Ask yourself, when was the the last time a Microsoft upgrade made your applications perform faster, require less resources, or made you more efficient?
Actually all three, with Vista's intelligent caching of programs into memory. Almost every program I use launches instantly, because I (like almost everyone else) have very set usage patterns, and Vista has picked up on them. And if you don't have the extra memory, it's not required.
Yes, because people never complain about the amount of HDD Vista already takes up (do you really think 200 million (rough guess) want Active Directory Server sitting around on their HDD)? Do you think admins want to have to put in a disk to install that part? Do you think they want to wait for it to download?
Do you think Microsoft wants to charge only ~$100 for their OS on servers? Do you think home users want to pay ~$900 for their desktop OS? Do you think home users are going to be OK meeting in the middle?
This is like saying Filezilla should include FTP Server along with their FTP Client. Stupid.
Well let's see: You could program your own...nothing is stopping you. If people really wanted this they would build it, just like Linux. Oh wait, they did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_manager#Microsoft_Windows Also, are you familiar with this? http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/ Sure it takes a few clicks to get a program, but it supports programmers getting paid for their work, which is a feature I have never heard of getting included in any Linux package manager. Also, we have Steam for games...quite a nice package manager.
Legitimate Plus for MSOffice 2007: It has the ribbon interface, which I find to be quite intuitive and makes nice looking documents way better than I ever used to be able to.
Not necessaryily a complaint against OO.o, but it's the reason I won't be switching.
Do not need anti-virus. I have not run anti-virus for the last 5 years on all my computers. No viruses either. 'Cause I actually know what I'm doing on a computer.
I don't think they should be sueing for the amount of damage only. If you only got sued for $60 for a $60 game, then wouldn't you just chance it and download it, and then pay the money if you happened to get sued? So they charge a lot more. As in, a FINE, not recovery of damages. Should the money go to the IP owner though? Probably not.
I seem to remember the beginnings of movies containing warnings about copyright infringment resulting in up to $250,000 or some years in jail.
Even on a brand new Dell dual core laptop with 2 gigs of ram, it was sluggish and still could not use the full aero interface.
There is no way I believe this. I have set up a 1.5GB Gateway dual-core AMD-Mobile that was on sale for $700 on Thanksgiving 2006 and it runs Aero with no problems AT ALL.
I don't need aero to develop code. The features I was most interested in all got cut from Vista... most notably the filesystem upgrades.
So you don't need Aero but whine about how slow your laptop was with it? Weird. And I wonder if you can tell me off the top of your head more than three things that you were looking forward to with WinFS that can't be done with NTFS. Fact is NTFS is a damn good file system that has never given me problems or lacked any features that I need, and I demand a lot more than your average user out there. You may be able to list off a bunch of features that some filesystem on Linux has that NTFS doesn't, but when is the last time you were working with NTFS and REALLY needed to do something that it couldn't?
Regarding the insane cost of SQL Server...what is the problem with paying for great software that you are going to use to make money?
In the time you took to write your worthless piece of shit post you could have created an account with fake information, probably through some proxy if you really thought Microsoft cares about who the trolls on/. are.
Hence why I don't run any security products at all. They just pointlessly slow down your computer. I don't remember the last time I got infected (over 5 years?). Just have to be smart. But the security products don't help casual users either. Look at my family's computer...running AVG but someone went and downloaded a bunch of P2P crap and now there is no way short of a Windows re-install that will clean it up.
Hmm let's see...Vista released December 2006...runs FAST on a 1.6GHz Pentium M with 1.5GB RAM I purchased summer 2005. So it runs well on a machine I bought 1.5 years before the OS was released, and the processor was in fact released March 2003 - 3.5+ years earlier. Sure Home Basic is stated to require only 512MB RAM (nto going to give you the greatest experience), but Ubuntu isn't that much lower at 384MB (no experience here, but probably won't give you the greatest experience either).
So there is no need for the "lean" version you ask for. Vista runs well on legacy hardware made within the last 5 years.
I'm beginning to think the same way. After buying $5 cables from monoprice.com I've had several of them die (wire inside breaks near the plugs I think) in the last year or two. I am very careful to never stress them near the plugs but this still happens. So perhaps there is some value to expensive cables. But surely not for signal quality.
There is only one strip mine that I have ever seen in ND (well I'm sure there are more, but I've been a lot of places in ND, and have only seen one), and this is along US Highway 83 between Minot and Bismarck. And from what I've heard (neighbor that works with the state leasing school land out to mineral companies) they are VERY strict about restoring the land to it's original condition. Also, this is a coal mine, not an oil mine. Oil drilling doesn't disturb THAT large of a plot of land.
No it isn't. Here at college I see lots of people using laptops in class. They are all running **gasp** Vista (except for huge nerd graduate students). And OMG, it works fine for them! Imagine, Vista is being used successfully by millions and millions of people every single day. So businesses aren't switching over to it at a high rate...anything new?
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SQL Server Management Studio is written in .NET.
Ask yourself, when was the the last time a Microsoft upgrade made your applications perform faster, require less resources, or made you more efficient?
Actually all three, with Vista's intelligent caching of programs into memory. Almost every program I use launches instantly, because I (like almost everyone else) have very set usage patterns, and Vista has picked up on them. And if you don't have the extra memory, it's not required.
I did. And it is awesome and I don't have to whine on teh internets that I can't see something. Instead, I get to brag. ;)
Yes, because people never complain about the amount of HDD Vista already takes up (do you really think 200 million (rough guess) want Active Directory Server sitting around on their HDD)? Do you think admins want to have to put in a disk to install that part? Do you think they want to wait for it to download?
Do you think Microsoft wants to charge only ~$100 for their OS on servers? Do you think home users want to pay ~$900 for their desktop OS? Do you think home users are going to be OK meeting in the middle?
This is like saying Filezilla should include FTP Server along with their FTP Client. Stupid.
Well let's see:
You could program your own...nothing is stopping you. If people really wanted this they would build it, just like Linux.
Oh wait, they did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_manager#Microsoft_Windows
Also, are you familiar with this? http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/
Sure it takes a few clicks to get a program, but it supports programmers getting paid for their work, which is a feature I have never heard of getting included in any Linux package manager.
Also, we have Steam for games...quite a nice package manager.
Remember the good old days when people used applications installed on their own computers where they had control over changes to them?
It's because a bunch of people that piddle their time posting on ./ aren't very good at marketing Linux to OEMs. Microsoft is very good at this.
Yet you probably give your credit card to a waitress at several restaurants per month, who walks off with it to who knows where.
Legitimate Plus for MSOffice 2007: It has the ribbon interface, which I find to be quite intuitive and makes nice looking documents way better than I ever used to be able to. Not necessaryily a complaint against OO.o, but it's the reason I won't be switching.
I didn't have to put up with any of those "headaches". And I run Vista. First I am a computer administrator. Second, I did this really hard thing:
1. Start -> Control Panel
2. Type "Disable UAC" in search box.
3. Click Disable UAC.
4. ????
5. Profit.
I'll keep running as admin too until some bizarre day when I get stupid and start falling for malware.
Do not need anti-virus. I have not run anti-virus for the last 5 years on all my computers. No viruses either. 'Cause I actually know what I'm doing on a computer.
So what if you are still paying for cable? Are you watching the commercials on your BitTorrent downloads?
MacBook Air is definitely not the first computer without an optical drive...for instance the Toshiba M200 (though even this was not the first): http://reviews.cnet.com/tablet-pcs/toshiba-portege-m200-tablet/4507-3126_7-30596988.html
I've found it interesting to look at the stored procedures in SQL Server. That's Microsoft code, and it still even has the comments in it.
Silverlight 1.0 is already available via Windows Update, although it is (correctly) not listed as an important update. I doubt it ever will be.
I don't think they should be sueing for the amount of damage only. If you only got sued for $60 for a $60 game, then wouldn't you just chance it and download it, and then pay the money if you happened to get sued? So they charge a lot more. As in, a FINE, not recovery of damages. Should the money go to the IP owner though? Probably not.
I seem to remember the beginnings of movies containing warnings about copyright infringment resulting in up to $250,000 or some years in jail.
There is no way I believe this. I have set up a 1.5GB Gateway dual-core AMD-Mobile that was on sale for $700 on Thanksgiving 2006 and it runs Aero with no problems AT ALL.
I don't need aero to develop code. The features I was most interested in all got cut from Vista... most notably the filesystem upgrades.So you don't need Aero but whine about how slow your laptop was with it? Weird. And I wonder if you can tell me off the top of your head more than three things that you were looking forward to with WinFS that can't be done with NTFS. Fact is NTFS is a damn good file system that has never given me problems or lacked any features that I need, and I demand a lot more than your average user out there. You may be able to list off a bunch of features that some filesystem on Linux has that NTFS doesn't, but when is the last time you were working with NTFS and REALLY needed to do something that it couldn't?
Regarding the insane cost of SQL Server...what is the problem with paying for great software that you are going to use to make money?
In the time you took to write your worthless piece of shit post you could have created an account with fake information, probably through some proxy if you really thought Microsoft cares about who the trolls on /. are.
Hence why I don't run any security products at all. They just pointlessly slow down your computer. I don't remember the last time I got infected (over 5 years?). Just have to be smart. But the security products don't help casual users either. Look at my family's computer...running AVG but someone went and downloaded a bunch of P2P crap and now there is no way short of a Windows re-install that will clean it up.
Hmm let's see...Vista released December 2006...runs FAST on a 1.6GHz Pentium M with 1.5GB RAM I purchased summer 2005. So it runs well on a machine I bought 1.5 years before the OS was released, and the processor was in fact released March 2003 - 3.5+ years earlier. Sure Home Basic is stated to require only 512MB RAM (nto going to give you the greatest experience), but Ubuntu isn't that much lower at 384MB (no experience here, but probably won't give you the greatest experience either). So there is no need for the "lean" version you ask for. Vista runs well on legacy hardware made within the last 5 years.
XPS is their PDF killer.
Stuff also goes through the lungs. I'm guessing it's possible for things to get stuck in gills.
I'm beginning to think the same way. After buying $5 cables from monoprice.com I've had several of them die (wire inside breaks near the plugs I think) in the last year or two. I am very careful to never stress them near the plugs but this still happens. So perhaps there is some value to expensive cables. But surely not for signal quality.
BS
There is only one strip mine that I have ever seen in ND (well I'm sure there are more, but I've been a lot of places in ND, and have only seen one), and this is along US Highway 83 between Minot and Bismarck. And from what I've heard (neighbor that works with the state leasing school land out to mineral companies) they are VERY strict about restoring the land to it's original condition. Also, this is a coal mine, not an oil mine. Oil drilling doesn't disturb THAT large of a plot of land.
No it isn't. Here at college I see lots of people using laptops in class. They are all running **gasp** Vista (except for huge nerd graduate students). And OMG, it works fine for them! Imagine, Vista is being used successfully by millions and millions of people every single day. So businesses aren't switching over to it at a high rate...anything new?