I studies the 2004 and 2002 elections for both the executive and legislative branches.
"I don't think what drove them to this was 100% fear--people weren't scared s"
What disturbed me is it was exactly fear and manipulation is what brought average Americans to vote for republicans.
Bush kept saying things like freedom to defind the freedoms lost by the constitution and using fear tactics and having a whole PR room at the white house whose sole job was to write stories to newspapers and the newspapers ignorantly ran them as headline news.
Hell the white house even used our tax dollars to produce fake local news prodcasts and used them as commericals to defend bush's actions.
Its disgusting but terrorism bla bla bla and Karl Rove referring to Democrats who defind rights as living in a post 9-11 world worked.
The American people are idiots as they want tax cuts (which most dont get that cause higher property taxes in some states) and the fear of the OBL hiding under the bed to go away.
Americans know now that its not parania that are rights are under attack. Many americans strongly support the NSA spying on us and laws to imprison newspaper reporters and whistle blowers because it helps stop terrorists. After all what do you have to hide?
There are some who are upset who may switch one if not both of the houses back to the democrats this Novemember unless immigration is the new issue used to distract voters( my guess is Karl Rove is behind it).
So we have 2 groups. However the one that likes to defend rights quickly goes away when we are attacked so the other group favoring facism conservatism wins.
I loved her husband. Personally she doenst have a chance as she has no charisma or energy with the voters like her husband or Bush or Reagan. If she is the elect for the democratic ticket then the country will probably find the republican ticket more attractive.
However I am really really concerned about this country and can't stand another far-right corrupt, free-sider, pro-business, and anti constitutional candidate.
Things are going to go from bad to worse as our government goes bankrupt and the Iraqi civil war turns into a big blood bath with Iran, Syria, and Turkey all fighting. Whats worse is our image. For example if we sent in peace keepers into Java (part of Indonisia, the largest muslim country on Earth) I think the muslims would view it as an assult or invasion due to the policy of this administration.
Before 9-11 arabs viewed as differently.
But the bankruptacy of our government mixed with the corrupt pro credit card bankruptacy reform laws are going to bring economic hardship and high taxes with little governmental services as we pay our foreign creditors.
I will support McCain if he runs and I like the old republican party of Nixon, Eisenhower, and Theodre Rooselvelt. And may vote democratic and even support a left candidate like Richardson if he runs.
But cheney and Bush are quite bad and I highly encourage everyone to..gulp.. vote for Hillary in 2008 if you love your country and freedom. My hope would be the republican party by 2012 will reform and moderate to win more votes as a result. After 4 years voting for someone else would help.
For one we would have 2 liberal or center judges who would have not overturned whistle blower protections.
SO yes he is not perfect and a wuss in my mind, he still is not as corrupt or evil as Bush. I am a democrat so yes I am biased but if you disagree with the way the supreme court is and many policies then yes voting for someone else does make a difference.
If you decided not to vote then you frankly supported Bush in my mind.
Anyone who can fit the requirements to run for office can run under the condition they meet the minimal votes to be on the ballot for each state during the primaries
Also if you are a member of one party and dont like who is running then you can vote for someone else to represent your party.
Or citiens can form their own (they do exist) and if enough signatures are available they can appear on the ballot.
Its just that if you vote for someone in a smaller party with your beliefs you only end up helping the opposition with the big R or D.
So if your left, voting democrat will not be perfect but closer to your beliefs than voting for Nader which will be one less vote for Kerry, which helps Bush.
I want to test it out on my laptop before I blow the Xp partition on it and I want to make sure my wifi card works before I go through the hassle to install Linux.
Nvidia and ATI develop their own proprietary extensions and release their own opengl dlls that are seperate from Windows. I think Vista and XP use Opengl 1.5 though Opengl 2.0 is out. Again I dont develop games so I could be wrong.
The patent covering OpenGL and some api's were sold to Microsoft. But its true its not the whole thing.
DirectX10 comes with alot more stuff if you look into it and because of this the card makers try to match the implementation with their own extensions.
Last, I read Carmacks journal occasionally and its true one engine might exhibit a different bug or display different when using another cards opengl driver. It makes development costlier and longer.
And no I am not a MS fanboy incase your wondering if you read my other comments.
I have an awkward feeling that break with the interface and wrapping opengl in directx for non fullscreen apps is %100 intentional. MS is known for this type of behavior.
What is worse is Microsoft is refusing to update to Openg2.0 claiming security and I believe they now own opengl now (correct me if I am wrong folks?).
THis means the card makers will come out with more broken proprietary opengl versions. If I were a game maker it would be a nightmare finding bugs doing opengl due to the different implementations of the opengl api on different cards. This would make me want to use DirectX instead. (What MS wants)... oh and I guess I can't port this to MacOSX and Linux as a result... oh well. Sigh
The flipside is that if you developed a complex high end game made for higher end systems then requiring Vista would be ideal. Its a pain in the ass to debug a game for a very large multitude of different machines.
Vista would ensure a nice system that is known to work well and would limit your QA costs by limiting your hardware.
This is what happened with WIndows95. Game makers loved it not because of directX 1.0 but because it made users use SVGA cards and systems with 16 megs of ram rather than 4. Most apps were DOS based and could run easily without Windows95 but had a very thin layer of win32 code to make sure the system was up to stuff.
Many applications even check and probe the pc and refuse to run even though they can. This was more common in the old days of Windows 3.1 and WIndows95.
Opengl only does graphics and is non portable to the Xbox if you want to port your game there.
DirectX is a whole suite of multimedia api's with sound and networking and is ahead of SDL. (From what I heard, I dont develop games)
Also Opengl is fragmenting and becoming stagnant as Opengl was sold to Microsoft from SGI. It seems the card makers are now coming up with their own proprietary versions.
damn I bought a compaq v4,000 2 weeks ago and I have been thinking of linux on it. I think you mean the 4k since I was not aware the 5k existed?
But the wifi thing I was curious about since Intels are not supported immediately but the other laptops had broadcom wifis that had numerious problems with broadcom telling its customers to just use NDIS. I guess now they feel they can save development costs by not supporting it. Uh, no thanks.
I think the wifi problem will be addressed since Intel always gives out drivers. Just late.
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Java is already used heavily. I assumed the rovers already were java based. The software at JPL which monitor and sends and recienves commands to the rovers is java based for sure.
Java is very reliable as its a very strict programming language which helps eliminate bugs. Java is not just used for webservers, but rather for mission critical apps at many banks and government agencies. The number language in demand is Java for many cities if you search monster.com and java is the most sought after language to rewrite many RPG and Cobol apps on the mainframe.
Compared to dos and windows 3.0 at the time I assumed it would be a big improvement.
At least you have real tool with gnu to troubleshoot a misbehaving box with logging unlike the strange uninformative messages from early versions of windows.
What was so bad about Xenix? I am curious. I remember it was hated on slashdot during the lat 90's before Linux began taking over
I wrote a post about Windows95 with its 65k bugs as a big improvement and life changing event for all of us.
Sadly I was dead serious. Windows 3.1 was very very very bad.
Some of the younger slashdotters may want to hear how good they have it today after reading this?
How bad? How about ZERO memory management.
Also it had cooperative multitasking which is not real multitasking at all. That means if an app froze it would take down the whole system as Windows would wait for the token to be released to run the other apps. Obviously an infinite loop in a program you wrote would require a reset button hit.
All apps that multitasked shared memory and if anyone used a memory address that another app used then CRASH. I had GP faults by the hour when I ran more than 2 apps. It was purely defective in my eyes and I prefered DOS. It crashed almost every day.
My highschool ran Windows 3.1 with netware where we ran Borland C and GWBasic. WHen our apps crashed or when some of the geeks accidently made an infinite loop in their programs the whole system would be down for 10 MINUTES during the restart! Today you just close the app that is not responding.
I only used Windows to run mosaic then netscape 1.0 and AOL (shudder.. this was before the www was available).
My god WindowsME was so much more stable and nothing comes close to the problems of the early 16bit versions of Windows. I am still astounded Microsoft was able to actually keep making Windows.
I became a Microsoft hater from that day as I shook my head and wondered why people actually paid money for this when unix, macos, and os/2 were available and many many times better.
I had a very brief employement with AOL last fall doing their tech support call center.
ITs not in the past when things they did were rough. Today they are worse as they are freaking out how to keep their 7 million customers that are left and leaving by the day.
Its not billing problems. Its intentional fraud that we are supposed to do to prevent you from leaving and charging everything for. If I recall the most cancellations an hour you were allowed to do was 4 an hour. (I could be off? ).
Bad was not even the worst. They treat their employees and their customers as capital and objects to squeeze for maximum profit rather than people. Management brain dead to anything else with a strict bean counter mentality. THey dont need to know what they are doing. Just fire fire fire and if someone meets insane handle time then keep them.
The culture inside is just hostile as day 1 when you are threatened to be outsourced to India during your orientation if you dont perform and how we are all overpaid at 9/hr. so do your job or else bla bla bla.
Then on the floor on the first day we are reminded how quickly each of one us are about to be fired and perform or ELSE! People get fired within the first few days and are made light about it on purpose to set examples to meet handle time requirements.
Maybe I am just bitter but AOL is well deserved to be labelled low and I wonder how legal it is do things like prevent cancellations and intentionally be overly aggressive with marketing lies? For example they have subsidary names for certain call centers and they keep changing their name every year because they keep getting sued by former workers and states. Makes you wonder?
ISV's figured they could save money to just write to win16 and have os/2 do the rest. Meanwhile the ports sucked and were buggy. MS rewrote win32 with windows95 to make sure none of the apps ran on os/2 warp which put the nail in the coffin.
Not to mention the problem was so bad IBM had to pay developers for native os/2 ports. They sucked royally compared to the windows versions and the os/2 ports were cancelled the second IBM stopped writing them checks.
OS/2 was a supperior os, but if they refused to support win32 and win16 I do think it would have helped the os survice.
Instead of helping users switch it only reminded them how great Windows was as it was the real thing the apps were designed to use so why not switch back? Wine is doing the same with unix and is more harmfull then good.
I prefer a native app or one actually designed to be portable rather than a emulated or hacked version running on a hacked statically linked library that is beta quality.
wine suffers from os/2 syndrome. Developers then thought they would just write their app via win16 or win32 and the OS/2 users would figure it out.
They could save development costs since developing for 2 api's and porting them would be expensive.
Guess which software sucked the most on which platform? OS/2@. I remember reading about Lotus being 12x slower than the windows version and then the port sucked so customers didn't buy it which then created a cycle of users not wanting os/2 until more software was developed.
I refuse to touch whine. The fact that google had to provide 200 patches just to get the program to compile and there are many bugs and missing features shows me its not ready nor will it ever be ready.
Today, you can write an app that is crossplatform with proper design with minimal increased costs but Picasa wasn't designed as such.
WHat worries me is that it will lead customers to think "well, if its made for windows and runs so good on it, then why dont I run it on the real thing?".
I guess its good you got access to run I assumed it was not possible from what I read over the years about wine rewriting c++ in C to support things like the MFC.. shudder.
But for me wine wont be used on my systems anytime soon. I'll use free alternatives to win32 software or boot windows to run windows apps.
Except after 10 years its beta quaility and missing many hidden win32 api's. Also VC++ has many non standard features that windows programmers use.
Its not just a static library but more of a partial implementation for a different operating system that behaves differently and is years behind. Look what Corel did as an example with killing the unix port of wordperfect and instead only concentrated on the win32 version and tried to use whine to backport that back to unix? IT never recovered.
Win32 is was designed to be proprietary. Also are the MFC classes supported? I know they were not in 2000 the last time I looked at whine and the developers were using c to emulate the c++ code by rewriting the language... shudder.
Java, QT, GTK, wxWindows, tk and others are a better decision if you want to make cross platform apps.
I and many others (we didn't know better at the time) installed it quite frankly because Windows 3.11 sucked so hard. Mainly because it sucked not nearly as much as windows3.11.
Still with the 65k bugs I found it alot more stable than windows3.11 on my 486. Even a simple screensaver program I had that displayed 16bit images of paintings rendered many times faster under Windows95.
However I feel XP is much closer to Vista in terms of stability so that argument might not fly around this time.
I remember when the same could be said with Novell and their NDS ( now Edirectory) services.
Look where they are now?
Its amazing how much integration gives phb's a woody. Active directory is a pos or was when I was in IT in 1999 when someone told me its bloated 70x over NDS and would require a whole lan upgrade!
I think most linux users who love to bash Microsoft never understand why their os is not king of the desktop. Articles like this mentioning Office2k7 integration and windows integration is what MS uses to lock people in.
OBviously this wont change anytime soon. I expect this to take over unless Notes does something totally revolutionary that Sharepoint can't match. Hell if ms can beat Netware and NDS then it can surely do the same with this.
Thats how it works in the military when someone screws up. Remember the secretaries boss hired her and his boss hired him and so on. So in actuality its all their fault.
This is why interviews are difficult to conduct and be a part of. You need to filter the bad apples out and enforce policy within your company.
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I studies the 2004 and 2002 elections for both the executive and legislative branches.
"I don't think what drove them to this was 100% fear--people weren't scared s"
What disturbed me is it was exactly fear and manipulation is what brought average Americans to vote for republicans.
Bush kept saying things like freedom to defind the freedoms lost by the constitution and using fear tactics and having a whole PR room at the white house whose sole job was to write stories to newspapers and the newspapers ignorantly ran them as headline news.
Hell the white house even used our tax dollars to produce fake local news prodcasts and used them as commericals to defend bush's actions.
Its disgusting but terrorism bla bla bla and Karl Rove referring to Democrats who defind rights as living in a post 9-11 world worked.
The American people are idiots as they want tax cuts (which most dont get that cause higher property taxes in some states) and the fear of the OBL hiding under the bed to go away.
Americans know now that its not parania that are rights are under attack. Many americans strongly support the NSA spying on us and laws to imprison newspaper reporters and whistle blowers because it helps stop terrorists. After all what do you have to hide?
There are some who are upset who may switch one if not both of the houses back to the democrats this Novemember unless immigration is the new issue used to distract voters( my guess is Karl Rove is behind it).
So we have 2 groups. However the one that likes to defend rights quickly goes away when we are attacked so the other group favoring facism conservatism wins.
I dont like Hilary either and I am a democrat.
..gulp.. vote for Hillary in 2008 if you love your country and freedom. My hope would be the republican party by 2012 will reform and moderate to win more votes as a result. After 4 years voting for someone else would help.
I loved her husband. Personally she doenst have a chance as she has no charisma or energy with the voters like her husband or Bush or Reagan. If she is the elect for the democratic ticket then the country will probably find the republican ticket more attractive.
However I am really really concerned about this country and can't stand another far-right corrupt, free-sider, pro-business, and anti constitutional candidate.
Things are going to go from bad to worse as our government goes bankrupt and the Iraqi civil war turns into a big blood bath with Iran, Syria, and Turkey all fighting. Whats worse is our image. For example if we sent in peace keepers into Java (part of Indonisia, the largest muslim country on Earth) I think the muslims would view it as an assult or invasion due to the policy of this administration.
Before 9-11 arabs viewed as differently.
But the bankruptacy of our government mixed with the corrupt pro credit card bankruptacy reform laws are going to bring economic hardship and high taxes with little governmental services as we pay our foreign creditors.
I will support McCain if he runs and I like the old republican party of Nixon, Eisenhower, and Theodre Rooselvelt. And may vote democratic and even support a left candidate like Richardson if he runs.
But cheney and Bush are quite bad and I highly encourage everyone to
For one we would have 2 liberal or center judges who would have not overturned whistle blower protections.
SO yes he is not perfect and a wuss in my mind, he still is not as corrupt or evil as Bush. I am a democrat so yes I am biased but if you disagree with the way the supreme court is and many policies then yes voting for someone else does make a difference.
If you decided not to vote then you frankly supported Bush in my mind.
Its not limited at all.
Anyone who can fit the requirements to run for office can run under the condition they meet the minimal votes to be on the ballot for each state during the primaries
Also if you are a member of one party and dont like who is running then you can vote for someone else to represent your party.
Or citiens can form their own (they do exist) and if enough signatures are available they can appear on the ballot.
Its just that if you vote for someone in a smaller party with your beliefs you only end up helping the opposition with the big R or D.
So if your left, voting democrat will not be perfect but closer to your beliefs than voting for Nader which will be one less vote for Kerry, which helps Bush.
No its not the real world.
Its the post 9-11 world silly. These things like rights and integrity is exactly what helps the enemies win.
You are either with us in limiting freedom or with the terrorists. Just ask Karl Rove?
But his sole argument is that it "Looks" like his product. Yes, he patented some idea's on it but they have already been used in older technologies.
IT sounds similiar to me to the SCO Unix case. See Linux also has AWK! THey look identical!
How fast are the logins and is it tightly integrated with Zenworks?
An A/C poster mentioned this and you mentioned that the autoinstaller has been disabled. I hope its not true and its just a troll.
I want to test it out on my laptop before I blow the Xp partition on it and I want to make sure my wifi card works before I go through the hassle to install Linux.
How many graphically apps have you developed?
Nvidia and ATI develop their own proprietary extensions and release their own opengl dlls that are seperate from Windows. I think Vista and XP use Opengl 1.5 though Opengl 2.0 is out. Again I dont develop games so I could be wrong.
The patent covering OpenGL and some api's were sold to Microsoft. But its true its not the whole thing.
DirectX10 comes with alot more stuff if you look into it and because of this the card makers try to match the implementation with their own extensions.
Last, I read Carmacks journal occasionally and its true one engine might exhibit a different bug or display different when using another cards opengl driver. It makes development costlier and longer.
And no I am not a MS fanboy incase your wondering if you read my other comments.
I have an awkward feeling that break with the interface and wrapping opengl in directx for non fullscreen apps is %100 intentional. MS is known for this type of behavior.
... oh and I guess I can't port this to MacOSX and Linux as a result... oh well. Sigh
What is worse is Microsoft is refusing to update to Openg2.0 claiming security and I believe they now own opengl now (correct me if I am wrong folks?).
THis means the card makers will come out with more broken proprietary opengl versions. If I were a game maker it would be a nightmare finding bugs doing opengl due to the different implementations of the opengl api on different cards. This would make me want to use DirectX instead. (What MS wants)
The flipside is that if you developed a complex high end game made for higher end systems then requiring Vista would be ideal. Its a pain in the ass to debug a game for a very large multitude of different machines.
Vista would ensure a nice system that is known to work well and would limit your QA costs by limiting your hardware.
This is what happened with WIndows95. Game makers loved it not because of directX 1.0 but because it made users use SVGA cards and systems with 16 megs of ram rather than 4. Most apps were DOS based and could run easily without Windows95 but had a very thin layer of win32 code to make sure the system was up to stuff.
Many applications even check and probe the pc and refuse to run even though they can. This was more common in the old days of Windows 3.1 and WIndows95.
Opengl only does graphics and is non portable to the Xbox if you want to port your game there.
DirectX is a whole suite of multimedia api's with sound and networking and is ahead of SDL. (From what I heard, I dont develop games)
Also Opengl is fragmenting and becoming stagnant as Opengl was sold to Microsoft from SGI. It seems the card makers are now coming up with their own proprietary versions.
damn I bought a compaq v4,000 2 weeks ago and I have been thinking of linux on it. I think you mean the 4k since I was not aware the 5k existed?
But the wifi thing I was curious about since Intels are not supported immediately but the other laptops had broadcom wifis that had numerious problems with broadcom telling its customers to just use NDIS. I guess now they feel they can save development costs by not supporting it. Uh, no thanks.
I think the wifi problem will be addressed since Intel always gives out drivers. Just late.
Java is already used heavily. I assumed the rovers already were java based. The software at JPL which monitor and sends and recienves commands to the rovers is java based for sure.
Java is very reliable as its a very strict programming language which helps eliminate bugs. Java is not just used for webservers, but rather for mission critical apps at many banks and government agencies. The number language in demand is Java for many cities if you search monster.com and java is the most sought after language to rewrite many RPG and Cobol apps on the mainframe.
Compared to dos and windows 3.0 at the time I assumed it would be a big improvement.
At least you have real tool with gnu to troubleshoot a misbehaving box with logging unlike the strange uninformative messages from early versions of windows.
What was so bad about Xenix? I am curious. I remember it was hated on slashdot during the lat 90's before Linux began taking over
I was about to type the same thing.
I wrote a post about Windows95 with its 65k bugs as a big improvement and life changing event for all of us.
Sadly I was dead serious. Windows 3.1 was very very very bad.
Some of the younger slashdotters may want to hear how good they have it today after reading this?
How bad? How about ZERO memory management.
Also it had cooperative multitasking which is not real multitasking at all. That means if an app froze it would take down the whole system as Windows would wait for the token to be released to run the other apps. Obviously an infinite loop in a program you wrote would require a reset button hit.
All apps that multitasked shared memory and if anyone used a memory address that another app used then CRASH. I had GP faults by the hour when I ran more than 2 apps. It was purely defective in my eyes and I prefered DOS. It crashed almost every day.
My highschool ran Windows 3.1 with netware where we ran Borland C and GWBasic. WHen our apps crashed or when some of the geeks accidently made an infinite loop in their programs the whole system would be down for 10 MINUTES during the restart! Today you just close the app that is not responding.
I only used Windows to run mosaic then netscape 1.0 and AOL (shudder.. this was before the www was available).
My god WindowsME was so much more stable and nothing comes close to the problems of the early 16bit versions of Windows. I am still astounded Microsoft was able to actually keep making Windows.
I became a Microsoft hater from that day as I shook my head and wondered why people actually paid money for this when unix, macos, and os/2 were available and many many times better.
I had a very brief employement with AOL last fall doing their tech support call center.
ITs not in the past when things they did were rough. Today they are worse as they are freaking out how to keep their 7 million customers that are left and leaving by the day.
Its not billing problems. Its intentional fraud that we are supposed to do to prevent you from leaving and charging everything for. If I recall the most cancellations an hour you were allowed to do was 4 an hour. (I could be off? ).
Bad was not even the worst. They treat their employees and their customers as capital and objects to squeeze for maximum profit rather than people. Management brain dead to anything else with a strict bean counter mentality. THey dont need to know what they are doing. Just fire fire fire and if someone meets insane handle time then keep them.
The culture inside is just hostile as day 1 when you are threatened to be outsourced to India during your orientation if you dont perform and how we are all overpaid at 9/hr. so do your job or else bla bla bla.
Then on the floor on the first day we are reminded how quickly each of one us are about to be fired and perform or ELSE! People get fired within the first few days and are made light about it on purpose to set examples to meet handle time requirements.
Maybe I am just bitter but AOL is well deserved to be labelled low and I wonder how legal it is do things like prevent cancellations and intentionally be overly aggressive with marketing lies? For example they have subsidary names for certain call centers and they keep changing their name every year because they keep getting sued by former workers and states. Makes you wonder?
That is what killed it.
ISV's figured they could save money to just write to win16 and have os/2 do the rest. Meanwhile the ports sucked and were buggy. MS rewrote win32 with windows95 to make sure none of the apps ran on os/2 warp which put the nail in the coffin.
Not to mention the problem was so bad IBM had to pay developers for native os/2 ports. They sucked royally compared to the windows versions and the os/2 ports were cancelled the second IBM stopped writing them checks.
OS/2 was a supperior os, but if they refused to support win32 and win16 I do think it would have helped the os survice.
Instead of helping users switch it only reminded them how great Windows was as it was the real thing the apps were designed to use so why not switch back? Wine is doing the same with unix and is more harmfull then good.
I prefer a native app or one actually designed to be portable rather than a emulated or hacked version running on a hacked statically linked library that is beta quality.
wine suffers from os/2 syndrome. Developers then thought they would just write their app via win16 or win32 and the OS/2 users would figure it out.
They could save development costs since developing for 2 api's and porting them would be expensive.
Guess which software sucked the most on which platform? OS/2@. I remember reading about Lotus being 12x slower than the windows version and then the port sucked so customers didn't buy it which then created a cycle of users not wanting os/2 until more software was developed.
I refuse to touch whine. The fact that google had to provide 200 patches just to get the program to compile and there are many bugs and missing features shows me its not ready nor will it ever be ready.
Today, you can write an app that is crossplatform with proper design with minimal increased costs but Picasa wasn't designed as such.
WHat worries me is that it will lead customers to think "well, if its made for windows and runs so good on it, then why dont I run it on the real thing?".
I guess its good you got access to run I assumed it was not possible from what I read over the years about wine rewriting c++ in C to support things like the MFC.. shudder.
But for me wine wont be used on my systems anytime soon. I'll use free alternatives to win32 software or boot windows to run windows apps.
Except after 10 years its beta quaility and missing many hidden win32 api's. Also VC++ has many non standard features that windows programmers use.
Its not just a static library but more of a partial implementation for a different operating system that behaves differently and is years behind. Look what Corel did as an example with killing the unix port of wordperfect and instead only concentrated on the win32 version and tried to use whine to backport that back to unix? IT never recovered.
Win32 is was designed to be proprietary. Also are the MFC classes supported? I know they were not in 2000 the last time I looked at whine and the developers were using c to emulate the c++ code by rewriting the language... shudder.
Java, QT, GTK, wxWindows, tk and others are a better decision if you want to make cross platform apps.
Sadly that worked for Windows95.
I and many others (we didn't know better at the time) installed it quite frankly because Windows 3.11 sucked so hard. Mainly because it sucked not nearly as much as windows3.11.
Still with the 65k bugs I found it alot more stable than windows3.11 on my 486. Even a simple screensaver program I had that displayed 16bit images of paintings rendered many times faster under Windows95.
However I feel XP is much closer to Vista in terms of stability so that argument might not fly around this time.
Or that is my paranoid side talking.
Isn't MS crippling javascript on Vista to prevent gmail from working properly or is this just a rumor?
Not to mention it requires administrative priveldges for stream to run. Not good since my laptop is locked down
I remember when the same could be said with Novell and their NDS ( now Edirectory) services.
Look where they are now?
Its amazing how much integration gives phb's a woody. Active directory is a pos or was when I was in IT in 1999 when someone told me its bloated 70x over NDS and would require a whole lan upgrade!
I think most linux users who love to bash Microsoft never understand why their os is not king of the desktop. Articles like this mentioning Office2k7 integration and windows integration is what MS uses to lock people in.
OBviously this wont change anytime soon. I expect this to take over unless Notes does something totally revolutionary that Sharepoint can't match. Hell if ms can beat Netware and NDS then it can surely do the same with this.
Actually yes
Thats how it works in the military when someone screws up. Remember the secretaries boss hired her and his boss hired him and so on. So in actuality its all their fault.
This is why interviews are difficult to conduct and be a part of. You need to filter the bad apples out and enforce policy within your company.