Yeah, it is overdone, but when we get "Flying Chair" or "640k" jokes you hike them up to +5 funny. Hike up your skirt, there are better things to complain about.
The 2nd largest software company in the world with more installed software on personal computers than anyone else on the planet. More software, more to patch and update. Sweet, simple logic that anyone who has ever really worked with computers understands. Still, this is a good opportunity for jealous Linux children to point and laugh while their software, which some have dedicated their lives to, goes largely unnoticed.
Oh, fuck you. Stop being a pompous ass. Some choose to deal with personal tragedy through humor and sarcasm. Your "public" concern over the self induced death of one man amid a universe this complex and incredible is a joke in and of itself.
There's a wide cross section of people on Slashdot.
Now there's a fallacy if I ever heard one. You can't have a wide cross section of people on the Internet, much less from a tech orientated website like this. To say otherwise is nothing but an obvious attempt to stroke the ego of fellow slashdotters by trying to convince them they are "normal". Yeah right.
By "support", you mean single sided, single space ASCII printing from a selection of 12 fonts. As a bonus, your multi-function printer/scanner/fax now only prints.
Still, the VHS format died because Sony et. al. made a legitimate case that DVD was a better format.
LOL, yes, I fondly remember the day Sony called me down to their boardroom, sat me down and explained why DVD was a better format than VHS. Seeing a demo of a DVD player running at my local retailer had nothing to do with my purchase.
That has not happened with Vista.
Vista's uptake has been slower because PC sales, the driving factor behind OS purchases, have slowed. Any consumer who upgraded from Windows 98/ME to Windows XP made a signifigant move, in that they were now using an OS based on the NT kernel. That was the big reason to upgrade, but few people did upgrade. Instead, most people purchased new computers with XP already installed. Based on your previous gaff (see above) it's not that you don't understand how products are marketed, you don't understand the underlying forces which drive the market itself.
Javascript benchmarks put the new browser in fourth place overall, after Chrome 2, Safari 4 and Firefox, but it indeed passes the Acid3 test with a perfect score.
But the link provided in that statement? They didn't even test Opera 10 in that study, until the very end of the article where it placed fifth, not forth. The link in the previous sentence is the one showing the 4th place results.
Don't get me wrong, I love Opera, but I hate sloppy slashdotting.
Wrong. In most cases, especially with a newer releases like Windows 7 and Vista, many drivers will already be installed or not require a reboot on install. You do not need to reboot after ever single driver install. You can install the drivers you need, then do one reboot. You do not have to recompile your kernel and you will get higher performance from your hardware with authentic drivers.
I ran Windows ME on my own machine for nearly 3 years on the same install, and also had it running on my mother's and sister's computers. I found it to be more reliable than Windows 98, which for me had a tendency to boot with drivers mysterious missing, though I did take the added step of disabling system restore and a few other additions (WMI for example). The fact that you simply say it "crashed" without giving much detail, as usual, leads me to believe you simply ride the "ME sucks" bandwagon because it feels good. You have plenty of insults, but not very much technical data.
First, your computer has problems. I'm using Opera on Windows and have embedded Quicktime and WMV videos purposely disabled. Guess what? The video preview play just fine, sir.
Second, this is a video preview. You do understand the concept of a preview, right? Not only is the picture a quarter of the original size, it's only a clip that starts somewhere near the middle. So why would you still visit YouTube? To watch the other 75%.
I'll tell you what is broken, Slashdot. Your anti-Microsoft comment received "Interesting and Insightful" moderation when in fact your comments have no basis in fact.
On the link to the blog talking about the Christmas album, it says the cover was "Photoshopped". Here on Slashdot, to appease the FOSS freaks this slang gets changed to "GIMPed". That's real classy.
Not really. It is a great idea though. Enough people would try Linux and finally that it is shit, then they would appreciate Windows much more, just like I do.
It that also why it looks like an old piece of ass? Take a look at the current 4.x version of Skype for Windows, then go back and look at 2.x for Linux.
First of all, the "Starter Edition" is not intended for the entire "World". It is a low cost version of Windows for small computers that people like YOU could not go into Wal-Mart and purchase. This version is not for you or anyone you know. I can't stress that enough. Take yourself out of the picture, just this once.
The 3 application limit, while inconvenient for people like us who are not used to such restrictions, isn't nearly as bad as the trolls (see Slashdot) have made it out to be. Why is it attractive to people who need it? Because it's a cheaper version of the most popular and widely used OS on the planet. That usefulness far outweighs any other limitation they could put on it.
Yeah, you can ask my old man. There was a local software rental shop in Flint, Michigan back in the 90s called "Player One" that used to rent PC and Amiga software. It was 1/4 the original price to rent the game or program for a week. Now, the Amiga was indeed a powerful machine ripe for gaming, but only a few developers (Psygnosis, Team 17, Electronic Arts, Gremlin, Bloodhouse) really understood how to deliver a quality game. A majority of the titles were watered down PC conversions that sucked big portions of ass. That didn't stop my dad. Even if the game was stupid he wanted to try and copy it. Even the games that sucked were usually copy protected in some way. He had several different disk cloning programs, including a hardware device designed to synchronize 2 disk drives. That usually worked, but still, coping a floppy disk was an adventure in trail and error that did give us a slight high when we were able to get a working copy. At the highlight of his piracy run he purchased a photocopy machine. Why? To copy the manuals of games that would ask: "What is the 8th word of the second paragraph on Page 27?" Yeah, he was that hooked. My hands still smell like hot toner.
They set back operating systems on the majority of the world's PCs by half a decade.
Right. So then, can you please point us in the direction of the PC operating system that is "on time" according to your criteria? You can scratch Linux off that list, it's still stuck in the 90s. OS X only runs on Apple hardware. Is there an OS out there that only you know about? Please share it with us.
The phrase "Year of the Linux Desktop" does not, I repeat, DOES NOT revolve around your life. It is the mythical year when Linux becomes popular with the masses. While you might consider yourself to be a member of the masses (and I seriously doubt you are), you alone aren't sufficient to call this or any past year the "Year of the Linux Desktop".
Next you'll be telling me you can't switch to another virtual console if your GUI crashes
If your GUI is crashing, you should consider using a different OS entirely. GUI crashes seem to be an acceptable event among Linux users, but most other users would not tolerate such occurrences. In Windows, there is a chance the "explorer" file manager might crash. For example, due to a 3rd party extension behaving badly. However, since XP and onward, a crashed explorer will restart automatically. Since explorer is only part of the GUI, none of your applications are disturbed.
Crashes of the underlying GUI are almost unheard of unless there is a serious flaw with the graphics driver. Since Vista and onward, the WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) can restart the graphics system if such a problem should occur.
or review the OS code to satisfy yourself it's not malicious.
I would suggest that if you are paranoid enough to warrant reviewing the entire source code to the OS you wish to choose, you should probably consider some type of therapy. Using computers will only exacerbate your underlying problems.
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Yeah, it is overdone, but when we get "Flying Chair" or "640k" jokes you hike them up to +5 funny. Hike up your skirt, there are better things to complain about.
The 2nd largest software company in the world with more installed software on personal computers than anyone else on the planet. More software, more to patch and update. Sweet, simple logic that anyone who has ever really worked with computers understands. Still, this is a good opportunity for jealous Linux children to point and laugh while their software, which some have dedicated their lives to, goes largely unnoticed.
Does Ubtunu, or any other Linux distro, provide a way to keep proprietary applications patched or updated? Exactly.
Oh, fuck you. Stop being a pompous ass. Some choose to deal with personal tragedy through humor and sarcasm. Your "public" concern over the self induced death of one man amid a universe this complex and incredible is a joke in and of itself.
There's a wide cross section of people on Slashdot.
Now there's a fallacy if I ever heard one. You can't have a wide cross section of people on the Internet, much less from a tech orientated website like this. To say otherwise is nothing but an obvious attempt to stroke the ego of fellow slashdotters by trying to convince them they are "normal". Yeah right.
By "support", you mean single sided, single space ASCII printing from a selection of 12 fonts. As a bonus, your multi-function printer/scanner/fax now only prints.
Only feminists would label telling the truth as sexist. I don't think you'll find many of them here.
Still, the VHS format died because Sony et. al. made a legitimate case that DVD was a better format.
LOL, yes, I fondly remember the day Sony called me down to their boardroom, sat me down and explained why DVD was a better format than VHS. Seeing a demo of a DVD player running at my local retailer had nothing to do with my purchase.
That has not happened with Vista.
Vista's uptake has been slower because PC sales, the driving factor behind OS purchases, have slowed. Any consumer who upgraded from Windows 98/ME to Windows XP made a signifigant move, in that they were now using an OS based on the NT kernel. That was the big reason to upgrade, but few people did upgrade. Instead, most people purchased new computers with XP already installed. Based on your previous gaff (see above) it's not that you don't understand how products are marketed, you don't understand the underlying forces which drive the market itself.
The summary states:
Javascript benchmarks put the new browser in fourth place overall, after Chrome 2, Safari 4 and Firefox, but it indeed passes the Acid3 test with a perfect score.
But the link provided in that statement? They didn't even test Opera 10 in that study, until the very end of the article where it placed fifth, not forth. The link in the previous sentence is the one showing the 4th place results.
Don't get me wrong, I love Opera, but I hate sloppy slashdotting.
Wrong. In most cases, especially with a newer releases like Windows 7 and Vista, many drivers will already be installed or not require a reboot on install. You do not need to reboot after ever single driver install. You can install the drivers you need, then do one reboot. You do not have to recompile your kernel and you will get higher performance from your hardware with authentic drivers.
I ran Windows ME on my own machine for nearly 3 years on the same install, and also had it running on my mother's and sister's computers. I found it to be more reliable than Windows 98, which for me had a tendency to boot with drivers mysterious missing, though I did take the added step of disabling system restore and a few other additions (WMI for example). The fact that you simply say it "crashed" without giving much detail, as usual, leads me to believe you simply ride the "ME sucks" bandwagon because it feels good. You have plenty of insults, but not very much technical data.
First, your computer has problems. I'm using Opera on Windows and have embedded Quicktime and WMV videos purposely disabled. Guess what? The video preview play just fine, sir.
Second, this is a video preview. You do understand the concept of a preview, right? Not only is the picture a quarter of the original size, it's only a clip that starts somewhere near the middle. So why would you still visit YouTube? To watch the other 75%.
I'll tell you what is broken, Slashdot. Your anti-Microsoft comment received "Interesting and Insightful" moderation when in fact your comments have no basis in fact.
So this is basically analogous to having your story submits summarily rejected by a newspaper because you've submitted so much crap in the past.
Well.... they should come on down to Slashdot, let Kdawson show em' how it's done!
On the link to the blog talking about the Christmas album, it says the cover was "Photoshopped". Here on Slashdot, to appease the FOSS freaks this slang gets changed to "GIMPed". That's real classy.
Not really. It is a great idea though. Enough people would try Linux and finally that it is shit, then they would appreciate Windows much more, just like I do.
Ahh, the typical Linux solution. Try yet another distro.
It that also why it looks like an old piece of ass? Take a look at the current 4.x version of Skype for Windows, then go back and look at 2.x for Linux.
First of all, the "Starter Edition" is not intended for the entire "World". It is a low cost version of Windows for small computers that people like YOU could not go into Wal-Mart and purchase. This version is not for you or anyone you know. I can't stress that enough. Take yourself out of the picture, just this once.
The 3 application limit, while inconvenient for people like us who are not used to such restrictions, isn't nearly as bad as the trolls (see Slashdot) have made it out to be. Why is it attractive to people who need it? Because it's a cheaper version of the most popular and widely used OS on the planet. That usefulness far outweighs any other limitation they could put on it.
Yeah, you can ask my old man. There was a local software rental shop in Flint, Michigan back in the 90s called "Player One" that used to rent PC and Amiga software. It was 1/4 the original price to rent the game or program for a week. Now, the Amiga was indeed a powerful machine ripe for gaming, but only a few developers (Psygnosis, Team 17, Electronic Arts, Gremlin, Bloodhouse) really understood how to deliver a quality game. A majority of the titles were watered down PC conversions that sucked big portions of ass. That didn't stop my dad. Even if the game was stupid he wanted to try and copy it. Even the games that sucked were usually copy protected in some way. He had several different disk cloning programs, including a hardware device designed to synchronize 2 disk drives. That usually worked, but still, coping a floppy disk was an adventure in trail and error that did give us a slight high when we were able to get a working copy. At the highlight of his piracy run he purchased a photocopy machine. Why? To copy the manuals of games that would ask: "What is the 8th word of the second paragraph on Page 27?" Yeah, he was that hooked. My hands still smell like hot toner.
Old isn't so much the problem, as is Adrian Kingsley-Hughes's super accurate "1,2,3" grading scale. He's a journalist first and it shows.
They set back operating systems on the majority of the world's PCs by half a decade.
Right. So then, can you please point us in the direction of the PC operating system that is "on time" according to your criteria? You can scratch Linux off that list, it's still stuck in the 90s. OS X only runs on Apple hardware. Is there an OS out there that only you know about? Please share it with us.
Dear Self Centered Asshole,
The phrase "Year of the Linux Desktop" does not, I repeat, DOES NOT revolve around your life. It is the mythical year when Linux becomes popular with the masses. While you might consider yourself to be a member of the masses (and I seriously doubt you are), you alone aren't sufficient to call this or any past year the "Year of the Linux Desktop".
Indeed, they prefer Linux when it doesn't resemble anything like the aborted fetus that is today's Linux environment on a PC.
Next you'll be telling me you can't switch to another virtual console if your GUI crashes
If your GUI is crashing, you should consider using a different OS entirely. GUI crashes seem to be an acceptable event among Linux users, but most other users would not tolerate such occurrences. In Windows, there is a chance the "explorer" file manager might crash. For example, due to a 3rd party extension behaving badly. However, since XP and onward, a crashed explorer will restart automatically. Since explorer is only part of the GUI, none of your applications are disturbed.
Crashes of the underlying GUI are almost unheard of unless there is a serious flaw with the graphics driver. Since Vista and onward, the WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) can restart the graphics system if such a problem should occur.
or review the OS code to satisfy yourself it's not malicious.
I would suggest that if you are paranoid enough to warrant reviewing the entire source code to the OS you wish to choose, you should probably consider some type of therapy. Using computers will only exacerbate your underlying problems.
Oh great, another post about Chrome. Brace yourself for a wave of 3 general responses:
"No Linux version, so it sucks." - The Jealous Bitch
"It doesn't have (feature from Firefox), I refuse to use it." - The High and Mighty Prick
"I'm all out of tin-foil, you can't trust Google." - The Stallman Worshipers