I am not making it IE 6 only. But the bigger corporations with 10,000 users, 20+ apps, that operate in like 10+ countries are stuck with IE 6. They will theoretically bring me the most money (product not finished). GM I know still uses IE 6 as their part, vendor, inventory, everything is integrated hard into VBscript, IIS 5, and IE 6 and upgrading would require 20 other companies and vendors to upgrade too.
Also, accountants and bean counters require corporate America to make a use case for leaving IE 6. Believe it or not some companies do not even have IE 6 only apps but simply choose not to upgrade and simply will stay with IE 6. If it doesn't raise the stock price then it is a waste of time. Only upgrades that bring in money are allowed etc. Not browsing the net is a feature for them.
Oracle just less than 2 years ago and SAP (maybe) still makes IE 6 only software today in 2012.
Some of these users just upgraded as late as 2009. Now the conversation is wait a minute didn't I just pay $500,000 for that IE 6 app that is shiny new back in 2010! Pay again? Hell no!
IE 6 is fortune 500 friendly sadly, but many are switching to IE 8. At least theoretically IE 10 and later can run IE 8 code as it is not as proprietary but MS fucked itself hard trying to beat Netscape.
My job is not to evangelize. It is to make enough money to stay in business anyway I can until I can grow. My software is internet based and not intranet based. I do plan on eventually putting a cool HTML 5 site with advanced CSS 3 animations and cool features. IE 8 and earlier users will get a notice saying that they can't enable this desktop do hicky without IE 9 or greater, or Chrome. When they see my site look and work cooler on their phones than their desktops that will be my incentive.:-)
IE 8 will at least be the next IE 6 for the foreseeable future as businesses stick with Windows 7. But it will not be as bad due to open standards com pliancy.
Chrome is the new Phoenix. Very lightweight and supports more standards while the others are playing catchup.
If fast updating still scares you there is always IE. IE 9 is a good browser and is not crap like IE 6 was (even that was a big improvement over Netscape). IE 10 is competitive with the other browsers and even beats FF 10 at HTML5test.com when I ran Consumer Preview of Windows 8.
Business websites still use it and optimize just for that browser today in 2012 believe it or not. Their customers demand it and are big paying ones.
I bought books on CSS that give me the ins and outs of IE 6 on purpose just so I can service these customers. I hope... NO PRAY that by 2014 I can say IE 8 or later.
But the customer decides which browser I support and not the other way around. Although, I give Facebook and Google credit. IE 6 and 7 were still quite high back in 2009 just a few years ago until they pulled the plug. It quickly dropped except in the Offices. I wonder if it would still be an issue today if they didn't pull the plug?
You forget about lost productivity when a power supply or hard drive goes, or a virus takes over workstation.
Also, the world of computing is going to change yet again with web 2.0 html 5 applets. Will your clunker handle that? 10 years ago people upgraded computers every 2- 4 years. That was because of advancements and MS successful monopoly attemps locked the world in XP/IE 6 for so long is why we have clunkers still in use. That will change as all your business apps go online like SAP and SalesForce.com.
Simply keeping an older machine is not an option to stay connected with the rest of world not to mention the power costs you redicule multiple at an office quickly. 300 computers not running power management in XP can cost $100,000 in electrical costs very easily.
10 years ago 2 years was average before a computer was obsolete and if you ran old school business apps you could extend that to +4 years.
I think the Vista fiasco and companies being stuck on IE 6 as a result taught the accountants to love obsolete platforms and expect 10 years life. You could keep a car for +10 years too but you will have trouble if you use it moderately with costs as it ages.
HTML 5 is out. HTML 6 will be out quickly next to fill in the gap of Flash with CSS 4 animations once HTML 5 is done. Browsers all update quickly, and even IE is getting an annual update.
What then? Technology froze for a decade but is thawed again, and the 10 year life cycle is gone and it is more expensive than to do a refresh every 5 years if you look at total added costs. Zuesbot and others as you mentioned are great reasons not to use old IE and XP anymore. Windows 8 and even Windows 7 SP 1 have boot protection from rootkits. These are nice features
Unfortunately, almost all of the highest paying customers for what I am working on still use IE 6.
As long as your usage has these visitors I will optimize my site to work best with IE 6 because that is what everyone else who pays me money uses. I would love to stop support but if I do not serve them someone else will.
Now if you are teenage hipster orietned social networking site you can easily laugh this off instead of cry when you use odd javascript hacks to bring css 3 functionality in IE 6 and pray it wont mess it up.
I substitute taught a few years ago and objectives and curriculum just for a single day is mindboggling. A 1st grade classroom as an example needs to go through 4 objectives per subject 4 times a day. That is 16 lessons in just 6.5 hours! The books need to be in synch with this and explains why you can't use a book from 30 years ago even if the mathmatics are the same.
No Child Left Behind puts huge requirements. 30 years ago 1st graders were being taught to count to 50, the ABCS and how to put together simple wordss and after that children spent 2 hours a day painting, playing, and cutting shapes out of construction paper.
Today they are being taught multiplication, juggling (yes it is in some state standards), health, vowel rules with moderate words, etc. It is a pain in the butt and hard on the kids and teachers, but we keep whinning on how American kids are behind the rest of the world so No Child Left Behind is enforcing this. Now just imagine if a state changes the standards again?? Pfft time to through out those 2 million dollars worth of text books and start again!
I finished a project at a company doing a Windows 7 upgrade. The sales people were always pissed that we decided to put Windows 7 locked and encryped vs the full do whatever you want with XP laptops previously.
Buy your own of get a smart phone to browse your porn (assuming thats why he wants a second). You can thank the lawyers who invented sexual harrasement for these restrictions as well as the BSA. The employer has a right to look after their own self interests without being sued.
If he/she buys his or her own laptop with Office and VPN then they can do what they want and still get work done. If it is a shared drive issue then tough. Netbooks are tiny and can do skype and porn just fine. Sorry but the cool toys are not yours.
Subverting and sabatoging company equipment is not only a firable offense, but it is immoral and unethical. Yes the HR weenies will consider this sabatoge and hacking if you dick around with encrypted system volumes and corporate mandated software. It is not yours and belongs to someone else. Your employer wont care if you browse cnn or read your gmail or maybe even use online banking.
Also, what if you fuck up and need help to get your laptop to work? What then? Call help desk and IT? They will see what you did and your will be screwed. Meanwhile that report that needs to be worked on while you are on the road is still due and you will be screwed.
If you can get a discoutned smart phone you still technically own it and can do whatever you want. This is life and the employer has a right to specify what you can do on his own equipment just like you wouldn't do a special tune up and put a nitrogren accelerator in a company cars engine. It is the same concept
Here is my code from my login page in php 4 that is super secure
$query_login="select * FROM user"; $result_login = mysql_query($query_login) or die("Your passwrod is might be bad I think");//$login_check = mysql_num_rows($result_login); while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result_login)) { $username=$row["username"]; if ($username==$username1) { echo ""; echo "window.location.href='login_error.php?rec=qq';"; echo ""; exit; } }
I notice variations in performance between win32 and Unix counterparts too. FF is slow as hell on my old laptop in Fedora. It runs much better under Windows 7. Part of me wonders if the Linux version was using the intel compiler? I have not run it recently but that was the case with FF 3.6 and 4.0. Only Chrome was usable in that operating system.
IE 9 seems to perform best on newer systems that can take advantage of GPU acceleration which Chrome is now catching up to in that area. All the major browsers today are good and IE is not that crappy browser it once was if you use Windows 7.
Rule number one in science is never to form causation from generaliztion of data. Studies show that rap music makes you a better basketball player. Ice cream can give you heart attacks too. Why?
Statistically most NBA basketball players who are African American listen to rap music, therefore rap music made them great basketball players. The ice cream study was based on very hot days in New York when the temperature soared over 100 degrees. People tend to eat more ice cream on those days and there was also a rise of heart attacks. Therefore ice cream gives you heart attacks.
In Korea there are warning labels that fans give you heart attacks and there are settings to make sure they turn off at night as Koreans believe you can die if you leave the fan on at night. This is because when it is hot people have heart attacks and you can guess where the media made the conclusion.
It is silly and dangerous to make assumptions. You need a full hypothesis and use the standard scientific method to reproduce the results.
For all we know more old people use IE who are mentally further declined, or people went to that site at work when the boss wasn't looking and quickly alt tabbed and let the game time out when work needed them, etc. These are valid reasons and does not equate stupidity for people who use IE. Until we know more we just do not know. The work thing with IE is a very likely reason why a user would stop the puzzle as corporate America loves IE and users tend to hate work.
Anything above $12/hr is a good in this new economy. CS typically only earn $25- 30 a year now answering calls. An engineer can make up to $40k a year which is awesome. I hate to piss on your parade but no one is worth $60k a year fresh out of college. Perhaps your salaries were too high in the first place?
My brother only make $65,000 a year out of MBA school with 4 years management experience. No one should ever get paid more than the managers that is rule number 1 in business.
You have it lucky as engineers unemployment rate is one of the lowest. Every field, skillset, and profession it is the same thing. No one is buying as debt is too high and corporations have fallen in love with cutting costs and putting accountants ahead of engineers for executive leadership positions.
There is demand but it is in Asia where the manufacturing base is and where corporations can avoid taxes and the workers put on 16 hour work shifts and live on site 24x7 with a smile. If you want a career you need to move there and lower your wages.
Accountants, HR, even Sales are having 6 - 1 applying for each job. Until our government stops spending money and banks stop ripping off college students and regular folks with unsustainable debt this will continue. There is simply very weak demand in the new economy
Immigration hysteria is there because people who were making 70k a year are unemployed or making minimium wage, while they see immigrants line up at the local home depot (this is common in California) willing to do work they once did.
They are pissed off and it is easy to blame something or someone. Try being a farmhand today? Unless you are a foreigner they wont talk to you. Hormel used to pay Americans $30,000 a year in the meat processing platns now hire Mexicans to do it for $7hr and were busted a year to ago by coming up with loopholes to let illegally undocumented workers take those jobs. That community in Minnesota is angry.
Whenever unemployment is bad immigration becomes a hot button issue. It did so in the 1873 depression which is similiar to the one today. Whole Chinese villages outside of San Fransisco were raided by angry out of work white people feeling cheated outl.
When the economy improves (if it does) and people can make 4ok ayear with just a high school diploma it will change.
Why would I want to pay an American 40k fresh out of college with no experience + 40k in healthcare costs +20k taxes, OSHA, and other regulatory hidden costs, when I can hire a Chinese for $8,000 a year, no taxes, and no health care costs. I can abuse and force them to live on campus and make them work 70 hour a weeks and they will glady do so without complaining. Wahoo!
Plus they work where the manufactoring and R&D and everything else which is already in China.
I get a nice bonus and a 6,000 square foot home I do not need and a porshce to screw over other Americans. Sounds like a great deal!
Unless you are a CEO, or a burger flipper I do not understand why you would want to hire anyone in the 1st world. It doesn't make any business sense.... sadly I am serious and not a troll here. But this is how coprorate America or corporate Europe or any 1st world company thinks and operates. If I need to hire engineers to design products it makes sense to place them near where it is manufactured. That is not in America anymore like it was 10 years ago where six sigma and JIT inventory systems rules. Today it is all done in India and China.
"The bugs in unity are not the biggest problem people have with Ubuntu and Unity. Linux users of all types are used to buggy code."
... and this is why users will never switch to Linux from Windows. I keep saying the same thing and get modded down to -1 when some moronic comment about how your average person with a stable Windows system should migrate to Linux, even if Windows comes with their computer. Why wont JoeSix Pack use Linux?!
I disliked Ubuntu for the bugs when I used to run Linux. I prefered Fedora as it did not have nearly as many issues as Ubuntu had. Unfortunately all the non Ubuntu distros are treated like second class citizens in terms of software and support. Has this changed since 2010?
I for one refused to get used to the bugs and switched to Windows 7. Couldn't be happier. This is especially true since Chrome and FF update rapidly and those are always issues in Linux with some old libC library if you use a more stable RHES or Debian stable.
The desktop mode is improved in the consumer preview and you can run Metro apps inside it, rather than the other way around. It is more mouse friendly (at 3:44). Thank God you can at least stay in the desktop.
The XP driver for eSata and PATA does not support disk queing and is more of a failsafe crippled driver. The driver more than the kernel is why Windows 7 is way faster than a XP kernel. SMP performance would be weaker on XP because that is where the newer kernels shine.
Apple is becoming more and more enterprise friendly... not because of iShinyness but because of stupid mistakes by MS... Balmer.
Metro is pretty bad in the developer preview. Consumer preview shows more attention to mouse detail as the desktop mode is enchanged for keyboard and mouse, and MS being retarded enough to disable AD integration in Windows 8 on arms. This and porting Office to the IPAD is another big mistake. Take away those reasons and why bother with Windows tablets and phones?
Corporate America in the next 5 years will open their eyes and realize they do not need Windows anymore as the shiny Apple logos replace tablets and phones and MS dependency is broken. Looks like the MS monopoly is broken. However, I do not know if I like this new Apple one any better.
I mean does Balmer really think we use WIndows because it is just a great product that we seek it or because we have files in Office and need IT to manage our devices for us?
You no longer have to leave the desktop and go to Metro for everything like before. Consumer preview much improved for desktop users.
The integrated search and some of the METRO share, app, and sync functions are on the desktop. Also, you only need to move the mouse a little to the upper left hand corner to go to metro and click to app cycle and not go crazy dragging it all over to browse the tiles while staying in the desktop.
Here is the video by MS showing on a non touch screen lenovo. A full review is here. Yes it is now at least usable with an old fashioned mouse and keyboard where you can run 10 apps at once at least and can stay on the desktop.
I can now probably use it. I do not know if I would like it over the traditional Windows 7. I will download it and play with it tonight.
Still very METRo-ish but now you do not have to leave the desktop or move the mouse as much to cycle Metro apps. Jury still out but it looks much better than the developer preview that drove me mad.
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I am not making it IE 6 only. But the bigger corporations with 10,000 users, 20+ apps, that operate in like 10+ countries are stuck with IE 6. They will theoretically bring me the most money (product not finished). GM I know still uses IE 6 as their part, vendor, inventory, everything is integrated hard into VBscript, IIS 5, and IE 6 and upgrading would require 20 other companies and vendors to upgrade too.
Also, accountants and bean counters require corporate America to make a use case for leaving IE 6. Believe it or not some companies do not even have IE 6 only apps but simply choose not to upgrade and simply will stay with IE 6. If it doesn't raise the stock price then it is a waste of time. Only upgrades that bring in money are allowed etc. Not browsing the net is a feature for them.
Oracle just less than 2 years ago and SAP (maybe) still makes IE 6 only software today in 2012.
Some of these users just upgraded as late as 2009. Now the conversation is wait a minute didn't I just pay $500,000 for that IE 6 app that is shiny new back in 2010! Pay again? Hell no!
IE 6 is fortune 500 friendly sadly, but many are switching to IE 8. At least theoretically IE 10 and later can run IE 8 code as it is not as proprietary but MS fucked itself hard trying to beat Netscape.
My job is not to evangelize. It is to make enough money to stay in business anyway I can until I can grow. My software is internet based and not intranet based. I do plan on eventually putting a cool HTML 5 site with advanced CSS 3 animations and cool features. IE 8 and earlier users will get a notice saying that they can't enable this desktop do hicky without IE 9 or greater, or Chrome. When they see my site look and work cooler on their phones than their desktops that will be my incentive. :-)
IE 8 will at least be the next IE 6 for the foreseeable future as businesses stick with Windows 7. But it will not be as bad due to open standards com pliancy.
Chrome is the new Phoenix. Very lightweight and supports more standards while the others are playing catchup.
If fast updating still scares you there is always IE. IE 9 is a good browser and is not crap like IE 6 was (even that was a big improvement over Netscape). IE 10 is competitive with the other browsers and even beats FF 10 at HTML5test.com when I ran Consumer Preview of Windows 8.
Business websites still use it and optimize just for that browser today in 2012 believe it or not. Their customers demand it and are big paying ones.
I bought books on CSS that give me the ins and outs of IE 6 on purpose just so I can service these customers. I hope ... NO PRAY that by 2014 I can say IE 8 or later.
But the customer decides which browser I support and not the other way around. Although, I give Facebook and Google credit. IE 6 and 7 were still quite high back in 2009 just a few years ago until they pulled the plug. It quickly dropped except in the Offices. I wonder if it would still be an issue today if they didn't pull the plug?
You forget about lost productivity when a power supply or hard drive goes, or a virus takes over workstation.
Also, the world of computing is going to change yet again with web 2.0 html 5 applets. Will your clunker handle that? 10 years ago people upgraded computers every 2- 4 years. That was because of advancements and MS successful monopoly attemps locked the world in XP/IE 6 for so long is why we have clunkers still in use. That will change as all your business apps go online like SAP and SalesForce.com.
Simply keeping an older machine is not an option to stay connected with the rest of world not to mention the power costs you redicule multiple at an office quickly. 300 computers not running power management in XP can cost $100,000 in electrical costs very easily.
You are dreaming.
10 years ago 2 years was average before a computer was obsolete and if you ran old school business apps you could extend that to +4 years.
I think the Vista fiasco and companies being stuck on IE 6 as a result taught the accountants to love obsolete platforms and expect 10 years life. You could keep a car for +10 years too but you will have trouble if you use it moderately with costs as it ages.
HTML 5 is out. HTML 6 will be out quickly next to fill in the gap of Flash with CSS 4 animations once HTML 5 is done. Browsers all update quickly, and even IE is getting an annual update.
What then? Technology froze for a decade but is thawed again, and the 10 year life cycle is gone and it is more expensive than to do a refresh every 5 years if you look at total added costs. Zuesbot and others as you mentioned are great reasons not to use old IE and XP anymore. Windows 8 and even Windows 7 SP 1 have boot protection from rootkits. These are nice features
Unfortunately, almost all of the highest paying customers for what I am working on still use IE 6.
As long as your usage has these visitors I will optimize my site to work best with IE 6 because that is what everyone else who pays me money uses. I would love to stop support but if I do not serve them someone else will.
Now if you are teenage hipster orietned social networking site you can easily laugh this off instead of cry when you use odd javascript hacks to bring css 3 functionality in IE 6 and pray it wont mess it up.
Mod up!
I substitute taught a few years ago and objectives and curriculum just for a single day is mindboggling. A 1st grade classroom as an example needs to go through 4 objectives per subject 4 times a day. That is 16 lessons in just 6.5 hours! The books need to be in synch with this and explains why you can't use a book from 30 years ago even if the mathmatics are the same.
No Child Left Behind puts huge requirements. 30 years ago 1st graders were being taught to count to 50, the ABCS and how to put together simple wordss and after that children spent 2 hours a day painting, playing, and cutting shapes out of construction paper.
Today they are being taught multiplication, juggling (yes it is in some state standards), health, vowel rules with moderate words, etc. It is a pain in the butt and hard on the kids and teachers, but we keep whinning on how American kids are behind the rest of the world so No Child Left Behind is enforcing this. Now just imagine if a state changes the standards again?? Pfft time to through out those 2 million dollars worth of text books and start again!
Then get a smart phone?
I finished a project at a company doing a Windows 7 upgrade. The sales people were always pissed that we decided to put Windows 7 locked and encryped vs the full do whatever you want with XP laptops previously.
Buy your own of get a smart phone to browse your porn (assuming thats why he wants a second). You can thank the lawyers who invented sexual harrasement for these restrictions as well as the BSA. The employer has a right to look after their own self interests without being sued.
If he/she buys his or her own laptop with Office and VPN then they can do what they want and still get work done. If it is a shared drive issue then tough. Netbooks are tiny and can do skype and porn just fine. Sorry but the cool toys are not yours.
Want to browse porn?
Bring your own laptop or smart phone.
Want to hack, code for fun or use online banking?
Bring your own laptop or smart phone.
Subverting and sabatoging company equipment is not only a firable offense, but it is immoral and unethical. Yes the HR weenies will consider this sabatoge and hacking if you dick around with encrypted system volumes and corporate mandated software. It is not yours and belongs to someone else. Your employer wont care if you browse cnn or read your gmail or maybe even use online banking.
Also, what if you fuck up and need help to get your laptop to work? What then? Call help desk and IT? They will see what you did and your will be screwed. Meanwhile that report that needs to be worked on while you are on the road is still due and you will be screwed.
If you can get a discoutned smart phone you still technically own it and can do whatever you want. This is life and the employer has a right to specify what you can do on his own equipment just like you wouldn't do a special tune up and put a nitrogren accelerator in a company cars engine. It is the same concept
Here is my code from my login page in php 4 that is super secure
$query_login="select * FROM user"; //$login_check = mysql_num_rows($result_login);
$result_login = mysql_query($query_login) or die("Your passwrod is might be bad I think");
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result_login))
{
$username=$row["username"];
if ($username==$username1)
{
echo "";
echo "window.location.href='login_error.php?rec=qq';";
echo "";
exit;
}
}
I notice variations in performance between win32 and Unix counterparts too. FF is slow as hell on my old laptop in Fedora. It runs much better under Windows 7. Part of me wonders if the Linux version was using the intel compiler? I have not run it recently but that was the case with FF 3.6 and 4.0. Only Chrome was usable in that operating system.
IE 9 seems to perform best on newer systems that can take advantage of GPU acceleration which Chrome is now catching up to in that area. All the major browsers today are good and IE is not that crappy browser it once was if you use Windows 7.
Rule number one in science is never to form causation from generaliztion of data. Studies show that rap music makes you a better basketball player. Ice cream can give you heart attacks too. Why?
Statistically most NBA basketball players who are African American listen to rap music, therefore rap music made them great basketball players. The ice cream study was based on very hot days in New York when the temperature soared over 100 degrees. People tend to eat more ice cream on those days and there was also a rise of heart attacks. Therefore ice cream gives you heart attacks.
In Korea there are warning labels that fans give you heart attacks and there are settings to make sure they turn off at night as Koreans believe you can die if you leave the fan on at night. This is because when it is hot people have heart attacks and you can guess where the media made the conclusion.
It is silly and dangerous to make assumptions. You need a full hypothesis and use the standard scientific method to reproduce the results.
For all we know more old people use IE who are mentally further declined, or people went to that site at work when the boss wasn't looking and quickly alt tabbed and let the game time out when work needed them, etc. These are valid reasons and does not equate stupidity for people who use IE. Until we know more we just do not know. The work thing with IE is a very likely reason why a user would stop the puzzle as corporate America loves IE and users tend to hate work.
The US government was recently found guilty poisoning liquor with extra chemicals in addition to rubbing alcohol to make the boot leggers look bad.
It would not surprise me if they are doing the same to make Anonymous look like evil crackers and criminals.
I would just aim my camera at a printed picture of Goatse
That would stop real quick
The starting salary is great!
Anything above $12/hr is a good in this new economy. CS typically only earn $25- 30 a year now answering calls. An engineer can make up to $40k a year which is awesome. I hate to piss on your parade but no one is worth $60k a year fresh out of college. Perhaps your salaries were too high in the first place?
My brother only make $65,000 a year out of MBA school with 4 years management experience. No one should ever get paid more than the managers that is rule number 1 in business.
Welcome to the great Recession Colonel Korn!
You have it lucky as engineers unemployment rate is one of the lowest. Every field, skillset, and profession it is the same thing. No one is buying as debt is too high and corporations have fallen in love with cutting costs and putting accountants ahead of engineers for executive leadership positions.
There is demand but it is in Asia where the manufacturing base is and where corporations can avoid taxes and the workers put on 16 hour work shifts and live on site 24x7 with a smile. If you want a career you need to move there and lower your wages.
Accountants, HR, even Sales are having 6 - 1 applying for each job. Until our government stops spending money and banks stop ripping off college students and regular folks with unsustainable debt this will continue. There is simply very weak demand in the new economy
Immigration hysteria is there because people who were making 70k a year are unemployed or making minimium wage, while they see immigrants line up at the local home depot (this is common in California) willing to do work they once did.
They are pissed off and it is easy to blame something or someone. Try being a farmhand today? Unless you are a foreigner they wont talk to you. Hormel used to pay Americans $30,000 a year in the meat processing platns now hire Mexicans to do it for $7hr and were busted a year to ago by coming up with loopholes to let illegally undocumented workers take those jobs. That community in Minnesota is angry.
Whenever unemployment is bad immigration becomes a hot button issue. It did so in the 1873 depression which is similiar to the one today. Whole Chinese villages outside of San Fransisco were raided by angry out of work white people feeling cheated outl.
When the economy improves (if it does) and people can make 4ok ayear with just a high school diploma it will change.
Why would I want to pay an American 40k fresh out of college with no experience + 40k in healthcare costs +20k taxes, OSHA, and other regulatory hidden costs, when I can hire a Chinese for $8,000 a year, no taxes, and no health care costs. I can abuse and force them to live on campus and make them work 70 hour a weeks and they will glady do so without complaining. Wahoo!
Plus they work where the manufactoring and R&D and everything else which is already in China.
I get a nice bonus and a 6,000 square foot home I do not need and a porshce to screw over other Americans. Sounds like a great deal!
Unless you are a CEO, or a burger flipper I do not understand why you would want to hire anyone in the 1st world. It doesn't make any business sense. ... sadly I am serious and not a troll here. But this is how coprorate America or corporate Europe or any 1st world company thinks and operates. If I need to hire engineers to design products it makes sense to place them near where it is manufactured. That is not in America anymore like it was 10 years ago where six sigma and JIT inventory systems rules. Today it is all done in India and China.
"The bugs in unity are not the biggest problem people have with Ubuntu and Unity. Linux users of all types are used to buggy code."
I disliked Ubuntu for the bugs when I used to run Linux. I prefered Fedora as it did not have nearly as many issues as Ubuntu had. Unfortunately all the non Ubuntu distros are treated like second class citizens in terms of software and support. Has this changed since 2010?
I for one refused to get used to the bugs and switched to Windows 7. Couldn't be happier. This is especially true since Chrome and FF update rapidly and those are always issues in Linux with some old libC library if you use a more stable RHES or Debian stable.
When you hit the Windows key the search option is on the right hand side according to the pic from zdnet.
I plan to download it tonight and give it a spin. Not perfect by any sense but I am glad the desktop is being addressed and MS listened to us.
The desktop mode is improved in the consumer preview and you can run Metro apps inside it, rather than the other way around. It is more mouse friendly (at 3:44). Thank God you can at least stay in the desktop.
The XP driver for eSata and PATA does not support disk queing and is more of a failsafe crippled driver. The driver more than the kernel is why Windows 7 is way faster than a XP kernel. SMP performance would be weaker on XP because that is where the newer kernels shine.
Apple is becoming more and more enterprise friendly ... not because of iShinyness but because of stupid mistakes by MS ... Balmer.
Metro is pretty bad in the developer preview. Consumer preview shows more attention to mouse detail as the desktop mode is enchanged for keyboard and mouse, and MS being retarded enough to disable AD integration in Windows 8 on arms. This and porting Office to the IPAD is another big mistake. Take away those reasons and why bother with Windows tablets and phones?
Corporate America in the next 5 years will open their eyes and realize they do not need Windows anymore as the shiny Apple logos replace tablets and phones and MS dependency is broken. Looks like the MS monopoly is broken. However, I do not know if I like this new Apple one any better.
I mean does Balmer really think we use WIndows because it is just a great product that we seek it or because we have files in Office and need IT to manage our devices for us?
You no longer have to leave the desktop and go to Metro for everything like before. Consumer preview much improved for desktop users.
The integrated search and some of the METRO share, app, and sync functions are on the desktop. Also, you only need to move the mouse a little to the upper left hand corner to go to metro and click to app cycle and not go crazy dragging it all over to browse the tiles while staying in the desktop.
Here is the video by MS showing on a non touch screen lenovo. A full review is here. Yes it is now at least usable with an old fashioned mouse and keyboard where you can run 10 apps at once at least and can stay on the desktop.
I can now probably use it. I do not know if I would like it over the traditional Windows 7. I will download it and play with it tonight.
Nope MS fixed many of the desktop issues.
Still very METRo-ish but now you do not have to leave the desktop or move the mouse as much to cycle Metro apps. Jury still out but it looks much better than the developer preview that drove me mad.