"A hacker planted the virus"
-"Is that -?"
"-That is mr. conflicker B++"
-"Well then, put our servers under Linux control"
"There's no such thing anymore, Duke. These computers are fully DRMised. It relies on satalite internet, which links our servers to Redmond"
Uninstalling is not a good option. IE's engine is all around the Windows desktop. Making the GUI browser unabvailable is better, and MS already offers that (ever bother clicking that program accesability (sorry I used the Dutch version) icon in your start menu? You can decide what to make unaccesable, default, etc. I made Firefox the default browser and made IE unavailable. Whenever I clicked on a link in MSN/Live messenger it opened it in Firefox.
I haven't seen a significant growth of that -- in fact, just the opposite. I've seen more and more users who, as much as they might grumble, are forced to use Windows, at least some of the time -- myself included.
Being forced to use Windows != being forced to use Vista. And that being forced, wasn't Wine breaking the lock-in?
That being the official one. I don't recall if they had deals with others, like YouTube. I'm sure it was on YouTube anyway, but the legal way to watch the Olympics did require Silverlight.
That's wierd, I could have sworn that the official page was fules by Flash~: http://en.beijing2008.cn/
Indeed. It's also the problem with Apple -- it is a tool for exactly what Apple lets it be used for.
Same goes for your microwave... It's a tool.
That is: You buy a new one, you turn it on, you try to plug in your camera... only to find that Apple removed FIreWire in this version. You now either have to bring the computer back and buy a much more expensive Macbook Pro, or you have to buy a new camera.
A friend of mine has a TV tuner card and the IR sensor for his remote is a serial port that is also not supported by his 'PC' Intel motherboard. Seriously, your point?
The larger problem there is, most consumers don't always realize it's choice they're wanting. For example, just today, I saw a woman squinting over some tiny text in a webpage viewed on Internet Explorer, on a high-resolution monitor. I showed her Firefox, and ctrl plus/minus.
That's awesome adn also doable with the GUI zoomer in IE7 and beyond (bottom-right corner). Of course you meant choice, but you're generalising.
The Blue E == The Internet, to them.
No, the Blue E is just the mash of pixels on their screen they need to click to get on the internet. People are well aware they can also 'internet' on their mobile phones (commercials everywhere).
If their computer gets viruses, it must mean they didn't have strong enough antivirus -- or just that it happens to everyone, nothing they could do about it.
No, no and no. Icculus is not done because he is rewriting the offending code. Epic could put some effort into this. And yes the problem does lie with Epic because they promised something they could not deliver. I don't give a flying fsck about their legal issues. They should have read the middleware license more thoroughly.
Ubuntu is like a massive rock; as it reaches 'stable' it starts rolling down the hill and as the giant rock becomes fasty-fasty it will go BOOOM breaky the barrier made of sticks.
Everybody who was stupid enough (like me) to buy UT3 when there was no Linux client knows these screenshots. The point here is that Epic should have been throwing some money at the Linux port instead of just paying one guy to do it. If they can make a Xbox360 and Playstation 3 port (for god's sake!) then they should have just as fast released a Linux and Mac port. Nice to see some screens 1,5 years later after the release.
Yes ofcourse this pisses me of. Can I be angry about it please? I spend aprox. $70 on the limited edition.
Never. Those assholes at EPIC FAIL rather lie and cheat and spend money on a gratis expension they make zero money with, then paying for a Linux port they promised so that more people can actually play the game.
I sometimes buy expensive games because I realy, realy like them. VALVe games are the only games I buy without even thinking it through. VALVe is just full of WIN all the way.
The above is only for online play, but I'm more of a single player compaign game that I can finnish. It feels more like an accomplishment than constantly placing 2nd for online matches. I buy more of those games, but only if their prices have dropped.
I quit downloading because I have money now, but when a single player game is full of 'bad' DRM, (like Crysis Warhead) or if I can't find a game in stores I download them.
In what way does that matter? That's like asking how many Linux users actually got an Ubuntu DVD in the mail.
People download Ubuntu. It shows a rapid increase in growthrate. It matters because the only sales that Microsoft made was with sales to OEMs. And from the people who indirectly bought it, most of the people downgrade. That means there might be sales, but people don't want to use it. Sure, Microsoft is still making an income, but only because of bundeling. It's not the amount of sales, it's the amount of users that avoid it like the plaque.
Some changes quickly, some not so much. There are still people who depend on DOS applications, and Microsoft still attempts to support them in each new release of Windows
Yeah attempt is the right word. Fact is that DOS compatibility is practicaly dead. People use Dosbox and therefore Microsoft is losing it's lockin. The lockin is the primary reason they still make sales on Windows. People heven't switch away because they couldn't, but now they can. And Gratis beats the living crap out of paying for something, especialy in this economical crisis.
IE is still 80% of the market. I still have to account for IE in every website/app I make.
How many up-to-date IE users are there? People only use it because they don't update. They will when they are forced, and the people that update switch away from IE. So when people are deciding to care about their browser they choose Firefox. You no longer have to care about IE anymore. I tried the official Windows 7 beta and IE8 in that release can display non-IE websites just perfectly.
How is that a good thing, by the way, even if it's true?
It is not a good thing, but it shows a decline in Windows Mobile acceptance. The amount of consumers buying it is rapidly declining in favor of the iPhone. I'm just giving an argument why as to why I think the Windows empire is past it's day of glory so to speak. Declining consumer request.
If by "almost nobody", you mean "millions of people"...
When compared to iPods, that amount is a complete joke. Percentage-wise allmost nobody buys it.
Aside from being required for various high-profile media presentations -- "high-profile" as in "the fucking Olympics" -- I suppose you're right.
Well first of all it was not required to view the Olympics online, maybe one of the website that broadcasted it. But compared to Adobe stuff Silverlight is not vistorious at all. So how is a past event going for lock-in, etc. Besides Moonlight also exist. I have yet to encounter a non-Miocrosoft site that requiores Silverlight. So in that case nobody needs it and percentage-wise nobody uses it. No growthrate, just lots and lots of FAIL.
Apple would not be much better than Microsoft.
I totaly agree. But we're not talking about how good or bad it is, we're talking about my prediction that Windows will be dead in six years.
The only advantage to Apple having 90% marketshare is that their stuff tends to work.
It might come at a complete shock to you, but for most people the computer is just a tool. You press the on/off button to turn it on, product takes a little time to be ready, you click the 'make a document' icon on the bottom. You Write your lettre, put the cable from the printer into the computer, press the print button and it prints. That's how computers should work. I am a computer hobbyist, sure, but to ther people a computers is just as much of a tool as a microwave, and would you be interested in putting together a microwave, install it firmware and update it every week? No. That's why computers FAIL with 'normal' people. That's why Apple is winning. They have growthrate while Microsoft has only got a declinerate.
No six. Realy, btw, how many people went to a store to actualy buy a $500 OS?
Let's face it man; technology is a very rapid changing market. Have any new Microsoft products/incarnations cought up? No. IE lost it's dominance, Live search is dead, Windows Mobile is losing it from the iPhone, the Zune is a device almost nobody bought. Their music store? How about Office 2007? People just install the Microsoft OOXML converter for previous versions of Office. How's OOXML doing by the way? Google finds more ODF files than that. How's Silverlight doing? How's their API lockin? Take a look at the current state of Wine. In some cases Wine works even better with older Windows software than Vista and Windows 7 do. IE8 is starting to lose from Firefox. The avarage public awereness of virusscanners is now almost as much the existence of Firefox. Puhlease...
Linux and Apple are on their way to kill Windows for good. Apple is way faster than Linux but Linux is starting to gain serious traction. BTW people are tired of Windows. They may not realise it and just blame the 'PC', but they mean Windows when they want a 'Mac'
Windows admins usualy have no clue whatsoever. System got a little messed up? Well instead of fixing a minor issue it's reformatting time!
Seriously... they only know how to set it up. App here, registery fix there (can't blame them for Windows being a complete suckup) is all they know. Any problem results in re-imaging:S
Better strange and actualy launching apps then waiting for it to boot and wanting to demolish the computer when Windows fails to properly multitask AGAIN (the horrors... never had any computer rage against everything besides Windows, only boredom when I couldn't get something to work on Linux)
It was a while ago and I'm not going to spend a lot of time trying to find it but Google is full of resources. In that first article is also a link to a ruling.
Apple ships a single product, not 25. "Huh?", you know, a computer, not an OS, RAM, CPU, Mainboard, Case, Webcam, Battery, GPU card, PSU, etc.
When it's dead you bring it to warrenty and when warrenty is over your product is doomed. This goes for your stereo, TV, etc.
Apple is also into minimalism (design), so each extra screw, button, lid, etc. is not beautiful.
It's OK. We like technology, but those people out there that don't want computers as a hobby (nothing wrong with that) don't like the complicated crap.
I predict that in five years GPU's will be on the same chip (AMD fusion, Intel larrabee) as the CPU. GPU's will be geared towards OpenGL (and Direct3D for what's still left of Microsoft Windows and believe me when I say Linux and Apple are going to kill Windows) compositing for 3D window management/Desktops. The GPU will be focussing strongly on image processing (ray tracing post processing and video) and high resolutions (HD stuff). CPU will in the beginning be used for ray tracing games. Later on when the 'GPU on CPU' method will be efficient enough for compositing and image processing VIA and other cheap GPU card manufacturor will go out of business (or at least the GPU part of the company in VIA's case will cease to exists or VIA will be bundeling their low power CPU with low power GPU's on one chip). Matrox will be able to get back in the picture with higher quality dedicated image processing, as they specialise in 2D graphics. Then ofcourse nVidia & Co will probably go into dedicated number crunching cards (CUDA stuff) for dedicated ray tracing, physics, fluid animation, etc. When that happens ray tracing engines will be heavier on the calculation front where the general purpose CPU doesn't have enough power to cope with it's lack of calculation power for HD resolutions and all the effects. Matrox will be out of the picture again because nobody is going to buy two dedicated cards as nVidia & co will also be offering post processing stuff on their number crunchers.
That European Union you talk about dictated that downloading copyrighted material is legal and sharing it is legal up to sharing 2500 different copyrighted works.
That's the same as saying that some news channel on TV is a criminal organisation by reporting about mass murder on TV, as they make money with pointing it out...
Slashdot Mirror
"A hacker planted the virus"
-"Is that -?"
"-That is mr. conflicker B++"
-"Well then, put our servers under Linux control"
"There's no such thing anymore, Duke. These computers are fully DRMised. It relies on satalite internet, which links our servers to Redmond"
And the EU, only eager to make money, then turns around and spends it on FLOSS projects such as Nepomuk. Get your story straight, lamer.
MS should bundle everything they want, with retail copies. MS should at the same time allow OEM vendors to bundle non-MS software.
THATS the real solution to the REAL problem. Period.
Uninstalling is not a good option. IE's engine is all around the Windows desktop. Making the GUI browser unabvailable is better, and MS already offers that (ever bother clicking that program accesability (sorry I used the Dutch version) icon in your start menu? You can decide what to make unaccesable, default, etc. I made Firefox the default browser and made IE unavailable. Whenever I clicked on a link in MSN/Live messenger it opened it in Firefox.
TFPDF is about browsers in general, not browsers on Windows. It also makes a tiny reference to UNIX process creation.
I haven't seen a significant growth of that -- in fact, just the opposite. I've seen more and more users who, as much as they might grumble, are forced to use Windows, at least some of the time -- myself included.
Being forced to use Windows != being forced to use Vista. And that being forced, wasn't Wine breaking the lock-in?
That being the official one. I don't recall if they had deals with others, like YouTube. I'm sure it was on YouTube anyway, but the legal way to watch the Olympics did require Silverlight.
That's wierd, I could have sworn that the official page was fules by Flash~: http://en.beijing2008.cn/
Indeed. It's also the problem with Apple -- it is a tool for exactly what Apple lets it be used for.
Same goes for your microwave... It's a tool.
That is: You buy a new one, you turn it on, you try to plug in your camera... only to find that Apple removed FIreWire in this version. You now either have to bring the computer back and buy a much more expensive Macbook Pro, or you have to buy a new camera.
A friend of mine has a TV tuner card and the IR sensor for his remote is a serial port that is also not supported by his 'PC' Intel motherboard. Seriously, your point?
The larger problem there is, most consumers don't always realize it's choice they're wanting. For example, just today, I saw a woman squinting over some tiny text in a webpage viewed on Internet Explorer, on a high-resolution monitor. I showed her Firefox, and ctrl plus/minus.
That's awesome adn also doable with the GUI zoomer in IE7 and beyond (bottom-right corner). Of course you meant choice, but you're generalising.
The Blue E == The Internet, to them.
No, the Blue E is just the mash of pixels on their screen they need to click to get on the internet. People are well aware they can also 'internet' on their mobile phones (commercials everywhere).
If their computer gets viruses, it must mean they didn't have strong enough antivirus -- or just that it happens to everyone, nothing they could do about it.
This is also not true because people in the US have seen Apple commercials like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHFy6egYcUg
No, no and no. Icculus is not done because he is rewriting the offending code. Epic could put some effort into this. And yes the problem does lie with Epic because they promised something they could not deliver. I don't give a flying fsck about their legal issues. They should have read the middleware license more thoroughly.
...keep people hyping and posting expectations when you know they're never met. So how about that Cloud OS MS was talking about? Oh wait...
People: Microsoft only makes patches and small upgrades. The only thing that is top secret at MS is the source code.
Ubuntu is like a massive rock; as it reaches 'stable' it starts rolling down the hill and as the giant rock becomes fasty-fasty it will go BOOOM breaky the barrier made of sticks.
VALVe is not Half-Life 2 only ;)
Everybody who was stupid enough (like me) to buy UT3 when there was no Linux client knows these screenshots. The point here is that Epic should have been throwing some money at the Linux port instead of just paying one guy to do it. If they can make a Xbox360 and Playstation 3 port (for god's sake!) then they should have just as fast released a Linux and Mac port. Nice to see some screens 1,5 years later after the release.
Yes ofcourse this pisses me of. Can I be angry about it please? I spend aprox. $70 on the limited edition.
Never. Those assholes at EPIC FAIL rather lie and cheat and spend money on a gratis expension they make zero money with, then paying for a Linux port they promised so that more people can actually play the game.
I sometimes buy expensive games because I realy, realy like them. VALVe games are the only games I buy without even thinking it through. VALVe is just full of WIN all the way.
The above is only for online play, but I'm more of a single player compaign game that I can finnish. It feels more like an accomplishment than constantly placing 2nd for online matches. I buy more of those games, but only if their prices have dropped.
I quit downloading because I have money now, but when a single player game is full of 'bad' DRM, (like Crysis Warhead) or if I can't find a game in stores I download them.
In what way does that matter? That's like asking how many Linux users actually got an Ubuntu DVD in the mail.
People download Ubuntu. It shows a rapid increase in growthrate. It matters because the only sales that Microsoft made was with sales to OEMs. And from the people who indirectly bought it, most of the people downgrade. That means there might be sales, but people don't want to use it. Sure, Microsoft is still making an income, but only because of bundeling. It's not the amount of sales, it's the amount of users that avoid it like the plaque.
Some changes quickly, some not so much. There are still people who depend on DOS applications, and Microsoft still attempts to support them in each new release of Windows
Yeah attempt is the right word. Fact is that DOS compatibility is practicaly dead. People use Dosbox and therefore Microsoft is losing it's lockin. The lockin is the primary reason they still make sales on Windows. People heven't switch away because they couldn't, but now they can. And Gratis beats the living crap out of paying for something, especialy in this economical crisis.
IE is still 80% of the market. I still have to account for IE in every website/app I make.
How many up-to-date IE users are there? People only use it because they don't update. They will when they are forced, and the people that update switch away from IE. So when people are deciding to care about their browser they choose Firefox. You no longer have to care about IE anymore. I tried the official Windows 7 beta and IE8 in that release can display non-IE websites just perfectly.
How is that a good thing, by the way, even if it's true?
It is not a good thing, but it shows a decline in Windows Mobile acceptance. The amount of consumers buying it is rapidly declining in favor of the iPhone. I'm just giving an argument why as to why I think the Windows empire is past it's day of glory so to speak. Declining consumer request.
If by "almost nobody", you mean "millions of people"...
When compared to iPods, that amount is a complete joke. Percentage-wise allmost nobody buys it.
Aside from being required for various high-profile media presentations -- "high-profile" as in "the fucking Olympics" -- I suppose you're right.
Well first of all it was not required to view the Olympics online, maybe one of the website that broadcasted it. But compared to Adobe stuff Silverlight is not vistorious at all. So how is a past event going for lock-in, etc. Besides Moonlight also exist. I have yet to encounter a non-Miocrosoft site that requiores Silverlight. So in that case nobody needs it and percentage-wise nobody uses it. No growthrate, just lots and lots of FAIL.
Apple would not be much better than Microsoft.
I totaly agree. But we're not talking about how good or bad it is, we're talking about my prediction that Windows will be dead in six years.
The only advantage to Apple having 90% marketshare is that their stuff tends to work.
It might come at a complete shock to you, but for most people the computer is just a tool. You press the on/off button to turn it on, product takes a little time to be ready, you click the 'make a document' icon on the bottom. You Write your lettre, put the cable from the printer into the computer, press the print button and it prints. That's how computers should work. I am a computer hobbyist, sure, but to ther people a computers is just as much of a tool as a microwave, and would you be interested in putting together a microwave, install it firmware and update it every week? No. That's why computers FAIL with 'normal' people. That's why Apple is winning. They have growthrate while Microsoft has only got a declinerate.
Also: Your argument is basically yet another "ye
No six. Realy, btw, how many people went to a store to actualy buy a $500 OS?
Let's face it man; technology is a very rapid changing market. Have any new Microsoft products/incarnations cought up? No. IE lost it's dominance, Live search is dead, Windows Mobile is losing it from the iPhone, the Zune is a device almost nobody bought. Their music store? How about Office 2007? People just install the Microsoft OOXML converter for previous versions of Office. How's OOXML doing by the way? Google finds more ODF files than that. How's Silverlight doing? How's their API lockin? Take a look at the current state of Wine. In some cases Wine works even better with older Windows software than Vista and Windows 7 do. IE8 is starting to lose from Firefox. The avarage public awereness of virusscanners is now almost as much the existence of Firefox. Puhlease...
Linux and Apple are on their way to kill Windows for good. Apple is way faster than Linux but Linux is starting to gain serious traction. BTW people are tired of Windows. They may not realise it and just blame the 'PC', but they mean Windows when they want a 'Mac'
[Second page, movie one] -> "Now thÃts CLOUD COMPUTING!!!"
I laughed my ass off XD
Windows admins usualy have no clue whatsoever. System got a little messed up? Well instead of fixing a minor issue it's reformatting time!
Seriously... they only know how to set it up. App here, registery fix there (can't blame them for Windows being a complete suckup) is all they know. Any problem results in re-imaging :S
Better strange and actualy launching apps then waiting for it to boot and wanting to demolish the computer when Windows fails to properly multitask AGAIN (the horrors... never had any computer rage against everything besides Windows, only boredom when I couldn't get something to work on Linux)
Sure:
http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/eu-court-ruling-brings-free-legal-downloading-step-closer/article-169941
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3760.cfm
It was a while ago and I'm not going to spend a lot of time trying to find it but Google is full of resources. In that first article is also a link to a ruling.
Apple ships a single product, not 25. "Huh?", you know, a computer, not an OS, RAM, CPU, Mainboard, Case, Webcam, Battery, GPU card, PSU, etc.
When it's dead you bring it to warrenty and when warrenty is over your product is doomed. This goes for your stereo, TV, etc.
Apple is also into minimalism (design), so each extra screw, button, lid, etc. is not beautiful.
It's OK. We like technology, but those people out there that don't want computers as a hobby (nothing wrong with that) don't like the complicated crap.
I predict that in five years GPU's will be on the same chip (AMD fusion, Intel larrabee) as the CPU. GPU's will be geared towards OpenGL (and Direct3D for what's still left of Microsoft Windows and believe me when I say Linux and Apple are going to kill Windows) compositing for 3D window management/Desktops. The GPU will be focussing strongly on image processing (ray tracing post processing and video) and high resolutions (HD stuff). CPU will in the beginning be used for ray tracing games. Later on when the 'GPU on CPU' method will be efficient enough for compositing and image processing VIA and other cheap GPU card manufacturor will go out of business (or at least the GPU part of the company in VIA's case will cease to exists or VIA will be bundeling their low power CPU with low power GPU's on one chip). Matrox will be able to get back in the picture with higher quality dedicated image processing, as they specialise in 2D graphics. Then ofcourse nVidia & Co will probably go into dedicated number crunching cards (CUDA stuff) for dedicated ray tracing, physics, fluid animation, etc. When that happens ray tracing engines will be heavier on the calculation front where the general purpose CPU doesn't have enough power to cope with it's lack of calculation power for HD resolutions and all the effects. Matrox will be out of the picture again because nobody is going to buy two dedicated cards as nVidia & co will also be offering post processing stuff on their number crunchers.
In five years nobody will need a powerfull GPU anymore
You realy think that all that stuff you're poiting out in your post can't be done by a cheap onboard GPU in 5 years?
That very onboard GPU might even be the the same chip as the CPU (fusions style CPU's ring a bell?)
Yes. http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Proposed_US_ACTA_multi-lateral_intellectual_property_trade_agreement_(2007)
That European Union you talk about dictated that downloading copyrighted material is legal and sharing it is legal up to sharing 2500 different copyrighted works.
That's the same as saying that some news channel on TV is a criminal organisation by reporting about mass murder on TV, as they make money with pointing it out...