Hector Chavez is President of Venezuela. He's got nothing to do with ethanol production; in fact, the only reason we care about him is the oil reserves his country sits on, and sells to us.
Gosh, and here I was thinking that Windows CE -- which uses the Win32 threading model more heavily than any of the desktop OS's -- ran on all those other processors...silly me. That ARM chip in my phone must really be an x86.
Actually, many games on CD ship in a "multilingual form"; all the resources are there in all languages. It turns out that the cut-scene data (which is language independent) so thoroughly dwarfs everything else on the disk that it's net cheaper to make a single DVD/Bluray disk for all markets.
I've done both. You obviously haven't. The Vista installer has never failed for me. The Ubuntu installer -- not so much.
Face it, you've been shown up. You asked "what do I get?", intending to be praised by the slashbots. I told you what you got. You don't like it. Sorry, puppy, you decided to be a fool, and sometimes someone steps out of the woodwork and calls you on it.
Hmm, actually, if I take a screenshot while actually dragging a window, I do see it torn a bit; however, I suspect this is my video card more than anything, and in any case, it's utterly imperceptible to me until I actually take the screenshot.
In other words, no, you don't, but you never actually looked. If you can break a window during a screen shot, then you aren't using your video card for a backing store.
Actually, it does bother me that there seem to be two different clipboards on Linux, but I find that I can middle-click-paste into ANY app except a game.
In other words, you don't have a common clipboard metaphor. (The X cut-and-paste is text only, not rich text. You may not do enough with your system to be able to tell the difference -- see above -- but real users do a lot of things with their boxes you seem to be unaware of.)
I use ALSA, which does blend streams of audio from any number of applications -- in hardware.
ALSA claims to do that. In fact, ALSA *doesn't work*. It crashes my bog-standard box here at work so badly that I use a MacBook Pro to play music while I'm working.
In reality, what you're getting for Vista is things that work. If you live in Emacs and gcc, as I do and as you appear to, yeah, Ubuntu will serve. If not...sorry, no, it won't.
No, you don't. You may think you do, but you're wrong. (And I know whereof I speak: I run Ubuntu, too.)
You don't have non-tearing movement of windows. You don't have a working clipboard. You can't play two separate streams at the same time from different applicaitons and blend them.
This is the "dochschlosslegende" of Vietnam. As with its previous counterpart, it's completely false.
There's a simple test for who actually controls a country: to whom do people pay their taxes? In South Vietnam, it stopped being the central government before the US even entered the war.
You have domain admin rights, but not enterprise admin rights? Unless you're in Dallas, you can't and shouldn't be able to tell who has access to the folder.
Windows CE was and is a completely separate kernel than either the original Windows kernels or the NT-based kernels. 9x was too tied to the x86 architecture, and NT was (and is) just simply too large.
If you're configuring the computer by going to a privileged TCP port, then you had best hope that you can't reach through the port to interact with, say, any of the CUPS configuration interfaces; they're notorious for containing buffer overflows and other exploitable conditions. What did you say? That's a direct link to those interfaces? You're joking, right?
The dimensions of the device break the interface: it's 120.7 x 62 x 18.7 mm -- 4.5" x 2.25" x 2/3". The thing if a FREAKING BRICK. It makes the iPhone look small.
I was wondering when you were going to come back, SonyTroll2K7. Welcome -- glad to see you're still here with your broken formatting and bent truths. I do hope, for the sake of your ego, that you don't extend your historical accuracy going forward; I'm not sure it can stand another complete fiasco like your last few predictions about the PS3.
Wow! That was fast -- there's already an open source cross platform implementation of Microsoft FUD, and the language was only invented a few minutes ago!
Ah, at least you looked. Of course, there's a little more to the original Bott article than you say:
What if I had stuck with the stock configuration? That original RAM configuration of 512MB would be OK with Vista
and
I've tried Windows Vista on systems that are considerably older than this one, with equally good results. For instance, I have one 2002-vintage system with similar upgrades (including a new CPU) that is running Windows Vista Ultimate Edition with the full Aero interface just fine.
I notice you omitted those facts.
Look, dude, you may not want to upgrade; that's your business, and no matter of mine. I probably won't, as it isn't worth it to me to buy four licenses at retail. But at least, when you tell a lie, don't tell a blatant one, OK?
You're either willfully stupid or willfully deceptive. Go read, say, Ed Bott's evaluation of Vista on low-end machines. Like the g^n gp said, you won't get Aero, but you'll still get everything else. In fact, if you go back to the 2K-like version of the shell UI, you won't even know you're running Vista, even from a perf perspective. (Except that Vista may be very slightly faster, and you'll have to put up with IE7.)
You can spend fifteen seconds looking at tech site after tech site which has discovered (surprise!) that Vista runs just fine on machines that are several years old. I know it's a point of pride here to not tell the truth about the most recent OS from Microsoft, but, really, why do people bother to tell easily refuted lies?
There's another side of it. There's absolutely nothing illegal or even unethical about not giving a bonus when one has "always" been given in the past; that does not make withholding one during a good year or after exemplary performance, or, worse, offering an insulting one, any less insensitive and crude.
Just scraping by on the safe side of the law is poor business.
Equally, if your employer wanted extra stuff, though, then he or she should be forced to spell it out. It's a two way street -- if your boss is going to work you to death, then you need to be told before you show up that's going to happen.
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Hector Chavez is President of Venezuela. He's got nothing to do with ethanol production; in fact, the only reason we care about him is the oil reserves his country sits on, and sells to us.
Not quite. It doesn't go supercritical -- it goes superficial.
Gosh, and here I was thinking that Windows CE -- which uses the Win32 threading model more heavily than any of the desktop OS's -- ran on all those other processors...silly me. That ARM chip in my phone must really be an x86.
Actually, many games on CD ship in a "multilingual form"; all the resources are there in all languages. It turns out that the cut-scene data (which is language independent) so thoroughly dwarfs everything else on the disk that it's net cheaper to make a single DVD/Bluray disk for all markets.
I've done both. You obviously haven't. The Vista installer has never failed for me. The Ubuntu installer -- not so much.
Face it, you've been shown up. You asked "what do I get?", intending to be praised by the slashbots. I told you what you got. You don't like it. Sorry, puppy, you decided to be a fool, and sometimes someone steps out of the woodwork and calls you on it.
In reality, what you're getting for Vista is things that work. If you live in Emacs and gcc, as I do and as you appear to, yeah, Ubuntu will serve. If not...sorry, no, it won't.
You don't have non-tearing movement of windows.
You don't have a working clipboard.
You can't play two separate streams at the same time from different applicaitons and blend them.
Yeah, but how many Libraries of Congress is each of those asses worth nowadays?
This is the "dochschlosslegende" of Vietnam. As with its previous counterpart, it's completely false.
There's a simple test for who actually controls a country: to whom do people pay their taxes? In South Vietnam, it stopped being the central government before the US even entered the war.
You have domain admin rights, but not enterprise admin rights? Unless you're in Dallas, you can't and shouldn't be able to tell who has access to the folder.
Windows CE was and is a completely separate kernel than either the original Windows kernels or the NT-based kernels. 9x was too tied to the x86 architecture, and NT was (and is) just simply too large.
If you're configuring the computer by going to a privileged TCP port, then you had best hope that you can't reach through the port to interact with, say, any of the CUPS configuration interfaces; they're notorious for containing buffer overflows and other exploitable conditions. What did you say? That's a direct link to those interfaces? You're joking, right?
You know, AC, spreading false information in order to create or maintain demand for a product is a crime in the United States.
Just sayin'
The dimensions of the device break the interface: it's 120.7 x 62 x 18.7 mm -- 4.5" x 2.25" x 2/3". The thing if a FREAKING BRICK. It makes the iPhone look small.
None of which shows that there's actually a system in them, or even associated with them.
Bingo! Give the man a carrot!
That's called an "in-store display".
I was wondering when you were going to come back, SonyTroll2K7. Welcome -- glad to see you're still here with your broken formatting and bent truths. I do hope, for the sake of your ego, that you don't extend your historical accuracy going forward; I'm not sure it can stand another complete fiasco like your last few predictions about the PS3.
Wow! That was fast -- there's already an open source cross platform implementation of Microsoft FUD, and the language was only invented a few minutes ago!
By itself, the quotation you bothered to include would have meant nothing. I included the other quotation to clarify that.
But who cares, this IS MS you're lying about -- why shouldn't you tell a few tall tales. This is Slashdot you're posting on, anyway.
Look, dude, you may not want to upgrade; that's your business, and no matter of mine. I probably won't, as it isn't worth it to me to buy four licenses at retail. But at least, when you tell a lie, don't tell a blatant one, OK?
You're either willfully stupid or willfully deceptive. Go read, say, Ed Bott's evaluation of Vista on low-end machines. Like the g^n gp said, you won't get Aero, but you'll still get everything else. In fact, if you go back to the 2K-like version of the shell UI, you won't even know you're running Vista, even from a perf perspective. (Except that Vista may be very slightly faster, and you'll have to put up with IE7.)
Go back under your bridge, troll.
You can spend fifteen seconds looking at tech site after tech site which has discovered (surprise!) that Vista runs just fine on machines that are several years old. I know it's a point of pride here to not tell the truth about the most recent OS from Microsoft, but, really, why do people bother to tell easily refuted lies?
There's another side of it. There's absolutely nothing illegal or even unethical about not giving a bonus when one has "always" been given in the past; that does not make withholding one during a good year or after exemplary performance, or, worse, offering an insulting one, any less insensitive and crude.
Just scraping by on the safe side of the law is poor business.
Equally, if your employer wanted extra stuff, though, then he or she should be forced to spell it out. It's a two way street -- if your boss is going to work you to death, then you need to be told before you show up that's going to happen.