A fast internet connection is nice. If it comes down to it, most people do not _need_ a fast internet connection, but in the same sense most people do not _need_ nice food either. They can perfectly well survive with and even be healthy with food that's less tasty.
It's not the non-standarization of the GUI what bothers me. It's the fact that copy/paste, drag'n'drop and other things that you can take for granted on Windows, do not work quite right most of the time.
Probably there would be more malware than there is now, but also consider the fact that most Windows users are running with administrative priviledges in one form or another makes it so much easier for the attachers (no typo:) to do their thing.
I've had to patch and put up to date almost a dozen systems in my free time these weeks. Not seeing one penny for that since they all belong to friends and family...:/
That aside from the bozos at work that got hit and the flood of questions along the lines of "my computer keeps rebooting on me everytime I connect to the Internet... what can it be?..."
"And I'm sure that as soon as SCO acts reasonably and friggin' tells the world what sections of code they have a beef with, that's exactly what will happen regardless of whether SCO's claims are valid or not."
The problem is that doing so would interfere with their plans of making big bucks on the stock market.
Actually I remember that the first Quake 3 Test was available for download for linux before windows (1 day of 2 only). Many people in the community installed linux to be able to play it but most of those attempts did not have a happy ending.
It isn't the text but the metadata what's this all about.
For example, the article mentions the case of the Washington sniper. Some data of a published PDF was blacked out but if you opened the file in a text editor, you could still see the fields.
Even worse is when people send me a 4 MB email because they attached a word document with a pasted BMP screenshot of a full 1280x1024 desktop to see the text "404 page not found".
Doing anything with a "large" set of files just plain sucks. I tried moving 30MB of data (mostly 1k files) into a different directory today in Windows. I don't know why it took darned near 3 minutes to do. Cripes, you just relink the file -- it doesn't even have to do that much I/O. Something braindead going on there.
It might depend on the filesystem you're using. NTFS is not the same as FAT. However, I routinely move large sets of files in W2K, and if it's in the same drive the operation takes 1-2 seconds.
Why the heck can't I right click -> properties on a directory and just turn off all the read-only bits? Seems like the folder itself has to be read only for the option to show up. It's just confusing. I usually drop to Cygwin and just do a chmod -R 777 on it. Works for me.
A workaround is add them, apply then turn them off.
Why the snot do minimized windows like to magically pop back up when I restore a -different- application? I see this more often than I care for. Restore Mozilla Firebird and, oh thanks Windows, I wanted to see that minmized My Documents folder! Thanks!
As far as I remember, there was a bug in the mozilla code itself that had the syntoms you mention.
I agree that sometimes Windows acts funny. I rant the same way you do, and sing linux's praises. However, after using linux (lately KDE 3.1 and whatever Gnome comes with RH9), I end up having my pet peeves too.
what he meant was that even though he complied within reasonable limits to a "clean" image, they still wanted to go further, so they were obviously more concerned about his looks than about his work.
Many companies have dress codes, but they still are decent places to work, because they focus on the work, on what makes the company money (making good products, or offering good services or whatever). When they get emphatic about appeareance for a position which is not actually affected in any way by how you dress (technical jobs come to mind), is when you know it's not really worth it to work for them.
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because they come to depend on them to do simple arithmetic. If someone can't manage simple arithmetic chances are he will have a more difficult time with more complicated things. Not that they are directly related though. It's just that letting students depend on calculators for everything makes them lazy.
it must be noted, however, that MS does a fine job most of the time making things "just work". There lies one of their greatest strenghts. When things go wrong, Windows can get just as complex as *nix to troubleshoot, but when things go right, it's very easy to get things to work.
For example in my workstation, when I added a 2nd video card, Windows 2000 just nodded and everything worked. After a format I installed mandrake and loaded knoppix to see the current state of *nix graphical world. Neither of them worked. Fiddled with it for hours and still did not get decent results. Now, I am a linux user and I like the system so I kept trying to make it work, but I bet many people faced with the same situation would just dismiss it as "it does not work".
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I fully expect this on the big screen in a few years.
true.
That CD is not even worth the bandwidth to download.
A fast internet connection is nice. If it comes down to it, most people do not _need_ a fast internet connection, but in the same sense most people do not _need_ nice food either. They can perfectly well survive with and even be healthy with food that's less tasty.
that's gotta be a damn loooong horn then!
It's not the non-standarization of the GUI what bothers me. It's the fact that copy/paste, drag'n'drop and other things that you can take for granted on Windows, do not work quite right most of the time.
They cease to be liable the moment you click "I Agree"
Probably there would be more malware than there is now, but also consider the fact that most Windows users are running with administrative priviledges in one form or another makes it so much easier for the attachers (no typo :) to do their thing.
indeed...
:/
I've had to patch and put up to date almost a dozen systems in my free time these weeks. Not seeing one penny for that since they all belong to friends and family...
That aside from the bozos at work that got hit and the flood of questions along the lines of "my computer keeps rebooting on me everytime I connect to the Internet... what can it be?..."
And people wonder why techies are grumpy...
It's amazing how sterile and robotic reviews sound lately.
Hell, even my spam mails sound more compelling.
no, please, remain tied, for pity's sake!
shit, we're gonna need more rope...
"And I'm sure that as soon as SCO acts reasonably and friggin' tells the world what sections of code they have a beef with, that's exactly what will happen regardless of whether SCO's claims are valid or not."
The problem is that doing so would interfere with their plans of making big bucks on the stock market.
Actually I remember that the first Quake 3 Test was available for download for linux before windows (1 day of 2 only). Many people in the community installed linux to be able to play it but most of those attempts did not have a happy ending.
It isn't the text but the metadata what's this all about.
For example, the article mentions the case of the Washington sniper. Some data of a published PDF was blacked out but if you opened the file in a text editor, you could still see the fields.
Even worse is when people send me a 4 MB email because they attached a word document with a pasted BMP screenshot of a full 1280x1024 desktop to see the text "404 page not found".
From the RPM site:
"With RPM, you have the pristine sources along with patches that we used to compile from."
well, they probably are average computer users so...
who cares about karma anyway?
I never quite understood why people attach so much importance to the score.
Doing anything with a "large" set of files just plain sucks. I tried moving 30MB of data (mostly 1k files) into a different directory today in Windows. I don't know why it took darned near 3 minutes to do. Cripes, you just relink the file -- it doesn't even have to do that much I/O. Something braindead going on there.
It might depend on the filesystem you're using. NTFS is not the same as FAT. However, I routinely move large sets of files in W2K, and if it's in the same drive the operation takes 1-2 seconds.
Why the heck can't I right click -> properties on a directory and just turn off all the read-only bits? Seems like the folder itself has to be read only for the option to show up. It's just confusing. I usually drop to Cygwin and just do a chmod -R 777 on it. Works for me.
A workaround is add them, apply then turn them off.
Why the snot do minimized windows like to magically pop back up when I restore a -different- application? I see this more often than I care for. Restore Mozilla Firebird and, oh thanks Windows, I wanted to see that minmized My Documents folder! Thanks!
As far as I remember, there was a bug in the mozilla code itself that had the syntoms you mention.
I agree that sometimes Windows acts funny. I rant the same way you do, and sing linux's praises. However, after using linux (lately KDE 3.1 and whatever Gnome comes with RH9), I end up having my pet peeves too.
I believe this has been in the Mac UI for quite some time.
what he meant was that even though he complied within reasonable limits to a "clean" image, they still wanted to go further, so they were obviously more concerned about his looks than about his work.
Many companies have dress codes, but they still are decent places to work, because they focus on the work, on what makes the company money (making good products, or offering good services or whatever). When they get emphatic about appeareance for a position which is not actually affected in any way by how you dress (technical jobs come to mind), is when you know it's not really worth it to work for them.
actually it was more like green and dark green :)
because they come to depend on them to do simple arithmetic. If someone can't manage simple arithmetic chances are he will have a more difficult time with more complicated things. Not that they are directly related though. It's just that letting students depend on calculators for everything makes them lazy.
it must be noted, however, that MS does a fine job most of the time making things "just work". There lies one of their greatest strenghts. When things go wrong, Windows can get just as complex as *nix to troubleshoot, but when things go right, it's very easy to get things to work.
For example in my workstation, when I added a 2nd video card, Windows 2000 just nodded and everything worked. After a format I installed mandrake and loaded knoppix to see the current state of *nix graphical world. Neither of them worked. Fiddled with it for hours and still did not get decent results. Now, I am a linux user and I like the system so I kept trying to make it work, but I bet many people faced with the same situation would just dismiss it as "it does not work".
well, back then CPU power had more influence.
4MB ran barely acceptably on my 486SX-33 but ran fine on my buddy's 486DX2-66
learn to use your feet.