If you install apps via add/remove programs (rather than just double clicking setup), Windows already does this....
Wow. Are you naive. Add/Remove programs most certainly does NOT do this. Ever wonder why the MS Office resource kit has a special "remove office" utility? You'd think using Add/Remove programs would allow you to roll your system back to it's initial state. You'd be mistaken. (and even the Remove Office utility does not put the system back into it's initial state). There are many COM component and dll registrations that are one-way tickets.
What about Cygwin? Don't forget Cygwin! Windows is unbearable without Cygwin!
(screw that SFU garbage - if you even moderately secure your system, their service just hangs on startup without even the courtesy of an error message).
The Republican party no longer stands for what it once did, but appears (at least at face value) be a form of liberalism of a different sort, bordering on fascism,
From Wikipedia:
Liberalism is an ideology, philosophy, and political tradition which holds liberty as the primary political value.[1] Broadly speaking, liberalism seeks a society characterized by freedom of thought for individuals, limitations on the power of government, wealth, and religion, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market economy that supports private enterprise, and a transparent system of government in which the rights of minorities are guaranteed.
But you seem to have gotten your wires crossed somewhere.
The Modern Republican Party is nothing but Authoritarianism. They're all for small government, except when they're in charge. Once they have the power, power corrupts them just as badly as it corrupts anyone else. Which is preciesly why Liberalism (as defined above, not as badly misdefined as the Chris Mathews and Rush Limbaughs of the world would have it) is a good thing. The founding fathers were Liberals. They were against authoritarianism, which is why they designed our government around checks and balances, and separation of powers. Which goes against everything Modern Republicanism seems to stand for today, which is nothing short of an elected monarchy, governing a Corporate feudal empire.
Evolution is not an intelligent process, those who think that this is an argument against evolution are the sort who just drop evolution in as a "scientific" replacement for God.
Well, the oversimplified assumption most people make is that: Intelligence is an evolutionary advantage, so we evolved to become more intelligent so we could better compete against. . . what?
Long before we could read and write and make nice flint axes, homo sapiens were the dominant species on the planet.
So how could we possibly have "evolved" to become more intelligent, so that we can read, write, build things with wheels, build buildings that last in some cases, thousands of years, make machines that think, build vehicles that can take us to the moon and back? The answer is - WE didn't. Our culture did. That's a strong argument for "Nurture".
As a VirtualPC user; another observation is that when a user gets the opportunity to run OS X and Windows XP side-by-side, you can SEE a huge difference in the attractiveness and finish of the interface. Windows just looks "last century" - compared to OS X's pretty rounded corners, gel-buttons, etc.
I think this is another factor they're considering.
Well, for me, the ONLY windows software I need to run is my VPN software. Because my company provides the Windows version free, but I have to pay $90 for the Mac version (fuck that).
Dual-boot is not a solution for this problem. Virtualization is.
If you simply got the Federal out of it, the problem would tend to itself. Make the Federal stop fighting wars for the oil companies, and stop subsidizing other aspects of the oil industry, and prices will go up dramatically.
That's never going to happen as long as we keep; A. Electing officials who are either former executives of oil companies, or from families who are very heavily invested in oil companies. B. Permitting the legalized bribery that is our campaign finance system to continue.
Problem is, Americans don't want strong federal leadership. Based on how they've voted for the past few elections, they seem to want a sort of libertarian "every-man-for-himself" anarchy. Just sayin'
They'll put a stop to this real quick just as soon as gay men have a tissue-compatible uterus lab-grown and implanted. Trust me. (they=thems thats in charge)
To be fair - the Mac Mini is what the cube should have been. Particularly in the pricing area. The price of the cube is what killed it. Hands down. It's a sweet little machine. STILL. But nobody wants to pay that much for something that's not expandable.
I'm about as anti-Microsoft as you can get. I hate them. I hate them for making bad software and forcing zillions of people to use it instead of letting those people make a choice. I hate them for essentially undermining the best qualities of capitalism.
I hear ya brother.
I'm waiting for the tape to come out of the phone converstation between Bill Gates and Bob Urosevich (CEO of Diebold) to rig the 2000 elections using Microsoft's OS running on Diebold voting machines, to get a ringer in the President's office to short-circuit the DoJ case.:)
Our project is trying desperately to migrate away from AIX to Linux wherever we can. Unfortunately, there are still a few hold-out application servers on which we're running proprietary software, and can't migrate due to vendor lock. Evil bastards. If there truly is a Satan, and if he is acting in this world, it is through AIX.
Also, while a dollar is a dollar, even a hundred million here and there is rounding error on the federal budget. The real pieces are Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, pensions, the military and debt servicing; arguing about anything else is mostly a distraction from the structural problems.
That's FUCKING BULLSHIT.
The Iraq CPA *lost* $9 Billion.
And NOBODY is investigating it.
A few hundred mil here and there as a rounding error, yeah, fine. But compared to $9B, the "evil social spending" is chicken feed.
People are going to starve. In this country. Our parents. Stock up on dogfood.
Anyway, I found since I started working there that when I'm 'dressed for work' and go out into the world, the level of service and attention I receive is pretty significantly different from what I was used to. In fact I've tested it a few times; gone to the same restaurant a few times wearing work clothes, then gone a few times in a pair of cargos and a t-shirt, just to see what happens. People are politer, service is faster, I get called "sir" a lot more...it's not a huge difference, but it's noticeable.
I've noticed just the opposite.
In fact, back in the dotcom days, when I was a millionaire (on paper, thanks to stock options), I could walk into my bank, wearing jeans and a t-shirt and sandals, long hair (no tattoes, no piercings), and they knew me by name. If we overdrew our checking account, they wouldn't charge us, they'd float it. Mind you, I was making then almost exactly what I'm making now, but I had the stock options then.
Today, I don't get the same treatment at my bank that I used to, even when I'm wearing a tie (which was not required attire at my dotcom-era job).
It's not the clothes. It's the perceived wealth (and implied power).
If someone attacks and TAKES OVER your home, is it a crime to take it back? Is it terrorism to take something back that is yours?
Well, how many generations do you go back to figure on whether it's a crime. According to their mythology, the current Israelis are descendents of the people who were attacked and carted off by the Babylonians 1500 years ago. So they're just taking their land back that they once had. On the other hand, 1000 years prior to that, they were wandering nomads who invaded and took the land. 500 years before that, they willingly had migrated to Egypt to avoid a famine.
So do the legitimate descendents of Jacob have a legitimate claim to this land? And after 2500 years, are today's Israelis genetically Jacob's inheritors? Even with their cultural laws regarding breeding outside of their own?
Did the Native Americans steal North America from some other culture or people in the distant past?
At some point, we have to put our spears down and accept that - hey, we're living where we are now. We're who we are now. Living in a constant state of warfare over a disputed past is not constructive.
Donald Rumsfeld was in the Nixon, Ford & Reagan administrations, according to Wikipedia. He even got his picture taken with Saddam Hussein back in 1983. Now he's secretary of defense. Dick Cheney was Secretary of Defense under Papa Bush, and before that he got himself elected as representative from Wyoming.
Karl Rove was also part of Nixon's administration.
Reagan himself, was pretty much an outsider in the neocon cabal, but he was a useful puppet (for a while anyway, until Bush Sr. tried to have him offed).
The problem is that these relationships are very clear - but we still have people in this country who believe that Nixon did not do anything wrong, and that it was a "liberal media" that hounded him out. Now they're trying to re-fight the domestic political battle that was Vietnam - to try to undo their loss. The children of the Baby Boomers have done a very poor job of picking up where they left off in the counter-culture movement of the 60's. And the hippies of the 60's all got suits, shaved, and are now working jobs with just a few more years until retirement - they're not willing to sacrifice for the cause anymore. (at least until Bush showed that he is working to take away their social security benefits - THEN they finally started to show some fight).
I have a pathological loathing for Windows. I work on it all day at work. I have macs at home. I am looking forward to the day when I can run Windows in a safe, isolated, roll-back-able sandbox in VPC on a Macintosh, at near-native speeds. There is ONE application for which I need Windows and that's my company's VPN, the Mac version of the VPN client costs money, and the Windows version is free. Fuck that. So I run the free version in Virtual PC. Everything else I need to do, I have an alternative for in OS X (including Remote Desktop, if I need to access my WIndows machine at the office).
Right now, Virtual PC on my dual G5 is painfully slow (fuck you very much IBM for removing the endian-switch instruction on the G5). I'm hoping that on an intel Mac, Virtual PC will be much faster because we can do away with the CPU-emulation part of it, and only be doing environment virtualization. I think that's the best of all possible worlds. I'll be able to run the one or two oddball Windows things in a nice safe sandbox where I can rollback the disk image if (when) I fuck up my registry or get malware.
I think that APple's probbly doing this so they can implement their mythical "red box" (to run Win32 apps without an emulator or virtual environment - this was all the rage on the Mac RUmors sites back in 1996-1998-ish.) - and this is part of the benchmarking effort. I would not trust that alternative. I want a sandbox. I want the evil that is Win32 contained and controlled. Not spread throughout my OS X environment where it can do real damage.
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If you install apps via add/remove programs (rather than just double clicking setup), Windows already does this....
Wow. Are you naive. Add/Remove programs most certainly does NOT do this. Ever wonder why the MS Office resource kit has a special "remove office" utility? You'd think using Add/Remove programs would allow you to roll your system back to it's initial state. You'd be mistaken. (and even the Remove Office utility does not put the system back into it's initial state). There are many COM component and dll registrations that are one-way tickets.
What about Cygwin? Don't forget Cygwin! Windows is unbearable without Cygwin!
(screw that SFU garbage - if you even moderately secure your system, their service just hangs on startup without even the courtesy of an error message).
And it's not like I'm exactly rich. My wife and I make less per year (combined) than any of the above listed numbers. We do just fine.
Yeah. Let me know when one of you gets sick. I mean really sick. Or wants to retire. Tell me then how "fine" you're doing.
You ALMOST "get it".
The Republican party no longer stands for what it once did, but appears (at least at face value) be a form of liberalism of a different sort, bordering on fascism,
From Wikipedia:
But you seem to have gotten your wires crossed somewhere.
The Modern Republican Party is nothing but Authoritarianism. They're all for small government, except when they're in charge. Once they have the power, power corrupts them just as badly as it corrupts anyone else. Which is preciesly why Liberalism (as defined above, not as badly misdefined as the Chris Mathews and Rush Limbaughs of the world would have it) is a good thing. The founding fathers were Liberals. They were against authoritarianism, which is why they designed our government around checks and balances, and separation of powers. Which goes against everything Modern Republicanism seems to stand for today, which is nothing short of an elected monarchy, governing a Corporate feudal empire.
Evolution is not an intelligent process, those who think that this is an argument against evolution are the sort who just drop evolution in as a "scientific" replacement for God.
Well, the oversimplified assumption most people make is that:
Intelligence is an evolutionary advantage, so we evolved to become more intelligent so we could better compete against. . . what?
Long before we could read and write and make nice flint axes, homo sapiens were the dominant species on the planet.
So how could we possibly have "evolved" to become more intelligent, so that we can read, write, build things with wheels, build buildings that last in some cases, thousands of years, make machines that think, build vehicles that can take us to the moon and back? The answer is - WE didn't. Our culture did. That's a strong argument for "Nurture".
Yup. Ask any woman who's had a c-section.
As a VirtualPC user; another observation is that when a user gets the opportunity to run OS X and Windows XP side-by-side, you can SEE a huge difference in the attractiveness and finish of the interface. Windows just looks "last century" - compared to OS X's pretty rounded corners, gel-buttons, etc.
I think this is another factor they're considering.
Well, for me, the ONLY windows software I need to run is my VPN software. Because my company provides the Windows version free, but I have to pay $90 for the Mac version (fuck that).
Dual-boot is not a solution for this problem. Virtualization is.
If you simply got the Federal out of it, the problem would tend to itself. Make the Federal stop fighting wars for the oil companies, and stop subsidizing other aspects of the oil industry, and prices will go up dramatically.
That's never going to happen as long as we keep;
A. Electing officials who are either former executives of oil companies, or from families who are very heavily invested in oil companies.
B. Permitting the legalized bribery that is our campaign finance system to continue.
Problem is, Americans don't want strong federal leadership. Based on how they've voted for the past few elections, they seem to want a sort of libertarian "every-man-for-himself" anarchy. Just sayin'
They'll put a stop to this real quick just as soon as gay men have a tissue-compatible uterus lab-grown and implanted. Trust me.
(they=thems thats in charge)
I can see why we would need to defend ourselves against such an attack.
But once we've bombed our enemy back to the stone age, what's the point of Pwn1ng their web servers?
To be fair - the Mac Mini is what the cube should have been. Particularly in the pricing area. The price of the cube is what killed it. Hands down. It's a sweet little machine. STILL. But nobody wants to pay that much for something that's not expandable.
I'm about as anti-Microsoft as you can get. I hate them. I hate them for making bad software and forcing zillions of people to use it instead of letting those people make a choice. I hate them for essentially undermining the best qualities of capitalism.
:)
I hear ya brother.
I'm waiting for the tape to come out of the phone converstation between Bill Gates and Bob Urosevich (CEO of Diebold) to rig the 2000 elections using Microsoft's OS running on Diebold voting machines, to get a ringer in the President's office to short-circuit the DoJ case.
And even that wouldn't bring them down. . .
You forgot:
Give up emacs for vi!
Give up C++ for Java!
Give up Mozilla for Firefox!
Give up Notepad for Wordpa- wait, who said that? Where am I? who are you?
anyone played with AIX before???)
Unfortunately, yes.
Our project is trying desperately to migrate away from AIX to Linux wherever we can.
Unfortunately, there are still a few hold-out application servers on which we're running proprietary software, and can't migrate due to vendor lock. Evil bastards. If there truly is a Satan, and if he is acting in this world, it is through AIX.
"Using the latest in microwave energy transmission technology,
awesome.
Cheers dude.
It's just that I love having an alternative to what I hate. (ie. Microsoft).
Is it wrong?
Also, while a dollar is a dollar, even a hundred million here and there is rounding error on the federal budget. The real pieces are Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, pensions, the military and debt servicing; arguing about anything else is mostly a distraction from the structural problems.
That's FUCKING BULLSHIT.
The Iraq CPA *lost* $9 Billion.
And NOBODY is investigating it.
A few hundred mil here and there as a rounding error, yeah, fine. But compared to $9B, the "evil social spending" is chicken feed.
People are going to starve. In this country. Our parents. Stock up on dogfood.
...we will see more even when the democrats win the congress back.
You forget: it was the republicans that awarded the Diebold voting machine contracts. So what makes you think that Democrats will win congress back?
Anyway, I found since I started working there that when I'm 'dressed for work' and go out into the world, the level of service and attention I receive is pretty significantly different from what I was used to. In fact I've tested it a few times; gone to the same restaurant a few times wearing work clothes, then gone a few times in a pair of cargos and a t-shirt, just to see what happens. People are politer, service is faster, I get called "sir" a lot more...it's not a huge difference, but it's noticeable.
I've noticed just the opposite.
In fact, back in the dotcom days, when I was a millionaire (on paper, thanks to stock options), I could walk into my bank, wearing jeans and a t-shirt and sandals, long hair (no tattoes, no piercings), and they knew me by name. If we overdrew our checking account, they wouldn't charge us, they'd float it. Mind you, I was making then almost exactly what I'm making now, but I had the stock options then.
Today, I don't get the same treatment at my bank that I used to, even when I'm wearing a tie (which was not required attire at my dotcom-era job).
It's not the clothes. It's the perceived wealth (and implied power).
If someone attacks and TAKES OVER your home, is it a crime to take it back? Is it terrorism to take something back that is yours?
Well, how many generations do you go back to figure on whether it's a crime. According to their mythology, the current Israelis are descendents of the people who were attacked and carted off by the Babylonians 1500 years ago. So they're just taking their land back that they once had. On the other hand, 1000 years prior to that, they were wandering nomads who invaded and took the land. 500 years before that, they willingly had migrated to Egypt to avoid a famine.
So do the legitimate descendents of Jacob have a legitimate claim to this land? And after 2500 years, are today's Israelis genetically Jacob's inheritors? Even with their cultural laws regarding breeding outside of their own?
Did the Native Americans steal North America from some other culture or people in the distant past?
At some point, we have to put our spears down and accept that - hey, we're living where we are now. We're who we are now. Living in a constant state of warfare over a disputed past is not constructive.
Donald Rumsfeld was in the Nixon, Ford & Reagan administrations, according to Wikipedia. He even got his picture taken with Saddam Hussein back in 1983. Now he's secretary of defense. Dick Cheney was Secretary of Defense under Papa Bush, and before that he got himself elected as representative from Wyoming.
Karl Rove was also part of Nixon's administration.
Reagan himself, was pretty much an outsider in the neocon cabal, but he was a useful puppet (for a while anyway, until Bush Sr. tried to have him offed).
The problem is that these relationships are very clear - but we still have people in this country who believe that Nixon did not do anything wrong, and that it was a "liberal media" that hounded him out. Now they're trying to re-fight the domestic political battle that was Vietnam - to try to undo their loss. The children of the Baby Boomers have done a very poor job of picking up where they left off in the counter-culture movement of the 60's. And the hippies of the 60's all got suits, shaved, and are now working jobs with just a few more years until retirement - they're not willing to sacrifice for the cause anymore. (at least until Bush showed that he is working to take away their social security benefits - THEN they finally started to show some fight).
I have a pathological loathing for Windows. I work on it all day at work. I have macs at home. I am looking forward to the day when I can run Windows in a safe, isolated, roll-back-able sandbox in VPC on a Macintosh, at near-native speeds. There is ONE application for which I need Windows and that's my company's VPN, the Mac version of the VPN client costs money, and the Windows version is free. Fuck that. So I run the free version in Virtual PC. Everything else I need to do, I have an alternative for in OS X (including Remote Desktop, if I need to access my WIndows machine at the office).
Right now, Virtual PC on my dual G5 is painfully slow (fuck you very much IBM for removing the endian-switch instruction on the G5). I'm hoping that on an intel Mac, Virtual PC will be much faster because we can do away with the CPU-emulation part of it, and only be doing environment virtualization. I think that's the best of all possible worlds. I'll be able to run the one or two oddball Windows things in a nice safe sandbox where I can rollback the disk image if (when) I fuck up my registry or get malware.
I think that APple's probbly doing this so they can implement their mythical "red box" (to run Win32 apps without an emulator or virtual environment - this was all the rage on the Mac RUmors sites back in 1996-1998-ish.) - and this is part of the benchmarking effort. I would not trust that alternative. I want a sandbox. I want the evil that is Win32 contained and controlled. Not spread throughout my OS X environment where it can do real damage.
but I wouldn't let them bring in or take out any pencils, paper, or recording devices of any kind of the meetings. Just my hunch, I don't trust them.
you better make sure the chairs are bolted to the floor as well. just in case.