In a couple of years IPv6 will be main-stream because of MS,
that should be, IPv6 would already be main-stream if it wasn't for MS.
I also do photography, and you use to be able to open an image file on an OSX machine and XP and it would look better on the OSX box. Not with vista. Why, XP and even windows 95 have colour correction support if you set your pc up properly.
apple announces multiple desktops and have this site has a heart attack I think apple are atleast as bad as Microsoft.
Is it morally justifiable to discriminate in some damaging way against Group X in your efforts to protect against that threat? morally probably no, but locicaly yes.
Just because you turned it into a race debate doesn't mean his logic was flawed.
Same logic: Per capita, more pedophiles commit crimes against children than streight people, therefore, pedophiles are more dangerous to hire in schools.
But it is not reasonable to lay the entire blame for this problem on the operating system.
Linux comes with most of the device drivers I need, and I don't need to reset the machine when one hangs.
Which is exactly my point: the user interface isn't well thought out for a PDA user.
Nowadays the OS isn't just the kernel (not my take on the world but it seems to be the general view), so the task manager is part of the OS and a poor task manager means you have a poor OS.
If there were just a couple of anoyances with it then it wouldn't be so bad, but it seams that everything I try to do causes some problems.
The problem with ingame advertising (or in movie advertising) is just when reality is starting to slip away someone opens a can of coke and you back in the world you were trying to escape from.
It's unstable as hell, the device drivers used to hang all the time. I'll give you that it's not a resource hog, well except for the fact that you can't see the applications you have open and the only way to close them is to go through the system admin menus, locate the memory manager and kill off the running applications. So I suppose it's atleast a memory hog by proxy.
Like most Microsoft products, it is mediocre, which is not the same thing as "utter crap". In fact by MS standards it is less crappy than average. Are you sure were talking about the same thing, the 2003 version of windows that comes with the pocket pc?
The problem isn't that it tries to shoehorning a desktop user interface onto a PDA, the problem is that it's just crap, doesn't work properly, is poorley designed, anything else you could think could possibly be bad about an OS. If you include the apps that come along with it it only gets worse.
Putting Windows Mobile 2003 on anything is a bad idea, putting it on the $100 laptops used by kids is a stupid idea.
Why would I want to sync my data with my PC? My pocket PC didn't come with a backup battery, and no I don't have plenty of warning about a low battery (hint I don't spend every hour of every day looking at my pocket pc)
If it took them that many years to sort out something as simple as not storing your data in volitile ram how long is it going to take them to sort out the rest of the mess? Does it remember your setting when the battery dies? My mobile phone has had that feature since, well ever. Can you change the extension of a document in the file explorer? Does IE work. Can you open reasonable sized text documents (try alice in wonderland from project goutenberg) in word? etc....
I think some of our problems may be that were working with Web projects, VS save some 'extra' information about the project somewhere and seems to get very confused. I don't know why this should stop us from opening other projects (non web ones) though, but with Microsoft software you never know what going on under the hood.
What kind of development work do you do? 50%+ of the people in our office (we have 12 developers) have experianced numerious problems from not opening solution files to replacing random bits of text during a search and replace. Some people have had to compleatly rebuild a machine just to get VS to even start up again.
attempted murder requires both intent and an action, just daying your going to kill someone (without making a threat to that person) isn't attempted murder.
In the UK I'm sure you could only be found guilty of conspiricy if a 'crime' had actually happened, now adays just talking about something is enough to get a conspiricy charge.
DX10 does away with the fixed function pipeline so I expect many developers, especailly novice ones are going to hate it because they will have to write everything using shaders.
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In a couple of years IPv6 will be main-stream because of MS,
that should be, IPv6 would already be main-stream if it wasn't for MS.
I also do photography, and you use to be able to open an image file on an OSX machine and XP and it would look better on the OSX box. Not with vista.
Why, XP and even windows 95 have colour correction support if you set your pc up properly.
apple announces multiple desktops and have this site has a heart attack
I think apple are atleast as bad as Microsoft.
Is it morally justifiable to discriminate in some damaging way against Group X in your efforts to protect against that threat?
morally probably no, but locicaly yes.
It's not just HP that do this kind of thing, it's what Governments (your servants) are up to all over the world every day.
Just because you turned it into a race debate doesn't mean his logic was flawed.
Same logic: Per capita, more pedophiles commit crimes against children than streight people, therefore, pedophiles are more dangerous to hire in schools.
technically thats four words.
Where the hell do you buy metal coat hangers from, everyone seems to have one but you can't find them in the shops for love nore money.
it would be glow-in-the dark for night time use
Easy for you maybe, but how about joe sixpack.
Generally I don't see an item I see an advertisement and that really throws me. I also tend to prefer games and movies that are pure fantasy.
But it is not reasonable to lay the entire blame for this problem on the operating system.
Linux comes with most of the device drivers I need, and I don't need to reset the machine when one hangs.
Which is exactly my point: the user interface isn't well thought out for a PDA user.
Nowadays the OS isn't just the kernel (not my take on the world but it seems to be the general view), so the task manager is part of the OS and a poor task manager means you have a poor OS.
If there were just a couple of anoyances with it then it wouldn't be so bad, but it seams that everything I try to do causes some problems.
The problem with ingame advertising (or in movie advertising) is just when reality is starting to slip away someone opens a can of coke and you back in the world you were trying to escape from.
It's unstable as hell, the device drivers used to hang all the time. I'll give you that it's not a resource hog, well except for the fact that you can't see the applications you have open and the only way to close them is to go through the system admin menus, locate the memory manager and kill off the running applications. So I suppose it's atleast a memory hog by proxy.
Like most Microsoft products, it is mediocre, which is not the same thing as "utter crap". In fact by MS standards it is less crappy than average.
Are you sure were talking about the same thing, the 2003 version of windows that comes with the pocket pc?
The problem isn't that it tries to shoehorning a desktop user interface onto a PDA, the problem is that it's just crap, doesn't work properly, is poorley designed, anything else you could think could possibly be bad about an OS. If you include the apps that come along with it it only gets worse.
Putting Windows Mobile 2003 on anything is a bad idea, putting it on the $100 laptops used by kids is a stupid idea.
who needs Microsoft Passport when there's Card space. I wonder if anyone is ever going to implement card space, even microsoft!
Why would I want to sync my data with my PC? My pocket PC didn't come with a backup battery, and no I don't have plenty of warning about a low battery (hint I don't spend every hour of every day looking at my pocket pc)
If it took them that many years to sort out something as simple as not storing your data in volitile ram how long is it going to take them to sort out the rest of the mess? Does it remember your setting when the battery dies? My mobile phone has had that feature since, well ever. Can you change the extension of a document in the file explorer? Does IE work. Can you open reasonable sized text documents (try alice in wonderland from project goutenberg) in word? etc....
what is this fud that you talk about?
I think some of our problems may be that were working with Web projects, VS save some 'extra' information about the project somewhere and seems to get very confused. I don't know why this should stop us from opening other projects (non web ones) though, but with Microsoft software you never know what going on under the hood.
Have you actually tried to use windows on the pocket PC, It must be the worst operating system ever intented.
E.g I'll save your documents to volitile ram so that when your battery goes flat you'll loose everything.
etc... etc... etc....
What kind of development work do you do? 50%+ of the people in our office (we have 12 developers) have experianced numerious problems from not opening solution files to replacing random bits of text during a search and replace. Some people have had to compleatly rebuild a machine just to get VS to even start up again.
Have you actually used visual studio? it degrades to a useless piece of rubbish after a few months.
.NET I would say that they are on equal footing, except Java is more mature, open source has things like EJB etc....
It may be better than Googles offering (nothing) but probably isn't better than eclipse/jbuilder.
And after using both Java and
are you sure?
attempted murder requires both intent and an action, just daying your going to kill someone (without making a threat to that person) isn't attempted murder.
In the UK I'm sure you could only be found guilty of conspiricy if a 'crime' had actually happened, now adays just talking about something is enough to get a conspiricy charge.
from my experiance they all turn into bad cops after a while.
That's because DX10 has a hell of a lot less features that DX9.
DX10 does away with the fixed function pipeline so I expect many developers, especailly novice ones are going to hate it because they will have to write everything using shaders.
Well they took VMS and turned it into windows for a start.
And then they took windows and turned it into Windows CE