If a Vista sticker is on it, then all of Vista should work, not just part of it.
Maybe they should branch their stickers like they did Vista itself. Be more specific like "Vista Home Capable" or 'Vista Super Happy Aero Fun Vista Capable.*"
* Do not taunt Super Happy Aero Fun Vista. Keep away from children. Use only in well ventilated room. Void where prohibited.
Also, Vista is the first iteration of Windows that's seriously supported 64 bit...XP does I know, but it's something of a stop-gap in my opinion, and very rare to see. The 64-bit shift was too, on it's own, bound to cause upgrade havoc, much like the "good old days" of Win95 not running legacy 16bit apps too well.
Really, the move to 64bit shouldn't be that painful. Apple did it when they introduced the G5 and I don't think anyone so much as flinched. I don't think a lot of people even know that the G5 is 64bit... it is that transparent. And then Apple did it AGAIN with x86. The first Intel macs were 32bit and only became 64bit with the Core2, IIRC. And now with Leopard, you can run a single installation on any of the 4 major architectures that Apple supports: ppc32, ppc64, x86, and x86-64. I've done it. To get Leopord on a G4 tower, I actually installed it on my MacBook Pro (x86-64), made a disk image of that, and installed the image onto the G4 tower. Booted up without changing a single thing!
Finally, Vista does overhaul other areas of Windows that has been for the better in the long-run, but a world of hurts in the short-run. Check out the propaganda here -
They've added stuff, but Vista is still hobbled by the same legacy stuff that XP is. From waht I understand, Microsoft has been forced to employ a lot of ugly hacks to maintain backwards compatability. What I'd like to see is Microsoft dump Win32 (which is based on Win16 with few changes) and start from scratch. But that ain't going to happen. The major selling poitn of WIndows is compatability.WIthout that, Windows is worthless.
Basically Apple concluded that they "couldn't reproduce the issue" and have apparently dropped the issue. Looks like the functionality of Spaces is pretty much set in stone at this point. At least in Leopard. It would need a major functional overhaul to fix, IMO. We'll just have to rely on third party pagers. Last I checked there was at least one in Beta. I'll have to look again.
I have done this and charged people for doing so, and its about as damn easy as one could hope for.
The fact that you have to do it at all is just ridiculous.
Takes less than the 7 minutes they claim on the phone, for me its generally just over 5:25 or so depending on how fast I remember what the next comment is, otherwise its about 5:45.
ROFL! I think it is hilarious that you have to do it so much that you have it timed down to the second. WTF?
Thats alot easier than locating my paperwork or serial stickers. When you have several systems and a metric shitload of closed source software, its much simpler to do it MS's way.
So let me get this straight. You'd rather call a support line every time you or a client has to reinstall a piece of licensed software or change your hardware (in the case of Vista) than either maintain the licenses yourself or crack the software? THAT is idiotic.
On the Mac I've got a little program called Serial Box that is like a personal serial number repository.. except that it isn't personal at all. Way more convenient than digging through my email trying to find some software registration email or the sticker with a CD-Key on it.
Not to mention games that require the original CD/DVD to play despite having installed all the content to the HD. Another case where cracking the software is more convenient than not.
Agreed. OS X really sucks as a server. We've had nothing but problems with AFP and scalabilityI. Get 80 or so users (all pulling their desktop from the server) on our quad core Xserve and suddenly AFP goes haywire and you have to kick everyone off and restart the process. You might say "that's what you get for running a new major revision of an OS." I wouldn't have made Leopard our main file server if we weren't having the same shit happening with our dual G5 Tiger server. I figured I didn't have much to lose by trying Leopard. *sigh*
I tell ya, I really love OS X on the desktop, but Apple really needs to get their shit together if they ever want to get any respect in the server market. If it weren't for the way Workgroup Manager integrates with the clients and the fact that Netatalk has apparently stalled in development, we'd be using LInux servers.
Some way to manage windows from the total pool (or even better just what is in your current "Space*) instead of just switching between windows within the current app or switching between apps, would be very welcome indeed.
Great, so what's the shortcut to get it back quickly after you hide it? There is none. You either have to visually find the Window in the Dock or command-tab through a bunch of applicaitons to get back to the one you hid. It is a pain and prone to error. I often select the wrong minimized/hidden window from the Doc.
It would be a non-issue if Command-Tab items were limited to just what was in your current space... but NO, Apple had to screw THAT up too.:P
What about spaces. Seems pretty fast and simple and easily selectable via the menu bar. Between that and expose, I can't imagine the problem. Plus you can double click on any window bar and it'll move to the dock. Perhaps I'm not understanding your issue.
Spaces? Please. Spaces is totally useless. It is a lame copy of the incredibly useful X11 desktop pager. Virtual desktops are supposed to isolate windows into task groups. In other words, when I am in space 1, Command-Tab should ONLY cycle through the windows in the current spaces. If/when I want to switch to another space, I will do it my damn self. I got so sick of being automatically transported all over the place every time I accidentally tabbed to the wrong app in my huge list. The only thing Spaces does is visual uncluttering. It serves no functional purpose as far as I can tell.
You know, it's funny... I've often found it easier to crack a piece of software than to track down my legitimate license. I can imagine doing that with Vista. If I were running a legitimate version of Vista and changed my hardware (or whatever causes Vista to require you to re-register), I'd sooner install a crack than spend any amount of time on the phone with Microsoft.
So, if the screen goes black on users who have a genuine copy, maybe they can use this hack? Or would this be illegal? Although it would then be like tricking Windows into -realizing- it is genuine...
You know, it's funny... I've often found it easier to crack a piece of software than it is to track down my legitimate license. I can imagine does that with VIsta. If I were running a legitimate version of Vista and changed my hardware (or whatever causes Vista to require a to require you to reregister), I'd sooner install a crack than spend any amount of time on the phone with Microsoft.
1) What has flash/silverlight got that we really need these days?
The big thing that Flash offers is a a consistent, customizable, cross platform, way to embed video in a web page.
2) If Flash is so awful to use, why do so many sites use it
Partially for the above reason, but also because some developers/designers just aren't very good at HTML/CSS/Javascript. Also, some people seem to like those in-your-face animated sites that just can't be done with HTML/Javascript.
Have you ever tried working on Flash as a developer? I'd pretty much rather slam my balls in a car door than do so again.
I haven't use Flash myself (a programmer) but my impression is that Flash is aimed at designers, not programmers. Maybe it works better for the target audience.
Remember, people who really want to get at your stuff will do so no matter how smart you think your security is. Locks are just for keeping honest people away.
No kidding. I've had my car broken into 3 times now. Every single time they just smashed the window to get in. Funny thing is that I am pretty sure that one of those times I had left the door unlocked. If hadn't lost my car stereo and had to pay for a new window, it might be funny. F'ing meth addicts....
Did You know that satellite imagery is show that forests are increasing in North America? In My town Port Huron MI [wikipedia.org], when you up on the Blue Water Bridge, the majority of the city is invisible in the trees. Managed forestry is expansive rather than contracting, normaly two or three trees are planted for everyone harvested.
I'm not talking about deforestation due to logging (or "management"). I'm talking about forests slashed and burned for cropland. This is a especially a problem in South America.
You did your mom a disservice by not recommending Open Office to her. And I'm not saying that because I'm an Open Source evangelist. She's going to have a heck of time exchanging documents with others. For the longest time I didn't even know MS Works still existed. I though (well, hoped and prayed) it had died like 10 years ago until I started working at a college and a faculty member came to me with a.wps file that she needed to print. I had to look it up. Then I had to tell her we didn't have any software to read such a file.
Fortunately, my mom's new computer was shipped with a trial version of Office. She used it until the trial period ended and then, on her own with no prodding from me, went and downloaded Open Office.
Even if the Works Word Processor isn't actually that bad, there's just no excuse for using it because of its incompatability with everything else. It is a cruel joke perpetuated by Microsoft.
Yes, I do. It's called forwarding. Just like with physical mail when I move to a new house, they should forward messages for X amount of time until everyone learns my new address.
Of course they should forward your email for a certain amount of time, but that isn't the same thing as making an address portable.
That was just a technical challenge. An email address has the provider right in the freakin' address.
So that's your technical challenge. It shouldn't be much harder than managing phone numbers, which have your "geographic location" right in the freakin' number.
Sure, and while we're at it we can make my home mailing address portable.
That was just a technical challenge. An email address has the provider right in the freakin' address. That said, you can get portable email addresses. You just need your own domain and you can have it hosted anywhere that hosts domains.
So the small company in Malaysia that hires a consulting company in Singapore to set up a CRM, and then has to subscribe to service if it wants anything fixed or changed isn't locked into a never-ending relationship if it doesn't want to start over with another vendor or DIY...right.
You'd be locked into a relationship with the vendor regardless of whether or not you were paying for a subscription simply bacause a CRM system costs so much to develop. The subscription has nothing to do with the lock in.
By installing any wind powered generator, you would be adding air resistance to the vehicle (even sticking your hand out the window adds air resistance), and the power you could get out of such a generator would always be less than the additional power you have to consume to overcome that resistance.
True, but I'd rather slash and burn rainforests to grow corn for ethanol than sit in my car making revving noises with my mouth because my tank is empty.
Oil isn't going to just disappear all of a sudden. It will just get progressively more expensive. The solution is to get people using electric/hybrid cars ASAP so that we have more flexability in where the energy comes from. Burning hydrocarbons (whether it is grown or pumped from the ground) is a dead end. And once you cut down the rainforests to grow corn, that land is extremely difficult to get back to rainforest. If you don't take that into consideration, you're making a grave mistake.
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Aww man! I wanted to be the one to say that!
But thanks for taking one (down-mod) for the team!
Maybe they should branch their stickers like they did Vista itself. Be more specific like "Vista Home Capable" or 'Vista Super Happy Aero Fun Vista Capable.*"
* Do not taunt Super Happy Aero Fun Vista. Keep away from children. Use only in well ventilated room. Void where prohibited.
Really, the move to 64bit shouldn't be that painful. Apple did it when they introduced the G5 and I don't think anyone so much as flinched. I don't think a lot of people even know that the G5 is 64bit... it is that transparent. And then Apple did it AGAIN with x86. The first Intel macs were 32bit and only became 64bit with the Core2, IIRC. And now with Leopard, you can run a single installation on any of the 4 major architectures that Apple supports: ppc32, ppc64, x86, and x86-64. I've done it. To get Leopord on a G4 tower, I actually installed it on my MacBook Pro (x86-64), made a disk image of that, and installed the image onto the G4 tower. Booted up without changing a single thing!
They've added stuff, but Vista is still hobbled by the same legacy stuff that XP is. From waht I understand, Microsoft has been forced to employ a lot of ugly hacks to maintain backwards compatability. What I'd like to see is Microsoft dump Win32 (which is based on Win16 with few changes) and start from scratch. But that ain't going to happen. The major selling poitn of WIndows is compatability.WIthout that, Windows is worthless.
-matthew
Can't you just turn off Aero?
Trust me, I'm not the only one notice this problem with Spaces. A ticket was filed a long time ago. See Bug ID# 5610888
Also see this blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/why_apple_spaces_is_broken#comments
Basically Apple concluded that they "couldn't reproduce the issue" and have apparently dropped the issue. Looks like the functionality of Spaces is pretty much set in stone at this point. At least in Leopard. It would need a major functional overhaul to fix, IMO. We'll just have to rely on third party pagers. Last I checked there was at least one in Beta. I'll have to look again.
-matthew
The fact that you have to do it at all is just ridiculous.
ROFL! I think it is hilarious that you have to do it so much that you have it timed down to the second. WTF?
So let me get this straight. You'd rather call a support line every time you or a client has to reinstall a piece of licensed software or change your hardware (in the case of Vista) than either maintain the licenses yourself or crack the software? THAT is idiotic.
On the Mac I've got a little program called Serial Box that is like a personal serial number repository.. except that it isn't personal at all. Way more convenient than digging through my email trying to find some software registration email or the sticker with a CD-Key on it.
Not to mention games that require the original CD/DVD to play despite having installed all the content to the HD. Another case where cracking the software is more convenient than not.
-matthew
Agreed. OS X really sucks as a server. We've had nothing but problems with AFP and scalabilityI. Get 80 or so users (all pulling their desktop from the server) on our quad core Xserve and suddenly AFP goes haywire and you have to kick everyone off and restart the process. You might say "that's what you get for running a new major revision of an OS." I wouldn't have made Leopard our main file server if we weren't having the same shit happening with our dual G5 Tiger server. I figured I didn't have much to lose by trying Leopard. *sigh*
I tell ya, I really love OS X on the desktop, but Apple really needs to get their shit together if they ever want to get any respect in the server market. If it weren't for the way Workgroup Manager integrates with the clients and the fact that Netatalk has apparently stalled in development, we'd be using LInux servers.
-matthew
Some way to manage windows from the total pool (or even better just what is in your current "Space*) instead of just switching between windows within the current app or switching between apps, would be very welcome indeed.
Great, so what's the shortcut to get it back quickly after you hide it? There is none. You either have to visually find the Window in the Dock or command-tab through a bunch of applicaitons to get back to the one you hid. It is a pain and prone to error. I often select the wrong minimized/hidden window from the Doc.
It would be a non-issue if Command-Tab items were limited to just what was in your current space... but NO, Apple had to screw THAT up too.
Spaces? Please. Spaces is totally useless. It is a lame copy of the incredibly useful X11 desktop pager. Virtual desktops are supposed to isolate windows into task groups. In other words, when I am in space 1, Command-Tab should ONLY cycle through the windows in the current spaces. If/when I want to switch to another space, I will do it my damn self. I got so sick of being automatically transported all over the place every time I accidentally tabbed to the wrong app in my huge list. The only thing Spaces does is visual uncluttering. It serves no functional purpose as far as I can tell.
Whoa, maybe I should try proof reading!
Try this:
You know, it's funny... I've often found it easier to crack a piece of software than to track down my legitimate license. I can imagine doing that with Vista. If I were running a legitimate version of Vista and changed my hardware (or whatever causes Vista to require you to re-register), I'd sooner install a crack than spend any amount of time on the phone with Microsoft.
You know, it's funny... I've often found it easier to crack a piece of software than it is to track down my legitimate license. I can imagine does that with VIsta. If I were running a legitimate version of Vista and changed my hardware (or whatever causes Vista to require a to require you to reregister), I'd sooner install a crack than spend any amount of time on the phone with Microsoft.
-matthew
The big thing that Flash offers is a a consistent, customizable, cross platform, way to embed video in a web page.
Partially for the above reason, but also because some developers/designers just aren't very good at HTML/CSS/Javascript. Also, some people seem to like those in-your-face animated sites that just can't be done with HTML/Javascript.
-matthew
I haven't use Flash myself (a programmer) but my impression is that Flash is aimed at designers, not programmers. Maybe it works better for the target audience.
-matthew
No kidding. I've had my car broken into 3 times now. Every single time they just smashed the window to get in. Funny thing is that I am pretty sure that one of those times I had left the door unlocked. If hadn't lost my car stereo and had to pay for a new window, it might be funny. F'ing meth addicts....
-matthew
I'm not talking about deforestation due to logging (or "management"). I'm talking about forests slashed and burned for cropland. This is a especially a problem in South America.
You did your mom a disservice by not recommending Open Office to her. And I'm not saying that because I'm an Open Source evangelist. She's going to have a heck of time exchanging documents with others. For the longest time I didn't even know MS Works still existed. I though (well, hoped and prayed) it had died like 10 years ago until I started working at a college and a faculty member came to me with a .wps file that she needed to print. I had to look it up. Then I had to tell her we didn't have any software to read such a file.
Fortunately, my mom's new computer was shipped with a trial version of Office. She used it until the trial period ended and then, on her own with no prodding from me, went and downloaded Open Office.
Even if the Works Word Processor isn't actually that bad, there's just no excuse for using it because of its incompatability with everything else. It is a cruel joke perpetuated by Microsoft.
-matthew
And ON to a treeless North and South America. Yay!
Of course they should forward your email for a certain amount of time, but that isn't the same thing as making an address portable.
-matthew
Sure, and while we're at it we can make my home mailing address portable.
-matthew
That was just a technical challenge. An email address has the provider right in the freakin' address. That said, you can get portable email addresses. You just need your own domain and you can have it hosted anywhere that hosts domains.
-matthew
You'd be locked into a relationship with the vendor regardless of whether or not you were paying for a subscription simply bacause a CRM system costs so much to develop. The subscription has nothing to do with the lock in.
-matthew
This being an unintentional form a lock-in, of course. You wouldn't actually expect an email address to be portable, would you?
-matthew
No shit, Sherlock. I was JOKING! WTF?
Oil isn't going to just disappear all of a sudden. It will just get progressively more expensive. The solution is to get people using electric/hybrid cars ASAP so that we have more flexability in where the energy comes from. Burning hydrocarbons (whether it is grown or pumped from the ground) is a dead end. And once you cut down the rainforests to grow corn, that land is extremely difficult to get back to rainforest. If you don't take that into consideration, you're making a grave mistake.
-matthew