Heh... Get out of the fast food block, visit some real restaurants/lunch counters/delis. McD's is everywhere, but that doesn't mean that's all there is.
And for what it's worth, i've enjoyed most British foods i've eaten (with the exception of Marmite). But none have compared to a good Chicago dog, a well-made caesar salad, or real Texas bbq. IMHO, of course.
Installers / uninstallers are supposed to do this. The problem is, it's more of an honor system than anything else. Even sticking with Microsoft's own Windows Installer you can mess things up pretty well.
wood, Kuwahata knew, has qualities that could make it a superior choice for sound reproduction. For one thing, sound propagates very quickly through wood, which means that the speaker can produce a wide range of frequencies. Wood also has an internal damping effect, which leads to a smoother frequency response.
...but then again, what do i know? Maybe they gave the same reasons back when wood-panel stationwagons first came out...
How can wood be made pliable enough to form into loudspeaker cones? That question stumped engineers for decades until Satoshi Imamura discovered the answer: rice wine.
Hmmm... Perhaps a use has finally been discovered for Budweiser...
Heh... This reminds me of the Shopper's Edge memberships we'd try and get people into back when i worked in order entry for a mail-order company. Not technically illegal, but built on a foundation of getting people enrolled in a service presented as something other than what they were wanting or expecting.
The P.T. Barnum school of business has no shortage of graduates...
Hay! u think guyz frm US cant rite grate dox? y u have such pour view of are skillz?!1! u think gramer an spelling isnt US peroperty? u suck, we ownz ur docx!!!1!
This beta release includes debugging symbols, which, while fairly large, are not normally installed by end-users. Look for a pretty significant reduction in size for the final release.
That'd be my guess. Let's face it, you want to remain interoperable with systems that have pretty much no security at all, you're gonna have to nail open a lot of doors. Turning on all services by default so that administrators with a "x in 21 days" education can make it work probably doesn't help either...
Marketing. They know their demographic, and what they respond to. Microsoft may have the "Budweiser" demographic (largest market share, mass appeal), but Apple has the "Sam Adams" (small but higher-spending) nailed...
they have this thing now called Windows Update that
...is only available on WinXP and up... ...is turned off by default... ...generally does a shitty job of explaining why you're consenting to install what (and after all the work i go through to make people paranoid about what they install)... ...doesn't update flakey printer drivers (although the update website will update flakey video drivers... with ones that are even flakier).
From the sound of things, MS will finally get this right in XP SP2... or maybe Longhorn.
Yes, that's what most people in the world [...] use.
And all of these people use Word because it is difficult for 3rd-party programs to extract information from the file format it defaults to saving in? I had no idea!
Why can't they write in Esperanto,
Oh, you're good at this. Because that is an excellent analogy. Except for how it isn't analogous. And no one speaks Esperanto. Here, at very least, you could have picked an example that makes sense:
"People keep sending me these emails and the text in Simplified Chinese. How am i supposed to understand them? Why can't they write in English? It would be so much easier to process with existing software, and take up less storage space, and i'd know what they were writing to me."
But even this is a piss-poor analogy, as instead of a few billion people who would need to spend serious time learning a new language, you've maybe a few million who wouldn't give a rat's ass if MS changes Word to output XML, LaTeX, PostScript, or Morse Code.
Is it really that hard to admit that W2K and subsequent versions really are stable
W2K and subsequent versions really are stable. Happy? Here, i'll even throw in a "and in fact are getting more stable with each new release".
Now, is it really so hard to concede you've just been lucky? Some of us have to work with users who aren't PhDs, and who don't care much for computers. They just want to find their Word documents and get their flakey HP printers to print them. They don't know what service packs they need to apply, or when to update their drivers, or which emails never to open. It's not their job.
It's an imperfect world, with imperfect people, imperfect hardware, and imperfect software. Things are going to break. Rather than pretending there is perfection in Windows, you would be better off to note that these same problems apply to [Linux|BSD|OS/X|...] also.
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So it's the WORLD that should change to accommodate the views held by the free software camp
So MS-Word == The WORLD now, eh?
This neither begins nor ends with "the free software camp". Making information more difficult to extract is a Bad Idea, 'k? What if i want to search in it / translate it / distribute it / insert it in a Web CMS?
Ever since I installed W2K I have never seen the blue screen again.
Ol' Mrs. computersareevil i presume? How 'bout you go work in a Windows shop for a few years, and then come back with some decent arguments.
i think you misread Peyna's post - Google doesn't need to pay mind to the small subset (SEOs).
Now, if they were taking money from SEOs to bring certain pages up in the results, then the Google-Senator comparison works. Of course, it's a lot easier to switch search engines than it is Gov'ts...
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Heh...
Get out of the fast food block, visit some real restaurants/lunch counters/delis. McD's is everywhere, but that doesn't mean that's all there is.
And for what it's worth, i've enjoyed most British foods i've eaten (with the exception of Marmite). But none have compared to a good Chicago dog, a well-made caesar salad, or real Texas bbq. IMHO, of course.
Installers / uninstallers are supposed to do this. The problem is, it's more of an honor system than anything else. Even sticking with Microsoft's own Windows Installer you can mess things up pretty well.
And if they get popular, and MST3K starts being mentioned in reference to them frequently, whose reputation is damaged?
Hmmm... Perhaps a use has finally been discovered for Budweiser...
Er, exactly which hardcore motorcycling community would you be talking about now? Or do the mature, well-grounded ones just keep well hidden...?
Heh... This reminds me of the Shopper's Edge memberships we'd try and get people into back when i worked in order entry for a mail-order company. Not technically illegal, but built on a foundation of getting people enrolled in a service presented as something other than what they were wanting or expecting.
The P.T. Barnum school of business has no shortage of graduates...
Hay! u think guyz frm US cant rite grate dox? y u have such pour view of are skillz?!1! u think gramer an spelling isnt US peroperty? u suck, we ownz ur docx!!!1!
Great Scott and a Lesser Mick! You may be onto something there!
6 is a terribly, terribly dirty number...
It's Penn & Teller's website. You're into some sick, sick porn, bxr...
This beta release includes debugging symbols, which, while fairly large, are not normally installed by end-users. Look for a pretty significant reduction in size for the final release.
Actually, i'm fairly certain more than a few cellphones have this capability built in. Even the ones without cameras... ;)
(voice recordings can be compressed a *lot*, so it doesn't exactly take a 2GB iPod to make this feature useful)
That'd be my guess. Let's face it, you want to remain interoperable with systems that have pretty much no security at all, you're gonna have to nail open a lot of doors. Turning on all services by default so that administrators with a "x in 21 days" education can make it work probably doesn't help either...
...because, any software written to work with Windows that isn't written by Microsoft is a competitor... *sigh*
Nope.
Marketing. They know their demographic, and what they respond to. Microsoft may have the "Budweiser" demographic (largest market share, mass appeal), but Apple has the "Sam Adams" (small but higher-spending) nailed...
...we don't find it funny because it hits too close to home...
(and angry liberals don't find it funny because angry liberals don't find anything funny)
All those people doing the lame " 1) Action 2) ??? 3) Profit!" posts are implicitly advocating copyright abolishment. Quite a lot now, see?
I guess you haven't been paying attention.
From the sound of things, MS will finally get this right in XP SP2... or maybe Longhorn.
And all of these people use Word because it is difficult for 3rd-party programs to extract information from the file format it defaults to saving in? I had no idea!
Oh, you're good at this. Because that is an excellent analogy. Except for how it isn't analogous. And no one speaks Esperanto. Here, at very least, you could have picked an example that makes sense:
"People keep sending me these emails and the text in Simplified Chinese. How am i supposed to understand them? Why can't they write in English? It would be so much easier to process with existing software, and take up less storage space, and i'd know what they were writing to me."
But even this is a piss-poor analogy, as instead of a few billion people who would need to spend serious time learning a new language, you've maybe a few million who wouldn't give a rat's ass if MS changes Word to output XML, LaTeX, PostScript, or Morse Code.
W2K and subsequent versions really are stable. Happy? Here, i'll even throw in a "and in fact are getting more stable with each new release".
Now, is it really so hard to concede you've just been lucky? Some of us have to work with users who aren't PhDs, and who don't care much for computers. They just want to find their Word documents and get their flakey HP printers to print them. They don't know what service packs they need to apply, or when to update their drivers, or which emails never to open. It's not their job.
It's an imperfect world, with imperfect people, imperfect hardware, and imperfect software. Things are going to break. Rather than pretending there is perfection in Windows, you would be better off to note that these same problems apply to [Linux|BSD|OS/X|...] also.
So MS-Word == The WORLD now, eh?
This neither begins nor ends with "the free software camp". Making information more difficult to extract is a Bad Idea, 'k? What if i want to search in it / translate it / distribute it / insert it in a Web CMS?
Ol' Mrs. computersareevil i presume?
How 'bout you go work in a Windows shop for a few years, and then come back with some decent arguments.
i think you misread Peyna's post - Google doesn't need to pay mind to the small subset (SEOs).
Now, if they were taking money from SEOs to bring certain pages up in the results, then the Google-Senator comparison works. Of course, it's a lot easier to switch search engines than it is Gov'ts...