I dropped Safari like a hot rock as soon as Chrome came out for Mac. Safari is buggy, slow, crashes all the time and is inflexible enough that it really gets on my tits. I'm glad to see the back of it.
Or less comments in general. Not only "dumb" people use Windows. Given that it has a 90%-odd market share, you'd see a massive drop in traffic all across the Internet. Some small sites could lose their entire viewership - if funded by ad views, they'd lose money too.
I think your parent's point was rather that the same people who pirate games and such would also try and strip out the ads. Witness the number of people on Slashdot who use Adblock.
She campaigned against the very concept of rape victims having abortions, which even a good portion of pro-lifers would consider a grotesque position to take.
Funny you mentioned that, I used my MacBook and a Guitar Hero controller and was able to play a few simple tunes on it with GarageBand. No real practical application (GH controllers are better for playing GH with than anything else, obviously) but it was fun.:)
most of the good Windows versions came out when Bill was the head.
That's because Bill was in charge of the company longer and presided over most of its history and that of Windows. While Ballmer has been CEO, all MS have released OS wise is XP, the various Windows Server OSes and Vista.
Well, quite. Bitstream Vera is still fugly to my eyes. Luxi Sans was OK, as much a rip off of Lucida Grande as it was, but nobody ships it any more. Creating a font is a hell of a lot of effort (think about every single character in the Unicode alphabet and making that... not exactly a labour of love.)
That's probably the OS's fault though though. Apple spend money on getting decent fonts for OSX, because decent fonts do cost money - real Helvetica, Gill Sans et al cost money. Money which OSS/X/Linux developers simply can't afford. Microsoft have the same thing with their new fonts for Vista/7/Office 2007, they spent money on Calibri etc and got great results.
Dropping Microsoft Messager is kinda a stupid idea. So much competiton if there was to many people say hey I cant do that. They will just switch.
Microsoft Messenger for Mac is a piece of shit as it is. No AV support and a user interface that doesn't go with anything else. They need to either kill it off or improve it as soon as possible,IMHO.
Company advertises product as perfect and hassle free - OMG!
Hint: Apple, Microsoft, Red Hat, Novell, Canonical et al all advertise their respective OSes as being secure and trouble free (and, really, Linux zealots can be about twelve times smarmier than Mac fanboys when they try). Picking on just one of them as a result is a tad unfair.
Irony given News Corp's attitude to reporting about themselves. When they were recently implicated in illegal phone tapping, the silence from News Corp's papers (the Sun, the News of the World et al) was deafening.
I would generally agree, but would point out two things:
1) if you intend to run servers etc, a business package may well be more for you, since the ISP probably won't restrict that so much - you get what you pay for, and if you pay for a generic consumer package that's what you'll get 2) It helps to block mail server ports for most people to stop people unwittingly becoming part of a spam botnet. The benefits of the blocking more than outweigh the downsides of a few geeks being inconvenienced.
The Lib Dems' platform is ridiculously sensible, but they get an insane amount of bad press (mainly for having the sheer balls not to succumb to the media line about immigration and the EU. Shame that they'll probably never get into power.
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I dropped Safari like a hot rock as soon as Chrome came out for Mac. Safari is buggy, slow, crashes all the time and is inflexible enough that it really gets on my tits. I'm glad to see the back of it.
Or less comments in general. Not only "dumb" people use Windows. Given that it has a 90%-odd market share, you'd see a massive drop in traffic all across the Internet. Some small sites could lose their entire viewership - if funded by ad views, they'd lose money too.
It'd be no minor thing.
I think your parent's point was rather that the same people who pirate games and such would also try and strip out the ads. Witness the number of people on Slashdot who use Adblock.
She campaigned against the very concept of rape victims having abortions, which even a good portion of pro-lifers would consider a grotesque position to take.
In fact, I'll just let Rotten Library (yes, really) do the explaining for me.
Funny you mentioned that, I used my MacBook and a Guitar Hero controller and was able to play a few simple tunes on it with GarageBand. No real practical application (GH controllers are better for playing GH with than anything else, obviously) but it was fun. :)
Pretty well all SE phones use fast port. They don't have normal headphone jacks
Mine does, a little £5 cheap fucker (the J132). Has a headphone jack for the built in radio. I love it.
Basically yeah. I'm assuming the OP is a Brit - "3" is one of the UK's big mobile phone networks that do the 3G USB dongles.
most of the good Windows versions came out when Bill was the head.
That's because Bill was in charge of the company longer and presided over most of its history and that of Windows. While Ballmer has been CEO, all MS have released OS wise is XP, the various Windows Server OSes and Vista.
Basically, they heard you like taking photos, so they put a camera in your camera so you can take photos while you take photos.
Yeah, I know, kill me.
This is Slashdot, remember. It gets kinda hard to tell whether some of the paranoia here is serious or not...
Why would Microsoft care about you having illegal downloads? They're not the RIAA. They have no vested interest in getting you prosecuted or whatever.
I've been exploiting your mother's big ass hole for quite some time.
(Sorry, I couldn't resist. Please don't mod me down.)
Well, quite. Bitstream Vera is still fugly to my eyes. Luxi Sans was OK, as much a rip off of Lucida Grande as it was, but nobody ships it any more. Creating a font is a hell of a lot of effort (think about every single character in the Unicode alphabet and making that... not exactly a labour of love.)
That's probably the OS's fault though though. Apple spend money on getting decent fonts for OSX, because decent fonts do cost money - real Helvetica, Gill Sans et al cost money. Money which OSS/X/Linux developers simply can't afford. Microsoft have the same thing with their new fonts for Vista/7/Office 2007, they spent money on Calibri etc and got great results.
Which is funny, because that law would have criminalised lots of our entertainers in one fell swoop.
Dropping Microsoft Messager is kinda a stupid idea. So much competiton if there was to many people say hey I cant do that. They will just switch.
Microsoft Messenger for Mac is a piece of shit as it is. No AV support and a user interface that doesn't go with anything else. They need to either kill it off or improve it as soon as possible,IMHO.
While KOffice isn't really that great, Open Office is perhaps the best office suite save for iLife and MS Office.
That's hilarious. "If you exclude its two main competitors which are better, OpenOffice.org is THE BEST!"
(FWIW, I use iWork, because OpenOffice.org on Mac is ass and Numbers is just perfectly suited to my needs)
Does this mean I can legitimately claim that the mould on my bathroom walls counts as advanced technology? Awesome!
Company advertises product as perfect and hassle free - OMG!
Hint: Apple, Microsoft, Red Hat, Novell, Canonical et al all advertise their respective OSes as being secure and trouble free (and, really, Linux zealots can be about twelve times smarmier than Mac fanboys when they try). Picking on just one of them as a result is a tad unfair.
Irony given News Corp's attitude to reporting about themselves. When they were recently implicated in illegal phone tapping, the silence from News Corp's papers (the Sun, the News of the World et al) was deafening.
The BBC reporting on someone saying the BBC is shit.
That sort of objectivity is why they need to survive just as they are.
Talking of Mach, that joke just flew over your head at at least twice the speed of sound.
I would generally agree, but would point out two things:
1) if you intend to run servers etc, a business package may well be more for you, since the ISP probably won't restrict that so much - you get what you pay for, and if you pay for a generic consumer package that's what you'll get
2) It helps to block mail server ports for most people to stop people unwittingly becoming part of a spam botnet. The benefits of the blocking more than outweigh the downsides of a few geeks being inconvenienced.
Dude, if you're going to blow the whistle, then for fuck's sake BLOW THE WHISTLE IN A WAY THAT WILL MEANINGFULLY HELP THE SITUATION.
If this is at all true, go to the media. Now.
The Lib Dems' platform is ridiculously sensible, but they get an insane amount of bad press (mainly for having the sheer balls not to succumb to the media line about immigration and the EU. Shame that they'll probably never get into power.