oh so instead of having a mini-Evil company like MS controlling 90% of the desktop, we'll have Hell on earth.
You've probably never been an AOL customer. Dare to cancel your account and you'll receive plenty of calls and a whole bunch of CD's by mail. Sun? Apple? Have you lost your mind?
haha I can only imagine his reaction when he reads that article. He'll probably have a hardcore match with his computer, he'll take the keyboard and slam it onto that monitor.
Yeah I looked at both of them and no I don't work for MS.
Which raises the question, do religions always tell the truth or do they tell people what they need to hear?
I would like to believe you but truth is : "no pain, no gain". Poverty, wars, crimes, problems, pain, etc. played and continue to play a necessary part in our evolution. But hey, I sure hope that I'm wrong.
I bought HalfLife the day it went out, loved the single player game but the multiplayer aspect of it was so horribly slow. Waited a few months and it was still laggy as hell so I finally gave up on it.
Maybe by now they released a few patches to improve the multiplayer experience but it's kinda late I'm already hooked on RTCW.
We don't agree on MS but at least we both like Python:)
I have news for you, you can't solve all the major problems in the world and you can't eliminate poverty nor crime. Actually I dare anyone (not including God) to do it.
Yes but PC sales dropped last year while MS income kept on increasing.
For me Windows XP is the perfect desktop OS. I tried GNOME and KDE and they have all that grey that makes them ugly. On the other hand I don't see why I would use Windows as a server, probably some people have a need for it but not me.
Have you noticed how MS always talks about the entertainment value of Windows XP? I sure admire there marketing skills.
what do you mean? If it was up to them they would have used 128 bit in the export version but since it's illegal to do so they shipped it with 40 bits.
"Microsoft Corp. today announced record revenue of $7.74 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2001, an 18 percent increase over the $6.55 billion reported in the prior year"
I guess that for some weird reason there income keeps on increasing. After all, nobody buys MS products and there new licensing scheme is a complete failure. They must be practicing the art of black magic or something.
"It is also worth noting that the manufacturing delusion encourages price structures that are pathologically out of line with the actual breakdown of development costs. If (as is generally accepted) over 75% of a typical software project's life-cycle costs will be in maintenance and debugging and extensions, then the common price policy of charging a high fixed purchase price and relatively low or zero support fees is bound to lead to results that serve all parties poorly.
Consumers lose because, even though software is a service industry, the incentives in the factory model all cut against a vendor's offering competent service. If the vendor's money comes from selling bits, most effort will go to making bits and shoving them out the door; the help desk, not a profit center, will become a dumping ground for the least effective and get only enough resources to avoid actively alienating a critical number of customers." - Eric S. Raymond
Windows is my desktop OS of choice because of it's handfull of features, ease of use and convenience. When I want a secure OS I'd use OpenBSD.
If they want to make Windows more secure, they'll have to get rid of some features and make it a little bit harder to use.
So now I can sue GM because someone stole my car. I can sue the cops for not being able to protect my car from thiefs. I can sue the WTC architects because it wasn't secure enough.
A whole range of new lawsuits coming along for ambitious lawyers.
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oh so instead of having a mini-Evil company like MS controlling 90% of the desktop, we'll have Hell on earth.
You've probably never been an AOL customer. Dare to cancel your account and you'll receive plenty of calls and a whole bunch of CD's by mail. Sun? Apple? Have you lost your mind?
haha I can only imagine his reaction when he reads that article. He'll probably have a hardcore match with his computer, he'll take the keyboard and slam it onto that monitor.
I agree. Besides, RedHat is more of a server distribution. Mandrake would've been a better choice.
Besides, RedHat is more of a server distribution. I believe that AOL should've bought Corel Linux or maybe Mandrake.
yeah but they made a deal with the biggest OEM in China to bundle Windows with all systems sold. I'm wondering how many profit this will bring them.
Yeah I looked at both of them and no I don't work for MS.
Which raises the question, do religions always tell the truth or do they tell people what they need to hear?
I would like to believe you but truth is : "no pain, no gain". Poverty, wars, crimes, problems, pain, etc. played and continue to play a necessary part in our evolution. But hey, I sure hope that I'm wrong.
I bought HalfLife the day it went out, loved the single player game but the multiplayer aspect of it was so horribly slow. Waited a few months and it was still laggy as hell so I finally gave up on it.
Maybe by now they released a few patches to improve the multiplayer experience but it's kinda late I'm already hooked on RTCW.
We don't agree on MS but at least we both like Python :)
I have news for you, you can't solve all the major problems in the world and you can't eliminate poverty nor crime. Actually I dare anyone (not including God) to do it.
Yes but PC sales dropped last year while MS income kept on increasing.
For me Windows XP is the perfect desktop OS. I tried GNOME and KDE and they have all that grey that makes them ugly. On the other hand I don't see why I would use Windows as a server, probably some people have a need for it but not me.
Have you noticed how MS always talks about the entertainment value of Windows XP? I sure admire there marketing skills.
what do you mean? If it was up to them they would have used 128 bit in the export version but since it's illegal to do so they shipped it with 40 bits.
well then if it's so bad, it doesn't take a genius of a CEO to realise that MS should go out of the software business.
That's what all companies do. They can't afford to support the extremely old products especially based on the old (software is not a service) idea.
"Microsoft Corp. today announced record revenue of $7.74 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2001, an 18 percent increase over the $6.55 billion reported in the prior year"
I guess that for some weird reason there income keeps on increasing. After all, nobody buys MS products and there new licensing scheme is a complete failure. They must be practicing the art of black magic or something.
Even Eric S. Raymond agrees with MS on this one :
"It is also worth noting that the manufacturing delusion encourages price structures that are pathologically out of line with the actual breakdown of development costs. If (as is generally accepted) over 75% of a typical software project's life-cycle costs will be in maintenance and debugging and extensions, then the common price policy of charging a high fixed purchase price and relatively low or zero support fees is bound to lead to results that serve all parties poorly.
Consumers lose because, even though software is a service industry, the incentives in the factory model all cut against a vendor's offering competent service. If the vendor's money comes from selling bits, most effort will go to making bits and shoving them out the door; the help desk, not a profit center, will become a dumping ground for the least effective and get only enough resources to avoid actively alienating a critical number of customers." - Eric S. Raymond
This is taken from The Magic Cauldron
what are you using, a beta version or something? There's a "Continue Anyway" button if you still want to install those beta drivers.
If people thought like you we'd still be stuck with DOS, Mac OS 8 and RedHat 5
Aha, so I'm not the only one complaining about the grey stuff. Their's a whole lot of grey in GNOME and KDE.
Windows is my desktop OS of choice because of it's handfull of features, ease of use and convenience. When I want a secure OS I'd use OpenBSD.
If they want to make Windows more secure, they'll have to get rid of some features and make it a little bit harder to use.
and who in the blue hell is The Rock? :)
Oh well, they asked for government intervention, they'll get a whole lot more than they bargained for.
Then I'd have to say that the software used by car engineers didn't allow them to design a secure car.
Besides, why should the law apply only to software?
My "Hello World!" app is kinda flawless and it's stability will amaze you :)
So now I can sue GM because someone stole my car. I can sue the cops for not being able to protect my car from thiefs. I can sue the WTC architects because it wasn't secure enough.
A whole range of new lawsuits coming along for ambitious lawyers.
who in the blue hell is Donald Norman?
DOA3 have great graphics and makes for some good fun, especially if you're not playing alone. But Project Gotham Racing is extremely addicting.
excellent point, I couldn't have said it better myself.