So the more intellectual question is what is next if the surface fails?
I do not know of any ARM rt devices out there. I heard a rumor about an Acer but have never seen it.
Will this mean Windows 9 will be part of the WIndows 7 lineage and not WIndows 8/Windows mobile? Or will MS try a surface 2 and keep blowing money into it like they did with Bing and xbox for over a half a decade before they broke even? (Does bing make money yet?)
Personally I kind of got excited when it came out as Apple has a monopoly on the tablet market since they banned Samsung and other droid tablets out of the market here in the US for using icons and rounded corners. I have seen 1 android tablet in my lifetime by someone and that is it as everyone loves their ipads. But the surface lacked even a GPU unit and no cell phone service WTF. How usefull is this POS if I can not even get a map and weather reports if I am on the road? Seriously.
The surface pro still doesn't have either making it just a laptop and not a tablet and no disk space
Such ignorant posts like the grandparents truly scare me.
I would mod you higher if I had points.
I have seen Linux servers compromised and admins throwing a fit saying it is impossible because they run Linux! No such as a rootkit could possible exist. This was a major bank too.
Because Linux is not more secure than Windows or MacOSX regardless of what hte fanboys here say. Just because it is not from Microsoft doesn't mean it is secure by default. In fact (I maybe modded down for this), Linux is the least secure modern kernel out there. It offers no heap, stack, ASLR, or even DEP (It may offer this as of 3.0?)
Insecure operating systems exist because they are written in C. Not because they are from unpopular corporations. C has no buffer checks so once a data type gets all used it simply exists the next address in memory. OpenBSD is trying to change as is Microsoft as of XP Service Pack 2. Windows 7 and 8 scramble the memory addresses and offer sandboxing support for browsers so you have no clue where each.dll is loaded in ram when you try to do a heap spray after you exploit a system. I believe MacOSX now has this too as of Snow Leopard. It is also how Java applets compromise systems too.
I have seen clients servers turn into russan phising sites in major banks running it.
Sure as a consumer you are more protected as no one bothers with.5% of the market. As a government or major bank it is well worth it to be hacked. The problem with Linux users is the dangerous I am secure by default means another vulnerability where as Windows users kind of know better for the most part and are skeptical of just clicking on shit and know to keep things updated.
It doesn't really matter as far as my point is concerned. LA could have slid into the ocean right after, or went right on as if nothing had happened... it has no real bearing on what happened to OJ's career. But kudos on pointing that out. +1, informative. But... -1, redundant too...
How many Naked Gun movies did OJ appear on afterwards? How many news casting or sporting events did OJ do?
His career ended. He aged a lot now as a result of the stress and also going back to prison. Also Zimmerman is not a rich person where it doesn't matter what you do. He was an average Joe who held accountable unlike famous movie stars.
If Lindsay Lohan worked at a Walmart instead of Holywood she would be fired and blacklisted and couldn't work again besides temp jobs with illegals. But it doesn't matter. But many people get so many chances when you are in high demand and have money and connections. Zimmerman has niether
The reason HR does background checks on you is for insurance purposes. You are guilty whether proved innocense or not to them and they will not insure our company unless everyone single person is 100% clean.
I believe their should be some laws on this to not make this public unless you are found guilty. However, there is nothing to stop someone from googling someones name whether the insurance company mandates this or not.
Worse, he has a death warrant on his head. People want to kill him. Trevons dad is rumored to have gang ties and I would not be surprised for a bounty on his head or a black guy beating the crap and trying to kill him whenever he goes out in public. He may have to move out of country to a 3rd world country picking bananas for $.50/hr seriously!
What about the state that proved he lied over 40 times! He has used the N word before too.
The state also proved Zimmerman was on top while martin was on the bottom when the shot was fired. That does not sound like self defense but an act of aggresion. While it is not illegal to get out of a car it is an act of aggression to get out and attack someone and with Martin on the ground here in a defensive position when he was killed it shows aggressive intent with no threat towards Zimmerman when he was killed.
Zimmerman has no serious medical injuries and no concussion too proved by the state.
With that said I was leaning towards Zimmerman and still am in voting not guilty as it is hard to prove beyond a reasonable doubt from the small tidbits I heard and there were no witnesses. However, I do have my doubts Zimmerman is really so innocent here? I have not heard the whole trial but the manicans and experts do show have a reasonable doubt he was acting in self defense. But, in the US we assume innocense otherwise I would vote guilty.
I need to hear more but from what I heard the defensive has a strong point. Now if Zimmerman was on the ground when he was shot that would be different. The shot fired was at least 4 to 12 inches away and no blood on Zimmerman is more proof. Hardly any of Zimmermans blood on martin showed the fight was not super serious.
Now I wish corps, chinese, and gray hairs who dont know any better would at leadt upgrade their damn browser if they insist on using IE and we can finally use W3C html 5 standards.
It came out how many years late after XP?? Windows 7 should have come out in 2004 at the latest. Longhorn was bad. Vista was bad. Then Windows 7 but now the cost accountants at work noticed how much money they saved by using IE 6 and Xp for 10 years and how the competition didn't cream them for using older technology.
Now there is a resistance to change and a view that is a worthless cost center that adds no value. Gee thanks Balmer.
You do not see these same users and software that requires Mac OSX 10.0 do you? That is because of the updates Apple kept making without costing as money in collasol failures.
No I am not a MS troll. I picked this name 12 years ago when I was a niave MS hater teenager.
I am thankful they no longer set web standards but now -webkit CSS is the new plague in the mobile web which makes me equally uncomfortable. MS shit their pants on IE finally around 2009 as IE 8 was the first browser that was not super duper buggy. Just very outdated and IE 9 came out quickly 2 years later which was in par now with Firefox 3.6 with HTML 5 support mixed with the best hardware acceleration. I started using IE 9 as I found it less bloated and usable over Firefox 4.0 in 2011 even if it was 2009 standards based.
IE 10 supports 90% of Firefox 17s HTML 5 features and is close to caught up. It is not my favorite browser, but if I had to use it for the rest of my life I would not instantly commit suicide like I would have done just 2 years prior.
But windows 8/8.1 are going this route and MS will take years to catch up like it did with IE. They fucked that one up as IE 6 was a great browser back in 2001 that beat the competition if you ask any webmaster. Really that says a lot about how bad Netscape was??
Unlike Windows 8 mozilla Firefox is at least tolerable. Well maybe not version 4, but version 17 ESR I use is certainly usable. Just not special anymore.
Building an enterprise products division: SQL Server becoming very high end, Dynamics, Lync, SharePoint becoming a central component in many enterprise applications. That's Balmer's contribution and it is worth tens of billions per year.
What about IE, Windows 8, Bing, Zune, Windows Mobile.
The fact of the matter is MS once owned 85% of the mobile market too with Windows CE. MS owned 90% of the market with IE. Windows was liked more and XP loyalists are still hear loving that OS and refusing to upgrade as it was perfection. Those my friend happened under Gates and were handed too Balmer.
First Blackberry and now Google and Apple are all eating MS PDA and smartphone market. Mozilla and now Google took IEs dominance away. Bing never materialized and Apple too got rid of WindowsCE as MS planned to own 90% of the embeded and mobile market by now and iOS, Linux, and Android have taken that away.
Those are all under Balmers watch. He deserves to go.
Even if MS did make improvements for Windows 7 and Sharepoint it doesn't matter as there is no compelling reason to upgrade. Ms is competing with the ghost of itself as Windows 2003, IE 8, Exchange 2003, are here to stay for a very long time. That hurts and costs money.
Windows 7 is great but took almost years to get there from XP as we know longhorn failed (vista is not Longhorn), same with IE 10 being too little as IE 6 was the last thing close to cutting edge and none of the users count as they were catch-up to Firefox.
He failed. Apple and Google are the new kings now.
Nothing to do with having to use a tool vs wanting it?
The grandposter said there is no reason to upgrade as a phone is a phone and innovation is slowing. I countered I find the opposite true after what I saw what was out there and how crappy and outdated my Galaxy S1 was.
Things are moving better besides just more ram and a faster processor. Your note is a classic example of innovation. These are coming with more and more sensors and uses. If you just run apps on an old S3 you would not even know what other phones have today. Siri is one example for IPhone users but bluetooth is another too assuming the S3 has that or not (I do not own an IPhone).
or has smartphone technology reached something of a plateau? I mean, I had a iPhone 3GS for years and I held off from upgrading until the 5 was released, thinking that there'd be a step change or paradigm shift of some sort. When the time came I left Apple because looking around it seemed that all of the top of the line handsets are basically the same. I don't exactly push the envelope with my phone useage, and despite what people say I don't know many that do. In terms of the core functionality and interface experience, I couldn't find much to choose between Apple, HTC, Nokia or Samsung.
The iPhone was fantastic back in the day. The touchscreen and build quality were a real step forward and set a new standard. But these day smartphones are just another part of the scenery. Any it's not as if they're really moving forwards. The handsets have gotten as small as they can practically be, and then bigger again. Most handsets use the same style screens. Sure, we get more processing power and what not, but seriously how many cores do you need to check e-mail and post to facebook?
I'm using a Lumia 900 right now. And I'n going to stick with it until the next device comes along that changes the game on the same scale as the iPhone 3G did.
I thought so too until recently.
I had... actually still do have a Samsung Galaxy S1 captivate circa 2010. It is very slow and the browser crashes at least once a day. I bought a galaxy 4S and couldn't believe the difference! It was freaking fast. It had light sensors in both cameras so the screen could auto adjust brightness. It has motion sensors so the pages go up and down based on your retina scanning. It has voice activation commands. If you click 2 of them together it can double as one screen. They could turn into 4g hubs in case someone in the car has an ipad with just wifi they can have maps and internet access. Warn you if you get near your datacap. Many UI improvements etc.
That is just within 2.5 to 3 years time. I never would have imagined these things and wonder what they will be doing in another 2.5 to 3 years time? They are moving forward fast
If you had a time machine and went back to the summer of 2003 and said "Hey we all still will be using Windows XP and even prefering it! Also many here will hate change and demand 3 year old GUIs too!"
You would be laughed at!
But lets look what happened?
In the good old days Windows and Linux just worked. You could customize Windows for many apps with this new 1990s thing called a task bar. You could organize your start menu with frequently used documents. In Linux you could customize it to your heart contents. Ubuntu 6.06 was gorgous! Its fonts were AA back then before patent lawsuits. You could turn on COmpiviz and make water effects apps catching on fire when you closed them, cpu monitors on the top Gnone task bar!
You could multitask easily on the screen and life was good. Good old days in computing when things were so much better. May those days rest in peace:-(... only bad thing is we had crappy cell phones then. So now we must only use cell phone single tasking simplistic craplets to replace what we supperiorly had before. Fuck that!
Yes a galaxy 4 beat my cyr... whatever the fuck I ran 10 years ago in greenscreen glory with its.mid ringtones but at what cost? That my desktop now is unusuable iwth an ugly orange full screen WIndows 8.1 news applet loads with no recourse besides a doorway amesia inducing OS? Fuck that. I will keep my Windows 7 and CentOS 6 for the next 10 years. I wont change!
Not because I am an old man but because we know better. Maybe Windows 9 and Gnome 4 will change my opinion? But I like to move forward and man this is so backwards. Even Windows 3.0 let me multitask easier and had prettier graphics. Here I have a supercomputer GPU and it emulates EGA graphics with no aero WTF
Workflows or not my users hate the cloud as things that could be resolved within 6 hours take 1 week now as they have to call Indian help desk which calls us who then calls the cloud provider where they call two other departments to fix the problem. Not hey email bill our exchange admin to fix this asap! Then after lunch it is solved.
I feel sorry for them and makes me want to quit I.T. Everything is getting worse
Wow I thought I heard this before... like when 9-11 timeframe a decade ago that another popular browser had unique CSS features that only it had to provide a better experience over that old obsolete Netscape engine.
The same developers who cry foul are busy making sure their mobile sites only work with -webkit and break with everything else but IE 6 sucks because it is sooo proprietary.
Oh and I will have to say CentOS and Ubuntu LTS are the best bets for what you are talking about. AMD hardware sucks with Linux.
I run CentOS in an emulator. It has old 2010 Gnome 2 which is how I like it and will be supported for years. Will I see the latest apps? Nope, but I do not want the headache either of shit breaking. I just use it for web development and my ISPs all use older but patched software anyway. I like newer stuff but many Linux is not hte simple distro it was back in the 1990s where you just manually tar -xpvf into a / and put a path somewhere in/etc and be done. WinSXS does it right but the XP loyalists shit their pants at bloat when they see it cna grow to many gigs.
I am shocked a comment like this made it to plus +4?
Premium or not start using Windows 8.1 and your opinion will change quite rapidly of what a premium OS is. A little hint that start8 to emulate Windows 7 wont work anymore.
Man Macs are expensive and so last decade. But shoot when this computer starts to age which it is begining to show already I wont know what to do?
Unfortunately Hairy I tried Windows 8.1 yesterday. The UI is even worse than 8.0!
I really did try not to be an old man afraid of change and an elistist as I would lvoe applets on my phone and PC all working together in Harmony in HTML 5 glory.
Now it only scrolls left to right making up and down useless on my mouse and while the start button helps clueless users I kept having to hit it. IE 11 disapointed me and misrendered and wouldn't work on many websites. WTF this is 2013 not 2003! As someone who wants to start a web based business I was hoping IE would have gotten its act together but it tells Apache/IIS to render like Gecko and none of my financial sites worked unless I changed it to tell it to food broken IE 8/9 code. Javascript is the culprit assuming css hacks went away.
Anyway. many users say XP was the greatest Windows OS ever and are reluctant to change. You see their posts saying Windows 7 is eyecandy bloated rubbish over the good XP. Windows 7 in my opinion will be the best OS.
I was so hoping MS got its act together and feel sorry for 8.1 users since start8 and other utilities wont work anymore once that update comes in. It will be fun reading the replies on slashdot once this hits news:-)
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Doh, GPS unit not GPU. Typo
So the more intellectual question is what is next if the surface fails?
I do not know of any ARM rt devices out there. I heard a rumor about an Acer but have never seen it.
Will this mean Windows 9 will be part of the WIndows 7 lineage and not WIndows 8/Windows mobile? Or will MS try a surface 2 and keep blowing money into it like they did with Bing and xbox for over a half a decade before they broke even? (Does bing make money yet?)
Personally I kind of got excited when it came out as Apple has a monopoly on the tablet market since they banned Samsung and other droid tablets out of the market here in the US for using icons and rounded corners. I have seen 1 android tablet in my lifetime by someone and that is it as everyone loves their ipads. But the surface lacked even a GPU unit and no cell phone service WTF. How usefull is this POS if I can not even get a map and weather reports if I am on the road? Seriously.
The surface pro still doesn't have either making it just a laptop and not a tablet and no disk space
Such ignorant posts like the grandparents truly scare me.
I would mod you higher if I had points.
I have seen Linux servers compromised and admins throwing a fit saying it is impossible because they run Linux! No such as a rootkit could possible exist. This was a major bank too.
Because Linux is not more secure than Windows or MacOSX regardless of what hte fanboys here say. Just because it is not from Microsoft doesn't mean it is secure by default. In fact (I maybe modded down for this), Linux is the least secure modern kernel out there. It offers no heap, stack, ASLR, or even DEP (It may offer this as of 3.0?)
Insecure operating systems exist because they are written in C. Not because they are from unpopular corporations. C has no buffer checks so once a data type gets all used it simply exists the next address in memory. OpenBSD is trying to change as is Microsoft as of XP Service Pack 2. Windows 7 and 8 scramble the memory addresses and offer sandboxing support for browsers so you have no clue where each .dll is loaded in ram when you try to do a heap spray after you exploit a system. I believe MacOSX now has this too as of Snow Leopard. It is also how Java applets compromise systems too.
I have seen clients servers turn into russan phising sites in major banks running it.
Sure as a consumer you are more protected as no one bothers with .5% of the market. As a government or major bank it is well worth it to be hacked. The problem with Linux users is the dangerous I am secure by default means another vulnerability where as Windows users kind of know better for the most part and are skeptical of just clicking on shit and know to keep things updated.
Try to get your facts straight.
It doesn't really matter as far as my point is concerned. LA could have slid into the ocean right after, or went right on as if nothing had happened... it has no real bearing on what happened to OJ's career. But kudos on pointing that out. +1, informative. But... -1, redundant too...
How many Naked Gun movies did OJ appear on afterwards? How many news casting or sporting events did OJ do?
His career ended. He aged a lot now as a result of the stress and also going back to prison. Also Zimmerman is not a rich person where it doesn't matter what you do. He was an average Joe who held accountable unlike famous movie stars.
If Lindsay Lohan worked at a Walmart instead of Holywood she would be fired and blacklisted and couldn't work again besides temp jobs with illegals. But it doesn't matter. But many people get so many chances when you are in high demand and have money and connections. Zimmerman has niether
Insurance companies wont let you hire him.
The reason HR does background checks on you is for insurance purposes. You are guilty whether proved innocense or not to them and they will not insure our company unless everyone single person is 100% clean.
I believe their should be some laws on this to not make this public unless you are found guilty. However, there is nothing to stop someone from googling someones name whether the insurance company mandates this or not.
Worse, he has a death warrant on his head. People want to kill him. Trevons dad is rumored to have gang ties and I would not be surprised for a bounty on his head or a black guy beating the crap and trying to kill him whenever he goes out in public. He may have to move out of country to a 3rd world country picking bananas for $.50/hr seriously!
Playing devils advocate here
What about the state that proved he lied over 40 times! He has used the N word before too.
The state also proved Zimmerman was on top while martin was on the bottom when the shot was fired. That does not sound like self defense but an act of aggresion. While it is not illegal to get out of a car it is an act of aggression to get out and attack someone and with Martin on the ground here in a defensive position when he was killed it shows aggressive intent with no threat towards Zimmerman when he was killed.
Zimmerman has no serious medical injuries and no concussion too proved by the state.
With that said I was leaning towards Zimmerman and still am in voting not guilty as it is hard to prove beyond a reasonable doubt from the small tidbits I heard and there were no witnesses. However, I do have my doubts Zimmerman is really so innocent here? I have not heard the whole trial but the manicans and experts do show have a reasonable doubt he was acting in self defense. But, in the US we assume innocense otherwise I would vote guilty.
I need to hear more but from what I heard the defensive has a strong point. Now if Zimmerman was on the ground when he was shot that would be different. The shot fired was at least 4 to 12 inches away and no blood on Zimmerman is more proof. Hardly any of Zimmermans blood on martin showed the fight was not super serious.
Yep and I am relieved and thankful for mozilla.
Now I wish corps, chinese, and gray hairs who dont know any better would at leadt upgrade their damn browser if they insist on using IE and we can finally use W3C html 5 standards.
Old IE really did blow by 2004.
Balmer blew that one.
Windows 7 is a failure too. Why?
It came out how many years late after XP?? Windows 7 should have come out in 2004 at the latest. Longhorn was bad. Vista was bad. Then Windows 7 but now the cost accountants at work noticed how much money they saved by using IE 6 and Xp for 10 years and how the competition didn't cream them for using older technology.
Now there is a resistance to change and a view that is a worthless cost center that adds no value. Gee thanks Balmer.
You do not see these same users and software that requires Mac OSX 10.0 do you? That is because of the updates Apple kept making without costing as money in collasol failures.
IE 10 is an awesome browser.
No I am not a MS troll. I picked this name 12 years ago when I was a niave MS hater teenager.
I am thankful they no longer set web standards but now -webkit CSS is the new plague in the mobile web which makes me equally uncomfortable. MS shit their pants on IE finally around 2009 as IE 8 was the first browser that was not super duper buggy. Just very outdated and IE 9 came out quickly 2 years later which was in par now with Firefox 3.6 with HTML 5 support mixed with the best hardware acceleration. I started using IE 9 as I found it less bloated and usable over Firefox 4.0 in 2011 even if it was 2009 standards based.
IE 10 supports 90% of Firefox 17s HTML 5 features and is close to caught up. It is not my favorite browser, but if I had to use it for the rest of my life I would not instantly commit suicide like I would have done just 2 years prior.
But windows 8/8.1 are going this route and MS will take years to catch up like it did with IE. They fucked that one up as IE 6 was a great browser back in 2001 that beat the competition if you ask any webmaster. Really that says a lot about how bad Netscape was??
Unlike Windows 8 mozilla Firefox is at least tolerable. Well maybe not version 4, but version 17 ESR I use is certainly usable. Just not special anymore.
Building an enterprise products division: SQL Server becoming very high end, Dynamics, Lync, SharePoint becoming a central component in many enterprise applications. That's Balmer's contribution and it is worth tens of billions per year.
What about IE, Windows 8, Bing, Zune, Windows Mobile.
The fact of the matter is MS once owned 85% of the mobile market too with Windows CE. MS owned 90% of the market with IE. Windows was liked more and XP loyalists are still hear loving that OS and refusing to upgrade as it was perfection. Those my friend happened under Gates and were handed too Balmer.
First Blackberry and now Google and Apple are all eating MS PDA and smartphone market. Mozilla and now Google took IEs dominance away. Bing never materialized and Apple too got rid of WindowsCE as MS planned to own 90% of the embeded and mobile market by now and iOS, Linux, and Android have taken that away.
Those are all under Balmers watch. He deserves to go.
Even if MS did make improvements for Windows 7 and Sharepoint it doesn't matter as there is no compelling reason to upgrade. Ms is competing with the ghost of itself as Windows 2003, IE 8, Exchange 2003, are here to stay for a very long time. That hurts and costs money.
Windows 7 is great but took almost years to get there from XP as we know longhorn failed (vista is not Longhorn), same with IE 10 being too little as IE 6 was the last thing close to cutting edge and none of the users count as they were catch-up to Firefox.
He failed. Apple and Google are the new kings now.
"Mongo is ACID compliant at the document level."
But not where it counts.
Oracle has a patent that limits a query to only use 1 cpu. So the answer is a big NO.
Aren't software patents great?
Nothing to do with having to use a tool vs wanting it?
The grandposter said there is no reason to upgrade as a phone is a phone and innovation is slowing. I countered I find the opposite true after what I saw what was out there and how crappy and outdated my Galaxy S1 was.
Things are moving better besides just more ram and a faster processor. Your note is a classic example of innovation. These are coming with more and more sensors and uses. If you just run apps on an old S3 you would not even know what other phones have today. Siri is one example for IPhone users but bluetooth is another too assuming the S3 has that or not (I do not own an IPhone).
I was thinking excellent nails then would be more of a point than a hammer
or has smartphone technology reached something of a plateau? I mean, I had a iPhone 3GS for years and I held off from upgrading until the 5 was released, thinking that there'd be a step change or paradigm shift of some sort. When the time came I left Apple because looking around it seemed that all of the top of the line handsets are basically the same. I don't exactly push the envelope with my phone useage, and despite what people say I don't know many that do. In terms of the core functionality and interface experience, I couldn't find much to choose between Apple, HTC, Nokia or Samsung.
The iPhone was fantastic back in the day. The touchscreen and build quality were a real step forward and set a new standard. But these day smartphones are just another part of the scenery. Any it's not as if they're really moving forwards. The handsets have gotten as small as they can practically be, and then bigger again. Most handsets use the same style screens. Sure, we get more processing power and what not, but seriously how many cores do you need to check e-mail and post to facebook?
I'm using a Lumia 900 right now. And I'n going to stick with it until the next device comes along that changes the game on the same scale as the iPhone 3G did.
I thought so too until recently.
I had ... actually still do have a Samsung Galaxy S1 captivate circa 2010. It is very slow and the browser crashes at least once a day. I bought a galaxy 4S and couldn't believe the difference! It was freaking fast. It had light sensors in both cameras so the screen could auto adjust brightness. It has motion sensors so the pages go up and down based on your retina scanning. It has voice activation commands. If you click 2 of them together it can double as one screen. They could turn into 4g hubs in case someone in the car has an ipad with just wifi they can have maps and internet access. Warn you if you get near your datacap. Many UI improvements etc.
That is just within 2.5 to 3 years time. I never would have imagined these things and wonder what they will be doing in another 2.5 to 3 years time? They are moving forward fast
It runs Windows. No one will buy it, and those who do will soon regret it.
Enough with the pretending Windows phones are actually good for something.
I disagree. They will make excellent hand warmers
Why has it become ultra conservative?
If you had a time machine and went back to the summer of 2003 and said "Hey we all still will be using Windows XP and even prefering it! Also many here will hate change and demand 3 year old GUIs too!"
You would be laughed at!
But lets look what happened?
In the good old days Windows and Linux just worked. You could customize Windows for many apps with this new 1990s thing called a task bar. You could organize your start menu with frequently used documents. In Linux you could customize it to your heart contents. Ubuntu 6.06 was gorgous! Its fonts were AA back then before patent lawsuits. You could turn on COmpiviz and make water effects apps catching on fire when you closed them, cpu monitors on the top Gnone task bar!
You could multitask easily on the screen and life was good. Good old days in computing when things were so much better. May those days rest in peace :-( ... only bad thing is we had crappy cell phones then. So now we must only use cell phone single tasking simplistic craplets to replace what we supperiorly had before. Fuck that!
Yes a galaxy 4 beat my cyr... whatever the fuck I ran 10 years ago in greenscreen glory with its .mid ringtones but at what cost? That my desktop now is unusuable iwth an ugly orange full screen WIndows 8.1 news applet loads with no recourse besides a doorway amesia inducing OS? Fuck that. I will keep my Windows 7 and CentOS 6 for the next 10 years. I wont change!
Not because I am an old man but because we know better. Maybe Windows 9 and Gnome 4 will change my opinion? But I like to move forward and man this is so backwards. Even Windows 3.0 let me multitask easier and had prettier graphics. Here I have a supercomputer GPU and it emulates EGA graphics with no aero WTF
Workflows or not my users hate the cloud as things that could be resolved within 6 hours take 1 week now as they have to call Indian help desk which calls us who then calls the cloud provider where they call two other departments to fix the problem. Not hey email bill our exchange admin to fix this asap! Then after lunch it is solved.
I feel sorry for them and makes me want to quit I.T. Everything is getting worse
Many here on slashdot will still bash Firefox for being bloated while typing the comment in Chrome.
Wow I thought I heard this before ... like when 9-11 timeframe a decade ago that another popular browser had unique CSS features that only it had to provide a better experience over that old obsolete Netscape engine.
The same developers who cry foul are busy making sure their mobile sites only work with -webkit and break with everything else but IE 6 sucks because it is sooo proprietary.
Right because AMD chipsets with other hardware such as gpus, ethernet, and wifi are never needed in a desktop system.
At least intel ones have drivers for wifi, ethernet, and its crappy gpus, all covered by the same manufacturer.
Oh and I will have to say CentOS and Ubuntu LTS are the best bets for what you are talking about. AMD hardware sucks with Linux.
I run CentOS in an emulator. It has old 2010 Gnome 2 which is how I like it and will be supported for years. Will I see the latest apps? Nope, but I do not want the headache either of shit breaking. I just use it for web development and my ISPs all use older but patched software anyway. I like newer stuff but many Linux is not hte simple distro it was back in the 1990s where you just manually tar -xpvf into a / and put a path somewhere in /etc and be done. WinSXS does it right but the XP loyalists shit their pants at bloat when they see it cna grow to many gigs.
I am shocked a comment like this made it to plus +4?
Premium or not start using Windows 8.1 and your opinion will change quite rapidly of what a premium OS is. A little hint that start8 to emulate Windows 7 wont work anymore.
Man Macs are expensive and so last decade. But shoot when this computer starts to age which it is begining to show already I wont know what to do?
Unfortunately Hairy I tried Windows 8.1 yesterday. The UI is even worse than 8.0!
I really did try not to be an old man afraid of change and an elistist as I would lvoe applets on my phone and PC all working together in Harmony in HTML 5 glory.
Now it only scrolls left to right making up and down useless on my mouse and while the start button helps clueless users I kept having to hit it. IE 11 disapointed me and misrendered and wouldn't work on many websites. WTF this is 2013 not 2003! As someone who wants to start a web based business I was hoping IE would have gotten its act together but it tells Apache/IIS to render like Gecko and none of my financial sites worked unless I changed it to tell it to food broken IE 8/9 code. Javascript is the culprit assuming css hacks went away.
Anyway. many users say XP was the greatest Windows OS ever and are reluctant to change. You see their posts saying Windows 7 is eyecandy bloated rubbish over the good XP. Windows 7 in my opinion will be the best OS.
I was so hoping MS got its act together and feel sorry for 8.1 users since start8 and other utilities wont work anymore once that update comes in. It will be fun reading the replies on slashdot once this hits news :-)