote Control+X10 sensor: Looses its code settings for the TV/VCR all the time.
Firecracker Computer Controller: dosen't allow devices to pass thru like the website claims.
Remote wall switch system (remote, lamp unit, reciever unit): every 1 out of 5 times the reciever dosen't catch the signal and you've gotta press it twice.
Hello, I represent Og, the man wrongfully acused of "murdering" john doe #1 - the iceman. I would like to remind you that my client has not been convicted of any crime as of yet -- and that times were very difficult in Ogs day, and if he did commit this crime, it was most ceartinly a survival necessity.
this is true --- but how can you hold consumers responsible for what business have conspired to keep secret from them? The consumer privacy sitaution in the US is absolutley out of control and business is dying to keep it that way.
I will say though, it gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling to see a few relatively unknown foundations (mostly non-profit?) fire a shot across the bow like this.
Um, how many palm programs have you used? Most of them are awfull and the registration fees are outrageous:) Good ridance to (mostly) bad rubish. If palm was smart they'd line up a bunch of serious developers to produce some usefull stuff for the palm...
I've owned 3 palm units going ALL the way back to the *US ROBOTICS PILOT 1000* and *the* most usefull program on the palm is the birthdate reminder app (which is gpl btw) (IMHO)
Your onto palms problem -- theres no killer app for the palm! they need this cpu power to develope a killer app like a office compatible suite.
Thats exactly why they choose to release the source -- its worthless. But they can still claim to support open source somewhat (well, their own twisted definition of open source).
This is just manuevering for the anti-trust trial... "Look judge we're being good!"
You are young, you crave validation, you want to feel your life has meaning, but, my god, If you are representative of the next generation, and you trully give a flying fuck what a SALESMAN says, and feel that it is, in any way, "real," and is in any way related to YOUR life, then I must, now, weep.
You are young, you are stupid, you are the trolls who've ruined slashdot. You speak much, but say nothing. You reply to everything but read nothing.
What the conspiracy therorists forget is, the FBI is a huge agency, and departments who purchased password crackers are probably not the same deparments who effected his arrest.
This happens all the time at the university I work at, I'll call a company wanting to purchase equiptment and they'll make a quote and a half our later the sales rep for my university will call (who I've never heard of) wondering why I didn't go through him -- after all -- he sold the XXX lab some equiptment not two weeks ago -- and the answer of course is -- in large orginizations departments don't communicate about this as mundane as software/hardware purchases...
That isn't to say I don't use their products, I just refuse to *PAY* for them:)
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ohhhh yer problem -- a mac --:) My father has a notoriously unstable 40,000$ protools system -- and I have a notoriously unstable 37,000$ Avid Media 100 system [at my place of employment of course, thats more then I make in a year:)]
When you pay the price of a BMW for a system and it still crashes, you know the average consumer dosen't have a chance...
You should check out Win2k if you have a pro audio card -- its not that bad and rarely has problems... only thing is some of your win98 apps may not run if they have kernel drivers
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hmmm what configuration are you using? Cubase crashes for me all the time -- but win2k -- very rarely
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take your grain of salt thou ...
Its not about the system, its about the titles :)
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Bring back metroid, mega man and zelda and I'll buy a gamecube
the console itself is just the theature the story is told at
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Whats with this new trend ? say something stupid, perdict you will be moded down -- and be moded up for that ?
ahh, but dlls ARE a problem because not only do they destroy system performance, but, they still can become active in sneaky ways like, browser plugins, activeX controls, etc.
But you didn't read the article so you wouldn't know for sure ? :)
the joke is, it dosen't uninstall even when you press uninstall, it still leaves its dlls active in the system, commet cursor does the same damn thing. The only way to get the damn thing out of your system is to use ad-aware or hunt the dlls down yourself (can be difficult sometimes)
The sopranos season 2 box set is due nov 6, two days before the xbox. Buy that and make HBO happy :) I guarantee it will be more entertaining then the xbox.
Worst "ask slashdot" ever!
We need laws to make software companies liable for one reason -- US software already has a reputation for being of poor quality [read microsoft]. In 5 years that could become a SERIOUS economic issue for the US, maybe german software will become the avant guard (like german engineering is thought of now), or japanese software will be the highest quality (like japanese steel is now). And suddenly we'll find outselves out of the software market like were out of the car market and out of the electronics market
before the internet was avaliable en mass, floppies WERE the internet, it was called "sneaker net" (because you had to walk the disks from one place to another)
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Later the same year GTE shut off their leased line serveral times with no explanation, the longest "outage" was almost a week and ended when the ISP threatened to sue the local GTE office -- 30 mintues later it was miraculously working ...
These antics cost the isp about half of its customer base over the course of a year.
Basically this law boils down to "Change the state of the state machine and go to jail."
hehe no I bought it all at once ... I drew up a scheme to do everything in my house and bought what I needed all at once ... thanks for playing though
Hawkeye Motion Sensor: Detects motion about half of the time. Wall Switch Units: All of mine shorted out (yes, I can wire a wall switch) Compact Keychain remote: its huge! Remote Control+X10 sensor: Looses its code settings for the TV/VCR all the time. Firecracker Computer Controller: dosen't allow devices to pass thru like the website claims. Remote wall switch system (remote, lamp unit, reciever unit): every 1 out of 5 times the reciever dosen't catch the signal and you've gotta press it twice.
... not trolling, just my experiences.
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I will say though, it gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling to see a few relatively unknown foundations (mostly non-profit?) fire a shot across the bow like this.
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I've owned 3 palm units going ALL the way back to the *US ROBOTICS PILOT 1000* and *the* most usefull program on the palm is the birthdate reminder app (which is gpl btw) (IMHO)
Your onto palms problem -- theres no killer app for the palm! they need this cpu power to develope a killer app like a office compatible suite.
This is just manuevering for the anti-trust trial ... "Look judge we're being good!"
You are young, you are stupid, you are the trolls who've ruined slashdot. You speak much, but say nothing. You reply to everything but read nothing.
And your not even good at it. Get over yourself.
This happens all the time at the university I work at, I'll call a company wanting to purchase equiptment and they'll make a quote and a half our later the sales rep for my university will call (who I've never heard of) wondering why I didn't go through him -- after all -- he sold the XXX lab some equiptment not two weeks ago -- and the answer of course is -- in large orginizations departments don't communicate about this as mundane as software/hardware purchases ...
That isn't to say I don't use their products, I just refuse to *PAY* for them :)
When you pay the price of a BMW for a system and it still crashes, you know the average consumer dosen't have a chance...
You should check out Win2k if you have a pro audio card -- its not that bad and rarely has problems ... only thing is some of your win98 apps may not run if they have kernel drivers
hmmm what configuration are you using? Cubase crashes for me all the time -- but win2k -- very rarely