Steve ran the job of pretty much everyone at the company. It can hid incompetence as we know Sirii and Maps would have not made IOS6 if Jobs were at the helm. He would go ballastic and quickly put the older versions in 6 and tweak them for 7 instead.
The woman who invented the fonts for the 1984 mac had a daily chat with Steve. EVERY DAY... for a freaking font to make sure it would look just write. You think Bill Gates did that? Nope. He did the opposite. Worry about it next release and focus on strategy. This would also explain the Star Trek release schedule. Just put it out first etc. Jobs wouldn't let anything go if it were not ready.
Now with Steve gone the real producers are showing themselves. The ones who are not are also. Personally I do not understand what was wrong with their stores as they are still making retail sales. Ios? I can see that was a big blow.
I am in favor of things looking pretty and familiar. It doesn't make sense to have an awesome GPU which runs an OS where you have only 8 colors to choose from and no different than Windows 3.0 on an EGA card. This is the 21st century.
The problem is the anti skeupmorphic folks have terrible outdated looks and some of the functionality is missing that people are used to for the last 20 years.
In writing? Jim Books? Everyone else has them accessible on their ipads and iphones and I never hear about any security problem. The only one who has a problem doing this securely over the internet is you! If you are not capable of doing the job do I need to find someone who will do it securely? As a PHB I need up to date information in a modern way like everyone else.
Sincerely your PHB
In a more serious note we need to wait for a terrorist attack like what Iran is planning and a possible nuclear power plant meltdown. Only then will the phbs be convinced it is a bad practice and laws against this will take place sadly. When money talks shit walks and it always wins everytime until proven it is a bad idea later.
Sadly no one will listen until something bad happens.
If you told someone pre-2009 about the need for financial regulations and the upcoming collapse people would call you a communist and a liberal! Peter Schiff did jsut that and was laughed at before he earned fame when the Great Financial Collapse hit.
Same is true with nuclear powerplants after fukashima, airport security after 9-11, and same after the space shuttle Challenger exploded, IE 6 security after code red. Money talks and shit walks. Only when deemed necessary does something change.
Right now sadly we might be without power or worse another nuclear powerplant meltdown here in the US caused by Iran before anything gets done. Not unions or professional software orgnaizations or even licensing.
People hate change and especially MBA PHBs who never have heard of a single internet security attack on a PLC piece of equipment. If you can't do it MR. Slashdotter reading this then someone else will since it is never a problem.... therefore it is perfectly secure etc.
I mean they hated upgrading browsers too until IE 6 was shown a risk and they still love XP despite it. Why? Money. Until it becomes a liability and laws come into effect and PHBs shit their pants the problem will nto be solved
Because God forbid someone would sell them used and deny megacorp profits!
This way everyone is forced to buy new only as if you used a dongle then someone could sell them. Can you imagine how much the car companies would love to make buying used cars illegal?
How can you say it is false when in the next couple of words you say it is true?
Yes, it can be altered. Anything can be altered. But why would the DEFAULT be to violate the privacy of IE 10 users? Either the apache programmers are fucking insane and retarded, or they are being bribed by advertisers and crooks. Occam's razor, bitches.
Google is a top funder of Apache and if advertisers like doubleclick and Google band up together, then website operators will lose revenue if they only support IIS. In this way Apache is more afraid to lose the e-marketers than a few angry geeks on slashdot sadly.
IE 10 is very competitive to both Firefox and Chrome. Javascript tests even surprise it or tie it. In other words it is a good browser again. MS really did fuck up IE after IE 6.
It lacks add ons so for me I probably wont rely on it but it is a great browser for office drones. This is another step displaying MS upping their game. However, it is too little too late at this game. Many of us will not go back again just like hardly anyone went back to RealPlayer after they fixed themselves nor will any of us go back to Norton anti virus of AOL.
But with Windows RT only allowing IE, at least MS is making it tolerable and making website designers lives easier.
Right destroyed by all so evil MS since they are the only ones implementing anything AT ALL. W3C changed the standard after spammers and advertisers whinned and paid them off.
I see nothing but good and no harm. Maybe if Firefox wasn't so scared of Google and started implementing more and more privacy settings we could then see a change. I just do not see how this is bad unless someone's hatred towards Microsoft blinds them so much they refuse to want to even see.
That is a VERY recent change to the standard which was put in AFTER MS gave users an option which was well within the standard. Advertisers realised they would be fucked so they changed the standard.
Mod up. Advertisers also made sure Apache ignored it by default as well and frankly bribed them and threatened to hose websites using their network and only supporting IIS unless they caved in.
Because Google, doubleclick, and every e-marketer on the planet gives money to Apache and writes modules for it.
If Apache respected it they would get some angry phone calls and threatening actions like ad networks only supporting IIS. Either you do not support it or we will cut you out of the market with someone else instead!!
Knowing Slashdot they would then be bashed for annoying pop ups and letting advertisers track them.
Clueless users would feel IE is stalking them after seeing it pop up every 5 seconds browsing the web and would switch to Chrome so they do not have to feel tracked.
MS is the bad guy from giving a finger to the spammers? I never seen a standard where compulsive stalking must be enabled agaisntt a user's wishes. Is there anything that wont get them bashed on this site?
What's even more shocking is that there's people still using Yahoo.
When working on any neophytes or old persons computer Yahoo is there under IE with the default homepage 80% of the time. Reason being is the crapware that OEMs install as well as ISP software both reset the users homepage too it for $$$ cash back.
Ones with MSN as the default page are typically corporate users. If MS decided not to be retarded and capture the market from Google they would put it in the Windows contract to not change the homepage at the OEM level.... anyway I can see why Yahoo would be threatened by this as smart users like us who go to sites like slashdot use an alternative browser. Or if we do use IE we change the homepage to Google or something similar. Yahoo is the oldschool portal that regular people use who are not into computers very reminiscent of AOL back in the day 10 years earlier.
He has malware. Windows 7 auto defrags and has ways to protect its registry and does cleanups over time.
One of the HUGE benefits of upgrading from XP is it no longer has Windows rot. Basically the registry fragments. Overtime it gets so slow it needs to be re-imaged or if the system is ignored business users just get used to low productivity of waiting 10 minutes for their computers to boot up and waste time for 3 hours every Tuesday afternoon when mcCrappy does its scan etc.... but NOOO do not upgrade that OS it would cost money! It is just cheaper to have our executives sit and do nothing 4 hours a week instead at $200 an hour.....(/END RANT)
Windows 7 runs as fast 2 years than the day it was imaged on the system. Windows is not the crappy OS it used to be. The Registry even virtualizes itself during an install to make sure it stays clean in case something happens. Pretty sweet hu?
Well rather than being a bitter middle aged man who hates change, these as well as yours is why Windows 7 is here to stay for me and millions of others.
Until the Modern UI has a taskbar and a way to organize a shitload of tiles from desktop apps, the ability of having more than one tile opened,... and recently opened, I will hold off. Maybe Windows 9 will have this?
Microsoft has a story of releasing half baked products to make them stability and fixing them later in future releases. Vista was ugly and it seemed beta quality. MS fixed the colors and performance in Windows 7. Same with Internet Explorer. Unfortunately they were so damn slow that IE 6 got entrenched that people shun IE even though IE 9 and 10 are good.
I wish they wouldn't do this and just not release something before it is baked.
Unfortunately they can't leave TLS because of IE 6 and maybe IE 7(?) support. These apps use HTML from IE for functionality and need to support these older browsers for corps and people who refuse to upgrade to a modern browser.
Another reason to also get rid of XP as you can't upgrade someone's IE from your own setup.exe program.
Arstechnica.com had an article (older as I can't find it to link) which showed TLS to be ineffective by 2016 as computers became faster and through collisions will be able to hack the keys.
Not really. I do like the speed up and simplicity of having a roaming profile stored at Microsoft with a single hotmail account. Installing is Muuuch quicker with my settings all back after a re-image.
Overall it feels no different than Windows 7. Benchmarks show them similar with a tiny i/o advantage for Windows 8 under a few scenarios. Nothing that blows your hair back or anything.
The move from XP to Windows 7 on modern hardware has a much better impact on performance than to Windows 8. Especially for multi core systems. But the SMP code in Windows 7 is the same in Windows 2008 release 2 which can scale to 32 processors. If you have just an icore5 you wont notice anything. Now XP... yeah that was optimized for 2 - 4 cores if anything as it is 11 years old.
Graphics are slower too on windows 8 as the drivers are not optimized yet. No contrary to popular belief the driver model is updated and WDWM has changed which is why IE 10 is not available for Windows 7 yet.
Here is what I have on my Win 7 desktop 1. Adobe PS, Dreamweaver, and Illustrator 2. VS 2010 3. Office 2010 4. Vmware 5. Utilities that include truecrypt, uTorrent, Firefox, Chrome, dropbox, truecrpyt, notepad++, skype, YahooIM, filezilla, Google Earth, Avast anti virus, Gimp 2, and Paint.net
In other words an average PC setup for someone who works and plays. Do you have any idea how many freaking tiles that would create! 80+ tiles!!
Visual studio has 15 links for utilities and websites (click here for Silverlight 3 SDk, click here for Silverlight 4 SDK....). Adobe has shit like ActionScript Extender, Photoshop cs, Photoshop cs 64-bit..
If I had this on Windows 8 I would have to scroll over and over and over and over and over to find everything with 12+ pages! Sure if I had every command memorized I could hit the start key with its inferior search over Windows 7 but I do not except for 4 or 5 programs off the top off my head.
Metro can't handle desktop apps because of the tile mess and I do not have a lot of programs compared to some folks who have +30 programs and shareware utilities. You are then talking about 100+ tiles.
Get a Phenom II man before they stop making them? Seriously as the FX is an AM3+ and not socket compatible. Windows 7 has its slow moments during a re-image iwth Windows Updates taking forever to recompile all the.NET fixes. A new processor will also help with HTML 5/5.1 as browsers are using threading and separate processes more and more.
My hex-core phenom II is great for 30+ tabs and I can run a few games too. As webworkers and websockets become standard in more and more webpages a newer phenomII with 6 cores will be beneficial.
I like the phenom II when it was new. I just hate the newer chips.
And all is good with a light from heaven shining down on the surface. Angelic music is heard as a golden crown above Steves head as he flies around with angelic wings.
If you happen to disagree? Bah you are just a middle aged old man who hates change!
The bandwidth is the same. Intel is doing mathematical tricks by guessing the next instruction before it is even fetched in hardware with 90% accuracy. In essence it doubles performance for small burst of loads and since it is patented AMD has an inherent disadvantage.
Thats what the ivybridge icores did that the sandy bridge ones didn't that nailed the coffen for AMD which was already struggling.
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Steve ran the job of pretty much everyone at the company. It can hid incompetence as we know Sirii and Maps would have not made IOS6 if Jobs were at the helm. He would go ballastic and quickly put the older versions in 6 and tweak them for 7 instead.
The woman who invented the fonts for the 1984 mac had a daily chat with Steve. EVERY DAY ... for a freaking font to make sure it would look just write. You think Bill Gates did that? Nope. He did the opposite. Worry about it next release and focus on strategy. This would also explain the Star Trek release schedule. Just put it out first etc. Jobs wouldn't let anything go if it were not ready.
Now with Steve gone the real producers are showing themselves. The ones who are not are also. Personally I do not understand what was wrong with their stores as they are still making retail sales. Ios? I can see that was a big blow.
So you want something like METRO instead?
I am in favor of things looking pretty and familiar. It doesn't make sense to have an awesome GPU which runs an OS where you have only 8 colors to choose from and no different than Windows 3.0 on an EGA card. This is the 21st century.
The problem is the anti skeupmorphic folks have terrible outdated looks and some of the functionality is missing that people are used to for the last 20 years.
Enough to cause a meltdown? Now if it had a +23 foot surge Katrina style cat 5 that could take down backup generators then wake me up?
It is a cat 1 storm. Yawn.
In writing? Jim Books? Everyone else has them accessible on their ipads and iphones and I never hear about any security problem. The only one who has a problem doing this securely over the internet is you! If you are not capable of doing the job do I need to find someone who will do it securely? As a PHB I need up to date information in a modern way like everyone else.
Sincerely your PHB
In a more serious note we need to wait for a terrorist attack like what Iran is planning and a possible nuclear power plant meltdown. Only then will the phbs be convinced it is a bad practice and laws against this will take place sadly. When money talks shit walks and it always wins everytime until proven it is a bad idea later.
Sadly no one will listen until something bad happens.
If you told someone pre-2009 about the need for financial regulations and the upcoming collapse people would call you a communist and a liberal! Peter Schiff did jsut that and was laughed at before he earned fame when the Great Financial Collapse hit.
Same is true with nuclear powerplants after fukashima, airport security after 9-11, and same after the space shuttle Challenger exploded, IE 6 security after code red. Money talks and shit walks. Only when deemed necessary does something change.
Right now sadly we might be without power or worse another nuclear powerplant meltdown here in the US caused by Iran before anything gets done. Not unions or professional software orgnaizations or even licensing.
People hate change and especially MBA PHBs who never have heard of a single internet security attack on a PLC piece of equipment. If you can't do it MR. Slashdotter reading this then someone else will since it is never a problem.... therefore it is perfectly secure etc.
I mean they hated upgrading browsers too until IE 6 was shown a risk and they still love XP despite it. Why? Money. Until it becomes a liability and laws come into effect and PHBs shit their pants the problem will nto be solved
Because God forbid someone would sell them used and deny megacorp profits!
This way everyone is forced to buy new only as if you used a dongle then someone could sell them. Can you imagine how much the car companies would love to make buying used cars illegal?
How can you say it is false when in the next couple of words you say it is true?
Yes, it can be altered. Anything can be altered. But why would the DEFAULT be to violate the privacy of IE 10 users? Either the apache programmers are fucking insane and retarded, or they are being bribed by advertisers and crooks. Occam's razor, bitches.
Google is a top funder of Apache and if advertisers like doubleclick and Google band up together, then website operators will lose revenue if they only support IIS. In this way Apache is more afraid to lose the e-marketers than a few angry geeks on slashdot sadly.
IE 10 is very competitive to both Firefox and Chrome. Javascript tests even surprise it or tie it. In other words it is a good browser again. MS really did fuck up IE after IE 6.
It lacks add ons so for me I probably wont rely on it but it is a great browser for office drones. This is another step displaying MS upping their game. However, it is too little too late at this game. Many of us will not go back again just like hardly anyone went back to RealPlayer after they fixed themselves nor will any of us go back to Norton anti virus of AOL.
But with Windows RT only allowing IE, at least MS is making it tolerable and making website designers lives easier.
Right destroyed by all so evil MS since they are the only ones implementing anything AT ALL. W3C changed the standard after spammers and advertisers whinned and paid them off.
I see nothing but good and no harm. Maybe if Firefox wasn't so scared of Google and started implementing more and more privacy settings we could then see a change. I just do not see how this is bad unless someone's hatred towards Microsoft blinds them so much they refuse to want to even see.
That is a VERY recent change to the standard which was put in AFTER MS gave users an option which was well within the standard. Advertisers realised they would be fucked so they changed the standard.
Mod up. Advertisers also made sure Apache ignored it by default as well and frankly bribed them and threatened to hose websites using their network and only supporting IIS unless they caved in.
Then why are they laying off employees and using revolving CEOs? The investors disagree with that assertion
Because Google, doubleclick, and every e-marketer on the planet gives money to Apache and writes modules for it.
If Apache respected it they would get some angry phone calls and threatening actions like ad networks only supporting IIS. Either you do not support it or we will cut you out of the market with someone else instead!!
Knowing Slashdot they would then be bashed for annoying pop ups and letting advertisers track them.
Clueless users would feel IE is stalking them after seeing it pop up every 5 seconds browsing the web and would switch to Chrome so they do not have to feel tracked.
Seriously?!
MS is the bad guy from giving a finger to the spammers? I never seen a standard where compulsive stalking must be enabled agaisntt a user's wishes. Is there anything that wont get them bashed on this site?
What's even more shocking is that there's people still using Yahoo.
When working on any neophytes or old persons computer Yahoo is there under IE with the default homepage 80% of the time. Reason being is the crapware that OEMs install as well as ISP software both reset the users homepage too it for $$$ cash back.
Ones with MSN as the default page are typically corporate users. If MS decided not to be retarded and capture the market from Google they would put it in the Windows contract to not change the homepage at the OEM level. ... anyway I can see why Yahoo would be threatened by this as smart users like us who go to sites like slashdot use an alternative browser. Or if we do use IE we change the homepage to Google or something similar. Yahoo is the oldschool portal that regular people use who are not into computers very reminiscent of AOL back in the day 10 years earlier.
He has malware. Windows 7 auto defrags and has ways to protect its registry and does cleanups over time.
One of the HUGE benefits of upgrading from XP is it no longer has Windows rot. Basically the registry fragments. Overtime it gets so slow it needs to be re-imaged or if the system is ignored business users just get used to low productivity of waiting 10 minutes for their computers to boot up and waste time for 3 hours every Tuesday afternoon when mcCrappy does its scan etc. ... but NOOO do not upgrade that OS it would cost money! It is just cheaper to have our executives sit and do nothing 4 hours a week instead at $200 an hour. ....(/END RANT)
Windows 7 runs as fast 2 years than the day it was imaged on the system. Windows is not the crappy OS it used to be. The Registry even virtualizes itself during an install to make sure it stays clean in case something happens. Pretty sweet hu?
Well rather than being a bitter middle aged man who hates change, these as well as yours is why Windows 7 is here to stay for me and millions of others.
Until the Modern UI has a taskbar and a way to organize a shitload of tiles from desktop apps, the ability of having more than one tile opened, ... and recently opened, I will hold off. Maybe Windows 9 will have this?
Microsoft has a story of releasing half baked products to make them stability and fixing them later in future releases. Vista was ugly and it seemed beta quality. MS fixed the colors and performance in Windows 7. Same with Internet Explorer. Unfortunately they were so damn slow that IE 6 got entrenched that people shun IE even though IE 9 and 10 are good.
I wish they wouldn't do this and just not release something before it is baked.
RedHat has an agreement with Sun that Oracle inherited. They can't do anything about it at this point.
Unfortunately they can't leave TLS because of IE 6 and maybe IE 7(?) support. These apps use HTML from IE for functionality and need to support these older browsers for corps and people who refuse to upgrade to a modern browser.
Another reason to also get rid of XP as you can't upgrade someone's IE from your own setup.exe program.
Arstechnica.com had an article (older as I can't find it to link) which showed TLS to be ineffective by 2016 as computers became faster and through collisions will be able to hack the keys.
Not really. I do like the speed up and simplicity of having a roaming profile stored at Microsoft with a single hotmail account. Installing is Muuuch quicker with my settings all back after a re-image.
Overall it feels no different than Windows 7. Benchmarks show them similar with a tiny i/o advantage for Windows 8 under a few scenarios. Nothing that blows your hair back or anything.
The move from XP to Windows 7 on modern hardware has a much better impact on performance than to Windows 8. Especially for multi core systems. But the SMP code in Windows 7 is the same in Windows 2008 release 2 which can scale to 32 processors. If you have just an icore5 you wont notice anything. Now XP ... yeah that was optimized for 2 - 4 cores if anything as it is 11 years old.
Graphics are slower too on windows 8 as the drivers are not optimized yet. No contrary to popular belief the driver model is updated and WDWM has changed which is why IE 10 is not available for Windows 7 yet.
Here is what I have on my Win 7 desktop
1. Adobe PS, Dreamweaver, and Illustrator
2. VS 2010
3. Office 2010
4. Vmware
5. Utilities that include truecrypt, uTorrent, Firefox, Chrome, dropbox, truecrpyt, notepad++, skype, YahooIM, filezilla, Google Earth, Avast anti virus, Gimp 2, and Paint.net
In other words an average PC setup for someone who works and plays. Do you have any idea how many freaking tiles that would create! 80+ tiles!!
Visual studio has 15 links for utilities and websites (click here for Silverlight 3 SDk, click here for Silverlight 4 SDK ....). Adobe has shit like ActionScript Extender, Photoshop cs, Photoshop cs 64-bit ..
If I had this on Windows 8 I would have to scroll over and over and over and over and over to find everything with 12+ pages! Sure if I had every command memorized I could hit the start key with its inferior search over Windows 7 but I do not except for 4 or 5 programs off the top off my head.
Metro can't handle desktop apps because of the tile mess and I do not have a lot of programs compared to some folks who have +30 programs and shareware utilities. You are then talking about 100+ tiles.
Holy cow.
Get a Phenom II man before they stop making them? Seriously as the FX is an AM3+ and not socket compatible. Windows 7 has its slow moments during a re-image iwth Windows Updates taking forever to recompile all the .NET fixes. A new processor will also help with HTML 5/5.1 as browsers are using threading and separate processes more and more.
My hex-core phenom II is great for 30+ tabs and I can run a few games too. As webworkers and websockets become standard in more and more webpages a newer phenomII with 6 cores will be beneficial.
I like the phenom II when it was new. I just hate the newer chips.
And all is good with a light from heaven shining down on the surface. Angelic music is heard as a golden crown above Steves head as he flies around with angelic wings.
If you happen to disagree? Bah you are just a middle aged old man who hates change!
The bandwidth is the same. Intel is doing mathematical tricks by guessing the next instruction before it is even fetched in hardware with 90% accuracy. In essence it doubles performance for small burst of loads and since it is patented AMD has an inherent disadvantage.
Thats what the ivybridge icores did that the sandy bridge ones didn't that nailed the coffen for AMD which was already struggling.