Don't talk to me about Ubuntu. Couldn't get the wireless card to work. The instructions give you virtually no clue as to what to do and then say go to the Wiki. Well I would go to the damn Wiki if I could connect to the internet dammit!
After several hours of trying to figure out why a wireless card that can see its access point refuses to talk to it I gave up in disgust.
The network config tool is ridiculously unhelpful and what the hell is wmaster0 and why can't I delete it?
Wireless networking isn't new or different anymore there's no excuse for it not working out of the box and even if there was the sheer unhelpfulness of the GUI just makes it much worse.
In my experience Microsoft products still have a fair way to go before they could be described as good quality (this is based on XP and Office 2003 - perhaps Vista and Office 2007 are more impressive but I doubt it).
Do illegal immigrants get any social services? Don't you have to register for them and therefore bring yourself to the attention of the authorities? I know the illegal immigrants here in the UK try to keep away from the authorities as much as possible for fear of being arrested and sent home.
Gold buying in WoW is mainly for raiding guild members who don't have the time to farm. Most high end epics are soulbound AFAIK - it's the twink items that need to be soulbound I reckon.
The emulation idea I agree with, however that wasn't even in the OP. There's a reason why old stuff sticks around. It's because people understand it and don't see any need to pay money to switch.
Yeh legacy compatibility sucks - let's force everyone to rewrite their software every couple of years and throw out perfectly good hardware. Who's going to pay for all this though?
India will stop being a threat because of outsourcing within the next 10-20 years
Meanwhile bills need to paid now. The damage that outsourcing has caused has been terribly managed and that is why it is so resented. It's all very well for academics to sit in their ivory towers and talk shit about things all evening out - people need money now not in some possible future free market utopia.
The people who run SBC are not foxes they are humans and thus are responsible for their behaviour. All the people involved in this scandal are complicit. How anyone can try to pretend that SBC is blameless in this is a dogmatist of the worst kind.
Visual Basic is a programming language - just because you can't write device drivers in it doesn't mean it doesn't have its place. It's a fairly simplistic scripting language that is invaluable for one important reason. If you want to automate boring stuff and you don't want to wait eons for the IT department to get round to doing something for you it's usually installed already and isn't too hard to figure out. No I wouldn't want anything vitally important done in it but my job would take a lot longer without the little bits and pieces I've done over the last couple of years.
I'm from the UK as well and I know where you're coming from with the Murdoch press and their imitators. However these papers don't have to tell the truth about this just make people aware. "Big evil corporation sues 12 year old" would make a good story except that the media companies don't want that kind of negative publicity. How do you think they get away with charging a levy on musical instrument shops - because it isn't mentioned. However everyone I tell about this is appalled.
Well it's been 12 years since Windows 95 and Office 95 and I don't see either of those cash cows slipping in the slightest. In the meantime Microsoft remains in the way of the proper innovation that competition in that space would provide.
Exactly. This should be a scandal in the serious papers and a shock horror exposé in the tabloids. However the advertisers and owners wouldn't like the truth being told on this.
Unfortunately the people who should be shouting from the rooftops about this nasty little scam - journalists - are owned by the same media conglomerates.
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Don't talk to me about Ubuntu. Couldn't get the wireless card to work. The instructions give you virtually no clue as to what to do and then say go to the Wiki. Well I would go to the damn Wiki if I could connect to the internet dammit!
After several hours of trying to figure out why a wireless card that can see its access point refuses to talk to it I gave up in disgust.
The network config tool is ridiculously unhelpful and what the hell is wmaster0 and why can't I delete it?
Wireless networking isn't new or different anymore there's no excuse for it not working out of the box and even if there was the sheer unhelpfulness of the GUI just makes it much worse.
4) IT outsourcing
In my experience Microsoft products still have a fair way to go before they could be described as good quality (this is based on XP and Office 2003 - perhaps Vista and Office 2007 are more impressive but I doubt it).
Word does not work great - it works okay. There are too many annoying bugs and ill thought out defaults for it to be called great.
Do illegal immigrants get any social services? Don't you have to register for them and therefore bring yourself to the attention of the authorities? I know the illegal immigrants here in the UK try to keep away from the authorities as much as possible for fear of being arrested and sent home.
Consumer protection, how last century dahling.
The inability to interoperate with the dominant OS of the day has killed plenty of OSes.
I quite liked him too, I could never really understand all the hate. Is there a JonKatz fanclub I can join? :P
It is broke and Microsoft fixes it regularly.
Still sounds like Slashdot heresy to be in favour of making things easier for people who don't have a massive in-depth knowledge of GPU internals.
Gold buying in WoW is mainly for raiding guild members who don't have the time to farm. Most high end epics are soulbound AFAIK - it's the twink items that need to be soulbound I reckon.
Don't suggest making things easier for people who aren't programming gods around here. You'll get VB yelled at you before you know it.
Dumb terminals are a better idea than fat clients for most corporate employees who use the same software day in day out.
The emulation idea I agree with, however that wasn't even in the OP. There's a reason why old stuff sticks around. It's because people understand it and don't see any need to pay money to switch.
Yeh legacy compatibility sucks - let's force everyone to rewrite their software every couple of years and throw out perfectly good hardware. Who's going to pay for all this though?
India will stop being a threat because of outsourcing within the next 10-20 years
Meanwhile bills need to paid now. The damage that outsourcing has caused has been terribly managed and that is why it is so resented. It's all very well for academics to sit in their ivory towers and talk shit about things all evening out - people need money now not in some possible future free market utopia.
Ah so it's a "not a monopoly no honest" reason rather than a sensible one.
I know I'm going to regret asking this but couldn't the PC manufacturers just supply a PC with no OS?
The people who run SBC are not foxes they are humans and thus are responsible for their behaviour. All the people involved in this scandal are complicit. How anyone can try to pretend that SBC is blameless in this is a dogmatist of the worst kind.
So they couldn't have included a compatibility layer given that they have all the source code to XP?
Visual Basic is a programming language - just because you can't write device drivers in it doesn't mean it doesn't have its place. It's a fairly simplistic scripting language that is invaluable for one important reason. If you want to automate boring stuff and you don't want to wait eons for the IT department to get round to doing something for you it's usually installed already and isn't too hard to figure out. No I wouldn't want anything vitally important done in it but my job would take a lot longer without the little bits and pieces I've done over the last couple of years.
I'm from the UK as well and I know where you're coming from with the Murdoch press and their imitators. However these papers don't have to tell the truth about this just make people aware. "Big evil corporation sues 12 year old" would make a good story except that the media companies don't want that kind of negative publicity. How do you think they get away with charging a levy on musical instrument shops - because it isn't mentioned. However everyone I tell about this is appalled.
Well it's been 12 years since Windows 95 and Office 95 and I don't see either of those cash cows slipping in the slightest. In the meantime Microsoft remains in the way of the proper innovation that competition in that space would provide.
Exactly. This should be a scandal in the serious papers and a shock horror exposé in the tabloids. However the advertisers and owners wouldn't like the truth being told on this.
Unfortunately the people who should be shouting from the rooftops about this nasty little scam - journalists - are owned by the same media conglomerates.