Just like pressing Start to shut down Windows is personal preference, but yet you see a ton of people bitching about it.
I'm voicing valid concerns over something I don't like about a product I may eventually be interested to use. If the designer doesn't like that, he's a poor one to begin with.
"What the hell gives you the right to judge how someone designs their app?"
Hmm, I dunno. Maybe because I'm the fucking target audience of the app?
You don't get the point at all. Your opinion of what is correct or not doesn't mean shit when your users don't want it that way. If you can't grasp that concept, enjoy designing UIs that your users won't like just because "It's correct that way!"
I'd rather use a UPS for something useful like light and warmth rather than doing a fucking phone call cordlessly when I could just use a corded phone.
Except for the fact that there are various reports of people upgrading to FireFox 3 and losing all of their bookmarks, and not being able to import all of their passwords.
I had to manually export my bookmarks and passwords, the former using the browser tool, and the latter using an addon, in order to properly import them into my Firefox 3 installation.
Right, you're proving my point quite nicely. The problem is shitty drivers, like you said, and it has nothing to do with the fact that they're binary or not.
I AM using good drivers. The binary ones from ati work perfectly:)
I disagree. I've had a lot more luck with binary drivers with my ATI card than with any shitty open source driver. It doesn't ruin stability at all.
Sure, open source is better theorically, but I just want my hardware to work, damnit.
Obviously I don't mean work related talking, I mean talking to other people for the sake of talking to other people (Aka slack off). I talk to people as a living, so I certainly know that it's a required skill.
Well, it's obvious that somebody who works 80 hours per week is going to do more work than somebody who does 40, but both employees can have the same "ratio" of work done per hour. However the average 80 hours worker is probably gonna be more productive either way because they probably consider work pretty important in their life:)
The problem with that opinion is that it has nothing to do with the amount of hours somebody works per week. You can work 80 hours per week and be a slacker who accomplishes nothing, who takes 10 coffee breaks a day, who plays solitaire half his working time, and who isn't competent.
The amount of work you do per week means absolutely shit-all. What matters is, do you actually _work_ at work, or do you slack off? Whether you do it 80 hours a week or 35 hours a week doesn't make you special, it just gives you a better pay in the end. I've met people who work 35 hours a week and are much less slackers than some overly paid consultant that you see outside talking with other people instead of sitting at his desk and performing his daily monkey-typing activities.
By "other claims" I meant the non-sense ones like "If you don't work 80 hours a week you're a slacker and have nothing to do in life". I just said I agreed that some people do work a lot of hours per week and that it wasn't uncommon.
Right, and I've had kernel lockups and X crashes - Does that mean Linux isn't stable for everyone on earth and that it's impossible to have a stable linux machine? No. If you can't live the fact that it's possible with two OSes and not only the one you use, then I'm sorry for you.
So claiming that Windows doesn't crash every day is being a Windows evangelist now? Nice trolling there.
There's really no reason why Windows should BSOD except from faulty hardware or drivers. I know the Linux evangelists like to say that Windows crash every time you double click, but seriously believing so is pure ignorance. To answer your question, there are no mythical "stable drivers" that work 100% for everyone, hosted something on the fairy-driven internet. You either have hardware that has proper drivers or not. I happen to have good video card drivers and good motherboard chipset drivers.
8. Stability. Linux (properly configured by somebody that knows what they are doing) is rock solid. My server runs Debian etch. It has never so much as thought about crashing. Windows? I had an XP box running 24/7 a while back. It went down roughly once a week. This was on the exact same hardware as what Etch is on now. Maybe it was a fluke. Only thing I know is, when I rdesktop'ed into it, it was a crap shoot whether I'd get connection refused or not. That is infuriating. No longer a problem.
I agree with all of your points except that one - Windows can be just as stable as your average Linux install if you do not have terrible drivers. It's really a matter of having stable drivers. I regularly run my Windows box for months without rebooting and I've never had any problems. The rest of your points are accurate, however.
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Just like pressing Start to shut down Windows is personal preference, but yet you see a ton of people bitching about it.
I'm voicing valid concerns over something I don't like about a product I may eventually be interested to use. If the designer doesn't like that, he's a poor one to begin with.
"What the hell gives you the right to judge how someone designs their app?"
Hmm, I dunno. Maybe because I'm the fucking target audience of the app?
Why would I use an application that I believe is wrongly designed? You'd have to be dumb to do so.
You don't get the point at all. Your opinion of what is correct or not doesn't mean shit when your users don't want it that way. If you can't grasp that concept, enjoy designing UIs that your users won't like just because "It's correct that way!"
It's rather obvious.
Anything but Windows is anything but Windows.
What I want is what you want, which might be windows.
Seriously, you couldn't figure that one out?
Nobody cares, dude. It belongs where the user wants it, and I don't want my address bar below my tabs, end of story.
It's a matter of personnel opinion and I seriously hope there will be an option to fix the location if you don't like it.
I'd rather use a UPS for something useful like light and warmth rather than doing a fucking phone call cordlessly when I could just use a corded phone.
IE7 _is_ a security update.
Except for the fact that there are various reports of people upgrading to FireFox 3 and losing all of their bookmarks, and not being able to import all of their passwords. I had to manually export my bookmarks and passwords, the former using the browser tool, and the latter using an addon, in order to properly import them into my Firefox 3 installation.
Who cares? Just watch it at home.
I see what you did there I guess?
Right, you're proving my point quite nicely. The problem is shitty drivers, like you said, and it has nothing to do with the fact that they're binary or not.
:)
I AM using good drivers. The binary ones from ati work perfectly
I disagree. I've had a lot more luck with binary drivers with my ATI card than with any shitty open source driver. It doesn't ruin stability at all. Sure, open source is better theorically, but I just want my hardware to work, damnit.
That would be classified, sorry.
Linux isn't advanced technology either. Troll.
But I'll have to wait tomorrow, as I'm on VMWare =(
Now only were the fireworks computer generated, they were also shown in a different order than they really happened!
Obviously I don't mean work related talking, I mean talking to other people for the sake of talking to other people (Aka slack off). I talk to people as a living, so I certainly know that it's a required skill.
Well, it's obvious that somebody who works 80 hours per week is going to do more work than somebody who does 40, but both employees can have the same "ratio" of work done per hour. However the average 80 hours worker is probably gonna be more productive either way because they probably consider work pretty important in their life :)
The problem with that opinion is that it has nothing to do with the amount of hours somebody works per week. You can work 80 hours per week and be a slacker who accomplishes nothing, who takes 10 coffee breaks a day, who plays solitaire half his working time, and who isn't competent.
The amount of work you do per week means absolutely shit-all. What matters is, do you actually _work_ at work, or do you slack off? Whether you do it 80 hours a week or 35 hours a week doesn't make you special, it just gives you a better pay in the end. I've met people who work 35 hours a week and are much less slackers than some overly paid consultant that you see outside talking with other people instead of sitting at his desk and performing his daily monkey-typing activities.
By "other claims" I meant the non-sense ones like "If you don't work 80 hours a week you're a slacker and have nothing to do in life". I just said I agreed that some people do work a lot of hours per week and that it wasn't uncommon.
Right, and I've had kernel lockups and X crashes - Does that mean Linux isn't stable for everyone on earth and that it's impossible to have a stable linux machine? No. If you can't live the fact that it's possible with two OSes and not only the one you use, then I'm sorry for you.
Latest version of my NVidia 8800GTS 640mb XP drivers, as well as the 8.3.0 intel chipset drivers from the asus support website (asus p5b)
and some of us rather enjoy our work too!
I def. agree with that, and you're right that not everyone has 40 hours week, I just found your other claims a bit over the top :)
So claiming that Windows doesn't crash every day is being a Windows evangelist now? Nice trolling there.
There's really no reason why Windows should BSOD except from faulty hardware or drivers. I know the Linux evangelists like to say that Windows crash every time you double click, but seriously believing so is pure ignorance. To answer your question, there are no mythical "stable drivers" that work 100% for everyone, hosted something on the fairy-driven internet. You either have hardware that has proper drivers or not. I happen to have good video card drivers and good motherboard chipset drivers.
8. Stability. Linux (properly configured by somebody that knows what they are doing) is rock solid. My server runs Debian etch. It has never so much as thought about crashing. Windows? I had an XP box running 24/7 a while back. It went down roughly once a week. This was on the exact same hardware as what Etch is on now. Maybe it was a fluke. Only thing I know is, when I rdesktop'ed into it, it was a crap shoot whether I'd get connection refused or not. That is infuriating. No longer a problem.
I agree with all of your points except that one - Windows can be just as stable as your average Linux install if you do not have terrible drivers. It's really a matter of having stable drivers. I regularly run my Windows box for months without rebooting and I've never had any problems. The rest of your points are accurate, however.