Acrobat reader 5 was somewhere around a 5.5 meg download. Acrobat reader 8 is 21 megs. It does the exact same things but is almost 4 times the size, how is that not bloated? I think the "super fast" load times you're seeing is from that new PC you bought, and not reader 8 being any faster or less bloated than reader 5, 6, or 7.
Stop posting Dvorak's crap here and stop going to his website and we can finally pick this leach off of the computer world's underbelly. He only exists to stir up shit for web hits. If we stop giving a damn he'll have to go somewhere else for food!
The market doesn't demand ONE thing at a time. To think so is just asinine. Microsoft is more than capable of delivering on more than one front. One doesn't necessarily have to give up speed for security; MS for some reason just can't or wont deliver performance, security, and a capable UI all together in one package. They've gotten it right here and there, but it seems like they drop one for the other when they really don't need to.
I'm sure the only thing tying you to Windows these days is your own aging skill-set. Let's face it, Windows has always been your bread-and-butter as a programmer right? Well one could see why you would feel slighted when others bash what you've spent a large amount of your life learning and suffering with. The cold truth is: The Windows skill-set is in danger if MS keeps dropping the ball. Every time MS drops a steaming pile of OS on the market, more people make the switch to Apple, or Linux, and your skill-set degrades just a notch. The thought of mass defections from Windows probably makes you wake up in a cold sweat at night. Well, I'm not going to sugar-coat it: Vista is turning many people elsewhere, and Apple is making all the right moves in the market right now to swiftly pick those disenfranchised folks up. It's only a matter of time before the market tips and non-windows machines are the minority in many areas. It may not be tomorrow, or even ten years from now, but I've lost all hope in MS pulling up from the tailspin they are in.
In closing, I think that there is no better time then RIGHT NOW to expand your skill-set to include Windows agnostic developing. Because I'm of the opinion that there is a huge shift happening in the market right now, just very slowly...
I personally appreciate the rules, and most netizens seem to love the idea of open standards, open devices, etcetera, but the fact of the matter is that it isn't the government's place to make rules like this.
You're quite wrong. If the government (ie the people) doesn't make those rules, the corporations sure wont. So where will these regulations come from? What will keep those telephone companies from only allowing us to use one phone, rented from them (as they use to do in the old days?) What will keep those food companies from feeding us poison?
You're wrong in thinking it's not the governments place to regulate safety and fairness. History has shown time and time again that money making enterprises cannot be trusted to regulate themselves in any way. Teddy Roosevelt knew this, but libertarians now a days just turn a blind eye to to that particular statesman.
I'm going to post without reading TFA or TFT, but here goes:
I considered MythTV when I was putting together my HTPC, it was a bitch to get working, and I never could get it just right. I was told time and time again by mythTV fanatics that it was worth it in the long run. I see now that they were dead wrong.
I went with BeyondTV on Windows (Even though I hate Windows and it crashes frequently) because it was a snap to set up and I could get it working just the way I like it. Paying $80 for the program doesn't seem like a waste now.
In the end all the community support doesn't get you anywhere without some cash infusion. Sorry MythTV guys, but I think that's the rule here.
I just watched a movie called "this film is not yet rated" (get it on netflix) where they show just how incompetent and unfair the MPAA ratings board is. If the ESRB is WORSE, then I feel sorry for anyone trying to push the envelope in games developement.
Since this system has no overall control agent, the cars are like a distributed computing network. Since most traffic is caused by faulty driving I welcome this kind of thing without hesitation.
Since 2002. And what have they produced since then? Nada, but some demo product shots. OQO managed to get some hardware out there, but this project seems to be going nowhere.
Personally, I wouldn't care if both Mcafee and Symantec went bankrupt tomorrow. Both feature bloated, buggy software, and symantec's sales pressure to 'Upgrade' to newer buggier software rather than renewal of the old software is just disgusting. Granted, I don't know if MS could do a better job, given their abysmal track record on security and virus prevention. They love to just leave the barndoor open for stuff like that. But they may be able to produce a spyware/virus solutions that works better within their systems, better than the monkeys at Mcafee and Symantec anyways.
Yeah, yeah, and Microsoft is all about fluffy clouds and puppies. Oh Look! Ballmer is shitting a rainbow!
Soon Microsoft will give you the ability to fly in an airship made entirely out of candy and unicorns!
I'm not buying that MS has anything up it's sleeve that doesn't attempt to tie you into it's monopoly in some devious way, so no thanks to your Zune or Windows Live (which sucks horribly BTW, might want to tip your bosses off to that total trainwreck and money pit and cut your losses before Google pounds you any further into the pavement.)
Hmmm... I think you're giving Microsoft WAY too much credit. Ballmer isn't sitting in his office think of evil ways to make Windows more painful, you're right about that. But I bet you he's not thinking about bettering your computer experience either. It's just Windows, It's always Windows. Not much changes as far as usibility is concerned. However, I can think of serveral things in MacOSX that has genuinely made my experience better (expose, bonjour, etc.)
And how is virtual desktops and automatic back-ups 'just fluff'? These are things that *need* to be in an OS and I'm glad Apple is using it's resources to make it happen. Mac OSX keeps getting better. Windows... Well I'm just glad I jumped that ship a few years ago.
One of the hardest working Companies in the computer industry, trying to make your experience genuinely better, and some people still aren't impressed. Go wait with baited breath about what Dell is doing if you're that underwhelmed. The lines aren't nearly as long!
Have any of you tried using Windows Live? It sucks in so many ways, I stopped counting long ago. There's no saving grace at all, Windows Live Search sucks, Windows Live Mail sucks, Windows Live Office sucks, the list goes on people. If they don't start improving Live soon, it could be the biggest failure they've ever experienced (and I'm including ME in that)
This guy doesn't really have a 'water fuel' so to speak. He's using a fuel cell, or from his description of the device that's what it seems like. He cracks water to get hydrogen for the fuel cell. The whole process isn't new and is debatable as far as it's efficiency is concerned.
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Acrobat reader 5 was somewhere around a 5.5 meg download. Acrobat reader 8 is 21 megs. It does the exact same things but is almost 4 times the size, how is that not bloated? I think the "super fast" load times you're seeing is from that new PC you bought, and not reader 8 being any faster or less bloated than reader 5, 6, or 7.
Stop posting Dvorak's crap here and stop going to his website and we can finally pick this leach off of the computer world's underbelly. He only exists to stir up shit for web hits. If we stop giving a damn he'll have to go somewhere else for food!
The market doesn't demand ONE thing at a time. To think so is just asinine. Microsoft is more than capable of delivering on more than one front. One doesn't necessarily have to give up speed for security; MS for some reason just can't or wont deliver performance, security, and a capable UI all together in one package. They've gotten it right here and there, but it seems like they drop one for the other when they really don't need to.
I'm sure the only thing tying you to Windows these days is your own aging skill-set. Let's face it, Windows has always been your bread-and-butter as a programmer right? Well one could see why you would feel slighted when others bash what you've spent a large amount of your life learning and suffering with. The cold truth is: The Windows skill-set is in danger if MS keeps dropping the ball. Every time MS drops a steaming pile of OS on the market, more people make the switch to Apple, or Linux, and your skill-set degrades just a notch. The thought of mass defections from Windows probably makes you wake up in a cold sweat at night. Well, I'm not going to sugar-coat it: Vista is turning many people elsewhere, and Apple is making all the right moves in the market right now to swiftly pick those disenfranchised folks up. It's only a matter of time before the market tips and non-windows machines are the minority in many areas. It may not be tomorrow, or even ten years from now, but I've lost all hope in MS pulling up from the tailspin they are in.
In closing, I think that there is no better time then RIGHT NOW to expand your skill-set to include Windows agnostic developing. Because I'm of the opinion that there is a huge shift happening in the market right now, just very slowly...
they ARE fixing it, because it IS a bug and NOT an intentional hack.
They can say that all day, but it doesn't make it the truth.
I personally appreciate the rules, and most netizens seem to love the idea of open standards, open devices, etcetera, but the fact of the matter is that it isn't the government's place to make rules like this.
You're quite wrong. If the government (ie the people) doesn't make those rules, the corporations sure wont. So where will these regulations come from? What will keep those telephone companies from only allowing us to use one phone, rented from them (as they use to do in the old days?) What will keep those food companies from feeding us poison?
You're wrong in thinking it's not the governments place to regulate safety and fairness. History has shown time and time again that money making enterprises cannot be trusted to regulate themselves in any way. Teddy Roosevelt knew this, but libertarians now a days just turn a blind eye to to that particular statesman.
I'm going to post without reading TFA or TFT, but here goes:
I considered MythTV when I was putting together my HTPC, it was a bitch to get working, and I never could get it just right. I was told time and time again by mythTV fanatics that it was worth it in the long run. I see now that they were dead wrong.
I went with BeyondTV on Windows (Even though I hate Windows and it crashes frequently) because it was a snap to set up and I could get it working just the way I like it. Paying $80 for the program doesn't seem like a waste now.
In the end all the community support doesn't get you anywhere without some cash infusion. Sorry MythTV guys, but I think that's the rule here.
I just watched a movie called "this film is not yet rated" (get it on netflix) where they show just how incompetent and unfair the MPAA ratings board is. If the ESRB is WORSE, then I feel sorry for anyone trying to push the envelope in games developement.
PS. Jack valenti is still dead and in hell
A little company with a lot to protect in the PC market. 20 Mil is such a paltry sum though, they probably don't even remember making the donation.
Since this system has no overall control agent, the cars are like a distributed computing network. Since most traffic is caused by faulty driving I welcome this kind of thing without hesitation.
Because you made a phone call!!!!
Since 2002. And what have they produced since then? Nada, but some demo product shots. OQO managed to get some hardware out there, but this project seems to be going nowhere.
Hypervisors and UI paradigms. That's right ben, keep grasping for that straw of 'innovation'.
We need a big company to make a decent rival, perhaps virgin or someone can come up with something
Or Gee... I don't know... Apple?
Personally, I wouldn't care if both Mcafee and Symantec went bankrupt tomorrow. Both feature bloated, buggy software, and symantec's sales pressure to 'Upgrade' to newer buggier software rather than renewal of the old software is just disgusting. Granted, I don't know if MS could do a better job, given their abysmal track record on security and virus prevention. They love to just leave the barndoor open for stuff like that. But they may be able to produce a spyware/virus solutions that works better within their systems, better than the monkeys at Mcafee and Symantec anyways.
Yeah, yeah, and Microsoft is all about fluffy clouds and puppies. Oh Look! Ballmer is shitting a rainbow!
Soon Microsoft will give you the ability to fly in an airship made entirely out of candy and unicorns!
I'm not buying that MS has anything up it's sleeve that doesn't attempt to tie you into it's monopoly in some devious way, so no thanks to your Zune or Windows Live (which sucks horribly BTW, might want to tip your bosses off to that total trainwreck and money pit and cut your losses before Google pounds you any further into the pavement.)
But I doubt the slashdot crowd will get a Fark.com reference, though there is a lot of overlap.
Hmmm... I think you're giving Microsoft WAY too much credit. Ballmer isn't sitting in his office think of evil ways to make Windows more painful, you're right about that. But I bet you he's not thinking about bettering your computer experience either. It's just Windows, It's always Windows. Not much changes as far as usibility is concerned. However, I can think of serveral things in MacOSX that has genuinely made my experience better (expose, bonjour, etc.)
And how is virtual desktops and automatic back-ups 'just fluff'? These are things that *need* to be in an OS and I'm glad Apple is using it's resources to make it happen. Mac OSX keeps getting better. Windows... Well I'm just glad I jumped that ship a few years ago.
One of the hardest working Companies in the computer industry, trying to make your experience genuinely better, and some people still aren't impressed. Go wait with baited breath about what Dell is doing if you're that underwhelmed. The lines aren't nearly as long!
Have any of you tried using Windows Live? It sucks in so many ways, I stopped counting long ago. There's no saving grace at all, Windows Live Search sucks, Windows Live Mail sucks, Windows Live Office sucks, the list goes on people. If they don't start improving Live soon, it could be the biggest failure they've ever experienced (and I'm including ME in that)
This guy doesn't really have a 'water fuel' so to speak. He's using a fuel cell, or from his description of the device that's what it seems like. He cracks water to get hydrogen for the fuel cell. The whole process isn't new and is debatable as far as it's efficiency is concerned.
CDs may be better than itunes or P2P, but you have to support the music cabals in order to get that convenience and clarity.
I prefer to think that for each CD you buy, satan sodomizes your dead relatives in hell.
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Please report to Slashdot re-education immediately citizen!
OMGWTFBBQ!!
All that spyware must be killing their server. Slashdotted :)