Run it on a Intel Core Duo with 512mb ram and you'll wait 5 minutes for it to open and another 5 to search. The old Add/Remove loaded the entire list and you didn't have to wait longer to search for apps. Alphabetical order is a pretty common sorting technique.
Perhaps you forgot how MS padded their early numbers with XP as well? Its smoke and mirrors, if Vista is doing so damn well, why did Dell feel it was necessary to start offering XP again on their business systems? Vista is a no-go for 99% of the larger business clients I work with, the other 1% is 'just in case' someone goes nuts tomorrow morning and decides to do it.
100% of the small business clients I work with are not adopting Vista. The only place I have seen it show up is in new laptops someone ordered from Dell (with Vista Home Premium, and 512mb-1gb, no less), that were ordered without consulting the IT consultants or in-house team. A handful of clients asked about adopting it simply because it was the 'new' Microsoft 'thing', not aware of the hardware upgrades that would come with it (2k to XP was a matter of getting everyone to 512mb from 128-256 to run good, now its a matter of going from 512mb to 2gb for good performance).
I wish Vista was just XP SP3, but its not, its XP SP2.6 Smoking Crack. It changes the look and feel of Windows, mainly system settings drastically, even experienced end users have a learning curve and in corporate environments this is a bad thing. Don't even get me started on the replacement of add/remove programs. The bottom line is, if we need a more Mac-like interface, we'd buy Macs and improve centralized management for corporate environments.
If Microsoft actually pursues any of the claims againts OSS, they are going to get hammered, HARD. IBM notwithstanding, what do you think keeps Google running? OSS has a large field of successful companies that make good money with OSS and will stand up to them, its simply too late to leverage against them.
The SCO Group is a very sad case, primarily because everything Caldera purchased in regards to legacy Unix was intended to free up a lot of potential patent/etc. issues in Linux for all users/vendors/coders. They reneged on that intention when Ransom Love and anyone that was playing the OSS game at Caldera was kicked to the curb.
Bring on the comments and criticisms, I fully expect to start moving companies to Vista within a year, but anyone with minimal reasoning ability is hesitant to perform a major rollout to inconsistent underperforming hardware so early in the adoption phase.
1. I didn't qualify 'getting our asses kicked' specifically with the ratio of Americans lost to Iraqis lost, we are getting our asses kicked in terms of making lasting inroads with the populace and creating a stable, self sustaining, democratic government. This is slashdot, so naturally you should possess critical thinking and reasoning skills.
2. THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE KILLED ARE A BYPRODUCT OF OUR OCCUPATION, NOT ANY SORT OF STABILITY INDICATOR. But if you want to play that, how many Iraqis die a day, and how many die because AMERICANS killed them in an insurgent fighting or stabilizing capacity?
3. When did Congress issue a formal Declaration of War on Iraq? When has the funding for the Iraq war been in the regular budget and not in an emergency funding bill? Surely you can do the math and find some non-emergency funding that went to the occupation in Iraq? They cannot fund this war within the regular budget because no formal Declaration of War has been made, thusly this is not legally a war, yet we all seem to say and KNOW that it is. That, sir, is a violation of the US Constitution. More so, even with the legal wrangling allowed thanks to congressional 'authorization to use force' against Saddam/Iraq, the implications were that there were weapons of mass destruction and they were a threat to our national security, this has since been proven false and it has been shown that the levels of government within the realm of the Executive Branch knew all along that it was false information. Impeachments here we come.
I should have prefaced what I wrote with 'the only way the current military brass and ignorant pigheaded government officials will ever be able to stop this is by killing everyone'
I certainly like the way you frame the ideas of helping, but that probably won't help Americans fix Iraq up at this point, we've occupied too long, much the way Britain occupied India.
Btw, where do you think Americans got their handbooks on war from? Hell, we (well, a few of us) are really just American Indian murdering Europeans in denial anyway.;)
Don't be a fuck, I did not say to stfu, but effectively, I made the point that they are _required_ to stfu by their 'employer', if you will.
The 'media' is a series of multinational megacorporations owned by a group of people who are in it to make money, not influence policy. Did you not read a word of the rest of what I wrote? Or are you not associating the different elements I was connecting in the writing? Or are you just continuing on the path of cognitive dissonance in your efforts to elicit a response and/or get that last little word in?
For a person who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions in WWII to become a witch and sell his soul to corporate America is an absolute fucking shame.
Google "Taliban 2007" for all the reference you need. Googled. At the very top - Taliban behead Afghan officer. Yep, we sure do have them running and hiding, violence from members of the Taliban sure has been obliterated.
You'd think the administration and the Pentagon would be quick to hype up the ass-kicking to deflect against Iraq. The Admin does. The Pentagon does not. The press ignores both.
The Pentagon is filled to the brim with cronies using psyops to attempt to direct the media's attention. The administration doesn't know their asshole from their elbow. Fox News certainly caters to conservatives and LOVES reporting victories, but you still see death counts even on that terrible excuse for a 'news' network. The deaths of American soldiers AND Iraqis/Afghanis/etc are equally important for legitimate news dissemination. The problem with American news sources is Journalism has taken a backseat to commercialism. Why do you think we keep seeing Rev. Jesse Jackson and Robert Novak still getting published in newspapers? Its usually flamebait and it sells (even their names alone instill anger in people, but it still sells.)
Next, you say: If you believe the mass media have any sort of "left" agenda, or have any agenda whatsoever beyond getting the next advertising deal, you need to buy more tinfoil. and And yes, I do see combatant body counts. All the time, in fact, and you would too if you read media outside of the US or read some non-mainstream news sources, or at least not the "big" outlets. Which kinda proves my point. The US media does not present any US military victories, just "how many US soldiers died today." Why should I have to go outside US media outlets to find out how many "insurgents" we are killing vs. how many soldiers we are losing. It's kinda hard to keep score when all you see is how many scores opponent has. Don't get me wrong, this is not a game, but if we attack an Al Qaeda stronghold and kill 10,000 insurgents and lose 5 US soldiers, all I see reported is how Al Qaeda killed five soldiers today. Are you telling me that's not pushing an agenda?
The US media does not present *many US military victories because a.) they don't have the same appeal for ratings (commercialism) and b.) WHAT military victories are worth reporting, US Spec Ops kill insurgents, insurgents bomb the hell out of a market and kill 200 people, 9 Soldiers killed by roadside bomb, etc., etc. The fact is, we are getting our asses kicked because there is no way to fight an insurgency shy of just killing everyone (which, btw, is how Saddam ran things). On a side note, its not the media's job to keep troop morale up, and if you are a soldier or related to one, soldiers are there to do what they are ordered to and not complain about media coverage, they signed up for it.
Have you been off the grid for the past 6 years? Have you listened to any interviews or statements Dick Cheney or anyone at an administration press conference has given about ANYTHING to do with ANYTHING in the past 6 years?
Its called cognitive dissonance and you need to rise above it. Until then, bask in your one sided ignorance while human beings, including small children, are dying.
You can take $500-1000 to an attorney as a simple retainer to get the kid out. If you have kids and don't have even $500-1000 in funds of some sort for any emergency, you are not being a good, responsible parent.
Additionally, the amount you can sue for has limits for specific economic loss, but why do you think you always hear about 'emotional trauma'/etc in these cases? Thats where the real money sometimes comes from.
I'm tired of simplistic arguments from people who have little or no experience with such situations, and who obviously have never tried to read and learn the actual laws. You base your opinion on one bill that you noticed was passed, that is part of a MUCH larger code of laws.
The 'illegal justice system' in the US is among the best legal systems in the world, its the people running the show AND the front liners that are not educated properly in the laws of the land (or justify their actions with cognitive dissonance and should be taken to task for it). If you are foolish enough to plead guilty when, in absolute fact, you are not guilty, the onus is on you for lack of mental capacity and/or allowing fear to dictate what you do.
(Side note: $20,000 for 12 days in jail ain't too bad, not that anyone, especially a kid, should have to suffer that.)
The righties seem to be saving up their mod points to hammer moderate or logically acceptable questions or statments in this thread that go against their choice of the status quo. You are at (-1) right now, for fucks sake. Welcome to the new internet tubes order.
Senator Fritz Hollings, you mean the Senator from South Carolina? As in one of the last real 'Southern Democrats'? As in a Republican in political stance but a Democrat for the sake of Southern tradition (and esp. South Carolina tradition, I have a lot of family in SC)? If you are not from the South, you are forgiven for not understanding, if you ARE from the South, you are using diversion and lying, or just confused (did you go to Bob Jones University in Greenville for your schoolin?).
The DMCA, like many acts that are passed, purported to have provisions to protect fair use at the same time as protecting content holders, but the encryption bit was unexpectedly powerful. Clinton signed it, but I seem to recall the Republicans in charge of the House and Senate working to compromise and make it happen. Fair use was an issue to more Dems than Reps in regards to the DMCA.
What does Canada have to do with the US in the framework of the argument(s)? Also, Canada has MUCH stronger fair use protections the the US and the tax was argued as more justifiable due to the (at the time) difficulty of content providers to stop sharing among individuals through legal means.
I have never seen more sheep 'led to the slaughter' than I have watching Republicans and Moderates vote for Bush in the 2000 and 2004 elections, regardless of election fraud issues. Reading more than just the Drudge Report/Huffington Post and watching more than just Fox News/The Daily Show is required to have any sort of informed opinion on, well, ANYTHING.
Additionally, how in the world have you been modded informative while the first response was flamebait, after your smartass remarks in the footnotes?
What the fuck are you smoking? Norm has a bar tab, Amazon has already lost if they take the stance that applying a centuries (millennia?) old concept to web purchases is somehow innovative or unique.
Just wait till people are in a Best Buy and go run a Speakeasy speed test over the internal gigabit network... "Insane fast zomgz broadband! Free install by a Geek Squad member!"
There goes the last of the decent independent ISPs.
AMERICA ONLINE. Thats all the evidence you need. Almost all of the AOL tech support call center functions were offshored. The Jacksonville, FL call center was shutdown rather suddenly. Phoenix, Dulles all had layoffs as well. The layoffs began well before AOL was on its final slide to its current insignifigance in the online world. (sorry AOL, but its the sad truth of it)
Sure, thats a reasonable explanation, but until its adoptable in a business sense, home users don't matter. Business is where the defacto standards result from.
Reinstalling Ubuntu is WAY easier than Windows... Boot with install disk (which is now a LiveCD), click 'Install on Hard Drive' icon on the desktop, browse the internet/check mail/write a document while its installing, reboot, use.
I used it for Counterstrike:Source and Warcraft 3 without issue on Ubuntu 6.10, but I found that sticking with the x86 and NOT a 64bit version works better all around for app support.
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Run it on a Intel Core Duo with 512mb ram and you'll wait 5 minutes for it to open and another 5 to search. The old Add/Remove loaded the entire list and you didn't have to wait longer to search for apps. Alphabetical order is a pretty common sorting technique.
Cheers.
Perhaps you forgot how MS padded their early numbers with XP as well? Its smoke and mirrors, if Vista is doing so damn well, why did Dell feel it was necessary to start offering XP again on their business systems? Vista is a no-go for 99% of the larger business clients I work with, the other 1% is 'just in case' someone goes nuts tomorrow morning and decides to do it.
100% of the small business clients I work with are not adopting Vista. The only place I have seen it show up is in new laptops someone ordered from Dell (with Vista Home Premium, and 512mb-1gb, no less), that were ordered without consulting the IT consultants or in-house team. A handful of clients asked about adopting it simply because it was the 'new' Microsoft 'thing', not aware of the hardware upgrades that would come with it (2k to XP was a matter of getting everyone to 512mb from 128-256 to run good, now its a matter of going from 512mb to 2gb for good performance).
I wish Vista was just XP SP3, but its not, its XP SP2.6 Smoking Crack. It changes the look and feel of Windows, mainly system settings drastically, even experienced end users have a learning curve and in corporate environments this is a bad thing. Don't even get me started on the replacement of add/remove programs. The bottom line is, if we need a more Mac-like interface, we'd buy Macs and improve centralized management for corporate environments.
If Microsoft actually pursues any of the claims againts OSS, they are going to get hammered, HARD. IBM notwithstanding, what do you think keeps Google running? OSS has a large field of successful companies that make good money with OSS and will stand up to them, its simply too late to leverage against them.
The SCO Group is a very sad case, primarily because everything Caldera purchased in regards to legacy Unix was intended to free up a lot of potential patent/etc. issues in Linux for all users/vendors/coders. They reneged on that intention when Ransom Love and anyone that was playing the OSS game at Caldera was kicked to the curb.
Bring on the comments and criticisms, I fully expect to start moving companies to Vista within a year, but anyone with minimal reasoning ability is hesitant to perform a major rollout to inconsistent underperforming hardware so early in the adoption phase.
Cheers.
More than that, if you have been in the IT field for 20 years, only make $100k/year, and don't have millions in the bank, you are FAIL.
Cheers.
True, but my 10mbit home cable modem gives me hope.
Cheers.
Personally, free as in beer is like an improved 'FREEDOM', I mean, free beer!? Hell yeah, I'm there.
Cheers.
I'd like to see a good, fully modernized version of Shattered Galaxy, its like starcraft if it actually required minimal tactical strategy competence.
Cheers.
1. I didn't qualify 'getting our asses kicked' specifically with the ratio of Americans lost to Iraqis lost, we are getting our asses kicked in terms of making lasting inroads with the populace and creating a stable, self sustaining, democratic government. This is slashdot, so naturally you should possess critical thinking and reasoning skills.
2. THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE KILLED ARE A BYPRODUCT OF OUR OCCUPATION, NOT ANY SORT OF STABILITY INDICATOR. But if you want to play that, how many Iraqis die a day, and how many die because AMERICANS killed them in an insurgent fighting or stabilizing capacity?
3. When did Congress issue a formal Declaration of War on Iraq? When has the funding for the Iraq war been in the regular budget and not in an emergency funding bill? Surely you can do the math and find some non-emergency funding that went to the occupation in Iraq? They cannot fund this war within the regular budget because no formal Declaration of War has been made, thusly this is not legally a war, yet we all seem to say and KNOW that it is. That, sir, is a violation of the US Constitution. More so, even with the legal wrangling allowed thanks to congressional 'authorization to use force' against Saddam/Iraq, the implications were that there were weapons of mass destruction and they were a threat to our national security, this has since been proven false and it has been shown that the levels of government within the realm of the Executive Branch knew all along that it was false information. Impeachments here we come.
Cheers.
I should have prefaced what I wrote with 'the only way the current military brass and ignorant pigheaded government officials will ever be able to stop this is by killing everyone'
;)
I certainly like the way you frame the ideas of helping, but that probably won't help Americans fix Iraq up at this point, we've occupied too long, much the way Britain occupied India.
Btw, where do you think Americans got their handbooks on war from? Hell, we (well, a few of us) are really just American Indian murdering Europeans in denial anyway.
Cheers.
Anonymous troll,
Don't be a fuck, I did not say to stfu, but effectively, I made the point that they are _required_ to stfu by their 'employer', if you will.
The 'media' is a series of multinational megacorporations owned by a group of people who are in it to make money, not influence policy. Did you not read a word of the rest of what I wrote? Or are you not associating the different elements I was connecting in the writing? Or are you just continuing on the path of cognitive dissonance in your efforts to elicit a response and/or get that last little word in?
Cheers.
For a person who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions in WWII to become a witch and sell his soul to corporate America is an absolute fucking shame.
Google "Taliban 2007" for all the reference you need.
Googled. At the very top - Taliban behead Afghan officer. Yep, we sure do have them running and hiding, violence from members of the Taliban sure has been obliterated.
You'd think the administration and the Pentagon would be quick to hype up the ass-kicking to deflect against Iraq. The Admin does. The Pentagon does not. The press ignores both.
The Pentagon is filled to the brim with cronies using psyops to attempt to direct the media's attention. The administration doesn't know their asshole from their elbow. Fox News certainly caters to conservatives and LOVES reporting victories, but you still see death counts even on that terrible excuse for a 'news' network. The deaths of American soldiers AND Iraqis/Afghanis/etc are equally important for legitimate news dissemination. The problem with American news sources is Journalism has taken a backseat to commercialism. Why do you think we keep seeing Rev. Jesse Jackson and Robert Novak still getting published in newspapers? Its usually flamebait and it sells (even their names alone instill anger in people, but it still sells.)
Next, you say:
If you believe the mass media have any sort of "left" agenda, or have any agenda whatsoever beyond getting the next advertising deal, you need to buy more tinfoil.
and
And yes, I do see combatant body counts. All the time, in fact, and you would too if you read media outside of the US or read some non-mainstream news sources, or at least not the "big" outlets.
Which kinda proves my point. The US media does not present any US military victories, just "how many US soldiers died today." Why should I have to go outside US media outlets to find out how many "insurgents" we are killing vs. how many soldiers we are losing. It's kinda hard to keep score when all you see is how many scores opponent has. Don't get me wrong, this is not a game, but if we attack an Al Qaeda stronghold and kill 10,000 insurgents and lose 5 US soldiers, all I see reported is how Al Qaeda killed five soldiers today. Are you telling me that's not pushing an agenda?
The US media does not present *many US military victories because a.) they don't have the same appeal for ratings (commercialism) and b.) WHAT military victories are worth reporting, US Spec Ops kill insurgents, insurgents bomb the hell out of a market and kill 200 people, 9 Soldiers killed by roadside bomb, etc., etc. The fact is, we are getting our asses kicked because there is no way to fight an insurgency shy of just killing everyone (which, btw, is how Saddam ran things). On a side note, its not the media's job to keep troop morale up, and if you are a soldier or related to one, soldiers are there to do what they are ordered to and not complain about media coverage, they signed up for it.
Have you been off the grid for the past 6 years? Have you listened to any interviews or statements Dick Cheney or anyone at an administration press conference has given about ANYTHING to do with ANYTHING in the past 6 years?
Its called cognitive dissonance and you need to rise above it. Until then, bask in your one sided ignorance while human beings, including small children, are dying.
Cheers.
You can take $500-1000 to an attorney as a simple retainer to get the kid out. If you have kids and don't have even $500-1000 in funds of some sort for any emergency, you are not being a good, responsible parent.
Additionally, the amount you can sue for has limits for specific economic loss, but why do you think you always hear about 'emotional trauma'/etc in these cases? Thats where the real money sometimes comes from.
I'm tired of simplistic arguments from people who have little or no experience with such situations, and who obviously have never tried to read and learn the actual laws. You base your opinion on one bill that you noticed was passed, that is part of a MUCH larger code of laws.
The 'illegal justice system' in the US is among the best legal systems in the world, its the people running the show AND the front liners that are not educated properly in the laws of the land (or justify their actions with cognitive dissonance and should be taken to task for it). If you are foolish enough to plead guilty when, in absolute fact, you are not guilty, the onus is on you for lack of mental capacity and/or allowing fear to dictate what you do.
(Side note: $20,000 for 12 days in jail ain't too bad, not that anyone, especially a kid, should have to suffer that.)
Cheers.
The righties seem to be saving up their mod points to hammer moderate or logically acceptable questions or statments in this thread that go against their choice of the status quo. You are at (-1) right now, for fucks sake. Welcome to the new internet tubes order.
Senator Fritz Hollings, you mean the Senator from South Carolina? As in one of the last real 'Southern Democrats'? As in a Republican in political stance but a Democrat for the sake of Southern tradition (and esp. South Carolina tradition, I have a lot of family in SC)? If you are not from the South, you are forgiven for not understanding, if you ARE from the South, you are using diversion and lying, or just confused (did you go to Bob Jones University in Greenville for your schoolin?).
The DMCA, like many acts that are passed, purported to have provisions to protect fair use at the same time as protecting content holders, but the encryption bit was unexpectedly powerful. Clinton signed it, but I seem to recall the Republicans in charge of the House and Senate working to compromise and make it happen. Fair use was an issue to more Dems than Reps in regards to the DMCA.
What does Canada have to do with the US in the framework of the argument(s)? Also, Canada has MUCH stronger fair use protections the the US and the tax was argued as more justifiable due to the (at the time) difficulty of content providers to stop sharing among individuals through legal means.
I have never seen more sheep 'led to the slaughter' than I have watching Republicans and Moderates vote for Bush in the 2000 and 2004 elections, regardless of election fraud issues. Reading more than just the Drudge Report/Huffington Post and watching more than just Fox News/The Daily Show is required to have any sort of informed opinion on, well, ANYTHING.
Additionally, how in the world have you been modded informative while the first response was flamebait, after your smartass remarks in the footnotes?
Cheers.
What the fuck are you smoking? Norm has a bar tab, Amazon has already lost if they take the stance that applying a centuries (millennia?) old concept to web purchases is somehow innovative or unique.
Cheers.
The REAL irony is you yourself got superflamebaited! fantastical.
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At this point I will vote for anyone, ANYONE, who can speak in complete sentences.
Cheers.
Just wait till people are in a Best Buy and go run a Speakeasy speed test over the internal gigabit network... "Insane fast zomgz broadband! Free install by a Geek Squad member!"
There goes the last of the decent independent ISPs.
Cheers.
Ever more importantly...
Does it BLEND?
Mmm, diamond dust.
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Is violation of the Constitution criminal or noncriminal?
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Ya know, it almost sounds like SCO was taken over by Scientologists...
AMERICA ONLINE. Thats all the evidence you need. Almost all of the AOL tech support call center functions were offshored. The Jacksonville, FL call center was shutdown rather suddenly. Phoenix, Dulles all had layoffs as well. The layoffs began well before AOL was on its final slide to its current insignifigance in the online world. (sorry AOL, but its the sad truth of it)
Cheers.
Sure, thats a reasonable explanation, but until its adoptable in a business sense, home users don't matter. Business is where the defacto standards result from.
Reinstalling Ubuntu is WAY easier than Windows... Boot with install disk (which is now a LiveCD), click 'Install on Hard Drive' icon on the desktop, browse the internet/check mail/write a document while its installing, reboot, use.
I used it for Counterstrike:Source and Warcraft 3 without issue on Ubuntu 6.10, but I found that sticking with the x86 and NOT a 64bit version works better all around for app support.
If you have ever logged into a Windows computer joined to a domain, you have used a form of LDAP directory services.
y _Access_Protocol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Director
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_directory
Cheers.