Virtual desktops have been commonplace on X11 desktops since before either Linux or NT even existed. It's just taken NT a long time to catch up...
They've also been commonplace on PCs since before either Linux or NT even existed. And they've been available for Windows and Windows NT for almost all of their existance. What's your point? Oh and in repeated usability tests, they're always found to be too confusing to use except as an optional add-in.
And almost certainly had an equally amazing effect on not having qualified employees working in that company as soon as they could print their resumes from their home systems. Followed by an equally amazing decrease in earnings for the company. But, then again, the IT department got to be both lazy AND arrogent so it all worked out.
I think it would great if Microsoft considered any drivers signed by them as equivalent to "original equipment" -- in other words no more blaming third party drivers for BSODs.
What they don't do is require users to only buy hardware that has that certification. Oh, and by the way, Microsoft doesn't do the testing or certification. They set up the specific standards and third parties do the tests.
Or we could go back to dumb terminals and mainframes. Or maybe submitting jobs to the MIS department's staff (wearing lab coats in their glass rooms) on punch cards after getting three levels of management approval and a six-month MIS review to see if it is really needed.
You guys just don't get what Personal Computers are about, do you?
No, no. You're mising the point. The purpose of an OS is to give whiny junior IS techs a toy and give them a chance to treat their users with contempt so they can feel worthwhile.
If their ISPs ever treated them like they treat the users they support they'd be on here screaming bloody murder.
You seem to have caught SES (Sysadmin Ego Syndrome). You see, the admin's job is to make the users' lives easier since they actually do productive work. You seem to be under the impression that it works the other way. Really, an admin is just a high tech version of a plumber. Both maintain infrastructure but don't add anything. Keep things running and let the users get back to doing their jobs.
You seem to be confusing Unix-like with good. Unfortunately rwx is very Unix-like. It's also not very good.
rwx is one of the core faults left in Unix derived systems. It's a leftover from Unix's roots as a tty input timeshare system from 30 years ago with the assumption of a limited number of mostly trusted users. Unfortunately, nobody is willing to change it.
Over the last decade, the trend has been to be more and more stingy with tech support and upgrades. Why?
One reason why is that in the golden day of free, unlimited, toll-free support calls, a word processor cost about $500 as did a spreadsheet as did a database. If MS charged $2000 for office like it was in those days, you'd see a LOT of free tech support!
Intel named the iAPX586 family "Pentium" because the courts ruled that you couldn't copyright a number. The cloners started calling their 486 clone chips 586 to make the consumers think they were getting a new generation so Intel tried to assert copyright claims. They lost and came up with the copyrightable "Pentium" brand.
Let's see. What Microsoft OS's don't support a uniproc x86 box. Hmmm. None of them. Looks like Microsoft is OK.
If the point was that sales of Windows 2000 will slow down on MP servers, not likely. Just those MP servers will be running Windows 2000 on MP Pentium III Xeons. Just like they are now. Do you really think people are going to change from Windows 2000 PIII MP servers to Solaris/SPARCs because they can't get a P4 for a year? Think they'll switch over their whole operation while they're at it? I don't see a scenario where this make a difference.
Strangely enough, the Pentium 4 is actually targeted at the market where Intel is being hurt the most by AMD, the home computer.
Not strange at all. Those home systems are the bread and butter product for Intel. They may make more per box off a big server but they'll sell chips for a few dozen to a few hundred home systems for each of those big servers. The general consumer market is also what feeds the public impression of the company. Intel hasn't been stupid enough to go after niche markets at the cost of the mainstream. If the glass house systems are running PIII Xeons in stead of P4s, well, that's OK with Intel. If they walk down the K-Mart aisle and keep seeing AMD stickers, that isn't OK with them.
The vast majority of systems sold are uniproc. Home systems are almost all uniproc. Business desktops are almost all uniproc. Small servers are uniproc with big caches (usually PIII Xeon).
The few servers they lose with this will stay with PIII Xeons until the P4 Xeon is ready anyway just like they stayed away from the Pentium II until the Xeon came out because the Pentium Pro had a bigger cache.
Besides, the people buying the very high end boxes tend to be conservative and tend to avoid the first version of anything. As long as intel has a P4 Xeon MP offering within a year, they won't lose much of anything in actual sales.
Isn't it interesting that prior to this, Mozilla/NS6 was considered (and loudly proclaimed as) the second most important Open Source project in existance after only Linux itself? Now all I keep reading here is "Well, it's mostly funded by/developed by paid NS/AOL employees." Funny thing.
X employees * Y business days is just a reasonable a formula as X employees * Z hours / 8 HoursPerDay
Setting the granularity in hours or minutes just means that accounting must be done for every meeting and conversation and which project it was on or what percent of it was on which project. Unless you are in an industry that bills customers by the hour, the overhead outweighs any benefits. After all, who sets their ship date as Thursday, November 16th at 4:37 PM?
How many people have been at a meeting that went nowhere because "someone" was "taking thier day"."
Leave and sicktime aren't the only problems. So are other meetings and obligations.
Of course, this is avoided when you schedule meetings around people rather than scheduling people around meetings. Fixed scheduled meetings only work when everybody involved has the same hours and obligations. If not, they end up as little power games between the people scheduling the meetings.
In other words, how many people have been at a meeting that went nowhere becauses "someone" was "in another meeting that was more important".
Um, no. Apple just did uncorrected sub-pixel aliasing. What ClearType is about is the correction so that there isn't color fringing. ClearType is designed to increase sharpness. Anybody who remember's the Apple ]['s text display will remember what color fringing is.
Adding conventional anti-aliasing (or non-corrected sub-pixel aliasing schemes) would just give you a really high res blur since they just trade pseudo resolution for sharpness. All you'd get is instant eye strain as your focusing muscles micro adjust to try to fix the blur.
Now throw ClearType onto it and that would be a nice, readable screen! With 600 dpi effective resolution that would start being around the same resolution as commercially printed text.
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So far Nautilus is nothing more than a clone of the Windows ME/Windows 2000 shell.
They've also been commonplace on PCs since before either Linux or NT even existed. And they've been available for Windows and Windows NT for almost all of their existance. What's your point? Oh and in repeated usability tests, they're always found to be too confusing to use except as an optional add-in.
And almost certainly had an equally amazing effect on not having qualified employees working in that company as soon as they could print their resumes from their home systems. Followed by an equally amazing decrease in earnings for the company. But, then again, the IT department got to be both lazy AND arrogent so it all worked out.
Microsoft already does something like this with the Windows Hardware Quality Labs program.
What they don't do is require users to only buy hardware that has that certification. Oh, and by the way, Microsoft doesn't do the testing or certification. They set up the specific standards and third parties do the tests.
- Users shouldn't get to choose their own software
- People above me shouldn't get to choose users' software
- Vendors shouldn't get to choose users' software
- Only I should get to choose users' software
And they should all thank for for it because I am nigh unto a god.You guys just don't get what Personal Computers are about, do you?
If their ISPs ever treated them like they treat the users they support they'd be on here screaming bloody murder.
You seem to have caught SES (Sysadmin Ego Syndrome). You see, the admin's job is to make the users' lives easier since they actually do productive work. You seem to be under the impression that it works the other way. Really, an admin is just a high tech version of a plumber. Both maintain infrastructure but don't add anything. Keep things running and let the users get back to doing their jobs.
I can't really explain in 3 seconds except that it has to do with how the brain deals with color error. Here's a link to the paper on it. http://research.microsoft.com/~jplatt/cleartype/
- Nobody really wants it
- It is too hard to implement (and even the "flexibility is bad" version!).
- It would introduce some undefined security hole
These work on Pointy Haired Bosses but do you think that really describes this group?rwx is one of the core faults left in Unix derived systems. It's a leftover from Unix's roots as a tty input timeshare system from 30 years ago with the assumption of a limited number of mostly trusted users. Unfortunately, nobody is willing to change it.
One reason why is that in the golden day of free, unlimited, toll-free support calls, a word processor cost about $500 as did a spreadsheet as did a database. If MS charged $2000 for office like it was in those days, you'd see a LOT of free tech support!
C:\>dir \windows\fonts\*.ttf
Any other questions?
Intel named the iAPX586 family "Pentium" because the courts ruled that you couldn't copyright a number. The cloners started calling their 486 clone chips 586 to make the consumers think they were getting a new generation so Intel tried to assert copyright claims. They lost and came up with the copyrightable "Pentium" brand.
If the point was that sales of Windows 2000 will slow down on MP servers, not likely. Just those MP servers will be running Windows 2000 on MP Pentium III Xeons. Just like they are now. Do you really think people are going to change from Windows 2000 PIII MP servers to Solaris/SPARCs because they can't get a P4 for a year? Think they'll switch over their whole operation while they're at it? I don't see a scenario where this make a difference.
Not strange at all. Those home systems are the bread and butter product for Intel. They may make more per box off a big server but they'll sell chips for a few dozen to a few hundred home systems for each of those big servers. The general consumer market is also what feeds the public impression of the company. Intel hasn't been stupid enough to go after niche markets at the cost of the mainstream. If the glass house systems are running PIII Xeons in stead of P4s, well, that's OK with Intel. If they walk down the K-Mart aisle and keep seeing AMD stickers, that isn't OK with them.
The few servers they lose with this will stay with PIII Xeons until the P4 Xeon is ready anyway just like they stayed away from the Pentium II until the Xeon came out because the Pentium Pro had a bigger cache.
Besides, the people buying the very high end boxes tend to be conservative and tend to avoid the first version of anything. As long as intel has a P4 Xeon MP offering within a year, they won't lose much of anything in actual sales.
Isn't it interesting that prior to this, Mozilla/NS6 was considered (and loudly proclaimed as) the second most important Open Source project in existance after only Linux itself? Now all I keep reading here is "Well, it's mostly funded by/developed by paid NS/AOL employees." Funny thing.
Setting the granularity in hours or minutes just means that accounting must be done for every meeting and conversation and which project it was on or what percent of it was on which project. Unless you are in an industry that bills customers by the hour, the overhead outweighs any benefits. After all, who sets their ship date as Thursday, November 16th at 4:37 PM?
Leave and sicktime aren't the only problems. So are other meetings and obligations.
Of course, this is avoided when you schedule meetings around people rather than scheduling people around meetings. Fixed scheduled meetings only work when everybody involved has the same hours and obligations. If not, they end up as little power games between the people scheduling the meetings.
In other words, how many people have been at a meeting that went nowhere becauses "someone" was "in another meeting that was more important".
But thanks for playing.
Adding conventional anti-aliasing (or non-corrected sub-pixel aliasing schemes) would just give you a really high res blur since they just trade pseudo resolution for sharpness. All you'd get is instant eye strain as your focusing muscles micro adjust to try to fix the blur.
If it really were "204 pixels per square inch" that would be one of the worst resolutions ever made since it would only be around 14 dpi.
Now throw ClearType onto it and that would be a nice, readable screen! With 600 dpi effective resolution that would start being around the same resolution as commercially printed text.