Vista is buggy and has network level changes that don't work with many routers. Sometimes things work and sometimes they don't.
Yeah, except your point has been contradicted multiple times in this discussion. If you're going to stick your fingers in your ears and yell "La la la! I can't hear you!", could you do it in private from now on, please?
First of all, there were two efforts in progress to port Qt3/X11 Free Edition to Windows: One based on Cygwin, the other a native Win32 implementation. Both projects have faded from view since Trolltech released Qt4.
Second, why should Windows developers have re-invented Trolltech's wheel? Qt3 for Windows existed all along. It just wasn't licensed on a platform-equitable basis. Those ports were, essentially, reverse engineering around Trolltech's artificial barrier to the market.
Third, next time you get the urge to engage in a bit of broad-brush slander, feel free to hop on a plane, fly to Pennsylvania, look me up, and say it to my face.
If you're looking for a cheaper alternative, get an external Firewire enclosure and throw any 3.5" 7200 RPM hard drive you like in it. That did wonders for my G4 mini's speed, I was able to reuse an old drive from my PC, and it's easier than trying to pry a mini open with a putty knife.
Ignorance like that is why North America is going into the shitter.
Unfortunately, that ignorance belongs to the policy makers and elected officials who are expected to rule on net neutrality. Remember, it was a United States Senator who gave us the phrase "series of tubes". This is a nation where a loudmouthed lawyer can file a lawsuit to prevent a game from being sold, on the basis that it would unleash a generation of "school shooters", even though the closest thing to a firearm in the game is a spud gun. It's a country where local and state ordinances that attempt to ban violent video games have to be challenged and overturned on Constitutional grounds like a continental-scale game of Whack-A-Mole. And those local failures are the only things keeping a couple of United States Senators from trying to introduce the same thing at the Federal level.
If a Vista-compatible Zune software package isn't available on the day Vista is available to the general public, then you have a story. I don't blame Microsoft for declaring a time-bombed, semi-public beta of an operating system to be unsupported. Time spent on making Zune compatible with a handful of Vista RC1 installs is time not spent on a product that will ship to millions in 2 months.
When I visited the front page for the first time today, the only visible tag was "itsnotafuckingtrap". It's gone now, but I got a good laugh out of it. Preemptive strikes are rarely this funny.
It's a difficult situation of their own making. The entire DOJ unpleasantness was about the implementation and integration of Internet Explorer, not its mere existence. If the IE team was looking for something to do, cleaning up the "co-mingling" issue would have filled their schedules quite nicely.
The fact is, Microsoft settled into the sort of complacency that only monopoly power will indulge. When pressed by repeated exploits, they reinforced security in Windows XP SP2 and, only by extension, IE 6. If it wasn't for the rise of Firefox, they'd still be settling for the bare minimum effort necessary to keep IE 6 patched, features and standards compliance be damned.
I'm a developer myself, so I understand the tension of requirements, resources, and deadlines. And if it really came down to a decision between %SECURITY_FEATURE% and %IMPLEMENTATION_OF_STANDARD%, I don't blame them for their priorities.
I guess what really rubs me the wrong way is the IE 7 team's equivocation about standards compliance. I would love to hear somebody say, "Yeah, we didn't get everything up to spec in IE 7, but we'll cover that in IE 7.1." Instead, we get vague marketing-speak about "customer" demands (without saying who the customer is), and weasely references to compliance in Gecko and Opera.
Clearly, the only way to get Microsoft to implement something in Internet Explorer is to be one of a million squeaky wheels, so I'm squeaking.
Just as we did in IE7, we're going to listen to the web development community and prioritize the remaining CSS work and deliver the parts we hear are most important first. We do intend to comply with the standard; no other browser I'm aware of has complete support of every feature in CSS 2.1, so it's clear that we all have to use prioritization to know where best to place our resources.
How about this: Instead of using corner cases in Gecko and Opera as excuses, why don't you complete the implementation of major features of CSS 2? When an entire chapter (*cough*TABLE LAYOUT*cough*) of the Salmon Book has to be excluded to remain compatible your browser, your browser is broken.
Lik Sang's entire business revolved around importing products from $REGION_X into $REGION_Y, whether the manufacturer liked it or not. With Sony Europe's legal precedent, the floodgates were open for anybody whose products were imported by Lik Sang to sue their pants off. Lik Sang saw their business model crumbling beneath them, and nothing but lawyers in their future. That would scare the bejeezus out of anybody, so they packed it in right away, and denied everybody else's sharks the pleasure of a judicial feeding frenzy.
IANAL, but I can't see how it could be relevant. Contempt of court usually means the judge said either "Do X" or "Don't do X", and then the person did the contrary in violation of the order.
Well, there's a sort of Zeroth "Don't Do X" Law in any courtroom: Don't go off on a foaming-at-the-mouth rant about the judge's decisions/competence/parentage, or your whiny ass is headed to jail.
It defaults to running on startup. You can turn that off in the Options dialog.
checks for unnecessary updates
Back home, we call those "bug fixes".
let's the publisher know that you're still playing their games
Well, I haven't gotten a nastygram from Valve for not playing enough Day of Defeat:Source, so no harm, no foul.
What happened to the days when product sales actually let the industry know how many people were playing/enjoying their games?
What happened for me? Deux Ex: Invisible War. Bought it, played about two hours of it, and got sick of the console-based dumbing down, tiny zones, and constant barrage of lecturing from NPCs on the radio. Put it back on the shelf. All Eidos knew was that a particular shipment to the Best Buy on McKnight Road sold out after n days on the shelf. There's a big difference between "Sales are OK, but tapering off, and the critics aren't too happy" and "According to our aggregate numbers, everybody's giving up before the plot moves out of Seattle."
...the link goes to the "print this story" version, which prompts the user to print the story.
I was about to comment on how the advertising-is-teh-devil crowd would bitch about the number of pages the regular version spanned, but the regular version is only one page, too.
Nothing has changed for user-mode drivers. You'll still get the same old nagging wave-through dialog for unsigned drivers, now with added UAC screen flickering.
Signatures are only required for kernel-mode drivers. In 64-bit Vista, it's a hard limit: No signature, no load, period. In 32-bit, you'll get the same UAC/nag dialog as user-mode drivers. The only time you'll be affected by the lack of signatures in 32-bit Vista is when you try to play back all those awesome Blu-Ray and HD-DVD movies you've been clamoring for on your shiny new HDCP-compliant flat panel monitor. </sarcasm>
Trek movies evenly divisible by five are so bad, they are disavowed by the producers as non-canon, and erased from the timeline.
I'm not sure that's officially happened with Nemesis yet, but I'm sure none of it will survive the inevitable retconning of the Romulans. (Where's Diane Duane when you need her?)
You mean Six Apart hasn't sacked Spiegelmock yet? What's Mena waiting for? Maybe she's having all the chairs in her office bolted down in case she has the sudden urge to impersonate Steve Ballmer during the exit interview. I know if I caught an employee pulling the shit Spiegelmock just did on my watch, I'd need the most sound-isolated conference room in the building.
I am done with you because I did pray on this, and realized three things:
I have said some very inconsiderate things to you in my most recent posts, and I apologize for them.
It was foolish of me to think that I could do something about the hate that's in your heart. Just because man can do God's work on Earth doesn't mean he should endeavour to do so when it is not God's will.
Romans 12:17-18. I realized that my actions have been contrary to this advice:
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
There is nothing truthful, nice, polite or rational in your posts. They are baseless, insulting, rude and intentionally stupid. Every attempt is made at misdirection and insult. It is only rational in it's deliberate attempt to disrupt honest conversation.
Hypocrisy of the first order.
I'm through arguing with a 9-year-old. Get help. I'll pray for you.
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sigh
Just when I thought his story couldn't get any sadder, it does. How many voices does a man need to cry for help?
/says a prayer
/changes relationship to "foe"
I've never replied to any of your posts before. What, exactly, are you saying?
Yeah, except your point has been contradicted multiple times in this discussion. If you're going to stick your fingers in your ears and yell "La la la! I can't hear you!", could you do it in private from now on, please?
First of all, there were two efforts in progress to port Qt3/X11 Free Edition to Windows: One based on Cygwin, the other a native Win32 implementation. Both projects have faded from view since Trolltech released Qt4.
Second, why should Windows developers have re-invented Trolltech's wheel? Qt3 for Windows existed all along. It just wasn't licensed on a platform-equitable basis. Those ports were, essentially, reverse engineering around Trolltech's artificial barrier to the market.
Third, next time you get the urge to engage in a bit of broad-brush slander, feel free to hop on a plane, fly to Pennsylvania, look me up, and say it to my face.
If you're looking for a cheaper alternative, get an external Firewire enclosure and throw any 3.5" 7200 RPM hard drive you like in it. That did wonders for my G4 mini's speed, I was able to reuse an old drive from my PC, and it's easier than trying to pry a mini open with a putty knife.
Did you try "bluesteel, letigre, ferrari"?
Unfortunately, that ignorance belongs to the policy makers and elected officials who are expected to rule on net neutrality. Remember, it was a United States Senator who gave us the phrase "series of tubes". This is a nation where a loudmouthed lawyer can file a lawsuit to prevent a game from being sold, on the basis that it would unleash a generation of "school shooters", even though the closest thing to a firearm in the game is a spud gun. It's a country where local and state ordinances that attempt to ban violent video games have to be challenged and overturned on Constitutional grounds like a continental-scale game of Whack-A-Mole. And those local failures are the only things keeping a couple of United States Senators from trying to introduce the same thing at the Federal level.
If a Vista-compatible Zune software package isn't available on the day Vista is available to the general public, then you have a story. I don't blame Microsoft for declaring a time-bombed, semi-public beta of an operating system to be unsupported. Time spent on making Zune compatible with a handful of Vista RC1 installs is time not spent on a product that will ship to millions in 2 months.
For some reason, this old saying came to mind:
Once one pays Danegeld, one never gets rid of the Dane.
When I visited the front page for the first time today, the only visible tag was "itsnotafuckingtrap". It's gone now, but I got a good laugh out of it. Preemptive strikes are rarely this funny.
Awesome! So how many people did you meet along the way who a) got the reference or b) got offended by the WWII-era German insignia?
It's a difficult situation of their own making. The entire DOJ unpleasantness was about the implementation and integration of Internet Explorer, not its mere existence. If the IE team was looking for something to do, cleaning up the "co-mingling" issue would have filled their schedules quite nicely.
The fact is, Microsoft settled into the sort of complacency that only monopoly power will indulge. When pressed by repeated exploits, they reinforced security in Windows XP SP2 and, only by extension, IE 6. If it wasn't for the rise of Firefox, they'd still be settling for the bare minimum effort necessary to keep IE 6 patched, features and standards compliance be damned.
I'm a developer myself, so I understand the tension of requirements, resources, and deadlines. And if it really came down to a decision between %SECURITY_FEATURE% and %IMPLEMENTATION_OF_STANDARD%, I don't blame them for their priorities.
I guess what really rubs me the wrong way is the IE 7 team's equivocation about standards compliance. I would love to hear somebody say, "Yeah, we didn't get everything up to spec in IE 7, but we'll cover that in IE 7.1." Instead, we get vague marketing-speak about "customer" demands (without saying who the customer is), and weasely references to compliance in Gecko and Opera.
Clearly, the only way to get Microsoft to implement something in Internet Explorer is to be one of a million squeaky wheels, so I'm squeaking.
How about this: Instead of using corner cases in Gecko and Opera as excuses, why don't you complete the implementation of major features of CSS 2? When an entire chapter (*cough*TABLE LAYOUT*cough*) of the Salmon Book has to be excluded to remain compatible your browser, your browser is broken.
First "nerd in space"? Simonyi isn't even the first nerd in space this year! Cripes, Anousheh Ansari has barely been back on the ground a month.
Lik Sang's entire business revolved around importing products from $REGION_X into $REGION_Y, whether the manufacturer liked it or not. With Sony Europe's legal precedent, the floodgates were open for anybody whose products were imported by Lik Sang to sue their pants off. Lik Sang saw their business model crumbling beneath them, and nothing but lawyers in their future. That would scare the bejeezus out of anybody, so they packed it in right away, and denied everybody else's sharks the pleasure of a judicial feeding frenzy.
Well, there's a sort of Zeroth "Don't Do X" Law in any courtroom: Don't go off on a foaming-at-the-mouth rant about the judge's decisions/competence/parentage, or your whiny ass is headed to jail.
Somebody just spoke of losless audio on Slashdot without mentioning Ogg FLAC. What is this world coming to?
It defaults to running on startup. You can turn that off in the Options dialog.
Back home, we call those "bug fixes".
Well, I haven't gotten a nastygram from Valve for not playing enough Day of Defeat:Source, so no harm, no foul.
What happened for me? Deux Ex: Invisible War. Bought it, played about two hours of it, and got sick of the console-based dumbing down, tiny zones, and constant barrage of lecturing from NPCs on the radio. Put it back on the shelf. All Eidos knew was that a particular shipment to the Best Buy on McKnight Road sold out after n days on the shelf. There's a big difference between "Sales are OK, but tapering off, and the critics aren't too happy" and "According to our aggregate numbers, everybody's giving up before the plot moves out of Seattle."
I was about to comment on how the advertising-is-teh-devil crowd would bitch about the number of pages the regular version spanned, but the regular version is only one page, too.
Slashcode must have eaten it. I'm sure I put it in there somewhere.
Nothing has changed for user-mode drivers. You'll still get the same old nagging wave-through dialog for unsigned drivers, now with added UAC screen flickering.
Signatures are only required for kernel-mode drivers. In 64-bit Vista, it's a hard limit: No signature, no load, period. In 32-bit, you'll get the same UAC/nag dialog as user-mode drivers. The only time you'll be affected by the lack of signatures in 32-bit Vista is when you try to play back all those awesome Blu-Ray and HD-DVD movies you've been clamoring for on your shiny new HDCP-compliant flat panel monitor. </sarcasm>
Reminder: Video drivers are user-mode in Vista.
You're understating it:
I'm not sure that's officially happened with Nemesis yet, but I'm sure none of it will survive the inevitable retconning of the Romulans. (Where's Diane Duane when you need her?)
You mean Six Apart hasn't sacked Spiegelmock yet? What's Mena waiting for? Maybe she's having all the chairs in her office bolted down in case she has the sudden urge to impersonate Steve Ballmer during the exit interview. I know if I caught an employee pulling the shit Spiegelmock just did on my watch, I'd need the most sound-isolated conference room in the building.
I am done with you because I did pray on this, and realized three things:
Go in peace.
Hypocrisy of the first order.
I'm through arguing with a 9-year-old. Get help. I'll pray for you.