They could benefit from the experience at Oracle, and maybe add a few engineers to the team that understand "data integrity" and "don't corrupt data when the server dies", oh, and, "stop corrupting the database when the disk runs out of space".
T-Mobile and Danger were partners long before Microsoft ate Danger up. It's not like Microsoft had a history of failed backups and horrible transitions.
The Value Line lacks the nice ThinkVantage tools like System Update, gets rid of the Trackpoint in most cases, the spill free keyboard in most cases, and the keyboard and trackpad aren't as good. As much as I enjoy saving money, playing with a VL for a few minutes convinced me to continue buying ThinkPad.
ThinkPad has the hotswap bays, excellent Linux support, excellent hardware support and turnaround from the factory, and there's always a 20% off coupon floating around. You can get a T series laptop with discrete graphics and well equipped for that $1,200 you're willing to spend, and probably far less. Not only that, but you generally get higher resolution displays than you get with Dell or Gateway laptops.
As for your Windows 98 installs -- why not use VirtualBox?
It's slow compared to Safari 4 and Chromium. I'm sure it shows web pages just the same locally as Windows, which is why benchmarks look good. Actual user experience is slower. The UI takes longer to redraw, events do not fire as quickly, startup time is atrocious, and for some reason, network response seems slower. There are some hard benchmarks about this -- I'll see if I can pull something together.
Microsoft's 'extended' support has been the only support for 2000 after late 2005. The 'extended' support ends in the middle of 2010. You all have the right to use whatever you want, after all, there are still BeOS and Newton users out there. I just laugh at people who say 'but I'm not supported by X and Y!'. No crap, you aren't supported. That's the other side of the coin.
I also didn't say a thing about telling people to upgrade Windows XP. It's going to be a while before that one dies, but Win 2000 is dead if people are wanting to run modern commercial software.
This is a cute response, but ultimately, not the reason I ragged on the 2009 metaphor. The last major release to Windows 2000 was 2003. The last major release to Windows XP was in 2008. If someone wants to whine that they can't upgrade because there's no upgrade path for their OS, chances are, their OS might be a little old.
Try explaining that to ED. They posted it up there, they are the ones with the power to take it down. The admins of the site think they're both invincible and in the right, so I wonder if she/they'll be next.
I always love when this reply comes up in a free software licensing discussion, because it happens every time. So, tell me again, how Apple used so much BSD code in Macs, without ever contributing back or participating in the openness? Feel free to include NeXT.
Feel free to also include Konqueror switching to WebKit.
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A different UI, yes. A nice UI? Not so much.
They could benefit from the experience at Oracle, and maybe add a few engineers to the team that understand "data integrity" and "don't corrupt data when the server dies", oh, and, "stop corrupting the database when the disk runs out of space".
I actually knew someone who worked for that anti-spam company, and know exactly what you're talking about.
T-Mobile and Danger were partners long before Microsoft ate Danger up. It's not like Microsoft had a history of failed backups and horrible transitions.
Probably something brand new out of a chicken.
The Value Line lacks the nice ThinkVantage tools like System Update, gets rid of the Trackpoint in most cases, the spill free keyboard in most cases, and the keyboard and trackpad aren't as good. As much as I enjoy saving money, playing with a VL for a few minutes convinced me to continue buying ThinkPad.
ThinkPad has the hotswap bays, excellent Linux support, excellent hardware support and turnaround from the factory, and there's always a 20% off coupon floating around. You can get a T series laptop with discrete graphics and well equipped for that $1,200 you're willing to spend, and probably far less. Not only that, but you generally get higher resolution displays than you get with Dell or Gateway laptops.
As for your Windows 98 installs -- why not use VirtualBox?
I take it you're a COBOL programmer?
Except now the tools are free, as opposed to 25 years ago. At the core, it's just GCC (well, now clang and llvm).
It's slow compared to Safari 4 and Chromium. I'm sure it shows web pages just the same locally as Windows, which is why benchmarks look good. Actual user experience is slower. The UI takes longer to redraw, events do not fire as quickly, startup time is atrocious, and for some reason, network response seems slower. There are some hard benchmarks about this -- I'll see if I can pull something together.
Tried Safari 4?
Firefox is ridiculously slow on the Mac compared to Safari or even the open source Chromium.
DBI is a data store API in Perl. Doesn't stop people from calling it a database API. You're still missing the point.
I'll give you the Tegra, but if you're a game developer, chances are, sandboxed semi-interpreted apps seem... less ideal than native apps.
I'm not seeing what the Zune HD has that the latest iPod touch doesn't, except fewer pixels and WinMo.
Like Mac OS X, Linux anti-virus is primarily there to intercept crap on their way to a Windows machine.
I doubt that has anything to do with GTK vs QT, people can make attractive or ugly UIs in any framework.
Why not move to OpenSolaris?
Microsoft's 'extended' support has been the only support for 2000 after late 2005. The 'extended' support ends in the middle of 2010. You all have the right to use whatever you want, after all, there are still BeOS and Newton users out there. I just laugh at people who say 'but I'm not supported by X and Y!'. No crap, you aren't supported. That's the other side of the coin.
I also didn't say a thing about telling people to upgrade Windows XP. It's going to be a while before that one dies, but Win 2000 is dead if people are wanting to run modern commercial software.
This is a cute response, but ultimately, not the reason I ragged on the 2009 metaphor. The last major release to Windows 2000 was 2003. The last major release to Windows XP was in 2008. If someone wants to whine that they can't upgrade because there's no upgrade path for their OS, chances are, their OS might be a little old.
Even better, you just don't get patches.
Last time I checked, the year is 2009. The only reason to run Win2k at this point is in a VM. Now would be a good time to upgrade.
Try explaining that to ED. They posted it up there, they are the ones with the power to take it down. The admins of the site think they're both invincible and in the right, so I wonder if she/they'll be next.
I always love when this reply comes up in a free software licensing discussion, because it happens every time. So, tell me again, how Apple used so much BSD code in Macs, without ever contributing back or participating in the openness? Feel free to include NeXT.
Feel free to also include Konqueror switching to WebKit.
The "truth" from an editorial show. Good job.
The same douchebags that think PHP is enterprise.