But what if they sell the exact same hardware with XP loaded on it without the restriction? Wouldn't that then be a restriction on the software? If yes, someone should check it out if they're the sort to blow some money on a machine just to bust dell.....
Guys you control the purse strings if you don't like what the company does go an alternive route don't give them money, speed up the process and tell them that you are doing that. Which is exactly what happened here. He also went and told all of his friends here at slashdot, some of whom might now follow his lead.
Thanks. So what I see is: * Notification improvement * Looks pretty * Some pretty decent improvements to Windows Explorer. * Alt Tab preview * Some Dashboard thingy.
Doesn't seem like anything really jumping out at me. Other then security (and to be honest I've read no reviews on it one way or another), why would anyone migrate?
So what are the new features found in Vista anyway? The only ones I've heard of are: * Improved security (with many here at slashdot doubting its effectiveness, although we're typically anti-Microsoft here so its hardly surprising). * Built in search that looks through documents as well as document names.
Is that it? Because all I've been hearing about it (outside of slashdot) is people having trouble with it.
Good luck trying to find an attorney to take the case of someone with the average income against a Microsoft-sized company. Even if they do take it, they're going to need a SHITLOAD of their own money to pay for the case out of pocket, as it will soon consume most of their time.
Ya know, after the current administration, I think I'd settle for intelligent but wrong. THen this administration has achieved one of their goals, which was to convince the common person that the administration wasn't too intelligent. It is, of course, highly intelligent. Now its figurehead might be a few pennies short of a nickel, but the administration behind that figurehead was extremely intelligent and achieved many of its aims.
Or at least not been such an utter failure. If you think Iraq is an utter failure you clearly don't understand the goals of the administration. Oh sure, some of the goals weren't met, but the main ones, one of which was enrichening U.S. companies, most definitely was met.
Obviously, it would be better to get an unprinciple, inexperienced, dumbass who only works with his cronies... Obviously this is a binary situation where you can only have one, or the other. It fits into the red/blue dynamic that politicians so love and as such it is encouraged by them. It is possible to have a principled politician whose principles coincide with mine and is intelligent. Whether or not them being experienced is possible I'm a bit unsure about, but if we have the other 2 then hopefully the third criteria won't matter too much.
Well I've come to the conclusion that politicians are typically untrustworthy on my own, just by looking at the past history of many politicians. I didn't exactly need a politician to tell me it.
Alright, if you believe internet access to be as important as roads, I'll say we simply have to agree to disagree. I believe it isn't, you apparently believe otherwise.
They are fighting like mad to keep it that way too, because if they have to compete on price they will lose, fast. Its really quite pathetic and telling of our government that they have any sway on the matter.
I use public transport. Do you also never use services that take advantage of them? If you've ever been sent mail (especially a package) then you have. If you've ever bought any goods that were trucked somewhere, then you have. As such, you have used them, just not driven on them.
Well to be fair it will come from the pockets of people who WANT broadband, rather then the pockets of everyone, including those who have no interest in it.
Now while society should help in the payment of some basic human needs (such as health care, something our country has yet to realize), is broadband truly one of these needs? As a geek who loves the internet, I think not.
You might have overlooked the possibility he simply wants to provide the circuses part of bread and circuses. Although it could also be a nefarious plot to spam people. Or both.
we can't stand politicians who are good at politics Mostly because by the time they reach any amount of power they define being a good politician as screwing people over. We wouldn't want "good" programmers who define good programming as breaking the law in order to establish and abuse an illegal monopoly. Or doctors who define it as doing the least amount possible to keep someone alive while reaping the best money, even if what they do is detrimental for the patient in the long term.
She's principled So what if she's principled if her principles don't match mine?
seasoned Which just means she's been a politician. Given many don't trust politicians this isn't necessarily a good thing.
intelligent That means nothing if she uses her intelligence to do things I don't want.
capable of working across party lines. Which either means she can embody the best of Democrats or Republicans or the worst, or a mixture. From what I've seen, she's a mixture with tendencies towards combining the worst elements.
My sister had one of these a few years back and it was always quite obvious as they never bought anything except a chocolate bar at the cash register and had a big clipboard.
Isn't an issue, yet. If DVRs start hurting the bottom line too much and become necessary for future revenue, expect a new protocol to be developed that funnily enough has a patent involved.
OTOH the answer would probably be machines which do exactly the opposite: Automatically skip everything with the "don't skip this" flag, thus automatically removing ads. I know exactly what you mean. I went and bought a new DVD player that did exactly this.
Oh wait, I can't buy a new DVD player that does this. What makes you think television would be any different?
Microsoft and Bill Gates would like to thank you for contributing to helping them remain a monopoly through your illegal purchase. The Linux community, however, would like it if you would stop pirating software.
You might not be hurting Bill Gates with your pirating, but you are most definitely hurting people.
Its like lego. At a glance it looks like you've made a castle. But if you study it too closely you realize you've just put a whole bunch of blocks on top of each other.
No other major company does any differently... just as Google didn't. I love that justification. Yahoo points at Google, Google points at Microsoft and Microsoft points at Yahoo. Each of them use the other to justify their actions, when in reality the cause is their own greed.
To think that a company should say "no we're not going to participate in this MASSIVE market because we don't like the [moral] limits they place on us, which don't impact our financials at all," is silly. Well call me silly, because I believe should do the right thing over the legal thing.
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But what if they sell the exact same hardware with XP loaded on it without the restriction? Wouldn't that then be a restriction on the software? If yes, someone should check it out if they're the sort to blow some money on a machine just to bust dell.....
Thanks. So what I see is:
* Notification improvement
* Looks pretty
* Some pretty decent improvements to Windows Explorer.
* Alt Tab preview
* Some Dashboard thingy.
Doesn't seem like anything really jumping out at me. Other then security (and to be honest I've read no reviews on it one way or another), why would anyone migrate?
So what are the new features found in Vista anyway? The only ones I've heard of are:
* Improved security (with many here at slashdot doubting its effectiveness, although we're typically anti-Microsoft here so its hardly surprising).
* Built in search that looks through documents as well as document names.
Is that it? Because all I've been hearing about it (outside of slashdot) is people having trouble with it.
That's exactly the reaction SlinkySausage wanted you to have. If you RTFA you'll find this bit of flamebait was added for slashdot.
Same for me. Vista is enough for me to finally either migrate to a Mac, learn and use Linux or both.
Good luck trying to find an attorney to take the case of someone with the average income against a Microsoft-sized company. Even if they do take it, they're going to need a SHITLOAD of their own money to pay for the case out of pocket, as it will soon consume most of their time.
Well I've come to the conclusion that politicians are typically untrustworthy on my own, just by looking at the past history of many politicians. I didn't exactly need a politician to tell me it.
Your the second person here to say they had their ancestry mapped to the 1400s. What's so special about this century?
Alright, if you believe internet access to be as important as roads, I'll say we simply have to agree to disagree. I believe it isn't, you apparently believe otherwise.
Well to be fair it will come from the pockets of people who WANT broadband, rather then the pockets of everyone, including those who have no interest in it.
Now while society should help in the payment of some basic human needs (such as health care, something our country has yet to realize), is broadband truly one of these needs? As a geek who loves the internet, I think not.
You might have overlooked the possibility he simply wants to provide the circuses part of bread and circuses. Although it could also be a nefarious plot to spam people. Or both.
My sister had one of these a few years back and it was always quite obvious as they never bought anything except a chocolate bar at the cash register and had a big clipboard.
Isn't an issue, yet. If DVRs start hurting the bottom line too much and become necessary for future revenue, expect a new protocol to be developed that funnily enough has a patent involved.
Oh wait, I can't buy a new DVD player that does this. What makes you think television would be any different?
Microsoft and Bill Gates would like to thank you for contributing to helping them remain a monopoly through your illegal purchase. The Linux community, however, would like it if you would stop pirating software.
You might not be hurting Bill Gates with your pirating, but you are most definitely hurting people.
Its like lego. At a glance it looks like you've made a castle. But if you study it too closely you realize you've just put a whole bunch of blocks on top of each other.