Slash dotters seem to want to ignore the value of Excel. The writer calls Excel a cartoon. Excel, and, more specifically, Visual Basic for Excel is about the most useful tool ever made by MS. You can load a spreadsheet with data, hack up a macro, debug the macro in minutes, (what other IDE lets you change your code while stepping through it???), and there you have it: data in whatever format and computaional structure you can imagine. Nothing I know of is even close in pure utility to Excel thanks to its Visual Basic extension. Sure, for 3D modeling, you need something like VPython, but a lot of real world stuff is more mundane. I think any scientist and engineer should have this tool in his belt.
I cannot believe how friskin stupid Gates and Balmer must be. Touch this! You dumb mother flickers!
Look, I am not ranting just to see how many different ways I can spell frooking. Are there no visionarys at MS at all? OK, boys here goes: 1) An audit trail for every process. 2) Installation monitoring so that uninstalls are 100% 3) Total user approval for any and all startup processes before they are implemented. 4) Trusted computing that trusts the owner, and no one else. Finally, the one feature that could actually hold Google at bay, 5) The division of Windows into a hardware platform level and a user and application installation level. That way one could have one's installation with all one's applications, settings, and files on a storage device module that unplugs from the hardware device module, plugs into ones laptop device module, and any other hardware device module. Whereever you go, your Windows installation and files go with you, no internets needed!
Yeah right, like any of that will ever happen...
MS is loosing money on every copy of Vista that they license. Don't belive me? Check prices at Dell. A computer with Linux, that costs Dell nothing, is more expensive than one with Vista. A computer with XP is more expensive than one with Vista. They are paying Dell to install Vista. Otherwise nobody, and I mean nobody, would have bought it at all. Would you?
What does Google have to do with this? How did they get involved? Are they also an Indian ISP? Why do business where you are put in this postion? Why not just design your system so that such records are automatically and immediately destroyed. If the country's bosses don't like it, get out of that business! This is crazy...
At least for me, latency is highly overrated as an obstical. At home DSL is not viable, and I detest Comcast, so I got an AT&T 881. Speed is good, and without even thinking about it, I have now got in the habit of pretty much always having two or more things going on at once. It does help that I have 2 20" hi res monitors. I will be reading a story, click a link, and immeadiatley drag that window over two my other monitor. I then begin reading another story that is parked on the first monitor and I have already downloaded. By the time I get to something on the second story to click, the first one has finished downloading; so, back to it. It sounds awkward and annoying, but I really don't notice. It's like, I didn't stop and think, "Oh, this connection has latency. What can I do about it?" Not at all. My surfing just morphed with almost no effort, and I only realized that is what has happened after reading this article. Go figure. Big advantage: when I leave home, I take my pipe with me. Sweet! P.S. Cuck Cou FomYast!
Wow! What a weak and hell of missing-the-point discussion this awoke! Where are the real nerds?
Now, to work: I have been using an AT&T, USBConnect 881 by Sierra Wireless, cellular modem for all my home surfing for about 3 months now. It works just fine. Is it as fast a the fastest DSL or Cable? No. Is it faster than DSL or Cable when they are in the Typical USA Sloppy Carrier Configuration, Old Falling-Apart Infrastructure Mode? Hellz yes! Get an Air Card!
Word to the wise: do not use the built-in AT&T software. Go to Sierra Wirelesse's site and download "Watcher". Have to be a bit of a geek to get it installed w/o overlapping the AT&T crap, but once it's in correctly, it works just fine.
This is the best post on this whole entire page!!! In fact this is the best post I have ever read in/. OK. OK. I only started reading two days ago. Still! Unfortunately tom's a-cold's attitude is like something from an parallel universe. People don't think this way much anymore. What a tragedy.
I think Stephan Kinsella has it right. Toss copyright and patent law on the legal tash heap. Progress is far more hindered by these laws than helped. In addition, they distort our thinking as to what is really private property and what is not. Our thinking needs all the help it can get.
The use of fertilized embryos as experimental meat creeps me out. CMIIAW, but this is more than a bit different than what happens in stem cell research.
On the other hand, I am all for genetically modded babies. I want my kids to be as smart, strong, and healthy as they can be. What's wrong with that? When is the super baby clinic opening up? Glad I don't already have kids. That would be sad. You know, "Kal El, be nice to your older brothers Gimpy and Stupid!" "And me and your mother too!" Hmmm...
I like the part about going back to the moon and going to Mars. This is total delusion. The USA is on the verge of a major economic meltdown. The govt. puts out stories like this to wave in our faces as distraction. We can't even afford a new shuttle, but we're going to Mars? Uh-huh...
My problem with Pigsta is more along the lines of Why didn't they actually make it any better? Eye candy and confirmation dialogs don't do anything to fix the big issues I have with XP. How about an uninstall that really works? How about a file system that doesn't just journal, but actually keeps records of every write, allowing you to go back in time if you need to. How about separating the HAL from the rest of the OS, including installed applications, putting the HAL on a built-in flash drive that would be read only, putting everything else on a portable mirrored hard drive, so that way you could take your personal installation with you whereever you go, and it would work just fine on any Windows machine?
None of it! Vuck Fista.
I use XP64 SP1 behind a router and never get critical updates. No problemo. Also I use Total Uninstall to keep my registry lean and mean. I am having the most issue free run of Windows computing ever. Try it, you'll like it.
I install XP 32 SP2 or XP 64 SP1 and nothing else. No updates at all. I have no problems and my machines run fast and fine. MS has been deliberately breaking XP for over a year now to soften us up for Pigsta. No pork for me. You Bettys who fret over supposed security holes make me laugh. Use a router. Duh!
Carbon is what all life is made of. To bury it in the ground as an inert salt is diabolical. If people want a problem to solve, why don't they tackle world hunger? $126M would feed a lot of starving kids. All the "concerned" followers bray about Carbon but you hear squat about the starving humans. The whole thing makes me nauseous. Global warming dogma is just a new fear porn, purpose made for those immune to religion. What is wrong with us, people?
We could have easily afforded this if our insane "leadership" hadn't gone fishing in Iraq. We are so stupid it boggles the mind. We could have had free power for the rest of our lives. Instead we have a huge chunk of a generation traumatized mentally and physically, and a 9 trillion dollar debt. Sweet!
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Slash dotters seem to want to ignore the value of Excel. The writer calls Excel a cartoon. Excel, and, more specifically, Visual Basic for Excel is about the most useful tool ever made by MS. You can load a spreadsheet with data, hack up a macro, debug the macro in minutes, (what other IDE lets you change your code while stepping through it???), and there you have it: data in whatever format and computaional structure you can imagine. Nothing I know of is even close in pure utility to Excel thanks to its Visual Basic extension. Sure, for 3D modeling, you need something like VPython, but a lot of real world stuff is more mundane. I think any scientist and engineer should have this tool in his belt.
Shill! Vista totally sucks. It is not better in any way at all. It is worse in every way. You are a shill.
I cannot believe how friskin stupid Gates and Balmer must be. Touch this! You dumb mother flickers!
Look, I am not ranting just to see how many different ways I can spell frooking. Are there no visionarys at MS at all? OK, boys here goes: 1) An audit trail for every process. 2) Installation monitoring so that uninstalls are 100% 3) Total user approval for any and all startup processes before they are implemented. 4) Trusted computing that trusts the owner, and no one else. Finally, the one feature that could actually hold Google at bay, 5) The division of Windows into a hardware platform level and a user and application installation level. That way one could have one's installation with all one's applications, settings, and files on a storage device module that unplugs from the hardware device module, plugs into ones laptop device module, and any other hardware device module. Whereever you go, your Windows installation and files go with you, no internets needed!
Yeah right, like any of that will ever happen...
MS is loosing money on every copy of Vista that they license. Don't belive me? Check prices at Dell. A computer with Linux, that costs Dell nothing, is more expensive than one with Vista. A computer with XP is more expensive than one with Vista. They are paying Dell to install Vista. Otherwise nobody, and I mean nobody, would have bought it at all. Would you?
What does Google have to do with this? How did they get involved? Are they also an Indian ISP? Why do business where you are put in this postion? Why not just design your system so that such records are automatically and immediately destroyed. If the country's bosses don't like it, get out of that business! This is crazy...
At least for me, latency is highly overrated as an obstical. At home DSL is not viable, and I detest Comcast, so I got an AT&T 881. Speed is good, and without even thinking about it, I have now got in the habit of pretty much always having two or more things going on at once. It does help that I have 2 20" hi res monitors. I will be reading a story, click a link, and immeadiatley drag that window over two my other monitor. I then begin reading another story that is parked on the first monitor and I have already downloaded. By the time I get to something on the second story to click, the first one has finished downloading; so, back to it. It sounds awkward and annoying, but I really don't notice. It's like, I didn't stop and think, "Oh, this connection has latency. What can I do about it?" Not at all. My surfing just morphed with almost no effort, and I only realized that is what has happened after reading this article. Go figure. Big advantage: when I leave home, I take my pipe with me. Sweet! P.S. Cuck Cou FomYast!
Wow! What a weak and hell of missing-the-point discussion this awoke! Where are the real nerds?
Now, to work: I have been using an AT&T, USBConnect 881 by Sierra Wireless, cellular modem for all my home surfing for about 3 months now. It works just fine. Is it as fast a the fastest DSL or Cable? No. Is it faster than DSL or Cable when they are in the Typical USA Sloppy Carrier Configuration, Old Falling-Apart Infrastructure Mode? Hellz yes! Get an Air Card!
Word to the wise: do not use the built-in AT&T software. Go to Sierra Wirelesse's site and download "Watcher". Have to be a bit of a geek to get it installed w/o overlapping the AT&T crap, but once it's in correctly, it works just fine.
This is the best post on this whole entire page!!! In fact this is the best post I have ever read in /. OK. OK. I only started reading two days ago. Still! Unfortunately tom's a-cold's attitude is like something from an parallel universe. People don't think this way much anymore. What a tragedy.
I think Stephan Kinsella has it right. Toss copyright and patent law on the legal tash heap. Progress is far more hindered by these laws than helped. In addition, they distort our thinking as to what is really private property and what is not. Our thinking needs all the help it can get.
The use of fertilized embryos as experimental meat creeps me out. CMIIAW, but this is more than a bit different than what happens in stem cell research.
On the other hand, I am all for genetically modded babies. I want my kids to be as smart, strong, and healthy as they can be. What's wrong with that? When is the super baby clinic opening up? Glad I don't already have kids. That would be sad. You know, "Kal El, be nice to your older brothers Gimpy and Stupid!" "And me and your mother too!" Hmmm...
I like the part about going back to the moon and going to Mars. This is total delusion. The USA is on the verge of a major economic meltdown. The govt. puts out stories like this to wave in our faces as distraction. We can't even afford a new shuttle, but we're going to Mars? Uh-huh...
My problem with Pigsta is more along the lines of Why didn't they actually make it any better? Eye candy and confirmation dialogs don't do anything to fix the big issues I have with XP. How about an uninstall that really works? How about a file system that doesn't just journal, but actually keeps records of every write, allowing you to go back in time if you need to. How about separating the HAL from the rest of the OS, including installed applications, putting the HAL on a built-in flash drive that would be read only, putting everything else on a portable mirrored hard drive, so that way you could take your personal installation with you whereever you go, and it would work just fine on any Windows machine? None of it! Vuck Fista. I use XP64 SP1 behind a router and never get critical updates. No problemo. Also I use Total Uninstall to keep my registry lean and mean. I am having the most issue free run of Windows computing ever. Try it, you'll like it.
I install XP 32 SP2 or XP 64 SP1 and nothing else. No updates at all. I have no problems and my machines run fast and fine. MS has been deliberately breaking XP for over a year now to soften us up for Pigsta. No pork for me. You Bettys who fret over supposed security holes make me laugh. Use a router. Duh!
Carbon is what all life is made of. To bury it in the ground as an inert salt is diabolical. If people want a problem to solve, why don't they tackle world hunger? $126M would feed a lot of starving kids. All the "concerned" followers bray about Carbon but you hear squat about the starving humans. The whole thing makes me nauseous. Global warming dogma is just a new fear porn, purpose made for those immune to religion. What is wrong with us, people?
We could have easily afforded this if our insane "leadership" hadn't gone fishing in Iraq. We are so stupid it boggles the mind. We could have had free power for the rest of our lives. Instead we have a huge chunk of a generation traumatized mentally and physically, and a 9 trillion dollar debt. Sweet!