What about all those Lawyer ads? Yeah, so some guys 60 years ago got lung cancer from mining, or somebody pulled out in front of a truck driver who was having a bad day three years ago. Do I NEED to have it SHOVED DOWN MY THROAT that if the same should ever happen to me, I need to call those lawyers? I mean, I get it once, right, but everyday?
Just wait till we don't get the option to fast-forward through those!!!
And what really steams my kidneys is the way they play those commercials during kid-targeted programming.
I have a 7 year old (now, sob) pc homebuilt with a via board, using an amdk6-2 450 with 768 mb ram running xp (not sp2, do i seem that dumb) and two teensy hds (13gb total storage on the system) with a voodoo3 3500 agp (w/ tuner) and i use it (ya know, lack of funds to build something better, okay, i got the cash, but not the desire to transform my baby) routinely to work on autocad drawings in 3d (think 10,000's of objects) while listening to random playlists from my 4gb song collection on my (i guess) 4200 rpm hd, and never (okay, maybe when i rotate the whole cad drawing while playing a song) does it want to bog down.
I guess the question is, why is yours so slow? did you fail to optimize your services? did you fail to put the system on perform functions, not gui prettiness? did you add more ram (I'll sell you some of mine, I know it's good - 2x256 pc133 for $100)? did you kill all the non-required pieces of software?
I still get confused when "knowing" users have 30 and 40 background apps running and wonder why Media Player lags
froogle returns cheaper prices on '19" flat panel' than it does on '15" flat panel' so it seems like you're getting a really good deal, but no, we all know that dell only offers the upgrade to clear out old stock (but wait, i cover this below)
froogle shows average list price for pent d to be about 250-300 froogle shows average list price for pent 4 to be about 190-240
so given that the free flat panel upgrade makes for a nice choice, you can't always count on that to be there.
so we have about (at most) $110 all the way down to a measly $10 difference in price. That makes the mean difference about $60
but let's do this the right way. using the model number system you inserted above, i goto dells website and search for their e510 system. so far i have the option to customize between three different models and an XPS (?)
let's try and get as close to the following specs as possible, since this seems to be what you want: pent d 820 1gb ram 160gb hd
and configuring with base options on everything gives: Dell Dimension E510 Series Pentium® D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB) Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 Memory 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x512M) Keyboard Dell USB Keyboard Monitor FREE UPGRADE!! 19 inch E196FP Analog Flat Panel Video Card 128MB PCI Express(TM) x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon X300 SE HyperMemory Hard Drive 160GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/ 8MB cache Floppy Drive and Media Reader No Floppy Drive Included Mouse Dell® 2-button USB mouse Network Card Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet Modem 56K PCI Data Fax Modem Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 6.0 CD or DVD Drive Single Drive: 48x CD-RW / DVD-ROM Combo Drive Sound Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio Speakers No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system) Office Software (not included in Windows XP) No Productivity Suite - Corel WordPerfect® word processor only Anti-Virus/Security Suite (Pre-installed) No Security Subscription Hardware Warranty 1Yr Ltd Warranty, 1Yr At-Home Service, and 1Yr HW Warranty Support Dial - Up Internet Access 6 Months of America Online Membership Included Miscellaneous Award Winning Service and Support Operating System Re-Installation CD PC Restore recovery system by Symantec Dell Digital Entertainment Starter Entertainment Pack -Basic digital Music, Photo, and Casual Gaming TOTAL:$849.00 (yes, it's horrid, i don't care about the formatting, just the ideas involved)
so $849
and now for the e510n: Dell Dimension E510n Pentium® D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB) Operating System FreeDOS(TM) included in the box, ready to install Memory 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x512M) Keyboard Dell USB Keyboard Monitor FREE UPGRADE!! 19 inch E196FP Analog Flat Panel Video Card 128MB PCI Express(TM) x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon X300 SE HyperMemory Hard Drive 160GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/ 8MB cache Floppy Drive and Media Reader No Floppy Drive Included Mouse Dell® 2-button USB mouse Network Card Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet Modem 56K PCI Data Fax Modem CD ROM/DVD ROM Single Drive: 48x CD-RW / DVD-ROM Combo Drive Sound Card Integrated Audio with Dolby Digital 7.1 capability Speakers No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system) Limited Warranty, Services and Support Options 1Yr Ltd Warranty, 1Yr At-Home Service, and 1Yr HW Warranty Support Miscellaneous Award Winning Service and Support TOTAL:$819.00
so we get $819 on this one
so all we saved by doing away with the ms tax is $30, and look, they both have 19" flat panels, and they both have the same processor.
okay, but the guys posting after you say that the app points to the library webkit which is part of the system frameworks supplied by apple, which is rather (to my understanding of apple) like the way ms includes the apis for ie in the apis that run explorer. code-reuse used to be a good idea, and ms capitalized on that.
then they abused monopolistic powers
but the riaa and mpaa have been working real close with ms to guarantee that media player doesn't violate any rules as appropriate (but they still give the user some option to turn that "protection" off a little)
but nobody has stopped gnutella yet.
so these are the reasons why i'm confused my op was modded trolling
I see it as a legitimate point, and everybody that has replied at this point has shown that my original observation was correct, and that this is potentially a Bad Thing(tm)
Or at least, that's what the rest of the industry keeps trying to tell MS. So if it's Apple doing it, it's okay?
This is getting to be a bad cycle, but at least they're using a well established service instead of trying to get a lot of people to establish their service for them. Hmmm.
And so what does **AA think about this? Apple -> it must be A Good Thing(TM) But when MS announces that Vista will have the same feature? Evil(TM)
You clearly missed what is going on here, you archive the "customers" data to a central server (3)
3.5 is harvest the individual porn pictures off the computer using a custom script you wrote which accepts no.jpg|.jpeg|.gif|.png|.whatever_else_ext_you_want of size less than 25kb and none larger than 250kb (quite a large jpg) and then put them on a seperate server.
5 is sell your buddies a "subscription" to this ever enlarging database of files
But when you're under 18 (voting age) then you generally get your luxury items from your... parents and other family members, thanks. So, when Mom and Dad, or G-mom and G-dad are being asked to pay an extra coupla bucks at the register, which constituent are you not affecting?
I'm confused by your specious argument which relies heavily on spin and mis-information to get the point across.
Ah but a little dab here, and a little drop there. On the left you make a stroke, and on the right you touch a dab. Up above a smidge, and down below a glob, and pretty soon, you have a painting. But did you make it appear all at once? No.
Same thing here. Tax a little portion of the market, then let them get used to paying it without thinking about it. Next, tax a little more. So first it's video games, pretty much a luxury item. Next it'll be a 2% tax on all movies rented and a 3.5% tax on all movies purchased. But wait, you say, we can't pay a tax on that. Why not, you're already paying it on video games? Oh, okay then, I guess if you say it's not going to make that big a dent.
If you read the article then you can see the way it's intended to be used... the SPEs decrypt data then either re-encrypt it (eg for multiplayer network packets) or use DMA to move it directly to the output device. The operating system is not involved. I don't know how LaGrande works but it's likely to be either by having "trusted" operating systems that effectively promise not to reroute the audio elsewhere, or by having some similar kind of DMA scheme and sound/video cards that can decrypt video data directly.
So why can't a rootkit be used to intervene in this process? I thought that was the whole point of rootkits (legitimately) to intervene in the process of things, on an o/s level? And you seriously mean to tell me that a positive signing can't be duplicated? (So the CPU will have it's own NIC to dial out to a special hardcoded IP address and check a specific file for signed numbers? Yeah right.)
As always, thoughts, questions, rude remarks? (My favorite quote from a HS teacher, many years ago)
You would honestly accuse/.rs of not being on AOL during the 90's? Would you also think that it would be possible that we would not be on AOL ever? I mean, really, you must be new here...
Also, think about my position, I work nights and goto school during the day. Work doesn't mind if I work on my homework at nights, so long as it doesn't interfere with my job. This is rare. So the only limit is I cannot leave my desk to go work on my homework at some other terminal. So my options are limited to HPUXv11 and Mozilla/Firefox. I have 0 write capabilities for what it's worth, ie/usr/* or/opt/* etc, but about a meg home quota. So how can I work on my written assignments? Easy now. Before, vi, and hope I had time for formatting later. Now keep in mind I still work off of my jumpdrive, but not going to worry about setting up all the dependencies to try and get my 128 mb flash running all my programs for a limited term contract.
BSOD!!! Quick! Somebody call the help-desk, I've got to have this report by noon! Whatever do we do!
Okay, so way over the top for us, but have you really never had to tell a friend/cow-worker/whom-ever that 'in order to get rid of that blue screen and get their mouse back, for the short term, they need to just turn the computer off, "push the button in front" and turn it back on, then call you back if it does the same thing'?
How exactly is this different for the average user? Yes, we/.rs would hate to jump over to their FREE (as in speech) site and find it unaccessible. End users accessing with some sort of subscription model (or better yet, behind-the-scenes funding) would never expect to see such a screen with the possible exception of a major service outage, which could be likened to a power blackout.
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oh yeah, like xp didn't go through at least 3 major revisions (sp1 & 2). Yeah, mostly functional updates, but what exactly is Apple changing on each of those.n updates?
The reason they use such a bad default is because a lot of programs require admin rights to run and your average user doesn't want to bother (or doesn't know how to) use the "runas" feature.
No central registry system.
This is the engine that let's windows run what so many users call useful programs. What I don't get is why MS didn't design windows to use 2 class branches on the reg. It has one for local_machine, but I see that it needs one for current_user as well. Then they should include under user's profile a "My Installed Programs" folder. This would allow users to install all the little cutesy fartsy programs that they usually whine that they need admin rights for, and when I log in as Admin, I don't have hijacked toolbars and everything else. Of course, this would require a massive rewrite of the API libs (okay, this is a minor rewrite) and all of the MSI/installer files in use almost globally, which write the regkeys, because there would need to be two apis, one for LM_Class_Register and one for CU_Class_Register as well as the token unreg functions, etc.
Can anyone else find the flaws in this, in that this process would really allow people to do what they're wanting, where the viruses and such that piggyback in would only have CU access, not Admin. Also, the bloaters on the system could easily be identified:
"Who has a 15GB user's directory? Okay, time to talk to xxxx." Maybe they have a big program that would be usefully installed on the LM, or maybe they use that big program on several machines, but they don't want to install it on every machine on the network (for roaming profiles) and they actually installed it to a "C:\USER_NAME\Programs" directory instead of to "C:\"&&WINDOWS_DEFAULT_INSTALLATION_PATH**&&"\Prog rams". This would imply a user that would probably be better classified as a "Power User" because they know what they're doing if they differentiate drive locations like this, but that's another threaded discussion.
With any luck, MS has foreseen this and decided to write it into vista, but in all likelyhood, no. Sadly, it's going to be no. Mark my words.
Back to your point, the registry is the better tool for these users (those who are not admin, e.g. home users) needs, and I wholeheartedly agree with your point. How many users could be expected to find every.rc,.ini,.cfg or whatever you want to call it on their system if The Registry was not around. But the flipside is, how many users know about The Registry? Yeah, they've heard about it, and how it can cause problems. But can they navigate it? And Windows does have plenty of CL tools for doing things with the system. The register/unregister dll program runs either as an api or CL.
Okay, now I'm donning my flame-retardent suit, go! ** Where this is applied via my plan, such that instead of "C:\Program Files" you also have "C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\My Installed Programs" etc, etc, etc.
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xp doesn't prompt you to, but it does allow the same functionality. In this regards, I think they got it right. Tell people that they can't install this, so they have to think about the ramifications before just jumping over and installing
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Okay, but what about linux distros. YES, the KERNEL is labeled this way, but why not have everybody call their linux_kernel/app_land distro as 2.1.6.185.6.2 for redhat (185*) 6.2 (their release) based on the linux kernel 2.1.6 (yes, wierd numbers out of my butt, so what) and then we can just look at the numbers and go, oh, theres your problem, your trying to do that with 2.1.6.185.6.2 instead of using 2.1.6.21**.5.5
cmon, only os/s get fancy real-world names, because they change (apparently/seemingly/according to marketing) drastically between releases. This sounds like a newb-ish rant, so I expect you'll get flamed everytime you rant this particular "advice". Nobody will change things, so you should give it up. Now, you can refer to win5.1 all you want, and we'll (most of us) know exactly what you're saying, so you can continue, as we all know how to do the reference in our own heads.
Rebuttal?
* first letter numbering sequence abcde fghij klmno pqrst uvwxy z 12345 67890 12345 67890 12345 6
The reason they use such a bad default is because a lot of programs require admin rights to run and your average user doesn't want to bother (or doesn't know how to) use the "runas" feature.
No central registry system.
This is the engine that let's windows run what so many users call useful programs. What I don't get is why MS didn't design windows to use 2 class branches on the reg. It has one for local_machine, but I see that it needs one for current_user as well. Then they should include under user's profile a "My Installed Programs" folder. This would allow users to install all the little cutesy fartsy programs that they usually whine that they need admin rights for, and when I log in as Admin, I don't have hijacked toolbars and everything else. Of course, this would require a massive rewrite of the API libs (okay, this is a minor rewrite) and all of the MSI/installer files in use almost globally, which write the regkeys, because there would need to be two apis, one for LM_Class_Register and one for CU_Class_Register as well as the token unreg functions, etc.
Can anyone else find the flaws in this, in that this process would really allow people to do what they're wanting, where the viruses and such that piggyback in would only have CU access, not Admin. Also, the bloaters on the system could easily be identified:
"Who has a 15GB user's directory? Okay, time to talk to xxxx." Maybe they have a big program that would be usefully installed on the LM, or maybe they use that big program on several machines, but they don't want to install it on every machine on the network (for roaming profiles) and they actually installed it to a "C:\USER_NAME\Programs" directory instead of to "C:\"&&WINDOWS_DEFAULT_INSTALLATION_PATH**&&"\Prog rams". This would imply a user that would probably be better classified as a "Power User" because they know what they're doing if they differentiate drive locations like this, but that's another threaded discussion.
With any luck, MS has foreseen this and decided to write it in, but in all likelyhood, no. Sadly, it's going to be no. Mark my words.
Back to your point, the registry is the better tool for these users (those who are not admin, e.g. home users) needs, and I wholeheartedly agree with your point. How many users could be expected to find every.rc,.ini,.cfg or whatever you want to call it on their system if The Registry was not around. But the flipside is, how many users know about The Registry? Yeah, they've heard about it, and how it can cause problems. But can they navigate it? And Windows does have plenty of CL tools for doing things with the system. The register/unregister dll program runs either as an api or CL.
Insofar as Mac goes I definitely agree that the install process is much easier, as is working with the.sit (right, or sft?) format. But users are becoming more familiar with the whole compressed format on Windows.
Okay, now I'm donning my flame-retardent suit, go! ** Where this is applied via my plan, such that instead of "C:\Program Files" you also have "C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\My Installed Programs" etc, etc, etc.
and i jus' hadda go an' click th' link, and all I kin se' i' "you're dead on thar"
but it was funny as ____, and I am personally having a hard time trying to convince myself not to go get one for my wife. She's an amateur shutterbug, but she had a couple of bad experiences with Macs in HS, and so now won't have anything to do with 'em. Could I but get her to try it with her camera, I know she'd have a different tune, but you know the saying:
sounds like it's time for mvd to learn about how foe works, eh? check your list, you'll have at least one more fan for awhile, if only b/c I agree that he's changing the argument and trying to show where you're wrong.
Don't forget LMN either. I swear there are at least 50 channels on DirecTV (and other networks too, but guess who my provider is) geared directly towards women, and about 3 geared towards men.
But to be frank*, I watch more Discovery and Science and a little splash of ComCen (FNSU) than ever watching even MXE or COPS
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What about all those Lawyer ads? Yeah, so some guys 60 years ago got lung cancer from mining, or somebody pulled out in front of a truck driver who was having a bad day three years ago. Do I NEED to have it SHOVED DOWN MY THROAT that if the same should ever happen to me, I need to call those lawyers? I mean, I get it once, right, but everyday?
Just wait till we don't get the option to fast-forward through those!!!
And what really steams my kidneys is the way they play those commercials during kid-targeted programming.
I have a 7 year old (now, sob) pc homebuilt with a via board, using an amdk6-2 450 with 768 mb ram running xp (not sp2, do i seem that dumb) and two teensy hds (13gb total storage on the system) with a voodoo3 3500 agp (w/ tuner) and i use it (ya know, lack of funds to build something better, okay, i got the cash, but not the desire to transform my baby) routinely to work on autocad drawings in 3d (think 10,000's of objects) while listening to random playlists from my 4gb song collection on my (i guess) 4200 rpm hd, and never (okay, maybe when i rotate the whole cad drawing while playing a song) does it want to bog down.
I guess the question is, why is yours so slow? did you fail to optimize your services? did you fail to put the system on perform functions, not gui prettiness? did you add more ram (I'll sell you some of mine, I know it's good - 2x256 pc133 for $100)? did you kill all the non-required pieces of software?
I still get confused when "knowing" users have 30 and 40 background apps running and wonder why Media Player lags
froogle returns cheaper prices on '19" flat panel' than it does on '15" flat panel' so it seems like you're getting a really good deal, but no, we all know that dell only offers the upgrade to clear out old stock (but wait, i cover this below)
froogle shows average list price for pent d to be about 250-300
froogle shows average list price for pent 4 to be about 190-240
so given that the free flat panel upgrade makes for a nice choice, you can't always count on that to be there.
so we have about (at most) $110 all the way down to a measly $10 difference in price. That makes the mean difference about $60
but let's do this the right way. using the model number system you inserted above, i goto dells website and search for their e510 system. so far i have the option to customize between three different models and an XPS (?)
let's try and get as close to the following specs as possible, since this seems to be what you want:
pent d 820
1gb ram
160gb hd
and configuring with base options on everything gives:
Dell Dimension E510 Series Pentium® D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB)
Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
Memory 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x512M)
Keyboard Dell USB Keyboard
Monitor FREE UPGRADE!! 19 inch E196FP Analog Flat Panel
Video Card 128MB PCI Express(TM) x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon X300 SE HyperMemory
Hard Drive 160GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/ 8MB cache
Floppy Drive and Media Reader No Floppy Drive Included
Mouse Dell® 2-button USB mouse
Network Card Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet
Modem 56K PCI Data Fax Modem
Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 6.0
CD or DVD Drive Single Drive: 48x CD-RW / DVD-ROM Combo Drive
Sound Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
Speakers No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system)
Office Software (not included in Windows XP) No Productivity Suite - Corel WordPerfect® word processor only
Anti-Virus/Security Suite (Pre-installed) No Security Subscription
Hardware Warranty 1Yr Ltd Warranty, 1Yr At-Home Service, and 1Yr HW Warranty Support
Dial - Up Internet Access 6 Months of America Online Membership Included
Miscellaneous Award Winning Service and Support
Operating System Re-Installation CD PC Restore recovery system by Symantec
Dell Digital Entertainment Starter Entertainment Pack -Basic digital Music, Photo, and Casual Gaming
TOTAL:$849.00 (yes, it's horrid, i don't care about the formatting, just the ideas involved)
so $849
and now for the e510n:
Dell Dimension E510n Pentium® D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB)
Operating System FreeDOS(TM) included in the box, ready to install
Memory 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x512M)
Keyboard Dell USB Keyboard
Monitor FREE UPGRADE!! 19 inch E196FP Analog Flat Panel
Video Card 128MB PCI Express(TM) x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon X300 SE HyperMemory
Hard Drive 160GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/ 8MB cache
Floppy Drive and Media Reader No Floppy Drive Included
Mouse Dell® 2-button USB mouse
Network Card Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet
Modem 56K PCI Data Fax Modem
CD ROM/DVD ROM Single Drive: 48x CD-RW / DVD-ROM Combo Drive
Sound Card Integrated Audio with Dolby Digital 7.1 capability
Speakers No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system)
Limited Warranty, Services and Support Options 1Yr Ltd Warranty, 1Yr At-Home Service, and 1Yr HW Warranty Support
Miscellaneous Award Winning Service and Support
TOTAL:$819.00
so we get $819 on this one
so all we saved by doing away with the ms tax is $30, and look, they both have 19" flat panels, and they both have the same processor.
b
okay, but the guys posting after you say that the app points to the library webkit which is part of the system frameworks supplied by apple, which is rather (to my understanding of apple) like the way ms includes the apis for ie in the apis that run explorer. code-reuse used to be a good idea, and ms capitalized on that.
then they abused monopolistic powers
but the riaa and mpaa have been working real close with ms to guarantee that media player doesn't violate any rules as appropriate (but they still give the user some option to turn that "protection" off a little)
but nobody has stopped gnutella yet.
so these are the reasons why i'm confused my op was modded trolling
I see it as a legitimate point, and everybody that has replied at this point has shown that my original observation was correct, and that this is potentially a Bad Thing(tm)
Or at least, that's what the rest of the industry keeps trying to tell MS. So if it's Apple doing it, it's okay?
This is getting to be a bad cycle, but at least they're using a well established service instead of trying to get a lot of people to establish their service for them. Hmmm.
And so what does **AA think about this? Apple -> it must be A Good Thing(TM)
But when MS announces that Vista will have the same feature? Evil(TM)
You clearly missed what is going on here, you archive the "customers" data to a central server (3)
.jpg|.jpeg|.gif|.png|.whatever_else_ext_you_want of size less than 25kb and none larger than 250kb (quite a large jpg) and then put them on a seperate server.
3.5 is harvest the individual porn pictures off the computer using a custom script you wrote which accepts no
5 is sell your buddies a "subscription" to this ever enlarging database of files
6 is PROFITs-ah
Yeah, I knew Mario was up to No Good(TM)
But when you're under 18 (voting age) then you generally get your luxury items from your ... parents and other family members, thanks. So, when Mom and Dad, or G-mom and G-dad are being asked to pay an extra coupla bucks at the register, which constituent are you not affecting?
I'm confused by your specious argument which relies heavily on spin and mis-information to get the point across.
Ah but a little dab here, and a little drop there. On the left you make a stroke, and on the right you touch a dab. Up above a smidge, and down below a glob, and pretty soon, you have a painting. But did you make it appear all at once? No.
Same thing here. Tax a little portion of the market, then let them get used to paying it without thinking about it. Next, tax a little more. So first it's video games, pretty much a luxury item. Next it'll be a 2% tax on all movies rented and a 3.5% tax on all movies purchased. But wait, you say, we can't pay a tax on that. Why not, you're already paying it on video games? Oh, okay then, I guess if you say it's not going to make that big a dent.
So now then, you were saying?
As always, thoughts, questions, rude remarks? (My favorite quote from a HS teacher, many years ago)
everybody else but you seems to have remembered betamax when discussing sony's shortcomings . . .
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You would honestly accuse /.rs of not being on AOL during the 90's? Would you also think that it would be possible that we would not be on AOL ever? I mean, really, you must be new here...
To the GP:
/usr/* or /opt/* etc, but about a meg home quota. So how can I work on my written assignments? Easy now. Before, vi, and hope I had time for formatting later. Now keep in mind I still work off of my jumpdrive, but not going to worry about setting up all the dependencies to try and get my 128 mb flash running all my programs for a limited term contract.
Can I be second on your list?
Also, think about my position, I work nights and goto school during the day. Work doesn't mind if I work on my homework at nights, so long as it doesn't interfere with my job. This is rare. So the only limit is I cannot leave my desk to go work on my homework at some other terminal. So my options are limited to HPUXv11 and Mozilla/Firefox. I have 0 write capabilities for what it's worth, ie
So think on that for a minute, eh?
Another thought, why not take your site down during prime slashdotting hours?
BSOD!!! Quick! Somebody call the help-desk, I've got to have this report by noon! Whatever do we do!
/.rs would hate to jump over to their FREE (as in speech) site and find it unaccessible. End users accessing with some sort of subscription model (or better yet, behind-the-scenes funding) would never expect to see such a screen with the possible exception of a major service outage, which could be likened to a power blackout.
Okay, so way over the top for us, but have you really never had to tell a friend/cow-worker/whom-ever that 'in order to get rid of that blue screen and get their mouse back, for the short term, they need to just turn the computer off, "push the button in front" and turn it back on, then call you back if it does the same thing'?
How exactly is this different for the average user? Yes, we
oh yeah, like xp didn't go through at least 3 major revisions (sp1 & 2). Yeah, mostly functional updates, but what exactly is Apple changing on each of those .n updates?
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This is the engine that let's windows run what so many users call useful programs. What I don't get is why MS didn't design windows to use 2 class branches on the reg. It has one for local_machine, but I see that it needs one for current_user as well. Then they should include under user's profile a "My Installed Programs" folder. This would allow users to install all the little cutesy fartsy programs that they usually whine that they need admin rights for, and when I log in as Admin, I don't have hijacked toolbars and everything else. Of course, this would require a massive rewrite of the API libs (okay, this is a minor rewrite) and all of the MSI/installer files in use almost globally, which write the regkeys, because there would need to be two apis, one for LM_Class_Register and one for CU_Class_Register as well as the token unreg functions, etc.
Can anyone else find the flaws in this, in that this process would really allow people to do what they're wanting, where the viruses and such that piggyback in would only have CU access, not Admin. Also, the bloaters on the system could easily be identified:
"Who has a 15GB user's directory? Okay, time to talk to xxxx." Maybe they have a big program that would be usefully installed on the LM, or maybe they use that big program on several machines, but they don't want to install it on every machine on the network (for roaming profiles) and they actually installed it to a "C:\USER_NAME\Programs" directory instead of to "C:\"&&WINDOWS_DEFAULT_INSTALLATION_PATH**&&"\Pro
With any luck, MS has foreseen this and decided to write it into vista, but in all likelyhood, no. Sadly, it's going to be no. Mark my words.
Back to your point, the registry is the better tool for these users (those who are not admin, e.g. home users) needs, and I wholeheartedly agree with your point. How many users could be expected to find every
Okay, now I'm donning my flame-retardent suit, go!
** Where this is applied via my plan, such that instead of "C:\Program Files" you also have "C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\My Installed Programs" etc, etc, etc.
xp doesn't prompt you to, but it does allow the same functionality. In this regards, I think they got it right. Tell people that they can't install this, so they have to think about the ramifications before just jumping over and installing
Okay, but what about linux distros. YES, the KERNEL is labeled this way, but why not have everybody call their linux_kernel/app_land distro as 2.1.6.185.6.2 for redhat (185*) 6.2 (their release) based on the linux kernel 2.1.6 (yes, wierd numbers out of my butt, so what) and then we can just look at the numbers and go, oh, theres your problem, your trying to do that with 2.1.6.185.6.2 instead of using 2.1.6.21**.5.5
cmon, only os/s get fancy real-world names, because they change (apparently/seemingly/according to marketing) drastically between releases. This sounds like a newb-ish rant, so I expect you'll get flamed everytime you rant this particular "advice". Nobody will change things, so you should give it up. Now, you can refer to win5.1 all you want, and we'll (most of us) know exactly what you're saying, so you can continue, as we all know how to do the reference in our own heads.
Rebuttal?
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** ubuntu, of course
Can anyone else find the flaws in this, in that this process would really allow people to do what they're wanting, where the viruses and such that piggyback in would only have CU access, not Admin. Also, the bloaters on the system could easily be identified:
"Who has a 15GB user's directory? Okay, time to talk to xxxx." Maybe they have a big program that would be usefully installed on the LM, or maybe they use that big program on several machines, but they don't want to install it on every machine on the network (for roaming profiles) and they actually installed it to a "C:\USER_NAME\Programs" directory instead of to "C:\"&&WINDOWS_DEFAULT_INSTALLATION_PATH**&&"\Pro
With any luck, MS has foreseen this and decided to write it in, but in all likelyhood, no. Sadly, it's going to be no. Mark my words.
Back to your point, the registry is the better tool for these users (those who are not admin, e.g. home users) needs, and I wholeheartedly agree with your point. How many users could be expected to find every
Insofar as Mac goes I definitely agree that the install process is much easier, as is working with the
Okay, now I'm donning my flame-retardent suit, go!
** Where this is applied via my plan, such that instead of "C:\Program Files" you also have "C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\My Installed Programs" etc, etc, etc.
and i jus' hadda go an' click th' link, and all I kin se' i' "you're dead on thar"
but it was funny as ____, and I am personally having a hard time trying to convince myself not to go get one for my wife. She's an amateur shutterbug, but she had a couple of bad experiences with Macs in HS, and so now won't have anything to do with 'em. Could I but get her to try it with her camera, I know she'd have a different tune, but you know the saying:
"If momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy"
sounds like it's time for mvd to learn about how foe works, eh? check your list, you'll have at least one more fan for awhile, if only b/c I agree that he's changing the argument and trying to show where you're wrong.
But to be frank*, I watch more Discovery and Science and a little splash of ComCen (FNSU) than ever watching even MXE or COPS
*and stop calling me shirley
no no no, it takes up all your ram