Ubuntu... Ubuntu... Yes I hear that over and over. Ubuntu is a great achievement, but there's still a long way to go before Joe asks for it by name.
First of all, a name change wouldn't hurt. Why must all the big Linux distros have dorky names that "normal" people can't remember, and that even us geeks feel stupid saying out loud ?
Gentoo, Ubuntu, Slackware, Suse, Mandriva... none of these are pleasing to the ear. They remind me of those dumb advertising or real-estate firms with names made up from the first syllables of their founders. Pick a word from the English dictionary at least!
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Economics != Greed
That is an American fallacy. You can't have democracy if all you want to do is take from others.
The day Linux is worth using for the average Joe, is the day I'll start rooting for it.
I'm not an MS fanboy, but XP gets the job done. If I could use my Linux desktop to do my work efficiently and without "mystery menus" whose feature has yet to be coded, then I would.
Right now, as a computer elitist (yes, a performance freak), I still see Linux as a rock-solid server OS, but a "toy" desktop, mostly because Xorg is still the backwards cesspool that X has always been. It's pretty sad when I have to say the NVidia-drivers package does more work for me than the actual Xorg configuration tools. Joe Random won't touch Xorg.conf with a ten foot pole, and neither should I under most circumstances.
What gets me is there are some really nice LiveCD distros out there with all the creature comforts like hardware detection, easy customization and intuitive prompts. Why can't the big disk-based distros follow suit ? We can't even get a decent package manager, save for Ubuntu's Single-Click Install.
Everyone likes to brag about their distro's unique features, but that's going against the spirit of open-source! What if I like Ubuntu's friendly desktop, but I prefer Gentoo's build system ? Why can't they play nice together ? Heck, most binary distros can't even play nice with custom-built packages without some major kludging.
There are many problems with Linux distros, some easy, some difficult. We need to get out of denial and start working on solutions. Linux can be awesome in the right hands, just look what Mac did with the outdated pile that is BSD. Linux can pwn that big time, but we need to stop inventing "yet another unfinished sourceforge project" and start putting our strengths together.
I miss the good old days when Nintendo consoles came multiplayer-ready, whether that meant two controllers or a link cable.
Today, the accessories end up costing more than the base console in many cases, despite being the cheapest chinese pieces of shit to ever be thrown in a shipping container (excluding dead Yakuza thugs). I'm not just talking about Nintendo here, Sony and Microsoft are no better. How many kids broke the original NES pads ? Not many, those things were tough! Today's controller can't survive being thrown/dropped too often, and they wear down quickly during normal use.
The hell with this cheap consumer idiocracy!
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I'd suggest these stores instate a "no returns" policy on gaming consoles, or tack on a fat restocking fee (like 30%), at least during the holiday season - anything to deter the bottom-feeders who are openly abusing the store's (supposed) goodwill return policy.
I tried a little experiment last week, I posted a (fake) Wii for sale on a local board. Within minutes I had a dozen replies offering $400-450 (retail price is ~$300 Canadian tax-in). Using their email addys, I looked them up on the sale boards and realized they were all resellers tacking on another $100 and re-flipping Wiis.
At that point I was EXTREMELY tempted to lure them to a remote area and beat them senseless with a Colecovision.
Sure, Christmas is little more than a sales event (sorry, Jesus freaks!), but this is just outright hateful greed.
Don't go telling me what I like and don't like. I specifically don't like the keying process. I quite enjoyed the quests, especially those in the expansion as they had more variety and were crammed together in a satisfying way (much like LoTRO). The rep grinds drove me foolish, because I had to go do the same damned thing over and over and over and over. It was like playing Final Fantasy 1.
Somehow I see more problems arising from this barcode scanner... what if it misses one ? Will people search frantically for the sponge, or over time will they just get used to the thing being faulty and ignore it ?
How about some sort of tray with a fixed number of sponges, and at the end of the procedure you look at the tray and any empty spots, well you need to find that damned sponge!
As much as I'd love to see more games released on Linux, it's simply not going to happen overnight. Even Macs get the shaft, and they're ahead of us in the waiting list.
Instead of waiting for those half-assed game developers to throw us a bone - they can barely get they filth to run on an ideal-spec Windows machine - I'd rather see more work invested in compatibility layers (like Cedega, but preferably non-commercial). I just don't expect a DirectX coder to have any skill with Linux gaming; it's like asking a line cook to design a 3-storey house.
We may not agree with their exact choice of words, but to the Average Joe, an EEE PC is a cheap little gimmick that can't run Windows. In Joe's concrete mind, PC = Windows, and Windows = Word, Excel and Powerpoint, because every school, library and internet cafe has those apps; even Dell will offer to preinstall Office when you buy a PC. Joe thinks it all comes as a package.
The CR columnist probably didn't want to go into bumpy territory like installing XP on an EEE PC or other unofficial things, so he/she chose to say "If you want Windows, buy something else". CR is not a tech journal, it is read by all sorts of people, dumb/smart, techy/artsy. It's not their job to teach every monkey how to install an OS, their job is to talk about saving money and avoiding scams.
The article is talking about Seagate "Free Agent" drives, which is just a regular IDE or SATA drive in a USB enclosure, with some lame "one-click backup" software.
Linux peeps would be better off with a normal external hard drive (non-backup) and just write their own simple scripts to do scheduled backups. The Free Agent is really targeted at non-techies who want easy external backups.
Real hackers should be running hot-swap SAS enclosures anyway:)
Crysis is worth it for the eye-candy alone, but it's definitely a short experience. Going back to "decent" games like COD4 is kind of depressing because Crysis raises the visual bar so damned high, you start to see all the flaws in lesser graphics.
Anyway back to WoW... I don't get why they're promoting the everloving crap out of a game that's been out for 3 years, especially after a huge chunk of people have jumped ship in favor of LoTRO. Warcraft stagnated, the expansion was interesting at first but quickly turned into a long uber-slow rep grind that would make even old-school EQ players reach for the anti-depressants.
Having previously worked there (the Passport Office), and it's probably the same in every other government branch, I think the big dumb gaping hole comes from outside consultants. Someone applying for a tenured job has to go through various screening processes, and while the screening isn't super-duper, it's still better than nothing. Consultants only need to win a bidding war (if at all), and of course the people who bid low on contracts tend to be the people who aren't worth their carbon in the first place (because good consultants typically aren't desperate).
Now I only had a tangential involvement with "big IT", but they seemed to have a mostly healthy bunch of skilled techies, at least the ones I cared to know;) Those guys did what they could, but it always seemed like they were getting trumped by outsiders. I know nothing about the contracting processes, but there was clearly a tendency to outsource all the big stuff while the in-house staff handled maintenance and other "little jobs". Maybe that's just how they do things, but it always struck me as inefficient and insecure. As far as I know, there were never any in-house code audits - else they would have publicly executed all the contractors IMHO.
Now again, I wasn't involved in this particular app, I was in a support department. Maybe it was different for the production staff. I'm not necessarily saying that the zillion-dollar system that handles passports was coded in VB by a bunch of Volvo-driving ignorants, but I wouldn't be surprised if that were true, either. It's just far too easy to screw the government, because there's no real boss, just a bunch of PHBs trying to cover their asses.
How can you claim the problem is with Nero ? (Ok I'll admit, Nero's a steamer!)
An operating system that claims compatibility with existing software, should be compatible with existing software. If it's not, then the operating system has failed to fulfill its own promises.
The OS is (for most people) the cheapest, most insignificant piece of software on the system. It is dwarfed by professional applications and entertainment software. The OS is everyone else's bitch.
Whether an engineer is self-employed or on someone else's payroll, he fulfills the same responsibilities. Starting a business only makes sense when there is a need to be satisfied. A million master's graduates may well create a million business, but the market will only bear as many as are needed and the rest will fail. More importantly, the ones that fail have wasted time and money that would have been better spent elsewhere.
I'm not saying fascism has ever worked, but it's no worse than any other system. The breaking point in any government is the human element of greed. People are not machines, they bend and break rules for personal gain. Democracy is messed up because of major puppetry in the media, and the resultant ignorance in the masses.
If we ever find (or create) someone or something that can run a system without cheating or favoritism, it doesn't matter which government model we choose, it will be far more efficient than anything we've ever tried.
Not true, it shows that he's familiar with Windows and Linux distros. Ubuntu is an oddball, a very interesting oddball for which I hold high praise, but it's clearly astray from every other distro.
Me, I'm still in the "Linux for servers - not users" camp. Don't get me wrong, I love me some Gentoo, but that's because I'm a ginormous geek. Everyone else calls my computer "the Matrix" because it's got a bunch of monitors with Emerge whizzing by at ludicrous speed =)
I wholeheartedly agree with you. An average Joe with an engineering degree is both a lame engineer and a waste of a good fry cook. The big problem comes from the ridiculous amount of money in the education business. It's all about the cash. Letting the dumbest of dumb get their B.A. just means more money for the schools, and a greater windfall for the government.
If we approached education on parity with jobs, we could say "we need X good doctors, Y lawyers and Z engineers - everyone else, start shoveling". Excess people will end up taking crappy jobs either way, but the way things are today, they waste 4-5 years and a ton of money in school before ending up in that shit job. It's just a huge waste of resources.
Good in theory, but in practice kids will just linger around for the free money and still end up doing nothing. Responsibility is becoming a rarity in today's society.
I'm unfortunately somewhat fascist in my ideals, but there are fixed numbers of each type of career needed in any given community. Sending more people to college only means we'll have more college grads flipping burgers. There's no shortage of skilled minds, there's just a glut of incompetent lazy minds.
I personally think average students should aspire to be the best fry cooks and sandwich artists they can possibly be, because the foreign substitutes are doing a lousy job of it.
There's nothing wrong with average, as long as you know your limitations and make the most of what you have. What's wrong is when a clinical retard hangs a shingle and calls himself a web designer.
I don't give a crap about market size. The Canadian market is large enough, and we should strive to be at the forefront of technology and communication. We're not just selling bear pelts and maple syrup anymore. If this nation's leaders want to encourage a sense of pride and purpose, they need to play to our strengths: education, innovation, and free thinking. Technological enhancements could catapult our economy and give us an edge over the US and Japan, because there's no shortage of brains, only a shortage of tools.
I hate to say it, but Blizzard has officially become a big faceless game shop. Activision has been a big faceless publisher for decades now. It's a match made in corporate heaven, as both companies have the same goals and low standards to make it work.
For me at least, Activision has become synonymous with "sell-out". They buy all the cool game houses, then push inferior games out at a ludicrous pace. The Activision brand has never meant anything to gamers, they're just the Wal-Mart of video games.
Blizzard, *chuckles* they let WoW's success go to their head. Where the hell is Starcraft 2 or Warcraft 4 ? Diablo 3 ? They have all these massive franchises that are sitting around getting old, and now they even have Bill Shatner trying to sell their 3 year old MMO. I've played the damn game, I've seen what there was to see. Give me WoW 2 already!
Two bullshit companies merging to form one big bullshit. Woop-tee-doo!
If you think Comcast sucks, come up to Canada and try any one of Rogers, Bell or Videotron.
Neither of them have made any significant improvements in over a decade. Bumping up from 5mbit to 7mbit is not what I can progress. DOCSIS 1.0/1.1 isn't very impressive when you consider that 3.0 gear has been available for over 15 months.
What's worse is we can't even get halfway-decent pipe for the office. 768k upload for a web shop is fucking pathetic, but nobody in town does any better. Even datacentres have shitty uplinks. Where's that 50/10 cable link ? And yet I live in what the media tards call "Canadian Silicon Valley".
In light of these facts, I hate all telecoms equally. They're all dinosaurs to me.
And you know that helps tremendously, especially with the odd time slots they tend to have. It's far more convenient for me to download the episodes every few weeks and have a mini-marathon at my convenience.
In fact, South Park is one of the few shows I'd actually pay to download. They can be hit-or-miss, but it's one of the few shows I'm willing to make time for.
Well let's see, Vista introduced a bunch of unwanted features and made a bunch of things break.
Leopard introduced a bunch of unwanted features and made a bunch of things break.
I'm not saying everyone's going to see those problems. I know quite a few people who are fine with Vista, but they tend to be the same people who don't do anything beyond web surfing, email and a few games. It's when you start doing actual work that the bugs creep up in any operating system.
Okay so someone was a bit late to learn that MD5 collisions are indeed possible. Congrats, you're still retarded!
It's not exactly hard to understand that a 128-bit hash is going to be less unique than a multi-kilobyte executable. I believe 3rd grade math has that covered. With processor speed increasing steadily, these things become easier to break with each passing day.
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Ubuntu... Ubuntu... Yes I hear that over and over. Ubuntu is a great achievement, but there's still a long way to go before Joe asks for it by name.
First of all, a name change wouldn't hurt. Why must all the big Linux distros have dorky names that "normal" people can't remember, and that even us geeks feel stupid saying out loud ?
Gentoo, Ubuntu, Slackware, Suse, Mandriva... none of these are pleasing to the ear. They remind me of those dumb advertising or real-estate firms with names made up from the first syllables of their founders. Pick a word from the English dictionary at least!
Economics != Greed
That is an American fallacy. You can't have democracy if all you want to do is take from others.
The day Linux is worth using for the average Joe, is the day I'll start rooting for it.
I'm not an MS fanboy, but XP gets the job done. If I could use my Linux desktop to do my work efficiently and without "mystery menus" whose feature has yet to be coded, then I would.
Right now, as a computer elitist (yes, a performance freak), I still see Linux as a rock-solid server OS, but a "toy" desktop, mostly because Xorg is still the backwards cesspool that X has always been. It's pretty sad when I have to say the NVidia-drivers package does more work for me than the actual Xorg configuration tools. Joe Random won't touch Xorg.conf with a ten foot pole, and neither should I under most circumstances.
What gets me is there are some really nice LiveCD distros out there with all the creature comforts like hardware detection, easy customization and intuitive prompts. Why can't the big disk-based distros follow suit ? We can't even get a decent package manager, save for Ubuntu's Single-Click Install.
Everyone likes to brag about their distro's unique features, but that's going against the spirit of open-source! What if I like Ubuntu's friendly desktop, but I prefer Gentoo's build system ? Why can't they play nice together ? Heck, most binary distros can't even play nice with custom-built packages without some major kludging.
There are many problems with Linux distros, some easy, some difficult. We need to get out of denial and start working on solutions. Linux can be awesome in the right hands, just look what Mac did with the outdated pile that is BSD. Linux can pwn that big time, but we need to stop inventing "yet another unfinished sourceforge project" and start putting our strengths together.
I miss the good old days when Nintendo consoles came multiplayer-ready, whether that meant two controllers or a link cable.
Today, the accessories end up costing more than the base console in many cases, despite being the cheapest chinese pieces of shit to ever be thrown in a shipping container (excluding dead Yakuza thugs). I'm not just talking about Nintendo here, Sony and Microsoft are no better. How many kids broke the original NES pads ? Not many, those things were tough! Today's controller can't survive being thrown/dropped too often, and they wear down quickly during normal use.
The hell with this cheap consumer idiocracy!
I'd suggest these stores instate a "no returns" policy on gaming consoles, or tack on a fat restocking fee (like 30%), at least during the holiday season - anything to deter the bottom-feeders who are openly abusing the store's (supposed) goodwill return policy.
I tried a little experiment last week, I posted a (fake) Wii for sale on a local board. Within minutes I had a dozen replies offering $400-450 (retail price is ~$300 Canadian tax-in). Using their email addys, I looked them up on the sale boards and realized they were all resellers tacking on another $100 and re-flipping Wiis.
At that point I was EXTREMELY tempted to lure them to a remote area and beat them senseless with a Colecovision.
Sure, Christmas is little more than a sales event (sorry, Jesus freaks!), but this is just outright hateful greed.
Don't go telling me what I like and don't like. I specifically don't like the keying process. I quite enjoyed the quests, especially those in the expansion as they had more variety and were crammed together in a satisfying way (much like LoTRO). The rep grinds drove me foolish, because I had to go do the same damned thing over and over and over and over. It was like playing Final Fantasy 1.
Somehow I see more problems arising from this barcode scanner... what if it misses one ? Will people search frantically for the sponge, or over time will they just get used to the thing being faulty and ignore it ?
How about some sort of tray with a fixed number of sponges, and at the end of the procedure you look at the tray and any empty spots, well you need to find that damned sponge!
Low-tech > high-tech, where applicable.
As much as I'd love to see more games released on Linux, it's simply not going to happen overnight. Even Macs get the shaft, and they're ahead of us in the waiting list.
Instead of waiting for those half-assed game developers to throw us a bone - they can barely get they filth to run on an ideal-spec Windows machine - I'd rather see more work invested in compatibility layers (like Cedega, but preferably non-commercial). I just don't expect a DirectX coder to have any skill with Linux gaming; it's like asking a line cook to design a 3-storey house.
Go hide under your rock, Troll.
We may not agree with their exact choice of words, but to the Average Joe, an EEE PC is a cheap little gimmick that can't run Windows. In Joe's concrete mind, PC = Windows, and Windows = Word, Excel and Powerpoint, because every school, library and internet cafe has those apps; even Dell will offer to preinstall Office when you buy a PC. Joe thinks it all comes as a package.
The CR columnist probably didn't want to go into bumpy territory like installing XP on an EEE PC or other unofficial things, so he/she chose to say "If you want Windows, buy something else". CR is not a tech journal, it is read by all sorts of people, dumb/smart, techy/artsy. It's not their job to teach every monkey how to install an OS, their job is to talk about saving money and avoiding scams.
The article is talking about Seagate "Free Agent" drives, which is just a regular IDE or SATA drive in a USB enclosure, with some lame "one-click backup" software.
:)
Linux peeps would be better off with a normal external hard drive (non-backup) and just write their own simple scripts to do scheduled backups. The Free Agent is really targeted at non-techies who want easy external backups.
Real hackers should be running hot-swap SAS enclosures anyway
Crysis is worth it for the eye-candy alone, but it's definitely a short experience. Going back to "decent" games like COD4 is kind of depressing because Crysis raises the visual bar so damned high, you start to see all the flaws in lesser graphics.
Anyway back to WoW... I don't get why they're promoting the everloving crap out of a game that's been out for 3 years, especially after a huge chunk of people have jumped ship in favor of LoTRO. Warcraft stagnated, the expansion was interesting at first but quickly turned into a long uber-slow rep grind that would make even old-school EQ players reach for the anti-depressants.
WoW is dead. Wake me when WoW 2 comes out.
Consultants. Consultants. Consultants. Consultants. Consultants. *throws chair*
;) Those guys did what they could, but it always seemed like they were getting trumped by outsiders. I know nothing about the contracting processes, but there was clearly a tendency to outsource all the big stuff while the in-house staff handled maintenance and other "little jobs". Maybe that's just how they do things, but it always struck me as inefficient and insecure. As far as I know, there were never any in-house code audits - else they would have publicly executed all the contractors IMHO.
Having previously worked there (the Passport Office), and it's probably the same in every other government branch, I think the big dumb gaping hole comes from outside consultants. Someone applying for a tenured job has to go through various screening processes, and while the screening isn't super-duper, it's still better than nothing. Consultants only need to win a bidding war (if at all), and of course the people who bid low on contracts tend to be the people who aren't worth their carbon in the first place (because good consultants typically aren't desperate).
Now I only had a tangential involvement with "big IT", but they seemed to have a mostly healthy bunch of skilled techies, at least the ones I cared to know
Now again, I wasn't involved in this particular app, I was in a support department. Maybe it was different for the production staff. I'm not necessarily saying that the zillion-dollar system that handles passports was coded in VB by a bunch of Volvo-driving ignorants, but I wouldn't be surprised if that were true, either. It's just far too easy to screw the government, because there's no real boss, just a bunch of PHBs trying to cover their asses.
How can you claim the problem is with Nero ? (Ok I'll admit, Nero's a steamer!)
An operating system that claims compatibility with existing software, should be compatible with existing software. If it's not, then the operating system has failed to fulfill its own promises.
The OS is (for most people) the cheapest, most insignificant piece of software on the system. It is dwarfed by professional applications and entertainment software. The OS is everyone else's bitch.
Spoken like a true capitalist.
Whether an engineer is self-employed or on someone else's payroll, he fulfills the same responsibilities. Starting a business only makes sense when there is a need to be satisfied. A million master's graduates may well create a million business, but the market will only bear as many as are needed and the rest will fail. More importantly, the ones that fail have wasted time and money that would have been better spent elsewhere.
I'm not saying fascism has ever worked, but it's no worse than any other system. The breaking point in any government is the human element of greed. People are not machines, they bend and break rules for personal gain. Democracy is messed up because of major puppetry in the media, and the resultant ignorance in the masses.
If we ever find (or create) someone or something that can run a system without cheating or favoritism, it doesn't matter which government model we choose, it will be far more efficient than anything we've ever tried.
Not true, it shows that he's familiar with Windows and Linux distros. Ubuntu is an oddball, a very interesting oddball for which I hold high praise, but it's clearly astray from every other distro.
Me, I'm still in the "Linux for servers - not users" camp. Don't get me wrong, I love me some Gentoo, but that's because I'm a ginormous geek. Everyone else calls my computer "the Matrix" because it's got a bunch of monitors with Emerge whizzing by at ludicrous speed =)
I wholeheartedly agree with you. An average Joe with an engineering degree is both a lame engineer and a waste of a good fry cook. The big problem comes from the ridiculous amount of money in the education business. It's all about the cash. Letting the dumbest of dumb get their B.A. just means more money for the schools, and a greater windfall for the government.
If we approached education on parity with jobs, we could say "we need X good doctors, Y lawyers and Z engineers - everyone else, start shoveling". Excess people will end up taking crappy jobs either way, but the way things are today, they waste 4-5 years and a ton of money in school before ending up in that shit job. It's just a huge waste of resources.
Good in theory, but in practice kids will just linger around for the free money and still end up doing nothing. Responsibility is becoming a rarity in today's society.
I'm unfortunately somewhat fascist in my ideals, but there are fixed numbers of each type of career needed in any given community. Sending more people to college only means we'll have more college grads flipping burgers. There's no shortage of skilled minds, there's just a glut of incompetent lazy minds.
I personally think average students should aspire to be the best fry cooks and sandwich artists they can possibly be, because the foreign substitutes are doing a lousy job of it.
There's nothing wrong with average, as long as you know your limitations and make the most of what you have. What's wrong is when a clinical retard hangs a shingle and calls himself a web designer.
I don't trust MD5 hashes anyway. If I can't trust the source, I don't run its code.
I don't give a crap about market size. The Canadian market is large enough, and we should strive to be at the forefront of technology and communication. We're not just selling bear pelts and maple syrup anymore. If this nation's leaders want to encourage a sense of pride and purpose, they need to play to our strengths: education, innovation, and free thinking. Technological enhancements could catapult our economy and give us an edge over the US and Japan, because there's no shortage of brains, only a shortage of tools.
I hate to say it, but Blizzard has officially become a big faceless game shop. Activision has been a big faceless publisher for decades now. It's a match made in corporate heaven, as both companies have the same goals and low standards to make it work.
For me at least, Activision has become synonymous with "sell-out". They buy all the cool game houses, then push inferior games out at a ludicrous pace. The Activision brand has never meant anything to gamers, they're just the Wal-Mart of video games.
Blizzard, *chuckles* they let WoW's success go to their head. Where the hell is Starcraft 2 or Warcraft 4 ? Diablo 3 ? They have all these massive franchises that are sitting around getting old, and now they even have Bill Shatner trying to sell their 3 year old MMO. I've played the damn game, I've seen what there was to see. Give me WoW 2 already!
Two bullshit companies merging to form one big bullshit. Woop-tee-doo!
If you think Comcast sucks, come up to Canada and try any one of Rogers, Bell or Videotron.
Neither of them have made any significant improvements in over a decade. Bumping up from 5mbit to 7mbit is not what I can progress. DOCSIS 1.0/1.1 isn't very impressive when you consider that 3.0 gear has been available for over 15 months.
What's worse is we can't even get halfway-decent pipe for the office. 768k upload for a web shop is fucking pathetic, but nobody in town does any better. Even datacentres have shitty uplinks. Where's that 50/10 cable link ? And yet I live in what the media tards call "Canadian Silicon Valley".
In light of these facts, I hate all telecoms equally. They're all dinosaurs to me.
And you know that helps tremendously, especially with the odd time slots they tend to have. It's far more convenient for me to download the episodes every few weeks and have a mini-marathon at my convenience.
In fact, South Park is one of the few shows I'd actually pay to download. They can be hit-or-miss, but it's one of the few shows I'm willing to make time for.
Well let's see, Vista introduced a bunch of unwanted features and made a bunch of things break.
Leopard introduced a bunch of unwanted features and made a bunch of things break.
I'm not saying everyone's going to see those problems. I know quite a few people who are fine with Vista, but they tend to be the same people who don't do anything beyond web surfing, email and a few games. It's when you start doing actual work that the bugs creep up in any operating system.
Okay so someone was a bit late to learn that MD5 collisions are indeed possible. Congrats, you're still retarded!
It's not exactly hard to understand that a 128-bit hash is going to be less unique than a multi-kilobyte executable. I believe 3rd grade math has that covered. With processor speed increasing steadily, these things become easier to break with each passing day.