Did you perhaps not notice that most cable companies these days are selling the cable connection for telephone services, thus invoking the very same clauses that you are claiming a T1 gives you to make it "expensive"? Of course, DSL has always run over phone lines and so the argument you put forward was a non-starter from the beginning.
Your argument may have held water 10 years ago, but today it's just plain bullshit. It's all about perceived value now, and the perceived value of a T1 is still pretty high. Whether it's true or not is completely irrelevant.
The only possible value a T1 has over Cable/DSL is you can get a point-to-point connection rather than just point-to-internet.
Except the calendar and contacts *aren't* server side. They are client side with replication to/from the server using SyncKolab - an extension that I've found actually deletes more contacts and calendar entries when used across multiple clients than it does distribute them.
All I want to do is natively store my Calendar and Contact information in an IMAP folder. I don't want to replicate it to the client. I don't want to have to manage merge conflicts. I just want it running directly out of IMAP. Nothing does this, and to get the same functionality you have to use Notes or Exchange.
BTW, have you tried the official MySQL front end? Have you tried the SQL Server front end? Seriously, it makes the MySQL front end look like a toy someone hacked up over the weekend. In fact, it makes every other database front end look lame in comparison. The whole graphical showplan thing is pretty damn cool.
I will grant that Dev Studio has lost a lot of its lead over other IDEs in the recent years. Some of the debugging stuff is still fairly far ahead of anything available for other systems though - especially the ability to do cross language things (stepping from C# to C++ to SQL stored procs).
[quote]I don't get your statement. I get up in the morning, feed my child, take a shower, go to work, go home, do my wife, go to bed. The same as I did before the government took away all my rights. Please tell me what I'm missing so I can be an angry citizen like yourself.[/quote] You're not missing anything. I won't miss it too when I get to work at the NSA tomorrow and watch it. The only time you'll miss it is if I decide you look terrorist enough to send some men around to make you vanish without a trace.
I've never been hit with a restocking fee for a defective DVD or game. Typically to avoid trouble I've just accepted store credit but complaining that something doesn't work at all will get you an immediate exchange/credit.
Restocking only comes into play if you change your mind.
That's exactly the point of hitting the X360's HD-DVD player. Similarly, the PS3 has to be the primary target for defeating Blu-Ray. Revoking either key would result in massive class action suits, which makes it not worth it for the distributors to continue defending their DRM scheme.
I saw that. Vista RTM is a good bit faster than Vista RC1, and the fact he was using drivers written for RTM (100.65) on RC1 is also likely to cause issues. I have no idea what he's talking about with "troubled" - the 100.65 drivers have been rock solid on my 8800GTX. Maybe it's something to do with the dog of a video card he's got that only pulls 12fps on Doom3? I strongly suspect it's barely even on the compatibility list for Vista. No one deserves the title "enthusiast" if they are running integrated video - that's just laughable.
It should be noted that the two games he tested were OpenGL based and not DirectX based - something that is further going to skew against Vista, and explains the almost identical performance between the native Linux and Cedega versions (they were running directly to the OpenGL API).
In any case, yeah Vista's generally slower but everything he's doing is accentuating that fact and just plain skewing it to (I assume unintentionally) make things look better for Linux and worse for Vista.
Just for reference, I'm getting 60fps (down to 45ish in places) on Vista x64 in Doom3. That's at 1280x1024 with 4xAA and Ultra-High quality.
You're not seriously trying to draw a parallel between a PS3 sitting in someone's entertainment system and a server sitting in an air conditioned and dust-free environment are you? And I certainly hope you're not trying to draw a parallel between the fans used in the PS3's construction (which are selected for low cost, low form factor and therefore high rpm) with those used in a typical server (which are selected for long-term 100% duty cycle use), are you?
In my couple of dozen or so machines I've had around the house over the last fifteen years, every single one of them has needed cleaning to keep the fans going when I leave them on 24/7. Dust builds up in all corners of the box, chokes up the blades on the heatsinks and seriously reduces the performance of the cooling solution (not to mention creates a fire hazard). I claim my anecdote far more accurate to the situation a PS3 lives in than your pristine server room.
You can go on a tour of SLAC pretty much every week and they are pretty interesting - especially if you know something of particle physics. Had the opportunity to take one when I was out in San Jose and thoroughly enjoyed it, and would heartily recommend it to anyone else in the area. Not surprisingly, my photos probably look very similar to the ones posted here.
The search box searches the start menu first, then the file system (at least the parts you've marked as indexable) for other programs/documents etc. It fills these in if you wait, but putting the start menu hits first seems a decent UI trade-off.
Mostly good points, but I take exception to the comment about the search box on the start menu. If you've only used XP and Vista for testing you probably don't have that much on your start menu. Once you use your machine for some time and have a good assortment of tools collected, finding things in the start menu even in XP (or 2003) does take a significant time.
Being able to hit the "Window" key, start typing and hit enter when I know it's enough to hit the item I want out of the start menu is a massive time-saver. The fact it can also be used to search for files/applications on the disk (like Spotlight on the Mac) without having to reach over and mess with the mouse is just a double bonus.
So, in short, the search box on the start menu is a bonus over what is available in XP/2003 no matter what you think of the start menu's changes in Vista. Remember - you don't have to rebut *everything* in an argument. Doing so just makes you look like a fanatic instead of a thoughtful critic.
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They could have put out an XP version. Not really, at least not without rewriting a bunch of the XP kernel to handle all the video hardware virtualization that Vista supports. Your argument is basically that they could have shipped the Vista kernel changes as a patch for XP, but then what's the incentive for them to ever make those changes in the first place? They could have shipped XP as a patch for Win2k, or Win2k as a patch for NT4, or etc. too...
What this is really saying is that IT in the DOT wants all their systems to be running the same set of software. Wouldn't this just make sense from an efficiency point of view? I mean, they probably have bans on running MacOS 7.1, Gentoo and OS2 4.0 as well so I don't get the big news.
Did anyone seriously think large enterprise level customers would be jumping to Vista immediately, or even worse, letting their employees arbitrarily upgrade their own machines?
Quicksilver, or even Spotlight, on a Mac is easier - hit the key (or mouse button) to open it, start typing application name, within 3 or 4 letters, you got it, hit return. On my laptop, I never even move my hands off the keys.
You do realize that in Vista you just hit the Windows key, start typing the first 3-4 letters of the application and hit Enter? On my DESKTOP I never take my hands off the keys.
Search is hands down the best feature of Vista - especially the default search when you open the start menu. It is absolutely as good as Spotlight on Mac now.
To be honest though, while I do like Vista's interface and it's obvious MS has done a lot of usability research in creating it, there's nothing in it that would make me recommend anyone buys an upgrade. Sure - get it with a new system, avoid DRM infested media, and have fun but don't go spending good money to upgrade XP. That's just stupid.
Quick aside: best feature Vista has that should have been in XP or 2000 - you can now map a https WebDAV path to a drive letter (previously you were restricted to http). Of course, drive letters themselves are stupid, but that's another argument.
That makes the assumption that you are storing the documents in once of Microsoft's closed formats, which isn't necessarily the case. Until there's a way to manage all the data locally and run disconnected from the internet, Google's solutions aren't going to be useful for your average business.
Like you said - having an appliance would fix this, but I wouldn't hold my breath. That's not Google's model and they're unlikely to transition into an appliance vendor any time soon.
Who are you, and why can't you run our IT department? Perhaps if some real sanity like this infected more IT departments then there wouldn't be the massive amount of corporate loathing and distrust against them these days.
The Blu-Ray format uses Java as an integral part of the DRM scheme, if I remember correctly. Given the restrictions in GPL3 against this sort of thing, does it then mean the Blu-Ray format is doomed from incompatible licensing?
It's nothing to do with what the users will put up with. It's to do with the cost of support that Microsoft will have to wear for this one. "I accidentally formatted my drive, and now I can't install Vista cause I tossed my XP discs away".
Roughly 18 percent of the U.S. online population has illegally downloaded a full-length movie at some point in the past, according to a telephone and online study of 2,600 Americans.
Well, if you're going to use the number 2600 then of course you're going to find piracy and illegal activity rampant. Duh!
Seems to me they're releasing a Service Pack pretty quick for an OS.
Vista was code complete in September/October 06. Release DVDs were in developer's hands in November. They are planning a service pack in 2H'07. How is this "quick" in anyone's mind? You're waiting almost a YEAR for fixes and patches that didn't make release code, and don't pretend that development on a system stops at release.
If Microsoft wasn't planning a service pack release, then you might be able to laugh at them. Laughing because they are continuing development and support of a released system - umm, what's funny again?
I'd say the most obvious target is those insanely long lines in front of the screening booths at airports. Huge number of people, unscreened area, doing weird things in baggage is relatively normal, boom.
Would be even more interesting to see how the TSA would react to their own system creating the target...
The problem isn't the OS becoming unstable. It's the craplets becoming unstable, crashing and the lusers thinking that the crash message is "Vista crashing".
Note that you are actually defending Microsoft when you say a "properly configured" operating system because their fundamental complaint is the OEMs aren't properly configuring stuff and it reflects badly on MS rather than the OEMs.
If an OEM was preloading a linux box with a script that said "sudo cat/dev/random >/dev/mem" and people complained Linux crashed, who would you blame? Linux or the OEM?
I know it's unpopular to defend MS on Slashdot, but MS is right on this one. If an OEM ships unstable apps that make Vista look bad (as opposed to letting Vista look bad all by itself) then MS has every right to bitchslap the OEMs.
- It works, especially on standalone boxes. Why incur the costs of upgrades on a standalone machine? - Device drivers for some piece of hardware may never have been written for NT/Linux (yes, there are more than a few of these).
There's lots of other bad reasons, mostly involving fear of change, but when you weigh the cost of an upgrade against the cost of doing nothing then there's a lot to be said for doing nothing.
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Did you perhaps not notice that most cable companies these days are selling the cable connection for telephone services, thus invoking the very same clauses that you are claiming a T1 gives you to make it "expensive"? Of course, DSL has always run over phone lines and so the argument you put forward was a non-starter from the beginning.
Your argument may have held water 10 years ago, but today it's just plain bullshit. It's all about perceived value now, and the perceived value of a T1 is still pretty high. Whether it's true or not is completely irrelevant.
The only possible value a T1 has over Cable/DSL is you can get a point-to-point connection rather than just point-to-internet.
I would hardly be able to compare the two if I hadn't tried MySQL's offering, would I? So yes, I did answer your question.
Except the calendar and contacts *aren't* server side. They are client side with replication to/from the server using SyncKolab - an extension that I've found actually deletes more contacts and calendar entries when used across multiple clients than it does distribute them.
All I want to do is natively store my Calendar and Contact information in an IMAP folder. I don't want to replicate it to the client. I don't want to have to manage merge conflicts. I just want it running directly out of IMAP. Nothing does this, and to get the same functionality you have to use Notes or Exchange.
I will grant that Dev Studio has lost a lot of its lead over other IDEs in the recent years. Some of the debugging stuff is still fairly far ahead of anything available for other systems though - especially the ability to do cross language things (stepping from C# to C++ to SQL stored procs).
[quote]I don't get your statement. I get up in the morning, feed my child, take a shower, go to work, go home, do my wife, go to bed. The same as I did before the government took away all my rights. Please tell me what I'm missing so I can be an angry citizen like yourself.[/quote]
You're not missing anything. I won't miss it too when I get to work at the NSA tomorrow and watch it. The only time you'll miss it is if I decide you look terrorist enough to send some men around to make you vanish without a trace.
I've never been hit with a restocking fee for a defective DVD or game. Typically to avoid trouble I've just accepted store credit but complaining that something doesn't work at all will get you an immediate exchange/credit.
Restocking only comes into play if you change your mind.
That's exactly the point of hitting the X360's HD-DVD player. Similarly, the PS3 has to be the primary target for defeating Blu-Ray. Revoking either key would result in massive class action suits, which makes it not worth it for the distributors to continue defending their DRM scheme.
I saw that. Vista RTM is a good bit faster than Vista RC1, and the fact he was using drivers written for RTM (100.65) on RC1 is also likely to cause issues. I have no idea what he's talking about with "troubled" - the 100.65 drivers have been rock solid on my 8800GTX. Maybe it's something to do with the dog of a video card he's got that only pulls 12fps on Doom3? I strongly suspect it's barely even on the compatibility list for Vista. No one deserves the title "enthusiast" if they are running integrated video - that's just laughable.
It should be noted that the two games he tested were OpenGL based and not DirectX based - something that is further going to skew against Vista, and explains the almost identical performance between the native Linux and Cedega versions (they were running directly to the OpenGL API).
In any case, yeah Vista's generally slower but everything he's doing is accentuating that fact and just plain skewing it to (I assume unintentionally) make things look better for Linux and worse for Vista.
Just for reference, I'm getting 60fps (down to 45ish in places) on Vista x64 in Doom3. That's at 1280x1024 with 4xAA and Ultra-High quality.
You're not seriously trying to draw a parallel between a PS3 sitting in someone's entertainment system and a server sitting in an air conditioned and dust-free environment are you? And I certainly hope you're not trying to draw a parallel between the fans used in the PS3's construction (which are selected for low cost, low form factor and therefore high rpm) with those used in a typical server (which are selected for long-term 100% duty cycle use), are you?
In my couple of dozen or so machines I've had around the house over the last fifteen years, every single one of them has needed cleaning to keep the fans going when I leave them on 24/7. Dust builds up in all corners of the box, chokes up the blades on the heatsinks and seriously reduces the performance of the cooling solution (not to mention creates a fire hazard). I claim my anecdote far more accurate to the situation a PS3 lives in than your pristine server room.
You can go on a tour of SLAC pretty much every week and they are pretty interesting - especially if you know something of particle physics. Had the opportunity to take one when I was out in San Jose and thoroughly enjoyed it, and would heartily recommend it to anyone else in the area. Not surprisingly, my photos probably look very similar to the ones posted here.
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The search box searches the start menu first, then the file system (at least the parts you've marked as indexable) for other programs/documents etc. It fills these in if you wait, but putting the start menu hits first seems a decent UI trade-off.
Mostly good points, but I take exception to the comment about the search box on the start menu. If you've only used XP and Vista for testing you probably don't have that much on your start menu. Once you use your machine for some time and have a good assortment of tools collected, finding things in the start menu even in XP (or 2003) does take a significant time.
Being able to hit the "Window" key, start typing and hit enter when I know it's enough to hit the item I want out of the start menu is a massive time-saver. The fact it can also be used to search for files/applications on the disk (like Spotlight on the Mac) without having to reach over and mess with the mouse is just a double bonus.
So, in short, the search box on the start menu is a bonus over what is available in XP/2003 no matter what you think of the start menu's changes in Vista. Remember - you don't have to rebut *everything* in an argument. Doing so just makes you look like a fanatic instead of a thoughtful critic.
What this is really saying is that IT in the DOT wants all their systems to be running the same set of software. Wouldn't this just make sense from an efficiency point of view? I mean, they probably have bans on running MacOS 7.1, Gentoo and OS2 4.0 as well so I don't get the big news.
Did anyone seriously think large enterprise level customers would be jumping to Vista immediately, or even worse, letting their employees arbitrarily upgrade their own machines?
You do realize that in Vista you just hit the Windows key, start typing the first 3-4 letters of the application and hit Enter? On my DESKTOP I never take my hands off the keys.
Search is hands down the best feature of Vista - especially the default search when you open the start menu. It is absolutely as good as Spotlight on Mac now.
To be honest though, while I do like Vista's interface and it's obvious MS has done a lot of usability research in creating it, there's nothing in it that would make me recommend anyone buys an upgrade. Sure - get it with a new system, avoid DRM infested media, and have fun but don't go spending good money to upgrade XP. That's just stupid.
Quick aside: best feature Vista has that should have been in XP or 2000 - you can now map a https WebDAV path to a drive letter (previously you were restricted to http). Of course, drive letters themselves are stupid, but that's another argument.
That makes the assumption that you are storing the documents in once of Microsoft's closed formats, which isn't necessarily the case. Until there's a way to manage all the data locally and run disconnected from the internet, Google's solutions aren't going to be useful for your average business.
Like you said - having an appliance would fix this, but I wouldn't hold my breath. That's not Google's model and they're unlikely to transition into an appliance vendor any time soon.
Who are you, and why can't you run our IT department? Perhaps if some real sanity like this infected more IT departments then there wouldn't be the massive amount of corporate loathing and distrust against them these days.
The Blu-Ray format uses Java as an integral part of the DRM scheme, if I remember correctly. Given the restrictions in GPL3 against this sort of thing, does it then mean the Blu-Ray format is doomed from incompatible licensing?
It's nothing to do with what the users will put up with. It's to do with the cost of support that Microsoft will have to wear for this one. "I accidentally formatted my drive, and now I can't install Vista cause I tossed my XP discs away".
If Microsoft wasn't planning a service pack release, then you might be able to laugh at them. Laughing because they are continuing development and support of a released system - umm, what's funny again?
I'd say the most obvious target is those insanely long lines in front of the screening booths at airports. Huge number of people, unscreened area, doing weird things in baggage is relatively normal, boom.
Would be even more interesting to see how the TSA would react to their own system creating the target...
The problem isn't the OS becoming unstable. It's the craplets becoming unstable, crashing and the lusers thinking that the crash message is "Vista crashing".
/dev/random > /dev/mem" and people complained Linux crashed, who would you blame? Linux or the OEM?
Note that you are actually defending Microsoft when you say a "properly configured" operating system because their fundamental complaint is the OEMs aren't properly configuring stuff and it reflects badly on MS rather than the OEMs.
If an OEM was preloading a linux box with a script that said "sudo cat
I know it's unpopular to defend MS on Slashdot, but MS is right on this one. If an OEM ships unstable apps that make Vista look bad (as opposed to letting Vista look bad all by itself) then MS has every right to bitchslap the OEMs.
There's two good reasons to still be running 98:
- It works, especially on standalone boxes. Why incur the costs of upgrades on a standalone machine?
- Device drivers for some piece of hardware may never have been written for NT/Linux (yes, there are more than a few of these).
There's lots of other bad reasons, mostly involving fear of change, but when you weigh the cost of an upgrade against the cost of doing nothing then there's a lot to be said for doing nothing.
Yep, exactly. :)
Although, someone pointed out to me once that it makes sense in 6502 assembly as well.