There is well documented evidence that smoking is dangerous to the health of kids.
Porn on the other hand is a somewhat normal part of adolescence. What percentage of young boys would you guess find a way to get access to porn when they get to the age where they are curious about sex? I'd guess that it would be a VERY high percentage. The internet has just made it easier. When I was a kid you either had a dad with a Playboy collection or a friend with dad who had a Playboy collection. When my granddad was a kid he had to make do with a good imagination and the undergarment section of the Sears catalog.
I like the Neuros Audio player interface much better. It has five programmable function buttons that you can use as shortcuts to common tasks/items. Now that is cool. I'll take a powerful interface that is still easy to use over one that is simply easy to use any day.
We would like to use.net for our user mode applications but we still need to support preXP SP1 systems. The.net runtime is around 23MBs to download and that's just too large. And of coarse.net can't be used for driver development so our dev environment would be even more mixed.
A crappy third party driver can cause ANY OS to crash. In fact the vast majority of blue screens are caused by third party drivers. When a driver has corrupted the system a blue screen is the only good option at this point. Longhorn may see support for user mode drivers where they can each play in their own sandbox so they can't bring the whole system down. In the mean time it's a good idea to find out some info about how to read the blue screen info. This will give you a lot of control over your system and it wont be so mysterious as to why things happen.
You need to check your facts. Fast User Switching was not added to OS X until 10.3 which has been out for less than a year. It was in WinXP from the beginning in 2001.
Fast user switching is far more than simple multi desktops (which XP has as well). Fast user switching keeps each users apps and settings separate. This is nice for organization (I don't have to deal with the wife's clutter) and for security (I don't have to let my son run his games and browse with admin rights). I know that the Unix world has had a similar feature for some time but the parent was asking for differences between Win2K and XP.
Actually, in his keynote at last years WWDC Steve Jobs admitted that MS beat them to this. So I have no idea what you are talking about and I strongly suspect that you don't either.
It does break Temple of Elemental Evil. For some reason with SP2 installed the loot dialog screen wont come up which makes the game unplayable. The game is VERY buggy to begin with though so not a huge loss.
IMO Fast User Switching is a great innovation. They morphed technology they were using for servers into something that changed the way home users are able to use their computers. Even Steve Jobs grudgingly admitted that this was good idea. XPs faster boot time is also nice but since I almost never reboot it isn't that compelling.
"so there's no way of knowing that there's an iPod in the car at all"
But I paid good $$$ for my sleek and sexy ipod so people could see how trendy I am. Ditto for the Beemer. If people can't even see it, what's the point? Can I get a sleek and sexy sticker to advertise my trendyness?
This is just one example of where MS is taking a huge step in the right direction with SP2. The firewall is on by default. A more important change IMO is that the warnings that pop up when programs attempt to be installed can not be dismissed by just hitting OK. The user must select yes or no before the Ok button enables.
"Sure, your fridge will tell you you need milk..."
I'm going to be pissed if I can't program in vegan options. I don't need my fridge trying to puch animal products on me. FRIDGE: "Your soy milk is past due Dave. It is time to buy milk." ME: "Shut the hell up and open the damn pod bay door!"
Yep. I still own one of the old iMacs. It makes a fine mp3 player in the living room. I am reminded of the famous Apple design aesthetic each time I try to use that round mouse.
Wow. I think this is the first time I've agreed with twitter on anything. It's kinda like a trade embargos. The fat cats that run the country still live the high life while the powerless on the bottom feel the pain.
Hi. You must be new here. I'm barlo, nice to meet you.
Couple of things you should know... 1) A fed troll is a happy troll. 2) We spell Microsoft "Micro$oft" because it makes us looks so l337. 2.1) If a M$ post comes up, bash, bash and bash some more. Don't even read the article.
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I'm posting this from an OQO device. So I assure you that they are not vaporware:)
Good point. The people on dialup are stuck with a bit of a chicken/egg problem. SP2 fixes this but it's a 200+ MB download. They can order a CD for the cost of shipping but how many are really going to do that?
I agree that Win2k is a great OS. They DO call it NT 5 though. And XP is NT 5.1. The fancy XP theme can be reverted back to the old drab Win2k theme with about 4 mouse clicks.
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I still want one. I'm a geek so I'm sure I could find something cool (geeky) to do with it.
There is well documented evidence that smoking is dangerous to the health of kids.
Porn on the other hand is a somewhat normal part of adolescence. What percentage of young boys would you guess find a way to get access to porn when they get to the age where they are curious about sex? I'd guess that it would be a VERY high percentage. The internet has just made it easier. When I was a kid you either had a dad with a Playboy collection or a friend with dad who had a Playboy collection. When my granddad was a kid he had to make do with a good imagination and the undergarment section of the Sears catalog.
I like the Neuros Audio player interface much better. It has five programmable function buttons that you can use as shortcuts to common tasks/items. Now that is cool.
I'll take a powerful interface that is still easy to use over one that is simply easy to use any day.
We would like to use .net for our user mode applications but we still need to support preXP SP1 systems. The .net runtime is around 23MBs to download and that's just too large. .net can't be used for driver development so our dev environment would be even more mixed.
And of coarse
"install the driver for a JVC GR-DV500"
A crappy third party driver can cause ANY OS to crash. In fact the vast majority of blue screens are caused by third party drivers. When a driver has corrupted the system a blue screen is the only good option at this point. Longhorn may see support for user mode drivers where they can each play in their own sandbox so they can't bring the whole system down. In the mean time it's a good idea to find out some info about how to read the blue screen info. This will give you a lot of control over your system and it wont be so mysterious as to why things happen.
Bullshit indeed.
You need to check your facts.
Fast User Switching was not added to OS X until 10.3 which has been out for less than a year.
It was in WinXP from the beginning in 2001.
Fast user switching is far more than simple multi desktops (which XP has as well). Fast user switching keeps each users apps and settings separate. This is nice for organization (I don't have to deal with the wife's clutter) and for security (I don't have to let my son run his games and browse with admin rights).
I know that the Unix world has had a similar feature for some time but the parent was asking for differences between Win2K and XP.
Actually, in his keynote at last years WWDC Steve Jobs admitted that MS beat them to this. So I have no idea what you are talking about and I strongly suspect that you don't either.
Or they can just not upgrade. If it aint broke don't fix it.
It does break Temple of Elemental Evil. For some reason with SP2 installed the loot dialog screen wont come up which makes the game unplayable.
The game is VERY buggy to begin with though so not a huge loss.
IMO Fast User Switching is a great innovation. They morphed technology they were using for servers into something that changed the way home users are able to use their computers. Even Steve Jobs grudgingly admitted that this was good idea.
XPs faster boot time is also nice but since I almost never reboot it isn't that compelling.
"so there's no way of knowing that there's an iPod in the car at all"
But I paid good $$$ for my sleek and sexy ipod so people could see how trendy I am. Ditto for the Beemer. If people can't even see it, what's the point?
Can I get a sleek and sexy sticker to advertise my trendyness?
This is just one example of where MS is taking a huge step in the right direction with SP2. The firewall is on by default. A more important change IMO is that the warnings that pop up when programs attempt to be installed can not be dismissed by just hitting OK. The user must select yes or no before the Ok button enables.
"Sure, your fridge will tell you you need milk..."
I'm going to be pissed if I can't program in vegan options. I don't need my fridge trying to puch animal products on me.
FRIDGE: "Your soy milk is past due Dave. It is time to buy milk."
ME: "Shut the hell up and open the damn pod bay door!"
Actually Bill has purchased most of the homes around his. I'm sure he'd charge Linus a fair price for rent though.
It is RC1 and it is available here
"Apple's design goes beyond aesthetics"
Yep. I still own one of the old iMacs. It makes a fine mp3 player in the living room.
I am reminded of the famous Apple design aesthetic each time I try to use that round mouse.
Wow.
I think this is the first time I've agreed with twitter on anything.
It's kinda like a trade embargos. The fat cats that run the country still live the high life while the powerless on the bottom feel the pain.
Hi. You must be new here. I'm barlo, nice to meet you.
Couple of things you should know...
1) A fed troll is a happy troll.
2) We spell Microsoft "Micro$oft" because it makes us looks so l337.
2.1) If a M$ post comes up, bash, bash and bash some more. Don't even read the article.
I'm posting this from an OQO device. So I assure you that they are not vaporware :)
Good point. The people on dialup are stuck with a bit of a chicken/egg problem. SP2 fixes this but it's a 200+ MB download. They can order a CD for the cost of shipping but how many are really going to do that?
Good idea but IIRC the software fw was not until XP.
I agree that Win2k is a great OS.
They DO call it NT 5 though. And XP is NT 5.1.
The fancy XP theme can be reverted back to the old drab Win2k theme with about 4 mouse clicks.
"The day a chop shop takes in a unicycle is a sad day for the automobile theft community as a whole."
I thought you were going to say it would be a sad day for the clown community as a whole.
"That's, conservatively, 100 CDs!"
Nope. Just one. He made $20 from the sale and $1980 selling the personal data gathered from the pwned system.