Microsoft including Works? They're going the other direction.. vista no longer reads.doc files in wordpad, so the only way to read them is buy Office (microsoft's preferred option) or use OpenOffice.
Quite funny that the installation instructions for SP1 are in a.doc file:p
PR is overrated, btw. Everyone buys Vista.. MS wins. Everyone who buys a new PC downgrades to XP.. MS wins. Nobody upgrades but leaves new computers with Vista.. MS wins. Everyone hates MS.. MS wins anyway.
The Virus/Spyware problem is such a part of Microsoft culture that Vista will bitch at you constantly until you have all the anti{whatever} software installed. The concept that you shouldn't actually *need* it seems to have been lost.
The useful APIs haven't really changed since 2000.. and most of that was due to Active directory. If you're not doing domain authentication it probably won't affect you.
You can use 'new' APIs for stuff but normally it's nothing that couldn't be done with two or three API calls to 'old' APIs.. and any developer will have a library of code that does that anyway so it'd be more work to change it than leave it as it is.
Why would you need to order a developer to do that?
Whilst there are still XP customers then you write with XP as the baseline. For a lot of server class apps you write with 2000 as the baseline because that is still very common.
Writing for vista only at this point is stupid except for a tiny minority of cases.
NT 3.1 and NT 3.5 had a reputation for being rock solid stable, and they were.. for a business class OS you'd have expected it. 2000 was less stable as they started adding silly graphics cruft at that point but still *way* more stable than any of the 9x series.
I don't think that broad definition makes a lot of sense any more.
In history a personal computer was one you had in your house. That was when you had just one, not 10. Nowadays even your router probably runs a general purpose OS.. is it a PC? Is the iPhone a PC? Is the Wii a PC?
The wikipedia definition says "The distinguishing characteristic is that the computer is used only (or mostly) by one person at a time, in a very interactive fashion, with no significant delay between an operator action and response by the computer."
By that definition the iphone, Wii, PS3, and my Harmony remote are all PCs. It's just not a useful definition any more.
Vista SP1 has hope.. at the moment if fixes a lot of bugs in vista, and adds quite a few of its own. I've reported the ones I've found using the reporting too (which, amusingly, is itself buggy, only allowing you to report bugs in Longhorn..) so it's on the list along with the other million they get a day.
*if* SP1 works well when released then Vista may begin to become usable.. but currently I'm reserving judgement.
What gets me is how knots form when both ends of the cable are plugged into something. And they form in such a way that there's no way to untangle it without unplugging everything and painstakingly unpicking it from the mess.
In context, from TFA Nate is saying he's seen this running and he's sure it's not fake because nobody could have produced a fake OS that would install without apple's code signing key.
Once you have a signed binary you can install it by other methods (the protocol is mostly known). There's just no point.. the end result is exactly the same.
A project I work with closely from a military type wanting to know the author of a particular 3 line bug fix, their email address, nationality, etc. As the fix was about 2 years old we had his name but no current contact info.
He went away disappointed. Not heard anything like that happen since.. but some in the military could probably do with some education.. a free project with a few hundred authors isn't going to have the current contact details (or even full names in some cases) of all of them - we have the exact time and date of the change, but only because version control tells us.
Anyone who buys props thinking it's the *only* copy is deceiving themselves.
Not to mention that other posters have noted that the auctioneer clearly stated that the item wasn't the one worn on the episode *before* the auction. IMO This guy has no case.
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That's not a mindset, it's what an OS is. It's not an open/closed source issue (Windows is the same under the hood as any other OS).
That might change, but it'll change incrementally.
It's like saying cars don't hover because the designers have a "closed mindset about what a car is".
Oh god I'd forgotten how much I hate that start menu. You just reminded me..
Makes me wonder if they did any usability testing at all before releasing.
Microsoft including Works? They're going the other direction.. vista no longer reads .doc files in wordpad, so the only way to read them is buy Office (microsoft's preferred option) or use OpenOffice.
.doc file :p
Quite funny that the installation instructions for SP1 are in a
PR is overrated, btw. Everyone buys Vista.. MS wins. Everyone who buys a new PC downgrades to XP.. MS wins. Nobody upgrades but leaves new computers with Vista.. MS wins. Everyone hates MS.. MS wins anyway.
The Virus/Spyware problem is such a part of Microsoft culture that Vista will bitch at you constantly until you have all the anti{whatever} software installed. The concept that you shouldn't actually *need* it seems to have been lost.
So you had shitty XP drivers and the Vista drivers fixed it. You could have got decent drivers for XP and had the same speed increase.
The useful APIs haven't really changed since 2000.. and most of that was due to Active directory. If you're not doing domain authentication it probably won't affect you.
You can use 'new' APIs for stuff but normally it's nothing that couldn't be done with two or three API calls to 'old' APIs.. and any developer will have a library of code that does that anyway so it'd be more work to change it than leave it as it is.
Why would you need to order a developer to do that?
Whilst there are still XP customers then you write with XP as the baseline. For a lot of server class apps you write with 2000 as the baseline because that is still very common.
Writing for vista only at this point is stupid except for a tiny minority of cases.
NT 3.1 and NT 3.5 had a reputation for being rock solid stable, and they were.. for a business class OS you'd have expected it.
2000 was less stable as they started adding silly graphics cruft at that point but still *way* more stable than any of the 9x series.
arguably the worst-sounding name since Price Waterhouse Coopers Consulting wanted to change it's name to "Monday".
We got a TV channel called "Dave" recently.
Maybe it was the same marketing company that thought that was a good idea.
I don't think that broad definition makes a lot of sense any more.
In history a personal computer was one you had in your house. That was when you had just one, not 10. Nowadays even your router probably runs a general purpose OS.. is it a PC? Is the iPhone a PC? Is the Wii a PC?
The wikipedia definition says "The distinguishing characteristic is that the computer is used only (or mostly) by one person at a time, in a very interactive fashion, with no significant delay between an operator action and response by the computer."
By that definition the iphone, Wii, PS3, and my Harmony remote are all PCs. It's just not a useful definition any more.
Unfortunately this is just about impossible since those people who decide to put on a different OS rarely advertise the fact that they have done so.
Microsoft have all these statistics, for both XP and Vista. They'll know exactly who is installing, who is upgrading to XP, etc.
In that case just run XP.... it's simpler.
Vista SP1 has hope.. at the moment if fixes a lot of bugs in vista, and adds quite a few of its own. I've reported the ones I've found using the reporting too (which, amusingly, is itself buggy, only allowing you to report bugs in Longhorn..) so it's on the list along with the other million they get a day.
*if* SP1 works well when released then Vista may begin to become usable.. but currently I'm reserving judgement.
What gets me is how knots form when both ends of the cable are plugged into something. And they form in such a way that there's no way to untangle it without unplugging everything and painstakingly unpicking it from the mess.
It's also an irrelevant detail in the summary.
In context, from TFA Nate is saying he's seen this running and he's sure it's not fake because nobody could have produced a fake OS that would install without apple's code signing key.
Once you have a signed binary you can install it by other methods (the protocol is mostly known). There's just no point.. the end result is exactly the same.
That's the percentage bought to be resold.
It's *way* lower than the percentage that are actually unlocked.
Steve Jobs himself has said he liked the Symbian model.. said it was 'a start' which means he's probably planning something even more locked down.
Whether developer certificates (which most symbian owners use to install 3rd party apps) will be available hasn't been mention.
It's an interesting phone.. although AFAIK you don't get the video stuff on PAYG (which is 3's strong point.. they do excellent streaming video).
Even my podunk town of only five digit population within a fifteen mile area, and even further out of town, I get around or over 200 kbps.
OTOH in this city of 5 million people it tops out at 80kbps where it's available... most of the city is GPRS only.
The iphone data is so slow I've given up trying to use it out of range of wifi (which limits it to office, home and Starbucks, basically).
That's a totally false dichotomy and you know it.
What's wrong with apple fixing security holes and *also* making the phone developer friendly? Other manufacturers manage it just fine.
If it's that version it's useless - doesn't work even in large cities.
A project I work with closely from a military type wanting to know the author of a particular 3 line bug fix, their email address, nationality, etc. As the fix was about 2 years old we had his name but no current contact info.
He went away disappointed. Not heard anything like that happen since.. but some in the military could probably do with some education.. a free project with a few hundred authors isn't going to have the current contact details (or even full names in some cases) of all of them - we have the exact time and date of the change, but only because version control tells us.
It's unlikely to be fake, just one of many.
Anyone who buys props thinking it's the *only* copy is deceiving themselves.
Not to mention that other posters have noted that the auctioneer clearly stated that the item wasn't the one worn on the episode *before* the auction. IMO This guy has no case.
I dunno Janeway seemed to give them out like candy.. mainly to races to they could replicate weapons and slaughter each other.
Of course since Voyager seemed to be going around in circles they always met the same race again 2 episodes later...
Believe it or not, there are many things like that in the world. Are you going to put off having children until you can get a guaranteed ROI?
You betcha. I'm waiting for the slavery laws to be repealed myself.
I didn't submit the story, but I'm female, on Slashdot, and a Trekkie
Quick someone trace her IP address!!