Do you need compatibility with MS office? IF so then you will need Windows and MS Office unfortuntately.
I know I will probably get modded down as a troll for not advocating openoffice and linux, but I am going to say its not fully compatible and writer is nearly useless for my papers in the apa format required for college. Excel compatibility is my concern too and I need the real version of MS office.
If you want cheap and do not need compatibility there are alternatives like the Asus notebooks and OLPC's. However hybrid and solid state drives are expensive still. If you wait when there are sales or use teh internet you can find overstocked notebooks for hundreds off.
I bought my Toshiba Satellite for $650 on sale. If I became more patient I could have received the notebook from the net for $499 as it became overstocked by some of the retailers.
Also ask bestbuy or officemax if you can buy the display of a discontinued notebook. They will usually knock off another %15 of the onsale price.
If you worked in a store would you tell 1 out of 4 customers to go to hell because its cheaper to have less cashiers and clerks?
IE6 will become irrevelent hopefully when it reaches below %10 marketshare but still that is huge too to ignore. Vista is not helping people want to upgrade either.
Shareholders by law can not make business decisions. They can only elect board of directors who pick the CEO to run the company for them.
The shareholders are just guys with clipboards who have a BA degree and own stocks in hundreds of companies. Their performance is being evaluated on how much many they make each quarter and will be fired if they can't get huge profits.
So basically business degree accountants with clipboards arm twist the professionals with MBA's who know how to run the company.
MS knowing this is probably fueling money for the lawsuit against Yahoo and using ignorant shareholders to arm twist yahoo to making a deal. Part of me feels ms knows its future earnings will be alot higher due to their investments in R&D and they want a steal on it.
The problem is Yahoo is projected to increase its networth many times over in the following 5 years. They are investing alot in R&D in long term growth projects to outdue google.
MS is offering money for what its worth now and not counting on their planned offerings for the future. The issue is shareholders dont care about what its going to be worth 5 to 8 years and want a get rich instant return!
Gillette faced a similar dilemma back in the 80's before the mach 3 and sensor products. A hostile takeover was planned and the CEO knew about what was going to happen 5 years down the road. He fought against the takeover arguing the company's networth will be much higher. Turns out the stock price went up 5x.
Yahoo might be in a similar boat but the shareholders could be making a mistake by wanting an instant return.
There are no quick rich schemes and it amazes me people constantly expect them... even mortgage broker companies.
I have written many anti vista postings since I bought a notebook with Vista loaded on it last decemember.
Most of the anti vista comments here are untrue after you get used to it, use the new start menu features and install SP1, updated drivers, and bios upgrades.
Both hogs such as Netbeans and OpenOffice ran slower on my notebook than XP assuming Vista is set up properly. Disk fetching and better caching is how I attribute the performance increase.
The majority of Vista bashes are from those who have semi supported hardware.
My notebook was running off of disk PIO mode during startup and no sata was loaded with the default Vista install. As you can imagine my system took forever to boot and when Vista indexed it slowed things down. I bashed Vista constantly here.
I downgraded to XP but upgraded back to Vista. I missed the windows index search when you hit the start button. Here is a hint for XP users.... your not supposed to find your programs by your mouse. Just type it in! Also I can search my javadocs and my ms word papers for school quickly by seaching by content. I go to a christian school with bible versus required in my papers. Vista makes my job easier as I type a subject and it searches the index for my conent.
Vista is not fast after Toshibe provided an SD sata driver and a bios update to start vista quickly. SP1 fixed the constant disk usage. It rarely ever gets in the way once things are up. Wow is just as fast in vista as in XP. Maybe only a few fps slower.
But Vista is nice for computer neophytes and the hardware markers need to take the heat for the negative public opinion.
The problem is the OOXML allows proprietary binary win32 blobs. No viewer will ever be ms compatibile and I would not be suprised if DRM used in MS Office to lock files will also lock it forever outside anything but MS. Corporations love to lock things up to block lawsuits and competitors and now can never be able to switch to openoffice or google apps.
ISO does not mean anything anymore. Its sad the ODF is not proprietary while the ooxml is standard which means the government will require everything to be done in Office which gives ms nice fat profits for years.
Funny..will they talk about about running applications from a browser window...and will they then tout pay-per-services through a web-based subscription model? And yes, why use Microsoft, when a thin OS client is all that will be needed when Netscape...oops...Mozilla runs everything from a browser.
Gee, I bet they'll next try to sell me on Savings & Loans created funds to house all my Dot.com gains! "
You are %100 correct and its all coming true, though your comment was intended to be sarcasm.
Look at Google apps as an example?
Microsoft killed the network computer by changing the EULA for its windows monopoly to somehow make it appear that smart terminals were dead.
It is coming true and dumb terminals of the 1980's are certainly the right way to go for large organizations thanks to networking and the internet.
True active desktop using push technology was stupid and not a real implementation but look at KDE and konqueror as an example?
Oh and dotcoms not making money? I just complemented an e-commerce course at my college and the market is now just exploding thanks to highspeed internet that was unavailable to most users during the 1990's. Amazon just made its first profit and the internet as a marketing tool is exploding and ecommerce has been growing tremendously. Especially this is true in asain markets.
The browser is the computer as far as I am concerned and many businesses will be looking into servring intranet and web apps as a cost reduction measure. New apps like myspace and even slashdot are changing the way we network and learn more about our IT jobs.
However Google and Microsoft already have a heads up and pissing off google might be bad. Information retrival is the next wave of the future as storage capacity gets larger. The windows vista search utility is really cool when looking up java docs.
The richest nation on Earth with 1 out of 3 people who are going to retire and take hundreds of billions of dollars in expensive pharmaceuticals and require nurses and doctors who are already overextended. Its going to degrade everyone's healthcare and bankrupt the country with high taxes which would cause a huge recession.
If your in favor of busting the drug monopoly cartel and banning expensive drug commercials elderlies see on TV I am all for it. But this is not going to happen unless the system is totally redone or if we kick out the illegal immigrants stealing our health care. Either one of these things are not going to happen so we must cut spending somehow to pay for it.
Well Clinton is worse and is the queen of smear and fud and what she has been doing to Obama and encouraing the media to keep covering the pastor scandal is disgusting. She will likely tip the election to McCain. Now I know why Rush and Laura Ingram encouraged conservatives to vote for in order to prolong the race.
McCain is not pro torture and wants to have spending hawks in his cabinet. The federal government is too big and our interest rates will only get alot higher if we can't keep spending out of control. Bush Sr. lost as interest rates went through the roof as a result of the defecit and economic slowdown.
McCain hates earmarks and corrupt lobbying and many feel he is going to change this. Also socialized medicine scares me as we can't afford it. Obama's plan makes the most sense and it wont force poor people to enroll in expensive premiums they can't afford if Hilary has her way. Some poor people in California work 2 jobs because by law you have to offer benefits if someone works more than 30 hours. THis would bankrupt alot of people. That is why I will only vote for Obama or McCain.
Because of the pastor story I lean towards McCain. Obama is toast at this point and I will never vote for Hilary. If you want to reduce our debt McCain might be the answer.
I agree the sound bites were taken out of context.
Hilary Clinton has been encouraging the media to keep talking about this and tipping the election towards McCain. Ugh. The right has accused the Clintons of being a smear machine and a mobfia if you get on their bad side. I was a democrat at the time and didn;t believe it.
Now I see what Rush and Hannity were talking about. Very personal and nasty. If Clinton wins the nomination I will vote for McCain as a result.
But the pastor's remarks on how he hates America are very disturbing coming from a pastor who is close friends of someone running for president. He could say he hates how certain Americans act or even a policies of this country but to hate the country and blame all white people in an extreme way is disturbing. But all we know is what FOx news and the Clinton campaign has been telling us without the whole sermons taken out of context. Just disgusting and nasty fud slinging.
Mainly because alot of people got scared of Obama's pastor.
Just because he said a few disturbing things taken out of context has created alot of doubts.
Personally I dislike Hilary with a passion and will say anything to get elected. She feels entitled to be the president because her husband was and Bill Clinton supported NAFTA.
McCain might help the economy if he is true to his word about reducing government spending. The value of the dollar might improve dramatically. If we have another credit crunch like we did under Bush Sr. it would be bad news for the economy as banks will ignore loans from anyone but the federal government when money became tight.
Anyone who clicks on it I would advise you to remove the exploit.dialogArg.A virus. Hopefully firefox 2.0.12 patched teh javascript vulnerability it uses to install itself.
For those who hate the default look of aero this might be important.
Other than that everything works fine on my end.
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It looks like the poster just linked to *recommend this book to a friend* reference and will be getting a cut depending on how many people will but it.
I have also known some linux admins who think there software is so secure that they do not need to patch their systems. After all using windowsupdate and rebooting is what inferior MCSE's do with their systems. Right?
I guess it shows that Microsoft has been taking security seriously and good and bad admins exist in both platforms.
Maybe this can lead to a more secure apache. But your right with SQL injections. Most IIS sites also use SQL Server which has been alot more secure by default recently.
THe MPAA and RIAA would be drooling if Verizon would be dumb enough to do this. Billions in capital just sitting in the bank and knowingly violate copyright laws.
This idea wont work in the west with modern IP laws protecting copyright. The companies will be held liable. Its the same reason alot of universities ban file sharing here in the US. The legal bills are not worth it not to mention they can save with infrastructure.
Not to mention back in 1998 there were no free c/c++ compilers for Windows and the only affordable ones were crippled.
WIth Linux I didn't have to worry about gnu c being crippled not to mention I had apache, php, java, perl, python, and tons and tons of api's.
Today most of these things have been ported to Windows but for many years Windows just sucked as a web development platform. I wanted a community as well and Linux provided that.
I dared a conservative at work to listen to NPR for a few days since he listens to Rush, Hanity, and Ingram on AM radio.
Meanwhile I can not get the democrats to listen to right wing radio either. Of course I will add these radio personalities accuse McCain of being a socialist liberal.
Wow runs fine on my laptop with a low end x1200 ati integrated graphics.
I do admit under Vista I have to use low end settings that bur it a little. Under XP my same laptop runs fine under medium settings.
Integrated graphics are not too bad if they are new thanks to Vista requiring a decent GPU for aero.
If anything I am glad its forcing video makers to up their hardware for 3d which will help. If you want a cheaper price than a ps3 then your video will suffer. My laptop wa sonly $699.
MY wii has even less power but it was $249 which is to be expected. The problem is UT doing the old 90's latest and greatest hardware for the awesomest graphics.
90's are over and back then the difference between 2d and 3d games were stunning. Especially with anti aligning and textures being smothed and unpixelated with 3d cards.
Those days are over and now its about gameplay since old cards can play wow fine. Gameplay =! better GPU anymore.
When Windows95 came out developers loved it. I am not talking about the operating system but the fact it finally forced users to use more than 2-4 megs of ram and with a 256k ram video card and to more modern systems that were fully 32-bit with at least 16-32 megs of ram.
Vista is requiring serious GPU performance. Enough to run wow at least. THe problem is there are many old 910 chipsets like my old laptop that are for work and ubuntu, not gaming.
Maybe more effects in Aero for Windows 7 will force more hardware makers to upgrade their video.
Pc's are great game machines. Its just most users cough business users don't care about 3d graphics and need a browser and word processor machine and thats it.
Sorry but a ps3 or wii can not run wow, LOTR, or half life like a true pc can. I own a wii but for internet gaming I chose a pc with with my 7600GT nvidia card.... not my laptop. Serious gamers will ask for more powerful GPU's. Unfortunately their market is little Johnny whose parents want to save money and not invest in a higher end GPU for just games.
My father switched to FIOS and the service was not faster than DSL. They did not upgrade their routers which created a bottleneck.
A month or two later he finally got the speed increase.
Just because you receive FIOS does not mean you get the added speed. They also cut your copper wire too so you can't downgrade or switch to a competitor DSL service.
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The perfect thin one with an absolutely stunningly big hard drive is here.
Image the look on some passengers faces when using this on a plane?
Do you need compatibility with MS office? IF so then you will need Windows and MS Office unfortuntately.
I know I will probably get modded down as a troll for not advocating openoffice and linux, but I am going to say its not fully compatible and writer is nearly useless for my papers in the apa format required for college. Excel compatibility is my concern too and I need the real version of MS office.
If you want cheap and do not need compatibility there are alternatives like the Asus notebooks and OLPC's. However hybrid and solid state drives are expensive still. If you wait when there are sales or use teh internet you can find overstocked notebooks for hundreds off.
I bought my Toshiba Satellite for $650 on sale. If I became more patient I could have received the notebook from the net for $499 as it became overstocked by some of the retailers.
Also ask bestbuy or officemax if you can buy the display of a discontinued notebook. They will usually knock off another %15 of the onsale price.
I say it would exceed. Revenue is revenue.
If you worked in a store would you tell 1 out of 4 customers to go to hell because its cheaper to have less cashiers and clerks?
IE6 will become irrevelent hopefully when it reaches below %10 marketshare but still that is huge too to ignore. Vista is not helping people want to upgrade either.
Shareholders by law can not make business decisions. They can only elect board of directors who pick the CEO to run the company for them.
The shareholders are just guys with clipboards who have a BA degree and own stocks in hundreds of companies. Their performance is being evaluated on how much many they make each quarter and will be fired if they can't get huge profits.
So basically business degree accountants with clipboards arm twist the professionals with MBA's who know how to run the company.
MS knowing this is probably fueling money for the lawsuit against Yahoo and using ignorant shareholders to arm twist yahoo to making a deal. Part of me feels ms knows its future earnings will be alot higher due to their investments in R&D and they want a steal on it.
The problem is Yahoo is projected to increase its networth many times over in the following 5 years. They are investing alot in R&D in long term growth projects to outdue google.
MS is offering money for what its worth now and not counting on their planned offerings for the future. The issue is shareholders dont care about what its going to be worth 5 to 8 years and want a get rich instant return!
Gillette faced a similar dilemma back in the 80's before the mach 3 and sensor products. A hostile takeover was planned and the CEO knew about what was going to happen 5 years down the road. He fought against the takeover arguing the company's networth will be much higher. Turns out the stock price went up 5x.
Yahoo might be in a similar boat but the shareholders could be making a mistake by wanting an instant return.
There are no quick rich schemes and it amazes me people constantly expect them... even mortgage broker companies.
I have written many anti vista postings since I bought a notebook with Vista loaded on it last decemember.
Most of the anti vista comments here are untrue after you get used to it, use the new start menu features and install SP1, updated drivers, and bios upgrades.
Both hogs such as Netbeans and OpenOffice ran slower on my notebook than XP assuming Vista is set up properly. Disk fetching and better caching is how I attribute the performance increase.
The majority of Vista bashes are from those who have semi supported hardware.
My notebook was running off of disk PIO mode during startup and no sata was loaded with the default Vista install. As you can imagine my system took forever to boot and when Vista indexed it slowed things down. I bashed Vista constantly here.
I downgraded to XP but upgraded back to Vista. I missed the windows index search when you hit the start button. Here is a hint for XP users.... your not supposed to find your programs by your mouse. Just type it in! Also I can search my javadocs and my ms word papers for school quickly by seaching by content. I go to a christian school with bible versus required in my papers. Vista makes my job easier as I type a subject and it searches the index for my conent.
Vista is not fast after Toshibe provided an SD sata driver and a bios update to start vista quickly. SP1 fixed the constant disk usage. It rarely ever gets in the way once things are up. Wow is just as fast in vista as in XP. Maybe only a few fps slower.
But Vista is nice for computer neophytes and the hardware markers need to take the heat for the negative public opinion.
The problem is the OOXML allows proprietary binary win32 blobs. No viewer will ever be ms compatibile and I would not be suprised if DRM used in MS Office to lock files will also lock it forever outside anything but MS. Corporations love to lock things up to block lawsuits and competitors and now can never be able to switch to openoffice or google apps.
ISO does not mean anything anymore. Its sad the ODF is not proprietary while the ooxml is standard which means the government will require everything to be done in Office which gives ms nice fat profits for years.
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Welcome timetravelers to the world of 1996!
Funny..will they talk about about running applications from a browser window...and will they then tout pay-per-services through a web-based subscription model? And yes, why use Microsoft, when a thin OS client is all that will be needed when Netscape...oops...Mozilla runs everything from a browser.
Gee, I bet they'll next try to sell me on Savings & Loans created funds to house all my Dot.com gains!
"
You are %100 correct and its all coming true, though your comment was intended to be sarcasm.
Look at Google apps as an example?
Microsoft killed the network computer by changing the EULA for its windows monopoly to somehow make it appear that smart terminals were dead.
It is coming true and dumb terminals of the 1980's are certainly the right way to go for large organizations thanks to networking and the internet.
True active desktop using push technology was stupid and not a real implementation but look at KDE and konqueror as an example?
Oh and dotcoms not making money? I just complemented an e-commerce course at my college and the market is now just exploding thanks to highspeed internet that was unavailable to most users during the 1990's. Amazon just made its first profit and the internet as a marketing tool is exploding and ecommerce has been growing tremendously. Especially this is true in asain markets.
The browser is the computer as far as I am concerned and many businesses will be looking into servring intranet and web apps as a cost reduction measure. New apps like myspace and even slashdot are changing the way we network and learn more about our IT jobs.
However Google and Microsoft already have a heads up and pissing off google might be bad. Information retrival is the next wave of the future as storage capacity gets larger. The windows vista search utility is really cool when looking up java docs.
The richest nation on Earth with 1 out of 3 people who are going to retire and take hundreds of billions of dollars in expensive pharmaceuticals and require nurses and doctors who are already overextended. Its going to degrade everyone's healthcare and bankrupt the country with high taxes which would cause a huge recession.
If your in favor of busting the drug monopoly cartel and banning expensive drug commercials elderlies see on TV I am all for it. But this is not going to happen unless the system is totally redone or if we kick out the illegal immigrants stealing our health care. Either one of these things are not going to happen so we must cut spending somehow to pay for it.
Well Clinton is worse and is the queen of smear and fud and what she has been doing to Obama and encouraing the media to keep covering the pastor scandal is disgusting. She will likely tip the election to McCain. Now I know why Rush and Laura Ingram encouraged conservatives to vote for in order to prolong the race.
McCain is not pro torture and wants to have spending hawks in his cabinet. The federal government is too big and our interest rates will only get alot higher if we can't keep spending out of control. Bush Sr. lost as interest rates went through the roof as a result of the defecit and economic slowdown.
McCain hates earmarks and corrupt lobbying and many feel he is going to change this. Also socialized medicine scares me as we can't afford it. Obama's plan makes the most sense and it wont force poor people to enroll in expensive premiums they can't afford if Hilary has her way. Some poor people in California work 2 jobs because by law you have to offer benefits if someone works more than 30 hours. THis would bankrupt alot of people. That is why I will only vote for Obama or McCain.
Because of the pastor story I lean towards McCain. Obama is toast at this point and I will never vote for Hilary. If you want to reduce our debt McCain might be the answer.
I agree the sound bites were taken out of context.
Hilary Clinton has been encouraging the media to keep talking about this and tipping the election towards McCain. Ugh. The right has accused the Clintons of being a smear machine and a mobfia if you get on their bad side. I was a democrat at the time and didn;t believe it.
Now I see what Rush and Hannity were talking about. Very personal and nasty. If Clinton wins the nomination I will vote for McCain as a result.
But the pastor's remarks on how he hates America are very disturbing coming from a pastor who is close friends of someone running for president. He could say he hates how certain Americans act or even a policies of this country but to hate the country and blame all white people in an extreme way is disturbing. But all we know is what FOx news and the Clinton campaign has been telling us without the whole sermons taken out of context. Just disgusting and nasty fud slinging.
Mainly because alot of people got scared of Obama's pastor.
Just because he said a few disturbing things taken out of context has created alot of doubts.
Personally I dislike Hilary with a passion and will say anything to get elected. She feels entitled to be the president because her husband was and Bill Clinton supported NAFTA.
McCain might help the economy if he is true to his word about reducing government spending. The value of the dollar might improve dramatically. If we have another credit crunch like we did under Bush Sr. it would be bad news for the economy as banks will ignore loans from anyone but the federal government when money became tight.
Thank god Nod32 blocked it. Or part of it??
Running a full virus scan right now.
Anyone who clicks on it I would advise you to remove the exploit.dialogArg.A virus. Hopefully firefox 2.0.12 patched teh javascript vulnerability it uses to install itself.
For those who hate the default look of aero this might be important.
Other than that everything works fine on my end.
It looks like the poster just linked to *recommend this book to a friend* reference and will be getting a cut depending on how many people will but it.
Its spamming and should be banned from slashdot.
I have also known some linux admins who think there software is so secure that they do not need to patch their systems. After all using windowsupdate and rebooting is what inferior MCSE's do with their systems. Right?
I guess it shows that Microsoft has been taking security seriously and good and bad admins exist in both platforms.
Maybe this can lead to a more secure apache. But your right with SQL injections. Most IIS sites also use SQL Server which has been alot more secure by default recently.
THe MPAA and RIAA would be drooling if Verizon would be dumb enough to do this. Billions in capital just sitting in the bank and knowingly violate copyright laws.
This idea wont work in the west with modern IP laws protecting copyright. The companies will be held liable. Its the same reason alot of universities ban file sharing here in the US. The legal bills are not worth it not to mention they can save with infrastructure.
Thats why I tried it.
Not to mention back in 1998 there were no free c/c++ compilers for Windows and the only affordable ones were crippled.
WIth Linux I didn't have to worry about gnu c being crippled not to mention I had apache, php, java, perl, python, and tons and tons of api's.
Today most of these things have been ported to Windows but for many years Windows just sucked as a web development platform. I wanted a community as well and Linux provided that.
I dared a conservative at work to listen to NPR for a few days since he listens to Rush, Hanity, and Ingram on AM radio.
Meanwhile I can not get the democrats to listen to right wing radio either. Of course I will add these radio personalities accuse McCain of being a socialist liberal.
Its just not going to happen.
"Because we all know that the most effective way to be informed is by only talking with and listening to people you already agree with. /sarcasm"
Whats really ironic is you posted this on slashdot.
I think the test is unfair. OpenGL under Vista is emulated through the directX layer which is slow as hell.
Nvidia has had terrible drivers for Vista for awhile too.
Wow runs fine on my laptop with a low end x1200 ati integrated graphics.
I do admit under Vista I have to use low end settings that bur it a little. Under XP my same laptop runs fine under medium settings.
Integrated graphics are not too bad if they are new thanks to Vista requiring a decent GPU for aero.
If anything I am glad its forcing video makers to up their hardware for 3d which will help. If you want a cheaper price than a ps3 then your video will suffer. My laptop wa sonly $699.
MY wii has even less power but it was $249 which is to be expected. The problem is UT doing the old 90's latest and greatest hardware for the awesomest graphics.
90's are over and back then the difference between 2d and 3d games were stunning. Especially with anti aligning and textures being smothed and unpixelated with 3d cards.
Those days are over and now its about gameplay since old cards can play wow fine. Gameplay =! better GPU anymore.
When Windows95 came out developers loved it. I am not talking about the operating system but the fact it finally forced users to use more than 2-4 megs of ram and with a 256k ram video card and to more modern systems that were fully 32-bit with at least 16-32 megs of ram.
... not my laptop. Serious gamers will ask for more powerful GPU's. Unfortunately their market is little Johnny whose parents want to save money and not invest in a higher end GPU for just games.
Vista is requiring serious GPU performance. Enough to run wow at least. THe problem is there are many old 910 chipsets like my old laptop that are for work and ubuntu, not gaming.
Maybe more effects in Aero for Windows 7 will force more hardware makers to upgrade their video.
Pc's are great game machines. Its just most users cough business users don't care about 3d graphics and need a browser and word processor machine and thats it.
Sorry but a ps3 or wii can not run wow, LOTR, or half life like a true pc can. I own a wii but for internet gaming I chose a pc with with my 7600GT nvidia card.
My father switched to FIOS and the service was not faster than DSL. They did not upgrade their routers which created a bottleneck.
A month or two later he finally got the speed increase.
Just because you receive FIOS does not mean you get the added speed. They also cut your copper wire too so you can't downgrade or switch to a competitor DSL service.
Verizon will illegally cut your phone line if you switch.
This means you will be stuck with FIOS and can't downgrade back.
They do this in Florida and its a very legitimate fear. Now they have you by the balls and you can't switch to a competitor.