I still hate Nintendo from the stranglehold on developers they had in the 80s... they demanded exclusivity, i.e. if you developed for the NES, you could not release games at all for competing systems such as the Sega Master System. This was pretty annoying as the SMS was technologically superior to Nintendo's system.
Like the way they didn't even have a power button?
I spent some time playing with my friends original b/w iPod a few years back and actually, I couldn't figure out how to do anything. Then I spent three minutes trying to find the damn power button. Wow, that was an amazing design.
Is there anyone who seriously is surprised by this? If so, I guess you haven't been paying attention to MS's behavior and plans for the past 15 years at least.
It says a lot about the wastefulness of institutions when it comes to buying hardware. I bet you the Defense Department could find lots of savings by sourcing their parts from Nintendo, too!
I've gotten about 5 in vista. Probably hardware, sure, I guess... Also, explorer (taskbar) crashes like 3 times a day, only in 4 day clusters every other week.
Nothing like that happens in Linux on the same laptop.
The Linux kernel was overhauled majorly towards the release of 2.0, and then massively for 2.2. Major portions were rewritten for 2.4, which had some big advantages. It bears no resemblance to Minix under the hood - that's a joke.
But that's not fair for a comparison to 'Windows', which is much more than a kernel. Have the codebases to KDE or GNOME have been overhauled? Yes, each has been undergoing massive development in the past 10 years, and they are more stable and sophisticated than ever.
In the Windows world, MS was so sure that even XP was not much of an advance over Win 2000, that they didn't even give it a new version number... let's count. NT 4... NT 5 (win2K), XP (?), Vista (Windows 6), windows 7. Where did the extra number go? Ah yes, XP is basically Windows 2000. They spent that 18 months fixing bugs and dreaming up a new name.
I gave Vista a fair chance, honestly. It is adequate, but pretty lousy given the resources MS had to make it not suck... and it sucks. They've gone nowhere in the past 8 years.
All of the marketing 'buzz' around this - oops, I mean journalistic excitement - certainly has a manufactured feel, which is right in line with every MS product for the past 8 years at least.
I approached Vista similarly to how I approached Windows 98 - having not used MS's products for several years, I thought I'd give it a chance and give them the benefit of a doubt for having worked out past deficiencies. I bought a laptop and didn't go out of my way to avoid Vista.
Vista has performed about as well as Windows 98. Explorer (the task bar portion) crashes 2-3 times a week. The system has been been 'losing' my audio driver lately, and gives conflicted information about this. The configuration options are still a strange mix of sophisticated and primitive, and very vague and indefinite compared to Linux. I would be a fool to think that Windows 7 is going to be any different. I'm quite confident that this will be, like Vista, a window washing on an old OS, and that I'll be sticking with Linux, which keeps getting better and better.
By choosing to listen to obsolete music, you are robbing today's artists of sales! I urge you to refrain from endangering the economy in this way. Repent!
Konqueror? How about Opera? Those are both totally different code than Mozilla or IE, or each other. Plus theres all of the deric\vatives like Galeon, Safari, Kmeleon, Epiphany...
So, thats why they take code from freebsd at every opportunity?? Because it's easier to start a project yourself when you have so much money? You might THINK so, but no.
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We also used to play at shooting each other a lot.
I still hate Nintendo from the stranglehold on developers they had in the 80s... they demanded exclusivity, i.e. if you developed for the NES, you could not release games at all for competing systems such as the Sega Master System. This was pretty annoying as the SMS was technologically superior to Nintendo's system.
Like the way they didn't even have a power button?
I spent some time playing with my friends original b/w iPod a few years back and actually, I couldn't figure out how to do anything. Then I spent three minutes trying to find the damn power button. Wow, that was an amazing design.
Thank goodness, I couldn't believe nobody had mentioned Beowulf clusters yet. Is this slashdot, or NOT?
IE heaven would be: they cancel the Trident rendering engine and announce they're using WebKit.
Come on MS, you can do it!
Is there anyone who seriously is surprised by this? If so, I guess you haven't been paying attention to MS's behavior and plans for the past 15 years at least.
It says a lot about the wastefulness of institutions when it comes to buying hardware. I bet you the Defense Department could find lots of savings by sourcing their parts from Nintendo, too!
Things that people from Microsoft say about both open source and google are often very stupid, and this bit from Mr. Ozzie is no exception.
I have an aversion to video, so unfortunately I cannot comment on the rest.
Or, you might be trying to run the configuration program that Toshiba supplied with your laptop
well, consider yourself lucky.
I've gotten about 5 in vista. Probably hardware, sure, I guess... Also, explorer (taskbar) crashes like 3 times a day, only in 4 day clusters every other week.
Nothing like that happens in Linux on the same laptop.
First 'Mojave', now 'Windows 7'.
Same thing - Vista with a new theme.
This whole 'Windows 7' thing has the feel of an MS marketing blitz. Of course they 'leaked' the OS to the public themselves.
If you've let your kid sign up for anything other than unlimited texting, you've not made a wise decision.
Why the hell do you have 11 copies of Vista?
YOU FORGOT ACTIVE DESKTOP
The Linux kernel was overhauled majorly towards the release of 2.0, and then massively for 2.2. Major portions were rewritten for 2.4, which had some big advantages. It bears no resemblance to Minix under the hood - that's a joke.
But that's not fair for a comparison to 'Windows', which is much more than a kernel. Have the codebases to KDE or GNOME have been overhauled? Yes, each has been undergoing massive development in the past 10 years, and they are more stable and sophisticated than ever.
In the Windows world, MS was so sure that even XP was not much of an advance over Win 2000, that they didn't even give it a new version number... let's count. NT 4... NT 5 (win2K), XP (?), Vista (Windows 6), windows 7. Where did the extra number go? Ah yes, XP is basically Windows 2000. They spent that 18 months fixing bugs and dreaming up a new name.
Is there some new rule that 20% of the posts on a story have to be about Slashdot moderation?
I think the problem is that Vista is overall so slow and fragile, that it's hard to care if it has 'network and I/O priority' or not.
I gave Vista a fair chance, honestly. It is adequate, but pretty lousy given the resources MS had to make it not suck... and it sucks. They've gone nowhere in the past 8 years.
But, it CAN offer mysterious configuration changes, daily explorer crashes and frustration at the illogical design! Don't forget that.
All of the marketing 'buzz' around this - oops, I mean journalistic excitement - certainly has a manufactured feel, which is right in line with every MS product for the past 8 years at least.
I approached Vista similarly to how I approached Windows 98 - having not used MS's products for several years, I thought I'd give it a chance and give them the benefit of a doubt for having worked out past deficiencies. I bought a laptop and didn't go out of my way to avoid Vista.
Vista has performed about as well as Windows 98. Explorer (the task bar portion) crashes 2-3 times a week. The system has been been 'losing' my audio driver lately, and gives conflicted information about this. The configuration options are still a strange mix of sophisticated and primitive, and very vague and indefinite compared to Linux. I would be a fool to think that Windows 7 is going to be any different. I'm quite confident that this will be, like Vista, a window washing on an old OS, and that I'll be sticking with Linux, which keeps getting better and better.
Whatever.
As long as it somehow involves more and better Dr. Who reruns, I'm happy.
What? Their website? I want Dr. Who reruns on that, then. The ones with the curly haired guy.
By choosing to listen to obsolete music, you are robbing today's artists of sales!
I urge you to refrain from endangering the economy in this way.
Repent!
I like xpdf the best - it's fast!
I only use Acrobat for Linux (version 5) when I have to fill in a form, like for my taxes.
Konqueror?
How about Opera?
Those are both totally different code than Mozilla or IE, or each other.
Plus theres all of the deric\vatives like Galeon, Safari, Kmeleon, Epiphany...
So, thats why they take code from freebsd at every opportunity?? Because it's easier to start a project yourself when you have so much money? You might THINK so, but no.