You should never log in as Administrator or root to play games, and, unfortunately, Windows often makes you to do just that. That kind of behavior just isn't ready for the desktop at all.
Windows does nothing of the sort. Stupid developers make you "login" (really, just "Run As) as Administrator, and they're as likely to do it targeting Linux as they have been targeting Windows.
Sys Admins and Dev Gurus are not Project managers. But they get put in the position of being one constantly because upper management doesn't know the difference.
No, they get put into the position because they're inevitably the poor fuckers who have to try and pick up the pieces when the shit hits the fan - usually because they're the only ones who have the slightest inkling of how everything actually fits together.
Most sysadmins I have met have a fairly limited grasp on the actual business aspects of running a company. However, they have always had a better understanding of that, than any "manager" has of the technical aspects of the operation, that I have ever known.
Basically, IME, it's far more productive to try and teach a technical person management skills, than it is to teach a manager technical skills (or even concepts).
Remote desktop is just better. Vastly more usable on low-bandwidth (or high latency) links and when your session drops out for some reason you can reconnect and not have lost everything you were working on.
I figure, if you brake suddenly, for no good reason, and I hit you, well, that's what insurance is for.
If you're so keen to throw your money away (it won't cost the other party a cent, as you will be 100% to blame for any crash), why not throw it away on something useful ?
Who said we were talking about curing the patient? Or what was good for the individual? The species' survival is more important than the survival of any single individual.
Perhaps I did not make myself clear enough: even the the cost of HEAVILY DISCOUNTED Vista or XP license is critical for UPMC makers.
No, it's not. If you think an extra $5 on the price tag will stop someone buying a known quantity (Windows laptop) vs an unknown quantity (non-Windows laptop), you're crazy.
It is probably a comforting thought that everyone around you is so stupid, but I assure you it is not the case. Sure, I think on sub $400 notebook +$110 goes to Microsoft, I'm just that stupid.
Well apparently you are, because ~$500 PCs have been around for years, but strangely Linux hasn't managed to take over the world because Windows is so expensive. Why would you think sub-$500 laptops will be so much different ?
My friend, I think you overlook an evident fact: OSX is actually BETTER and FASTER than what OS9 was.
It's only faster because the hardware has finally caught up. For literally the first few years of OSX's life, it was impossible to buy a machine that could run it "fast".
I sat amazed & watched the 45 second process of a new driver being compiled & installed with no human intervention or request.
Personally I would have sat, amazed, and wondered why the hell a new driver had to be compiled and installed in the first place.
Let's see Microsoft match that...
Since Microsoft - like pretty much every other OS vendor - have mastered software engineering to a sufficient degree that minor kernel updates don't break drivers, they don't need to "match it" - they've long since exceeded it.
Microsoft owns the desktop. Content creation and delivery folks want the desktop. What does their (lack of) position in the content market matter?
The content folk are, at best, highly suspicious of "the desktop". With good reason.
Do you really think anyone could sell video content that wouldn't play on Vista?
Of course they could. Most people consume their content from standalone commodity appliances like DVD players and iPods. This hasn't changed in the last few decades (substitute "VHS", "Cassette", "LP", etc as necessary) and there's little reason to think it will in the future.
I'm forever after a phone that I can use ssh with easily for when I'm on call, so a full qwerty keyboard is mandatory. This one is actually looking good with an easily accessible @ / and . characters. Does anyone else have any other recommendations?
A Nokia E51 and an Eee PC.
Seriously. How often are you "on call" when you don't have a bag with enough space to throw in an Eee ? To say nothing of how much more _useful_ you'll be with something approximating a real laptop with a real keyboard and screen than the usability abortion that is a mobile-phone-sized QWERTY keyboard and screen ?
As to the actual topic, this isn't the phone for me. As I'm neither female nor gay I don't carry a purse. That means I have to keep my phone in my pocket, which means that I need the keys covered. It has to be a flip or a slider.
Flips and sliders are just more stuff to break and waste space. The so-called "candybar" format is the best use of space and with either auto-locking, or just a habit of pressing the appropriate key combination to lock the keypad whenever you stop using the phone (after 15 years of Nokia phones, "Button"+* to me is simply an iautomatic reaction).
As for QWERTY phones, I just don't get it. How often does anyone who supposedly needs that degree of "connectivity", actually require a real keyboard (or rough approximation of one) when there isn't a laptop near at hand ?
(Loving my new Nokia E51. It's a bit ugly, but Nokia _finally_ made a proper successor to the 6310i.)
As if that'd make any difference. It's the game that's the problem, not the players. Time to leave this country I think. Anyone recommend a decent country that respects human rights, has sensible drug legislation, and fast, cheapish internet connections?
I've only been here for 6 months, but Switzerland seems to be pretty good.
Americans may be somewhat put off by the social structure that values "the community" over "the individual", however. That is to say, y'all might find it a but too "socialist".
You know power and acceleration can be as much of a safety equipment as an airbag. If you can't accelerate onto the freeway you just might die in the transition.
Rubbish.
In addition I sometimes need to beat people off the line because I need to change lanes.
Or you could just wait for the person beside you to go past and then change lanes. Un-American, I know, but still equally effective.
They don't believe that microbes become jellyfish, chickens become dinosaurs/dragons or apes become human [...]
Neither does the Theory of Evolution.
There is no difference between "microevolution" and "macroevolution" - except to people with agends, and those who don't know what they're talking about.
Slashdot Mirror
Sure, it's Microsoft's fault that Windows doesn't encourage safe permissions by default.
No, it's not, because Windows *does* have safe permissions by default - it's just the default user on some installations has elevated privileges.
[...] and it's STILL wrong in Vista
How so ?
[...] and still lets you keep your old games (unlike every newer Windows version)?
It's hard to take anyone who writes such blatantly false bullshit as this seriously.
You should never log in as Administrator or root to play games, and, unfortunately, Windows often makes you to do just that. That kind of behavior just isn't ready for the desktop at all.
Windows does nothing of the sort. Stupid developers make you "login" (really, just "Run As) as Administrator, and they're as likely to do it targeting Linux as they have been targeting Windows.
BTW: what, pray tell, do you think Mac OS X is running, hmmm?
Quartz. Certainly not X11 or any derivative thereof.
(With that said, OS X's remote display capabilities aren't very impressive.)
Unlike some other programming paradigms, open source welcomes revolutions. So go start one.
Say what ? Open Source is - at best - disinterested in anything that isn't somehow UNIX(ish)-related.
Welcomes revolutions ? You have _got_ to be joking.
Sys Admins and Dev Gurus are not Project managers. But they get put in the position of being one constantly because upper management doesn't know the difference.
No, they get put into the position because they're inevitably the poor fuckers who have to try and pick up the pieces when the shit hits the fan - usually because they're the only ones who have the slightest inkling of how everything actually fits together.
Most sysadmins I have met have a fairly limited grasp on the actual business aspects of running a company. However, they have always had a better understanding of that, than any "manager" has of the technical aspects of the operation, that I have ever known.
Basically, IME, it's far more productive to try and teach a technical person management skills, than it is to teach a manager technical skills (or even concepts).
Almost everything stated is based on opinion. It reeks of "amateur", and would be ripped apart by just about any manager it was given to.
Of course it would. That's how these situations get so bad in the first place !
Remote desktop is kind of a joke in comparison.
Remote desktop is just better. Vastly more usable on low-bandwidth (or high latency) links and when your session drops out for some reason you can reconnect and not have lost everything you were working on.
I figure, if you brake suddenly, for no good reason, and I hit you, well, that's what insurance is for.
If you're so keen to throw your money away (it won't cost the other party a cent, as you will be 100% to blame for any crash), why not throw it away on something useful ?
Who said we were talking about curing the patient? Or what was good for the individual? The species' survival is more important than the survival of any single individual.
Why ?
Perhaps I did not make myself clear enough: even the the cost of HEAVILY DISCOUNTED Vista or XP license is critical for UPMC makers.
No, it's not. If you think an extra $5 on the price tag will stop someone buying a known quantity (Windows laptop) vs an unknown quantity (non-Windows laptop), you're crazy.
It is probably a comforting thought that everyone around you is so stupid, but I assure you it is not the case. Sure, I think on sub $400 notebook +$110 goes to Microsoft, I'm just that stupid.
Well apparently you are, because ~$500 PCs have been around for years, but strangely Linux hasn't managed to take over the world because Windows is so expensive. Why would you think sub-$500 laptops will be so much different ?
My friend, I think you overlook an evident fact: OSX is actually BETTER and FASTER than what OS9 was.
It's only faster because the hardware has finally caught up. For literally the first few years of OSX's life, it was impossible to buy a machine that could run it "fast".
I sat amazed & watched the 45 second process of a new driver being compiled & installed with no human intervention or request.
Personally I would have sat, amazed, and wondered why the hell a new driver had to be compiled and installed in the first place.
Let's see Microsoft match that...
Since Microsoft - like pretty much every other OS vendor - have mastered software engineering to a sufficient degree that minor kernel updates don't break drivers, they don't need to "match it" - they've long since exceeded it.
The cost of Vista itself bars it from UMPC market.
The cost of Vista is whatever Microsoft wants it to be. If they have to sell a special "UMPC licence" for $5 a pop to get it onto UMPCs, they will.
(Why do so many people have trouble grasping that the retail price of Windows is utterly irrelevant to just about everyone ?)
By the time XP is really gone or starts smelling too bad, most ultra-portables will probably be able to run Vista anyway.
I'll be amazed if most UMPCs won't be able to comfortably run Vista by the end of this year.
Want to run Linux 2.0 (not that you'd want to)? Sure no probs.
If you actually think this, you are *way* out of touch with reality.
I find it extremely hard to believe that by 2014 there will be nobody in the world willing to support older Linux installations.
Yeah, but their "support" is likely to be "just upgrade to 2.10 - it's free - and recompile your software from source".
Microsoft owns the desktop. Content creation and delivery folks want the desktop. What does their (lack of) position in the content market matter?
The content folk are, at best, highly suspicious of "the desktop". With good reason.
Do you really think anyone could sell video content that wouldn't play on Vista?
Of course they could. Most people consume their content from standalone commodity appliances like DVD players and iPods. This hasn't changed in the last few decades (substitute "VHS", "Cassette", "LP", etc as necessary) and there's little reason to think it will in the future.
Here is the current version.
I'm forever after a phone that I can use ssh with easily for when I'm on call, so a full qwerty keyboard is mandatory. This one is actually looking good with an easily accessible @ / and . characters. Does anyone else have any other recommendations?
A Nokia E51 and an Eee PC.
Seriously. How often are you "on call" when you don't have a bag with enough space to throw in an Eee ? To say nothing of how much more _useful_ you'll be with something approximating a real laptop with a real keyboard and screen than the usability abortion that is a mobile-phone-sized QWERTY keyboard and screen ?
As to the actual topic, this isn't the phone for me. As I'm neither female nor gay I don't carry a purse. That means I have to keep my phone in my pocket, which means that I need the keys covered. It has to be a flip or a slider.
Flips and sliders are just more stuff to break and waste space. The so-called "candybar" format is the best use of space and with either auto-locking, or just a habit of pressing the appropriate key combination to lock the keypad whenever you stop using the phone (after 15 years of Nokia phones, "Button"+* to me is simply an iautomatic reaction).
As for QWERTY phones, I just don't get it. How often does anyone who supposedly needs that degree of "connectivity", actually require a real keyboard (or rough approximation of one) when there isn't a laptop near at hand ?
(Loving my new Nokia E51. It's a bit ugly, but Nokia _finally_ made a proper successor to the 6310i.)
Smaller companies can get away with saying "the studios require it". Microsoft can't.
Why ? Microsoft are insignificant players in content creation and delivery marketplace.
As if that'd make any difference. It's the game that's the problem, not the players. Time to leave this country I think. Anyone recommend a decent country that respects human rights, has sensible drug legislation, and fast, cheapish internet connections?
I've only been here for 6 months, but Switzerland seems to be pretty good.
Americans may be somewhat put off by the social structure that values "the community" over "the individual", however. That is to say, y'all might find it a but too "socialist".
You know power and acceleration can be as much of a safety equipment as an airbag. If you can't accelerate onto the freeway you just might die in the transition.
Rubbish.
In addition I sometimes need to beat people off the line because I need to change lanes.
Or you could just wait for the person beside you to go past and then change lanes. Un-American, I know, but still equally effective.
They don't believe that microbes become jellyfish, chickens become dinosaurs/dragons or apes become human [...]
Neither does the Theory of Evolution.
There is no difference between "microevolution" and "macroevolution" - except to people with agends, and those who don't know what they're talking about.