(I am curious. I do not mean to challenge your statement. I have used neither Vista nor Windows 7.)
I've been in so many flamewars that it wouldn't matter to me if you were...:-) One of the good things about getting older is learning to take online stuff less personally. When I get to the point that I can read anything without getting ticked off or angered by it, I feel I will have accomplished something in life.
Ok, as to why I like Win7 better than XP. These are not in any order...
1) I've never actually been a great XP fan. XP was always a bit too cute for me. So, for me, a Windows that looks more professional and not so cute, but still feature rich, is nice to see.
2) Improvements in common dialogs are huge. I'm a developer. I work with files a lot. Having a good common set of file dialogs in all applications is a really nice touch. I think Vista's dialogs were better than XP because the search was nice and the left hand side of "important" stuff was welcome. For Windows 7, the addition of the library feature, basically, allowing you to put your own sets of folders onto the common file dialog is an absolute godsend. It allows me to organize files by work activity, so, I can have whatever paint program, development software, ftp software, whatever, all have a common entry on the file dialog for my website, for example. I love it so much that I dread even using XP or Linux for not having this feature.
3) The explorer.exe doesn't lock up as much in Vista or Win7 as it did in XP. Like, when the PC wakes up, or gets busy, Explorer.exe on my machine can go out to lunch. I've not noticed this as much as in Win7.
4) I love the inclusion of the Office 2007 Ribbon Bars into the Windows 7 distribution. I'm reading a lot about how it works in the SDK and I'm excited about using it in an application that I'm working on.
5) Native 64 bit Windows in the mainstream. Yeah, I know there was a 64 bit Windows XP out there. I had it. But it was so rare that you really couldn't write for it. Since most vendors are now defaulting to 64 bit Vistas and will probably default to 64 bit Win7, I think we will thankfully be able to write for 64 bit native mode and that to me is a wonderful thing. I know high level languages are in vogue but for a tinkering thing, to me, I like getting in there and doing a bit of assembly language stuff.
6) Reading ISOs out of the box. Linux has had this feature now for, geez, it seems like a decade, but Windows never put it together. Now Win7 has. It's just nice to be able to do it without digging around for some cheesy utility.
7) The Windows 7 taskbar. I like the way window are stacked up. I like the inclusion of Gnome style rearranging of icons. I like the way they have pushed off all the dozens of icon notifications into the shell tray onto their own little land. I like the OS/2-esque Workplace shell ability to make your own folders off of the task bar.
8) Native API enhancements. There's Direct2D, DirectWrite, DirectX stuff. There's stuff in there for user space threads that I was used to making fun of Linux for back in the day but suddenly it appears the Linux people had a point. There's NUMA awareness in threading. Some of this stuff has dribbled out but having it all in one Windows distribution makes me more confident that I can use that feature.
That's what I can think of, off the top of my head.
No one escapes. For years Microsoft lead Linux in the driver's department until Linux settled on a driver model and stuck with it. Now, Microsoft redoes their driver model, which honestly needed to be done, but broke compatibility with a bunch of stuff, and now, they are the bad guys for not having enough drivers. So, pretty much, on the same exact issue, compatibility with legacy drivers versus innovation in the kernel, both Linux and Windows have been on both sides.
It's really more about setting up a firewall against the commercialization of humans as products. The stem cell argument is essentially, let's experiment on these leftover human embryos to cure these major diseases. So, we start growing human embryos up to some cut off point where, we say, arbitrarily, well, you are human now and we can't harvest you. At some point, in anyone's mind, the mass of cells becomes a "he", or a "she", or a "you", and the only way that that works, really, is if you don't believe in the "human" part of these things. But, what we do with the cells before that point, suddenly, doesn't matter, as they are a commodity. Sure, stem cells might be great for curing cancer, but, if the cutoff line before the embryo is considered human really means that they are just a mass of cells, then, why not use them for anything? Would you feel the same about a stem cell skin jacket, a stem cell bone comb, stem cell beef burgers? We ripped the NAZIs for their experiments in making economic use of the bodies of all the people they murdered. How odd would it be, if barely a century later, we might come to view the human lampshade in a NAZI museum as a sort of an oddity, when everyone has them in their homes.
I believe that at some point, stem cells, embryonic research, and even abortion is going to do far more damage to liberalism than any other opposition conservatives could. The reason is, liberals have essentially made it their business to humanize everything and everyone in order to get human rights. Race, for example, is just as an artificial distinction as birth is, conservatives would say, recalling that in the good old days, the whole reason blacks could not be allowed to have civil rights was largely because they were not human because they were not white. Paradoxically, working with embryos will probably humanize them... people will begin to feel sorry for them as the embryo industry takes off. Even now, pictures of embryos are practically censored for this reason. And some day, just as we learned to admit that blacks are human, eskimos are human, indians are human, chinese are human, women are human (which might actually be not true - just kidding!), we will probably look at the little embryo, see ourselves in it, and think, geez, that little fellow is human too.
There's nothing biblical about right to life at all, its just empathy from an imperfect people.
The Japanese never really respect intellectual property laws unless it benefits them. They copied everybody elses stuff for decades to drag themselves out of post bombing ruin, and now suddenly they can claim patent king?
They really do exist. Of course they do. To suggest my point of view denies that they exist is a straw man fallacy
You used that word "real", so I took it that you meant to imply a state of existence. Something that is real exists, and something is not real, does not.
Mindful of the fact that its not an inherent right, that such can't really be owned as property is owned?
But I would argue that property is an inherent right. If you have a look at any activity people play, they invent rules for it, and those rules more often than not imply ownership. Either some third party owns something, or the people own something, and they devise rules as to how to transfer that ownership.
In any case, its getting pretty hard to argue -against- IP being real property, when you have people with their personal pages, personal accounts, personal friends, personal links, personal characters, personal games... All of that is creating property. In a sense, social sights aren't even about people at all as much as they are a way to give people property online.
I wouldn't run an OS from a company who's business is knowing your consumer preferences, but suit for yourself. I'm sure there's a positive side of this story too, but I let that to another user
But just imagine, that your operating system's event viewer will cheerfully announce that it identified great new places with that brunette oral porn you've seemingly been interested... just when the wife logs in!
Chrome OS focusing on speed, simplicity and security does not imply Windows cannot deliver in these areas. It's just an alternative operating system, and has yet to prove itself. The summary sound rather, well, dumb.
Oh, don't beat around the bush. I'll come right out and say it. I think Windows 7 is fast, safe, and simple to use. I have Vista, Win7 and Ubuntu 8 on my machine, each with its own drive, and while Vista is a tad bit better than Ubuntu, Win7 runs rings around both, and is easier to use than either. I do not think I have enjoyed using Windows this much since NT first got the Win95 shell.
The challenge to Microsoft aside, this will be a wake-up call to Gnome/KDE. The
Well I hear you about Gnome. It seems like they have just run out of gas.
I think the problem with KDE is that they woke up too much. KDE 4 seems like a project where they have genuinely bit off more than they can chew. They got so caught up in the big picture and the big rewrite that they seem to have actually regressed at the details level. I've ripped Gnome and KDE's file dialogs on my own site... way behind the times.
I wonder if Google will allow native development on Chrome OS? It should be easier to write for than Linux itself is. First off, they have their own windowing system, and that probably means they have done something with sound as well. I wonder if the windowing system is based on a drawing stack that is hardware accelerated? I wonder if you will be able to print?
I really hope they don't force you into writing in Java for it.
And I wonder if they will offer Chrome OS as a VM type of solution that you can buy for Windows?
It's actually not much of a sunspot group.
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This guy's everything about the sun that one can track. In particular, he has an image of the sun on the upper left hand corner that shows how pathetic this sunspot group.
I wouldn't say the sunspot drought is over, until there is sustained progress.
The real question is, while its useful to pretend that "content" is property so long as the results are in the public good, isn't it a problem if we forget we are pretending?
There is no pretending, that's the point. Bits and bytes are undeniably real. Content is real, the embodiment of human thought.
Just in time for our robotic fighter of fat clogged arteries, McDonalds is now rolling out a collection of 1/3 pound burgers to compete with the likes of Hardees. McDonalds may have well made the best fast food mushroom and swiss burger of all time. Now if only I could get a 44oz soda with that!
WE live in an art economy. That is, at the consumer level, the systems that we use are often judged by their novelty and their entertainment value. I would think most social networking sights ultimately wind up as a sort of a performance art piece, where we are the performers. We get bored with it, and move on. To say that you need to fund R&D is almost besides the point. Social sites need to have R&D, for sure, but what they really need is insight and hitmakers. You have to run them almost like record companies and make stars of the designers, changing things every time based upon the new view of the artist.
There were about fifty different shots of the same woman's face on various bodies engaged in porn acts.He called to let us know his friend, Angie, would pick up the computer. Naturally I was somewhat surprised when I recognized Angie.
So, uh, what did Angie look like? Was she uh, superimposition worthy?
Sometimes you have to smell the oil and see the painting in person, especially when you realize that often times artists worked in three dimensions with their paint and not just two.
Until the Copyright Term Extension Act is rescinded, I consider all media produced by "artists" affiliated with the companies/guilds/unions that bought the law, to be free.
So, how will you feel when someone else considers anything you produce to be free?
Lars signed the contracts with Sony. The work was his right up until he sold, well, his soul. Other artists have famously gotten much better deals, including full control of their catalog.
And if you're paying $10 in gas every trip you make I'd consider getting a hybrid.
No, I think it means that you live in the city, and I don't. I could see libraries making more sense if you live downtown, but then, you pay higher costs of everything else, for the right to live in the city. So, even then, libraries are expensive.
Pretty much. The guy just ticked me off. The essential financial problem of the world is that every country on the planet has designed their economies to export to the USA in a mercantile fashion, and suddenly, Americans have decided to save their money, rather than buy products with it.
We don't need another Apollo-like mission to the moon. We've already done those enough. It's just going to cost money without any substantial new information
I think the point is that every iteration of Apollo would get cheaper if we kept doing new revisions. I agree that NASA should have more money. I'm a Republican paleoconservative and I have no problem paying the taxes to support NASA. Building up knowledge of space requires practice. I think NASA has missions and the track record that the private sector has yet to match.
We need a 2nd generation shuttle design as well.
And we also desperately need a practical nuclear powered spacecraft.
A sweet smelling rose bush is worth a $1 to me, for sure. But do you have the right to ask me for $1 to enjoy that rose bush?
If it is my bush, I do. Otherwise, grow your own.
The real question is should we continue to pretend that nonmaterial productions should count as property
Or, you might say, how long do we pretend that just because something doesn't have a mass, it doesn't mean its free. People invest in, create, store, protect, and attempt to trade digital works just as much as any physical work. Of course its real....
And really, while we are at it, just because something is represented by electron states doesn't mean that it is any less real than something that is represented by a more giant assembly of atoms and molecules. You just worship that neutron and proton, don't you. No matter what we little electrons do, spin, absorb photons, spit them out.. you just want to sit there with your buddy the big stupid neutron that doesn't do anything. Ever notice in Physics, that they don't have "neutron volts"... why, it's electron volts. Geez, wonder why that is. That's because neutrons are lazy. Oh we will just hang out and let the protons and electrons makes the atom do all of its interesting stuff. We'll just be stupid mass distorting spacetime and being useless. Let the electrons do all the work..Yeah, you go hang out with your "real" neutron buddies.
SIGNED,
SOB SOB SOB
ELECTRON
PS.. I GAVE UP MY LAST PHOTON FOR YOU, AND NOW i AM JUST THE LOWEST SHELL!
.In my case, I have a free (tax paid, no memberships) public library 15 *walking* minutes from my house that lets me take the book home for one week....Libraries clearly win in this case.
Unless you are the guy that has to drive 20 miles to get to the library, to find out that you've taken out the book that they wanted, for a week....
So... libraries don't win, overall. In your example, they only win for you.
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(I am curious. I do not mean to challenge your statement. I have used neither Vista nor Windows 7.)
I've been in so many flamewars that it wouldn't matter to me if you were... :-) One of the good things about getting older is learning to take online stuff less personally. When I get to the point that I can read anything without getting ticked off or angered by it, I feel I will have accomplished something in life.
Ok, as to why I like Win7 better than XP. These are not in any order...
1) I've never actually been a great XP fan. XP was always a bit too cute for me. So, for me, a Windows that looks more professional and not so cute, but still feature rich, is nice to see.
2) Improvements in common dialogs are huge. I'm a developer. I work with files a lot. Having a good common set of file dialogs in all applications is a really nice touch. I think Vista's dialogs were better than XP because the search was nice and the left hand side of "important" stuff was welcome. For Windows 7, the addition of the library feature, basically, allowing you to put your own sets of folders onto the common file dialog is an absolute godsend. It allows me to organize files by work activity, so, I can have whatever paint program, development software, ftp software, whatever, all have a common entry on the file dialog for my website, for example. I love it so much that I dread even using XP or Linux for not having this feature.
3) The explorer.exe doesn't lock up as much in Vista or Win7 as it did in XP. Like, when the PC wakes up, or gets busy, Explorer.exe on my machine can go out to lunch. I've not noticed this as much as in Win7.
4) I love the inclusion of the Office 2007 Ribbon Bars into the Windows 7 distribution. I'm reading a lot about how it works in the SDK and I'm excited about using it in an application that I'm working on.
5) Native 64 bit Windows in the mainstream. Yeah, I know there was a 64 bit Windows XP out there. I had it. But it was so rare that you really couldn't write for it. Since most vendors are now defaulting to 64 bit Vistas and will probably default to 64 bit Win7, I think we will thankfully be able to write for 64 bit native mode and that to me is a wonderful thing. I know high level languages are in vogue but for a tinkering thing, to me, I like getting in there and doing a bit of assembly language stuff.
6) Reading ISOs out of the box. Linux has had this feature now for, geez, it seems like a decade, but Windows never put it together. Now Win7 has. It's just nice to be able to do it without digging around for some cheesy utility.
7) The Windows 7 taskbar. I like the way window are stacked up. I like the inclusion of Gnome style rearranging of icons. I like the way they have pushed off all the dozens of icon notifications into the shell tray onto their own little land. I like the OS/2-esque Workplace shell ability to make your own folders off of the task bar.
8) Native API enhancements. There's Direct2D, DirectWrite, DirectX stuff. There's stuff in there for user space threads that I was used to making fun of Linux for back in the day but suddenly it appears the Linux people had a point. There's NUMA awareness in threading. Some of this stuff has dribbled out but having it all in one Windows distribution makes me more confident that I can use that feature.
That's what I can think of, off the top of my head.
You just can't win in the software world
No one escapes. For years Microsoft lead Linux in the driver's department until Linux settled on a driver model and stuck with it. Now, Microsoft redoes their driver model, which honestly needed to be done, but broke compatibility with a bunch of stuff, and now, they are the bad guys for not having enough drivers. So, pretty much, on the same exact issue, compatibility with legacy drivers versus innovation in the kernel, both Linux and Windows have been on both sides.
It's really more about setting up a firewall against the commercialization of humans as products. The stem cell argument is essentially, let's experiment on these leftover human embryos to cure these major diseases. So, we start growing human embryos up to some cut off point where, we say, arbitrarily, well, you are human now and we can't harvest you. At some point, in anyone's mind, the mass of cells becomes a "he", or a "she", or a "you", and the only way that that works, really, is if you don't believe in the "human" part of these things. But, what we do with the cells before that point, suddenly, doesn't matter, as they are a commodity. Sure, stem cells might be great for curing cancer, but, if the cutoff line before the embryo is considered human really means that they are just a mass of cells, then, why not use them for anything? Would you feel the same about a stem cell skin jacket, a stem cell bone comb, stem cell beef burgers? We ripped the NAZIs for their experiments in making economic use of the bodies of all the people they murdered. How odd would it be, if barely a century later, we might come to view the human lampshade in a NAZI museum as a sort of an oddity, when everyone has them in their homes.
I believe that at some point, stem cells, embryonic research, and even abortion is going to do far more damage to liberalism than any other opposition conservatives could. The reason is, liberals have essentially made it their business to humanize everything and everyone in order to get human rights. Race, for example, is just as an artificial distinction as birth is, conservatives would say, recalling that in the good old days, the whole reason blacks could not be allowed to have civil rights was largely because they were not human because they were not white. Paradoxically, working with embryos will probably humanize them... people will begin to feel sorry for them as the embryo industry takes off. Even now, pictures of embryos are practically censored for this reason. And some day, just as we learned to admit that blacks are human, eskimos are human, indians are human, chinese are human, women are human (which might actually be not true - just kidding!), we will probably look at the little embryo, see ourselves in it, and think, geez, that little fellow is human too.
There's nothing biblical about right to life at all, its just empathy from an imperfect people.
How is this a troll? Parent was not rude or stating anything offensive, he simply gave an opinion, based on personal experience,
Thank you. I explicitly wrote "I think" to indicate that the following was an opinion.
The Japanese never really respect intellectual property laws unless it benefits them. They copied everybody elses stuff for decades to drag themselves out of post bombing ruin, and now suddenly they can claim patent king?
Get real.
They really do exist. Of course they do. To suggest my point of view denies that they exist is a straw man fallacy
You used that word "real", so I took it that you meant to imply a state of existence. Something that is real exists, and something is not real, does not.
Mindful of the fact that its not an inherent right, that such can't really be owned as property is owned?
But I would argue that property is an inherent right. If you have a look at any activity people play, they invent rules for it, and those rules more often than not imply ownership. Either some third party owns something, or the people own something, and they devise rules as to how to transfer that ownership.
In any case, its getting pretty hard to argue
-against- IP being real property, when you have people with their personal pages, personal accounts, personal friends, personal links, personal characters, personal games... All of that is creating property. In a sense, social sights aren't even about people at all as much as they are a way to give people property online.
I wouldn't run an OS from a company who's business is knowing your consumer preferences, but suit for yourself. I'm sure there's a positive side of this story too, but I let that to another user
But just imagine, that your operating system's event viewer will cheerfully announce that it identified great new places with that brunette oral porn you've seemingly been interested... just when the wife logs in!
Chrome OS focusing on speed, simplicity and security does not imply Windows cannot deliver in these areas. It's just an alternative operating system, and has yet to prove itself. The summary sound rather, well, dumb.
Oh, don't beat around the bush. I'll come right out and say it. I think Windows 7 is fast, safe, and simple to use. I have Vista, Win7 and Ubuntu 8 on my machine, each with its own drive, and while Vista is a tad bit better than Ubuntu, Win7 runs rings around both, and is easier to use than either. I do not think I have enjoyed using Windows this much since NT first got the Win95 shell.
The challenge to Microsoft aside, this will be a wake-up call to Gnome/KDE. The
Well I hear you about Gnome. It seems like they have just run out of gas.
I think the problem with KDE is that they woke up too much. KDE 4 seems like a project where they have genuinely bit off more than they can chew. They got so caught up in the big picture and the big rewrite that they seem to have actually regressed at the details level. I've ripped Gnome and KDE's file dialogs on my own site... way behind the times.
I wonder if Google will allow native development on Chrome OS? It should be easier to write for than Linux itself is. First off, they have their own windowing system, and that probably means they have done something with sound as well. I wonder if the windowing system is based on a drawing stack that is hardware accelerated? I wonder if you will be able to print?
I really hope they don't force you into writing in Java for it.
And I wonder if they will offer Chrome OS as a VM type of solution that you can buy for Windows?
Go check it out at http://www.solarcycle24.com/
This guy's everything about the sun that one can track. In particular, he has an image of the sun on the upper left hand corner that shows how pathetic this sunspot group.
I wouldn't say the sunspot drought is over, until there is sustained progress.
The real question is, while its useful to pretend that "content" is property so long as the results are in the public good, isn't it a problem if we forget we are pretending?
There is no pretending, that's the point. Bits and bytes are undeniably real. Content is real, the embodiment of human thought.
Just in time for our robotic fighter of fat clogged arteries, McDonalds is now rolling out a collection of 1/3 pound burgers to compete with the likes of Hardees. McDonalds may have well made the best fast food mushroom and swiss burger of all time. Now if only I could get a 44oz soda with that!
Robot, save me!
WE live in an art economy. That is, at the consumer level, the systems that we use are often judged by their novelty and their entertainment value. I would think most social networking sights ultimately wind up as a sort of a performance art piece, where we are the performers. We get bored with it, and move on. To say that you need to fund R&D is almost besides the point. Social sites need to have R&D, for sure, but what they really need is insight and hitmakers. You have to run them almost like record companies and make stars of the designers, changing things every time based upon the new view of the artist.
Good work. So far as the people who gave the "wrong" answer are concerned, you've proven that math nerds are also sex perverts.
Did we really need a survey for that?
There were about fifty different shots of the same woman's face on various bodies engaged in porn acts.He called to let us know his friend, Angie, would pick up the computer. Naturally I was somewhat surprised when I recognized Angie.
So, uh, what did Angie look like? Was she uh, superimposition worthy?
At least for some it is free [louvre.fr].
Sometimes you have to smell the oil and see the painting in person, especially when you realize that often times artists worked in three dimensions with their paint and not just two.
Until the Copyright Term Extension Act is rescinded, I consider all media produced by "artists" affiliated with the companies/guilds/unions that bought the law, to be free.
So, how will you feel when someone else considers anything you produce to be free?
it's hard to be sympathetic.
Lars signed the contracts with Sony. The work was his right up until he sold, well, his soul. Other artists have famously gotten much better deals, including full control of their catalog.
It's probably because we value quantity and speed of production over quality and meaning.
I would say that to be the case. I mean, how long did it take for Rembrandt to make one painting? It was a long process.
And if you're paying $10 in gas every trip you make I'd consider getting a hybrid.
No, I think it means that you live in the city, and I don't. I could see libraries making more sense if you live downtown, but then, you pay higher costs of everything else, for the right to live in the city. So, even then, libraries are expensive.
I hope you were shooting for sarcasm
Pretty much. The guy just ticked me off. The essential financial problem of the world is that every country on the planet has designed their economies to export to the USA in a mercantile fashion, and suddenly, Americans have decided to save their money, rather than buy products with it.
We don't need another Apollo-like mission to the moon. We've already done those enough. It's just going to cost money without any substantial new information
I think the point is that every iteration of Apollo would get cheaper if we kept doing new revisions. I agree that NASA should have more money. I'm a Republican paleoconservative and I have no problem paying the taxes to support NASA. Building up knowledge of space requires practice. I think NASA has missions and the track record that the private sector has yet to match.
We need a 2nd generation shuttle design as well.
And we also desperately need a practical nuclear powered spacecraft.
A sweet smelling rose bush is worth a $1 to me, for sure. But do you have the right to ask me for $1 to enjoy that rose bush?
If it is my bush, I do. Otherwise, grow your own.
The real question is should we continue to pretend that nonmaterial productions should count as property
Or, you might say, how long do we pretend that just because something doesn't have a mass, it doesn't mean its free. People invest in, create, store, protect, and attempt to trade digital works just as much as any physical work. Of course its real....
And really, while we are at it, just because something is represented by electron states doesn't mean that it is any less real than something that is represented by a more giant assembly of atoms and molecules. You just worship that neutron and proton, don't you. No matter what we little electrons do, spin, absorb photons, spit them out.. you just want to sit there with your buddy the big stupid neutron that doesn't do anything. Ever notice in Physics, that they don't have "neutron volts"... why, it's electron volts. Geez, wonder why that is. That's because neutrons are lazy. Oh we will just hang out and let the protons and electrons makes the atom do all of its interesting stuff. We'll just be stupid mass distorting spacetime and being useless. Let the electrons do all the work..Yeah, you go hang out with your "real" neutron buddies.
SIGNED,
SOB SOB SOB
ELECTRON
PS.. I GAVE UP MY LAST PHOTON FOR YOU, AND NOW i AM JUST THE LOWEST SHELL!
.In my case, I have a free (tax paid, no memberships) public library 15 *walking* minutes from my house that lets me take the book home for one week....Libraries clearly win in this case.
Unless you are the guy that has to drive 20 miles to get to the library, to find out that you've taken out the book that they wanted, for a week....
So... libraries don't win, overall. In your example, they only win for you.