rather than going through a whole mess with the virtualizer maybe you could just use a live cd? (or live dvd depending on how many apps you want to have installed.) set up a clean system, burn the whole image to your optical media of choice and then set up the boot loader to boot the cd/dvd instead of the hard drive. i'm not sure exactly how hard it is to set up a live cd with windows, but i know it's been done.
Well since it's Spitzer involved, they'll probably never actually be prosecuted with anything. Just a lot of high profile public attacks and grandstanding until they cave to whatever he wants in order to avoid bad publicity and drawn out court cases. For the most part, I am in favor of nailing the people he's gone after to the wall, but I still find some of the methods he uses to get results a bit disturbing.
this may be an issue for corporate users, but most home users, apple's real target market, usually only upgrade their version of windows when they buy a new computer. so to most home windows users, upgrading to moc os x would be little different from upgrading to windows longhorn.
i prefer windows 2000's behavior of defaulting to whichever was the most recently used, so that about 95% of the time, i can just hit ALT+F4, Enter, and not have to worry about which keys mean what. i guess that's the other thing that irritates me about XP's shutdown dialog- the default option is the one that i use the least of the 4.
All my TVs (and in fact every TV I've ever seen) turns off the receiver when you use the actual power button (on the TV)
odd, i've never even heard of that before. seems like it would be frustrating to sit down and grab the remote only to discover that the last person to use the tv had hit the power button on the tv instead of on the remote. (says the guy who moved over three months ago and still hasn't figured out where his universal remote got packed...)
before this thread i had never even realized that there were in fact two different symbols. the symbols in xp always seemed so uselessly / meaninglessly similar to me that i just ignored them and wnet by the words. now that my curiosity has been piqued, i just went looking through my entire house and out of all of my electronic equipment and all of the various remote controls that i know where to find, one of my monitors has the "power off" symbol. somewhere between a third and a half say 'power' or 'off'. maybe another third have the "standby symbol", and the rest either say "power (standby symbol)" or "| / (standby symbol)". (that last one seems particularly silly to me now that i actually look at it).
how old is the version of gaim you are using? ctrl-c/ctrl-v work fine for me in the current version, and worked in whatever version i hade before the last upgrade as well. (~0.83 i think)
i do remember a time in the "distant" past where wingaim had some seriously annoying toolkit misfeatures, but it's been working flawlessly for me for at least the last ~8 months.
what i've noticed is that most users actually don't really care. the last time my dad brought me his computer full of spyware (took about 15 minutes to load windows because of all the stuff going on in the background, and IE would pop up about 10 popup windows the second you started it) i formatted it, reinstalled everything, hid the ie icon on the desktop, and installed firefox. i told him "from now on, instead of the blue e, use this to access the internet, it will help protect you from viruses."
that was over four months ago, and in the time since, he's only once called me with a question about using firefox.
wow, somehow i quoted another thread while replying to this one. i was, of course responding to the comment about what it must be like to fly for someone over 6'.
The power button on the actual TV set should turn the TV completely off (including the remote receiver), and should have an icon idential to the one XP uses for "shutdown". If not, your TV / remote are very unusual.
i don't know what kind of tv you have, but on every tv i've ever used (that had a remote), the remote receiver is always on while it is plugged in, whether you turn the tv off via the remote or via the button on the tv, so there is no difference between the power button on the tv and the one on the remote. same with any other home electronic equipment that had a remote.
eventually i did, but for a long time i was regularly switching back and forth between a windows xp machine (defaults to stand by when you shut down) and a win2k machine (defaults to whatever you did the previous time you shut down). since i used the win2k machine a lot more, i tended to always expect whichever machine i was using to default to whatever i did the previous time.
The power icon with a closed circle is for power off; you'll probably find it on your TV's power button. The power icon with the broken circle is for stand by (soft off); you'll find it on your TV's remote control. Usually with no text, in either case.
yes, but in this example, the two buttons do exactly the same thing. the only difference is that one is on the remote and one is on the TV. so we have two slightly differnt icons with exactly the same meaning.
of course, the power button on my tv actually says "power", without an icon. any other appliances that i can think of off the top of my head (playstation, dvd player) all use the open circle on the device itself and (if applicable) the remote. so to me, that icon means on/off just as much as (if not more so) than the closed circle icon.
except WinFS was not (so far as i'm aware) in any of the actually released betas for winXP.
i remember using an active desktop-like feature in an IE 4 beta release that not only never made it into IE4, but was horribly neutered when it did finally make it into later windows/IE releases as active desktop.
it's bearable for flights less than about 3 hours.
for flights longer than that there are a couple of options. the best option is to try and get yourself one of the seats in or near the exit row, where the rows are often spaced farther apart. on some planes the eixt rows only have two seats on each side of the aisle instead of three so on those planes it's really nice if you can snag the seat behind where the third seat should be. if you are not on a full flight, it definitely helps to get yourself a seat where there's no one next to you. it also helps sometimes if there is no seat or an empty seat in front of you, just because then you don't have to worry about someone reclining their seat back into your knees.
lastly, some airlines are better than others about how much space they have between the seats. the first time i flew to europe, i flew american airlines who had just finished making a big deal about their four inches of extra legroom in coach class. that was a life saver. unfortunately american isn't very competetive price-wise for most of the routes i typically fly- the extra legroom, although nice, is not worth an extra $50 on a 2-4 hour flight.
it's funny, though- i have on multiple occasions had the person sitting next to me on a plane say "i wish i was tall like you" (i'm not really that tall) just as a i was standing up to get off the plane. it's hard not to laugh at them with my head bent practically sideways and my shoulder nearly hitting the flight attendant call button. "yeah, it's really great to be tall..."
They release a very early beta/alpha and say "don't worry, the final version will be SOOO much better" and when it turns up on shelves, it's oddly similar to that beta/alpha from 2 years ago.
I can remember cases (IE4 in particular) where significant features from the beta never even made it into the release.
Most people only upgrade windows when they buy a new computer anyway, so it's not all that far fetched. Especially when you consider that most games are 'obsolete' every few months anyways, and usually new major releases of the appications most people use are also timed around new windows releases.
yeah, except red (stop) could be meaningfully used to convey all three, and yellow (how do you come up with an automatic association between yellow with "stand by"; if anything, it would be "caution" or "prepare to stop") and green (go) don't really apply to any of the three.
as far as the icons on numerous home appliances, i think the 'power' icons they use for shut down and stand by tend to be used fairly interchangeably, and i've never seen the 'tentacle' icon anywhere that i can remember.
at any rate, my personal pet peeve regarding the shutdown dialog, as someone who tends to use keyboard shortcuts far more often than the mouse, is that it is not clear which one is currently selected and which one will be activated when i hit enter. i usually hit the left/right arrow keys a couple of times and watch for the annoyingly subtle change in color to know which icon is currently highlighted before i hit enter.
it's about time windows moved away from their crappy explorer to a good window manager. of course, personally i would have preferred something a little more configurable, like sawfish, but it's a start... i wonder what this will do to projects like litestep and geoshell.
wait, that's not the black box we are talking about?
[for] streaming media from your computer to your TV you won't go wrong with Windows.
hmm. on my linux box, there are two media players that came with the OS that are capable of playing every single audio file i have on my computer- mplayer and xine (as well as various front ends that use the xine libraries). windows, on the other hand only comes with one media player, and there are several formats that it refuses to play, some even after i have installed the appropriate directshow filters. i have tried downloading and installing several others, but so far not one of them has been able to successfully play all of my songs. iTunes won't play almost half my library. Winamp comes the closest, but still won't play a decent number of songs that i have downloaded. i have 5 different media players installed on my windows computer, and not one of them will play every music file i have. (this, by the way, only counting audio files which i have ripped from cd's i own or legitimately downloaded.)
so if i was going to set up a computer to stream media files to my stereo system, which operating system should i use?
on top of that, using enterprise servers as an example of a market where microsoft clearly beats out linux is just ridiculous. of all of the uses you listed, that is probably the one where linux is the most competitive with windows....
It seems the French are endowed with the natural freedoms us Americans have become used to losing.
I wouldn't go quite so far as to say that. Take a look at their anti-terrorism laws and procedures some time for example- they make USA PATRIOT and the attempted TIA look pretty tame by comparison. All in all though, it seems to me lately that more and more the Europeans are showing themselves to have much more common sense at the societal level than we Americans, in a lot of ways.
If you need one of these cameras, you already have a huge collection of Nikon lenses and flashes. You already have a digital workflow based around NEF. The fact that the white-balance data is encrypted means nothing to you, and will never affect you. And if anybody tries to tell you otherwise, you will laugh in his face.
It might mean something to you if your existing digital workflow (which you built for a camera that does not encrypt NEF data) uses non-Nikon software- e.g. Photoshop- to access the NEF data. From what I've read, a lot of people who do use these camera's don't particularly like using Nikon's software, and aren't very happy about the company deciding that this shall be their only option in future cameras.
Linux doesn't need standard applications, it needs standard interfaces. It shouldn't matter if you use cups for printing, or lprng, or lpd. As long as your print spooler follows a standard interface, you could have any one of those (or something else entirely) running on your computer, and any application would be able to print to it.
Likewise with sound. If all developers wrote their applications to use the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, they wouldn't work on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, etc. However, if you just write your application to dump sound data to/dev/snd (or whatever it is, I've long forgotten) and let the users sound drivers take care of it from there, everything should "just work".
This is why we don't need to choose a KDE Gnome standard. There's nothing wrong with having competing desktop alternatives as long as they agree on some base functionality. Having just installed a new Linux Desktop for the first time since 2001-ish, I was amazed to see gaim drop a systray icon in the KDE panel. When I got frustrated enough with KDE that I decided to switch to my old preference, Gnome, sure enough the kaffeine icon still showed up in the Gnome panel. Sure, it may seem like a little thing now, but it is certainly significant progress from not too long ago.
Even regarding sound- I remember sound being a nightmare not all that long ago. It seemed to take forever to get everything set up right to use the right drivers and not compete with other audio applications. Now it just works. I didn't have to bother to find out if I was running esd or arTs or whatever else. Every program I've run so far has 'just worked' without me have to do any work to configure output drivers, even running KDE applications in Gnome and vice versa.
So long as there is a well defined interface to the features that developers need, it really doesn't matter how many programs exist to implement that interface. Picking one standard application or library to fulfill each need is exactly what we don't want to happen.
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rather than going through a whole mess with the virtualizer maybe you could just use a live cd? (or live dvd depending on how many apps you want to have installed.) set up a clean system, burn the whole image to your optical media of choice and then set up the boot loader to boot the cd/dvd instead of the hard drive. i'm not sure exactly how hard it is to set up a live cd with windows, but i know it's been done.
Well since it's Spitzer involved, they'll probably never actually be prosecuted with anything. Just a lot of high profile public attacks and grandstanding until they cave to whatever he wants in order to avoid bad publicity and drawn out court cases. For the most part, I am in favor of nailing the people he's gone after to the wall, but I still find some of the methods he uses to get results a bit disturbing.
this may be an issue for corporate users, but most home users, apple's real target market, usually only upgrade their version of windows when they buy a new computer. so to most home windows users, upgrading to moc os x would be little different from upgrading to windows longhorn.
i prefer windows 2000's behavior of defaulting to whichever was the most recently used, so that about 95% of the time, i can just hit ALT+F4, Enter, and not have to worry about which keys mean what. i guess that's the other thing that irritates me about XP's shutdown dialog- the default option is the one that i use the least of the 4.
All my TVs (and in fact every TV I've ever seen) turns off the receiver when you use the actual power button (on the TV)
odd, i've never even heard of that before. seems like it would be frustrating to sit down and grab the remote only to discover that the last person to use the tv had hit the power button on the tv instead of on the remote. (says the guy who moved over three months ago and still hasn't figured out where his universal remote got packed...)
before this thread i had never even realized that there were in fact two different symbols. the symbols in xp always seemed so uselessly / meaninglessly similar to me that i just ignored them and wnet by the words. now that my curiosity has been piqued, i just went looking through my entire house and out of all of my electronic equipment and all of the various remote controls that i know where to find, one of my monitors has the "power off" symbol. somewhere between a third and a half say 'power' or 'off'. maybe another third have the "standby symbol", and the rest either say "power (standby symbol)" or "| / (standby symbol)". (that last one seems particularly silly to me now that i actually look at it).
how old is the version of gaim you are using? ctrl-c/ctrl-v work fine for me in the current version, and worked in whatever version i hade before the last upgrade as well. (~0.83 i think)
i do remember a time in the "distant" past where wingaim had some seriously annoying toolkit misfeatures, but it's been working flawlessly for me for at least the last ~8 months.
what i've noticed is that most users actually don't really care. the last time my dad brought me his computer full of spyware (took about 15 minutes to load windows because of all the stuff going on in the background, and IE would pop up about 10 popup windows the second you started it) i formatted it, reinstalled everything, hid the ie icon on the desktop, and installed firefox. i told him "from now on, instead of the blue e, use this to access the internet, it will help protect you from viruses."
that was over four months ago, and in the time since, he's only once called me with a question about using firefox.
After all it only takes three steps to install Gentoo...
wow, somehow i quoted another thread while replying to this one. i was, of course responding to the comment about what it must be like to fly for someone over 6'.
The power button on the actual TV set should turn the TV completely off (including the remote receiver), and should have an icon idential to the one XP uses for "shutdown". If not, your TV / remote are very unusual.
i don't know what kind of tv you have, but on every tv i've ever used (that had a remote), the remote receiver is always on while it is plugged in, whether you turn the tv off via the remote or via the button on the tv, so there is no difference between the power button on the tv and the one on the remote. same with any other home electronic equipment that had a remote.
eventually i did, but for a long time i was regularly switching back and forth between a windows xp machine (defaults to stand by when you shut down) and a win2k machine (defaults to whatever you did the previous time you shut down). since i used the win2k machine a lot more, i tended to always expect whichever machine i was using to default to whatever i did the previous time.
The power icon with a closed circle is for power off; you'll probably find it on your TV's power button. The power icon with the broken circle is for stand by (soft off); you'll find it on your TV's remote control. Usually with no text, in either case.
yes, but in this example, the two buttons do exactly the same thing. the only difference is that one is on the remote and one is on the TV. so we have two slightly differnt icons with exactly the same meaning.
of course, the power button on my tv actually says "power", without an icon. any other appliances that i can think of off the top of my head (playstation, dvd player) all use the open circle on the device itself and (if applicable) the remote. so to me, that icon means on/off just as much as (if not more so) than the closed circle icon.
except WinFS was not (so far as i'm aware) in any of the actually released betas for winXP.
i remember using an active desktop-like feature in an IE 4 beta release that not only never made it into IE4, but was horribly neutered when it did finally make it into later windows/IE releases as active desktop.
What happens to Apple when Jobs retires?
it's bearable for flights less than about 3 hours.
for flights longer than that there are a couple of options. the best option is to try and get yourself one of the seats in or near the exit row, where the rows are often spaced farther apart. on some planes the eixt rows only have two seats on each side of the aisle instead of three so on those planes it's really nice if you can snag the seat behind where the third seat should be. if you are not on a full flight, it definitely helps to get yourself a seat where there's no one next to you. it also helps sometimes if there is no seat or an empty seat in front of you, just because then you don't have to worry about someone reclining their seat back into your knees.
lastly, some airlines are better than others about how much space they have between the seats. the first time i flew to europe, i flew american airlines who had just finished making a big deal about their four inches of extra legroom in coach class. that was a life saver. unfortunately american isn't very competetive price-wise for most of the routes i typically fly- the extra legroom, although nice, is not worth an extra $50 on a 2-4 hour flight.
it's funny, though- i have on multiple occasions had the person sitting next to me on a plane say "i wish i was tall like you" (i'm not really that tall) just as a i was standing up to get off the plane. it's hard not to laugh at them with my head bent practically sideways and my shoulder nearly hitting the flight attendant call button. "yeah, it's really great to be tall..."
What happens to Apple when Jobs retires?
maybe they'll replace him with carly fiorina. i hear she's looking for a job...
They release a very early beta/alpha and say "don't worry, the final version will be SOOO much better" and when it turns up on shelves, it's oddly similar to that beta/alpha from 2 years ago.
I can remember cases (IE4 in particular) where significant features from the beta never even made it into the release.
Most people only upgrade windows when they buy a new computer anyway, so it's not all that far fetched. Especially when you consider that most games are 'obsolete' every few months anyways, and usually new major releases of the appications most people use are also timed around new windows releases.
yeah, except red (stop) could be meaningfully used to convey all three, and yellow (how do you come up with an automatic association between yellow with "stand by"; if anything, it would be "caution" or "prepare to stop") and green (go) don't really apply to any of the three.
as far as the icons on numerous home appliances, i think the 'power' icons they use for shut down and stand by tend to be used fairly interchangeably, and i've never seen the 'tentacle' icon anywhere that i can remember.
at any rate, my personal pet peeve regarding the shutdown dialog, as someone who tends to use keyboard shortcuts far more often than the mouse, is that it is not clear which one is currently selected and which one will be activated when i hit enter. i usually hit the left/right arrow keys a couple of times and watch for the annoyingly subtle change in color to know which icon is currently highlighted before i hit enter.
it's about time windows moved away from their crappy explorer to a good window manager. of course, personally i would have preferred something a little more configurable, like sawfish, but it's a start... i wonder what this will do to projects like litestep and geoshell.
wait, that's not the black box we are talking about?
[for] streaming media from your computer to your TV you won't go wrong with Windows.
hmm. on my linux box, there are two media players that came with the OS that are capable of playing every single audio file i have on my computer- mplayer and xine (as well as various front ends that use the xine libraries). windows, on the other hand only comes with one media player, and there are several formats that it refuses to play, some even after i have installed the appropriate directshow filters. i have tried downloading and installing several others, but so far not one of them has been able to successfully play all of my songs. iTunes won't play almost half my library. Winamp comes the closest, but still won't play a decent number of songs that i have downloaded. i have 5 different media players installed on my windows computer, and not one of them will play every music file i have. (this, by the way, only counting audio files which i have ripped from cd's i own or legitimately downloaded.)
so if i was going to set up a computer to stream media files to my stereo system, which operating system should i use?
on top of that, using enterprise servers as an example of a market where microsoft clearly beats out linux is just ridiculous. of all of the uses you listed, that is probably the one where linux is the most competitive with windows....
It seems the French are endowed with the natural freedoms us Americans have become used to losing.
I wouldn't go quite so far as to say that. Take a look at their anti-terrorism laws and procedures some time for example- they make USA PATRIOT and the attempted TIA look pretty tame by comparison. All in all though, it seems to me lately that more and more the Europeans are showing themselves to have much more common sense at the societal level than we Americans, in a lot of ways.
...since the 2004 debates are the only thing besides my dvds i can remember watching on that hunk of glass in over a year. that and my ps2.
then again considering how devoid of any useful content or information the 2004 debates were, i probably won't miss that anyway.
seriously, is this even really an issue? everyone i know who actually cares about anything on TV has cable anyway.
If you need one of these cameras, you already have a huge collection of Nikon lenses and flashes. You already have a digital workflow based around NEF. The fact that the white-balance data is encrypted means nothing to you, and will never affect you. And if anybody tries to tell you otherwise, you will laugh in his face.
It might mean something to you if your existing digital workflow (which you built for a camera that does not encrypt NEF data) uses non-Nikon software- e.g. Photoshop- to access the NEF data. From what I've read, a lot of people who do use these camera's don't particularly like using Nikon's software, and aren't very happy about the company deciding that this shall be their only option in future cameras.
This is why we don't need to choose a KDE Gnome standard
bah. that should say:
This is why we don't need to choose KDE or Gnome as a standard desktop.
Linux doesn't need standard applications, it needs standard interfaces. It shouldn't matter if you use cups for printing, or lprng, or lpd. As long as your print spooler follows a standard interface, you could have any one of those (or something else entirely) running on your computer, and any application would be able to print to it.
/dev/snd (or whatever it is, I've long forgotten) and let the users sound drivers take care of it from there, everything should "just work".
Likewise with sound. If all developers wrote their applications to use the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, they wouldn't work on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, etc. However, if you just write your application to dump sound data to
This is why we don't need to choose a KDE Gnome standard. There's nothing wrong with having competing desktop alternatives as long as they agree on some base functionality. Having just installed a new Linux Desktop for the first time since 2001-ish, I was amazed to see gaim drop a systray icon in the KDE panel. When I got frustrated enough with KDE that I decided to switch to my old preference, Gnome, sure enough the kaffeine icon still showed up in the Gnome panel. Sure, it may seem like a little thing now, but it is certainly significant progress from not too long ago.
Even regarding sound- I remember sound being a nightmare not all that long ago. It seemed to take forever to get everything set up right to use the right drivers and not compete with other audio applications. Now it just works. I didn't have to bother to find out if I was running esd or arTs or whatever else. Every program I've run so far has 'just worked' without me have to do any work to configure output drivers, even running KDE applications in Gnome and vice versa.
So long as there is a well defined interface to the features that developers need, it really doesn't matter how many programs exist to implement that interface. Picking one standard application or library to fulfill each need is exactly what we don't want to happen.