MS Office probably has more compatibility testing done than any other application. It's usually third-party software and old drivers that break upgrades.
It's still early days for Android. If Google doesn't make things easy for device makers and operators they will go right back to WinMo or Symbian or whatever and Google's investment will be wasted.
All of those unique PC machines are running the same OS: Microsoft Windows. If every PC maker was shipping their own OS the PC market would look like the Unix market circa 1990.
The question is why the banks have a say in the matter. The obvious solution is for the government to mandate simple and free transfers. Most European governments did this long ago, and the Singe Euro Payments Area will do so for the EEA+Switzerland by the end of this year.
But GIMP and OOo are not designed or intended to be "basic" tools. They both aim to be full-featured, professional-level applications, and it is natural to compare them to their most important competitors. (This does not mean they have to be clones, of course. GIMP has quite a different UI than Photoshop, even though it tries to have roughly the same functionality.)
The Firefox UI is completely skinnable and there are skins on addons.mozilla.org that make Firefox 3.5 look like pretty much any previous version. Why should Mozilla bother to maintain two separate UIs when the community can do it for them?
China will trade with anyone, no matter how evil. China is the largest investor in nations like Sudan and Burma and block most attempts to censure them in the UN and other international organizations.
Secondly, the annoyance is in the fact that, in UAC, you ask to do something first, and then Windows asks you for authorization. sudo is less annoying because you authorize first (or at the same time, depending on how you look at it) and then ask to do something.
That's not the way it works. If you know a program will need elevation, set the "Always run as Administrator" option on the executable or use runas. If you don't know that the program will require authentication ahead of time the program can request elevation when needed, just like i.e. the Ubuntu update manager and other admin tools only request elevation when they need write access to the system. In fact, I'd say many more of the Windows admin tools use fine-grained permissions than on Ubuntu and Fedora.
But the population charts say that the population will peak at 9-10 billion and decline slowly thereafter. And the socioeconomic forces that drive declining fertility are the same increased access education and widening labor markets that drive global economic growth.
It's not really AMD's fault. I'm sure they are as concerned about missing the hoilday sales rush as you are. TSMC promised them lots of 40nm chips and failed to deliver. There is no one else who can do 40nm chips, so AMD is screwed until chip makers roll out 32nm production lines and AMD can finish designing a 32nm chip.
This is exactly what the Windows 7 installer does if you tell it to install to a partition with an existing Windows install. \Windows, \Users (or \Documents and Settings) and \Program Files are moved into a \Windows.OLD folder before the installation begins.
I don't see any general price win on Steam. It is quite common for me to see DVD editions available for a third or half the cost of a Steam game. The most recent example is Grand Theft Auto IV, which is €50 on Steam but €30 including shipping at several local (Finnish) web shops. I remember Mass Effect being €40 on Steam/€20 in stores for a long time as well. Pretty much any big title seems to drop much faster in local shops.
On the other hand, the Weekend Deals are great and I check them every week. (I picked up the Hitman Collection a few hours ago, in fact.) But Gamer's Gate, Impulse and D2D also have frequent sales.
That's a good point. Most developed countries didn't get seriously concerned with IP law until they started exporting IP themselves. Japanese companies made a lot of knock-offs in the 1950s and 60s; Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan followed in the 70s and 80s. Is it surprising then that China, India, Vietnam etc. do the same? The difference is perhaps that it is easier to spot in todays better informed market.
The United States is such a thing. The Federal government routinely issues mandatory directives to the states, and any disputes are decided by the federal government alone.
The reason that Hulu is only available in the US is that international TV licensing is a nightmarish legal morass from which no man emerges fully sane.
It would also be better if we didn't need policemen and lawyers, but that's not going to happen either. In any reasonable future there will be computer security threats.
I think the causes of bloodier wars are more about money than weapons. Modern states engage in bloody wars because they can afford to send a large number of their citizens off to die and they can afford to give them large amounts of supplies. In subsistence economies there are few non-essential workers that can be used for war, and the armies have to either feed themselves by plundering the locals or by very limited supply chains that put hard limits on army size.
If war was more civilized in 17th and 18th century Europe it was because rulers believed that land and the peasants that worked it was the only source of wealth, so their generals generally tried to avoid hurting the land they were fighting over. The modern view is that the wealth of a nation is (generally) decided by productivity, not acreage, so the huge sums invested in wars would have been better invested in infrastructure and industry. To the aristocratic rulers this was the domain of common merchants, not of nobles.
It is your IT dept that is crazy. The XP life-cycle was announced when it was released so they had to know this would happen. They should have switched to Vista.
If you are not running as administrator you have to enter the password of an administrator. It's people who run as an admin who get the click trough dialogs. Problem is that the Windows installer still doesn't try to suggest that users should run as a mormal user. By default it should create both an admin and normal user during install and tell you to use the normal user in everyday use. Maybe even hide the admin user in the login screen.
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MS Office probably has more compatibility testing done than any other application. It's usually third-party software and old drivers that break upgrades.
It's still early days for Android. If Google doesn't make things easy for device makers and operators they will go right back to WinMo or Symbian or whatever and Google's investment will be wasted.
All of those unique PC machines are running the same OS: Microsoft Windows. If every PC maker was shipping their own OS the PC market would look like the Unix market circa 1990.
Only because there were no more resources to spare from the struggle to survive. War scales with the economic productivity of the societies involved.
The question is why the banks have a say in the matter. The obvious solution is for the government to mandate simple and free transfers. Most European governments did this long ago, and the Singe Euro Payments Area will do so for the EEA+Switzerland by the end of this year.
But GIMP and OOo are not designed or intended to be "basic" tools. They both aim to be full-featured, professional-level applications, and it is natural to compare them to their most important competitors. (This does not mean they have to be clones, of course. GIMP has quite a different UI than Photoshop, even though it tries to have roughly the same functionality.)
The Firefox UI is completely skinnable and there are skins on addons.mozilla.org that make Firefox 3.5 look like pretty much any previous version. Why should Mozilla bother to maintain two separate UIs when the community can do it for them?
China will trade with anyone, no matter how evil. China is the largest investor in nations like Sudan and Burma and block most attempts to censure them in the UN and other international organizations.
That's not the way it works. If you know a program will need elevation, set the "Always run as Administrator" option on the executable or use runas. If you don't know that the program will require authentication ahead of time the program can request elevation when needed, just like i.e. the Ubuntu update manager and other admin tools only request elevation when they need write access to the system. In fact, I'd say many more of the Windows admin tools use fine-grained permissions than on Ubuntu and Fedora.
Given that fission bombs can kill hundreds of thousands and dirty bombs can kill hundreds it seems politicians' priorities are in order on this issue.
But the population charts say that the population will peak at 9-10 billion and decline slowly thereafter. And the socioeconomic forces that drive declining fertility are the same increased access education and widening labor markets that drive global economic growth.
Your post is nonsense.
It's not really AMD's fault. I'm sure they are as concerned about missing the hoilday sales rush as you are. TSMC promised them lots of 40nm chips and failed to deliver. There is no one else who can do 40nm chips, so AMD is screwed until chip makers roll out 32nm production lines and AMD can finish designing a 32nm chip.
This is exactly what the Windows 7 installer does if you tell it to install to a partition with an existing Windows install. \Windows, \Users (or \Documents and Settings) and \Program Files are moved into a \Windows.OLD folder before the installation begins.
I don't see any general price win on Steam. It is quite common for me to see DVD editions available for a third or half the cost of a Steam game. The most recent example is Grand Theft Auto IV, which is €50 on Steam but €30 including shipping at several local (Finnish) web shops. I remember Mass Effect being €40 on Steam/€20 in stores for a long time as well. Pretty much any big title seems to drop much faster in local shops.
On the other hand, the Weekend Deals are great and I check them every week. (I picked up the Hitman Collection a few hours ago, in fact.) But Gamer's Gate, Impulse and D2D also have frequent sales.
That's a good point. Most developed countries didn't get seriously concerned with IP law until they started exporting IP themselves. Japanese companies made a lot of knock-offs in the 1950s and 60s; Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan followed in the 70s and 80s. Is it surprising then that China, India, Vietnam etc. do the same? The difference is perhaps that it is easier to spot in todays better informed market.
The United States is such a thing. The Federal government routinely issues mandatory directives to the states, and any disputes are decided by the federal government alone.
Yes Minister is a British show. What does that have to do with France?
The reason that Hulu is only available in the US is that international TV licensing is a nightmarish legal morass from which no man emerges fully sane.
It would also be better if we didn't need policemen and lawyers, but that's not going to happen either. In any reasonable future there will be computer security threats.
Is it Microsoft's fault that you are ignorant of the many automation tools that are included or available as a free download for Windows?
I think the causes of bloodier wars are more about money than weapons. Modern states engage in bloody wars because they can afford to send a large number of their citizens off to die and they can afford to give them large amounts of supplies. In subsistence economies there are few non-essential workers that can be used for war, and the armies have to either feed themselves by plundering the locals or by very limited supply chains that put hard limits on army size.
If war was more civilized in 17th and 18th century Europe it was because rulers believed that land and the peasants that worked it was the only source of wealth, so their generals generally tried to avoid hurting the land they were fighting over. The modern view is that the wealth of a nation is (generally) decided by productivity, not acreage, so the huge sums invested in wars would have been better invested in infrastructure and industry. To the aristocratic rulers this was the domain of common merchants, not of nobles.
It is your IT dept that is crazy. The XP life-cycle was announced when it was released so they had to know this would happen. They should have switched to Vista.
Windows 7 already does all that.
If you are not running as administrator you have to enter the password of an administrator. It's people who run as an admin who get the click trough dialogs. Problem is that the Windows installer still doesn't try to suggest that users should run as a mormal user. By default it should create both an admin and normal user during install and tell you to use the normal user in everyday use. Maybe even hide the admin user in the login screen.
Then no one would do it at all, which is, in my view, not a desirable outcome.