Standard Slashdot the-world-revolves-around-me falllacy. Believe it or not, most computers are not purchased by gamers. They're purchased by people who want to run productivity/web applications. If computer makers can cater to these folks with a Linux/WINE solution, they will do so.
There are real advantages to Vista. Nothing groundbreaking, but certainly comparable to the improvements XP made over 2000 and 98.
Vista's problem is not its lack of advantages. It's the endless glitches. I've been using it for a couple months now, and I still have problems that just leave me scratching my head. Which is a first for me: I've been working with computer systems longer than I care to think about, and I've never faced this level of obscurity before.
I run Vista myself, and even though I wouldn't if I had a choice. There are, in fact, many new features I like a lot. But there are many more that are just a pain.
Which support nightmares are that? Vista accidentally came on about 30 laptops I ordered. I converted 10 of them to XP but left the rest and no one has complained at all. Of course our internal apps are all web-based and work just fine with Firefox so that has a lot to do with it. In other words, your counterexample is worthless. You only have one application you need to run on Vista.
I run Vista (not by choice) and the ongoing headaches are ridiculous. Haven't had to face any driver or stability issues yet (crosses fingers) but there's no end of weird glitches and application compatibility problems.
Oh, and note to system vendors: if you want to minimize support calls, don't ship Vista systems with 1 GB of RAM and Aero enabled. Either disable Aero or add enough RAM to support it. And note that some of the symptoms you'll have reported (like Microsoft applications locking up) have no obvious connection to Aero.
Home users I think would have the hardest time with it because its more geared towards business users. Right, and that's why MS is encouraging home users to stick with XP. Plus, they don't have any "Home edition" or with consumer-oriented features. No, wait a minute...
Windows 7 will be based on Vista so I wouldn't expect it to be a whole lot different. Well then, sell your MS stock now. But whatever it's "based on", I would expect that some of the features that didn't work out so well in Vista will be either removed or re-implemented from scratch. Also, the thing will be modular, which will make it easier to avoid the bloatware.
You've had a lot more than a couple of seconds — and I didn't ask for a "strong case" just a single example. Unless you want everybody to think you're just an ignorant jerk, I suggest you take the time. Unless you are an ignorant jerk, in which case, never mind.
Projecting? Six "oh-yeah" posts since we started this nonsense.
No, Linux people should want XP withdrawn, the sooner the better. That's because there are a lot of corporate buyers who have nightmares about the support problems Vista-based machine represent. If MS pulls XP as planned, I predict that major PC vendors will start offering Linux/Wine/Microsoft Office bundles very soon. I wouldn't be surprised if they're already QAing that setup, and are ready to announce it next month.
But here's another prediction: MS will give XP another stay of execution. They don't want to — it must be damned humiliating to spend a 5 years developing an OS upgrade, only to have everybody reject it — but they must know that killing XP will give Linux a unique opportunity to break their monopoly on desktop systems. Pride will make them wait until the last minute, but dollars and cents will keep them from pulling the plug. Until Windows 7 appears, I think XP is safe.
you are one of those idiot who thinks everyone is twitter No, just users with less than a dozen posts, all of them in threads dominated by twitter or his known sockpuppets.
Please, please, just give it up. You're not fooling anybody except yourself.
Check out the karma for twitter's accounts. Almost all of them are very low karma. The exceptions seem to be accounts that he hasn't had for very long. If the guy's goal is to steal karma, he's not doing a very good job. In fact, he has an impressive ability to destroy the karma of any account he comments from.
True, he sometimes does get modded up. I think that has less to do with his onanistic conversations with himself than with his ability to spout boilerplate pro-OSS and anti-M$ rants. That sucks, but bad moderation happens a lot around here; this is no worse than most.
And no, he certainly doesn't get any mod points. Nowadays, you have to be in the middle of the bell curve, posting frequency wise. So if you post a lot, you never get mod points (I haven't had any since the new system was put in place 5 years ago). And if you post a little (or distribute your posts between a lot of different accounts), you don't get mod points either.
So please, ignore his bullshit. Because by making noise about it, you're facilitating it.
Except that those gold connectors aren't gold-plated — that would obviously be too expensive, except for if-you-have-to-ask vendors like Denon. They use some process that allows them to put a single-molecule layer of gold on something. Dunno why they don't use the same process to provide a silver layer. Maybe it's not feasible. Or maybe you can't charge extra for a connector that looks like a plain metal connector.
This is only an extreme case of a standard marketing gimmick. I remember the first time I bought a component stereo, I saw a spool of "speaker wire" and thought, "Well, I've got speakers, so I guess I need speaker wire." Later I discovered that ordinary lamp wire works just as well, is a lot cheaper, and doesn't kink so easily.
But my favorite is this business of putting gold on connectors. This actually makes sense if your signal uses a lot of bandwidth, so you want to maximize the quality of the connection. And indeed it was when video components became a consumer item that they started doing this. But once consumer began to associate "gold connectors" with "quality" they started putting gold on everything.
Proper food and living conditions and allowing to practice their religions counts as simple decent treatment, not "bending over backwards".
Except that the rosy scenario painted by your blurbs (most of which are Pentagon press releases!) is pure fantasy. There's evidence of physical and psychological torture. (And if you start quibbling over whether holding somebody's head underwater is "torture", you've lost all right to be taken seriously.) You have people locked in solitary confinement, kept awake for weeks at a time, cut off from their friends and families.
And until now, they've been denied the right to answer the charges brought against them. If the administration had had its way, they'd be confined for the rest of their lives. "Bending over backwards" indeed!
Mind you, I do believe this entire fiasco was doomed to failure from day one. But we do have a lot of dedicated people on the ground doing their best to make things better. The fact that they were put in a no-win situation by a bunch of neocon nitwits doesn't detract from what they're trying to do.
Why the hell would I make a statement if I know it isn't true and can't be backed up by anything? You might make those kinds of statements, but I don't. Right, you have reasons to believe what you say, you just can't say what they are.
I've had enough of your accusations, your insults, and your unsubstantiated assertions. So go bother somebody else.
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Excuse me, did you say something? No, I guess not.
Standard Slashdot the-world-revolves-around-me falllacy. Believe it or not, most computers are not purchased by gamers. They're purchased by people who want to run productivity/web applications. If computer makers can cater to these folks with a Linux/WINE solution, they will do so.
There are real advantages to Vista. Nothing groundbreaking, but certainly comparable to the improvements XP made over 2000 and 98.
Vista's problem is not its lack of advantages. It's the endless glitches. I've been using it for a couple months now, and I still have problems that just leave me scratching my head. Which is a first for me: I've been working with computer systems longer than I care to think about, and I've never faced this level of obscurity before.
I run Vista myself, and even though I wouldn't if I had a choice. There are, in fact, many new features I like a lot. But there are many more that are just a pain.
I run Vista (not by choice) and the ongoing headaches are ridiculous. Haven't had to face any driver or stability issues yet (crosses fingers) but there's no end of weird glitches and application compatibility problems.
Oh, and note to system vendors: if you want to minimize support calls, don't ship Vista systems with 1 GB of RAM and Aero enabled. Either disable Aero or add enough RAM to support it. And note that some of the symptoms you'll have reported (like Microsoft applications locking up) have no obvious connection to Aero. Home users I think would have the hardest time with it because its more geared towards business users. Right, and that's why MS is encouraging home users to stick with XP. Plus, they don't have any "Home edition" or with consumer-oriented features. No, wait a minute... Windows 7 will be based on Vista so I wouldn't expect it to be a whole lot different. Well then, sell your MS stock now. But whatever it's "based on", I would expect that some of the features that didn't work out so well in Vista will be either removed or re-implemented from scratch. Also, the thing will be modular, which will make it easier to avoid the bloatware.
Olo!
You've had a lot more than a couple of seconds — and I didn't ask for a "strong case" just a single example. Unless you want everybody to think you're just an ignorant jerk, I suggest you take the time. Unless you are an ignorant jerk, in which case, never mind.
Projecting? Six "oh-yeah" posts since we started this nonsense.
No, Linux people should want XP withdrawn, the sooner the better. That's because there are a lot of corporate buyers who have nightmares about the support problems Vista-based machine represent. If MS pulls XP as planned, I predict that major PC vendors will start offering Linux/Wine/Microsoft Office bundles very soon. I wouldn't be surprised if they're already QAing that setup, and are ready to announce it next month.
But here's another prediction: MS will give XP another stay of execution. They don't want to — it must be damned humiliating to spend a 5 years developing an OS upgrade, only to have everybody reject it — but they must know that killing XP will give Linux a unique opportunity to break their monopoly on desktop systems. Pride will make them wait until the last minute, but dollars and cents will keep them from pulling the plug. Until Windows 7 appears, I think XP is safe.
You know, for somebody who hasn't got time to go Google up examples, you sure do spend a lot of time pathetically trying to get in the last word.
Please, please, just give it up. You're not fooling anybody except yourself.
Check out the karma for twitter's accounts. Almost all of them are very low karma. The exceptions seem to be accounts that he hasn't had for very long. If the guy's goal is to steal karma, he's not doing a very good job. In fact, he has an impressive ability to destroy the karma of any account he comments from.
True, he sometimes does get modded up. I think that has less to do with his onanistic conversations with himself than with his ability to spout boilerplate pro-OSS and anti-M$ rants. That sucks, but bad moderation happens a lot around here; this is no worse than most.
And no, he certainly doesn't get any mod points. Nowadays, you have to be in the middle of the bell curve, posting frequency wise. So if you post a lot, you never get mod points (I haven't had any since the new system was put in place 5 years ago). And if you post a little (or distribute your posts between a lot of different accounts), you don't get mod points either.
So please, ignore his bullshit. Because by making noise about it, you're facilitating it.
See above.
Yeah, yeah, we all know that. You're only raising his visibility by replying to his posts.
You learn to read. Especially the part about bothering somebody else.
Succumbing to fashion memes is a sure sign that your tinfoil hat isn't working!
Except that those gold connectors aren't gold-plated — that would obviously be too expensive, except for if-you-have-to-ask vendors like Denon. They use some process that allows them to put a single-molecule layer of gold on something. Dunno why they don't use the same process to provide a silver layer. Maybe it's not feasible. Or maybe you can't charge extra for a connector that looks like a plain metal connector.
Whatever.
So, you just secure it in place with duct tape. And for that, you want high fidelity duct tape...
Dude, give it a rest.
No, I'm saving up for a gold-plated toilet.
This is only an extreme case of a standard marketing gimmick. I remember the first time I bought a component stereo, I saw a spool of "speaker wire" and thought, "Well, I've got speakers, so I guess I need speaker wire." Later I discovered that ordinary lamp wire works just as well, is a lot cheaper, and doesn't kink so easily.
But my favorite is this business of putting gold on connectors. This actually makes sense if your signal uses a lot of bandwidth, so you want to maximize the quality of the connection. And indeed it was when video components became a consumer item that they started doing this. But once consumer began to associate "gold connectors" with "quality" they started putting gold on everything.
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Most people drive as if the laws of physics don't apply to them.
Proper food and living conditions and allowing to practice their religions counts as simple decent treatment, not "bending over backwards".
Except that the rosy scenario painted by your blurbs (most of which are Pentagon press releases!) is pure fantasy. There's evidence of physical and psychological torture. (And if you start quibbling over whether holding somebody's head underwater is "torture", you've lost all right to be taken seriously.) You have people locked in solitary confinement, kept awake for weeks at a time, cut off from their friends and families.
And until now, they've been denied the right to answer the charges brought against them. If the administration had had its way, they'd be confined for the rest of their lives. "Bending over backwards" indeed!
As a matter of fact, I am.
Mind you, I do believe this entire fiasco was doomed to failure from day one. But we do have a lot of dedicated people on the ground doing their best to make things better. The fact that they were put in a no-win situation by a bunch of neocon nitwits doesn't detract from what they're trying to do.
I've had enough of your accusations, your insults, and your unsubstantiated assertions. So go bother somebody else.