So you want to tank THE major desktop software company in the U.S.
... derail the U.S. economy to the tune of several billion dollars a year...
... kill Windows XP WITHOUT a viable alternative of equal quality and support in both software and human support...
... put thousands of people out of work...
For what? Some misguided notion of a social agenda that accomplishes God only knows what...
You, sir, are a danger to society. Not because of your ideas, but because you would actually put them to use and quite possibly irreparably damage the lives of thousands just because you are disgruntled.
By putting Wine on the install disk for a game, you run into the same DirectX-like issue that we have on Win machines. How does the installer determine if the version of Wine on the Linux box can support the game? How do you handle custome extensions written by the game developers to optimize Wine for their particular game? Don't tell me it won't happen - it will. No two Linux installations are alike and there are bound to be more problems than solutions.
Aarroooo? All I did was ask that they clean up their own house before putting in some additions. Take a look at the buglist, mate. There's still some left.
(damn minimum response time - this didn't take 20 seconds to type - well, this subcomment did - so why in the hell should I have to wait 20 seconds to send the suggestion. To keep out all the first posters? I have another suggestion - why not filter out the first posters?)
As a professional web designer I can tell you that this is definitely not the case.
We don't worry about mozilla and galeon. No paying customer has ever requested it.
Which is not to say it won't happen. When a paying customer walk through the door and hands us a request that includes the other.5% of the market, we'll be happy to make something work in those browsers.
It may also have to do with the browser database that the system checks against. If they're using an older version of browscap.ini, it may not recognize more than IE or NS, plus one or two others. Provided they're using browscap.ini at all, of course.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and state that this is probably NOT a conspiracy to force people over to IE (at least to view MSN). I know this view will make me horribly unpopular on Slashdot and probably the subject of death threats and what not, but there it is.
True, but the average person isn't running mozilla, lynx or opera. According to the numbers, the average person runs Explorer and occasionally Netscape.
So either you're above average or below average (your choice).
Personally, the idea of allowing any outside access to my home computer gives me the willies. And there are no cheap X devices. You might as well just buy another computer and put the OS of your choice on it. As for ASPs, I'm not holding my breath.
Why would a home user ever need a network layer for their GUI? It might make sense for the office, but with reasonably fast machines becoming cheaper and cheaper, it seems like quite a qood idea to cut out some of the deadweight. Plus it removes one potential security risk from the system, and that should be considered a good thing, right?
It's about damn time SOMEBODY recognized just how serious the problem is. Not just for Microsoft users - that's today's issue - tomorrow's issue might very well be Linux and BSD viruses, worms and other exploits and they will be a whole lot tougher to kill. Not to mention that there is no chance to recoup losses by or force the programmers to get things fixed.
This may sound like a troll, but I am genuinely pissed.
Microsoft actually has pretty decent documentation for the applications. They've replaced their bound documentation with help files. Of course, it helps to be able to have a book open while you're staring at the problem, but I can't fault the quality of the help file.
says more about the attitudes of tech support staff than it does about the inherent up/downsides of the operating systems in question. Both sides have their own religious zealots who care more about promoting their pet OS's than about what users actually need.
Computer viruses do not exist naturally in the "wild" unlike their biologic namesakes. Therefore, they HAVE to be created by humans.
While I can think of many benign uses of computer virii, in every instance an objection has been raised to even that use.
What is the point of writing viruses then? If benign uses are out, then that leaves only criminal. One can argue that it is testing the system against which it is written, but then that requires that one get permission from EACH and EVERY potential infectee before deployment. Failure to do so is morally (and criminally) wrong.
Of course, another argument is that it is improving the overall health of the system through some sort of Stollian selection, but then it also raises the question: is this actually some sort of social engineering to which your subjects have not agreed?
Personally, I vehemently object to being jerked around by programmers who write the damnable things. The economic losses incurred each year due to malicious little shits writing e-mail transmitted viruses is staggering and yet no one seems to blame them. They blame the companies that write the software, they blame the system administrators, they blame everything but the source of the virus itself.
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So it doesn't matter to you that they may be trying to keep you safe? Yeah, it might be overreacting, but it might not be.
Besides, they put on the show - they make the rules. If you don't like it, don't go.
So you want to tank THE major desktop software company in the U.S.
...
...
...
...
... derail the U.S. economy to the tune of several billion dollars a year
... kill Windows XP WITHOUT a viable alternative of equal quality and support in both software and human support
... put thousands of people out of work
For what? Some misguided notion of a social agenda that accomplishes God only knows what
You, sir, are a danger to society. Not because of your ideas, but because you would actually put them to use and quite possibly irreparably damage the lives of thousands just because you are disgruntled.
and, lest we forget, national I.D.s.
We've got them within the .US domain. It's just that they're not very convenient to remember, .cc.tx.us for community colleges in Texas, and so on.
Frankly, this whole discussion is a non-issue. Amazing how much commentary it's created.
Gee, who peed in your wheaties this A.M.? If you're so pissed off about Adobe, there are several alternative PDF readers available for Linux.
By putting Wine on the install disk for a game, you run into the same DirectX-like issue that we have on Win machines. How does the installer determine if the version of Wine on the Linux box can support the game? How do you handle custome extensions written by the game developers to optimize Wine for their particular game? Don't tell me it won't happen - it will. No two Linux installations are alike and there are bound to be more problems than solutions.
According to dictionary.com - definition 3: performed by persons receving pay.
And we're not in the workplace.
Smartass
Aarroooo? All I did was ask that they clean up their own house before putting in some additions. Take a look at the buglist, mate. There's still some left.
How about Mozilla finish their browser first? Get rid of all the bugs and then start a new package?
I smell code bloat.
Actually, I suggest you look at the definition of professional, smartass.
Get bigger eyes.
(damn minimum response time - this didn't take 20 seconds to type - well, this subcomment did - so why in the hell should I have to wait 20 seconds to send the suggestion. To keep out all the first posters? I have another suggestion - why not filter out the first posters?)
As a professional web designer I can tell you that this is definitely not the case.
.5% of the market, we'll be happy to make something work in those browsers.
We don't worry about mozilla and galeon. No paying customer has ever requested it.
Which is not to say it won't happen. When a paying customer walk through the door and hands us a request that includes the other
It may also have to do with the browser database that the system checks against. If they're using an older version of browscap.ini, it may not recognize more than IE or NS, plus one or two others. Provided they're using browscap.ini at all, of course.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and state that this is probably NOT a conspiracy to force people over to IE (at least to view MSN). I know this view will make me horribly unpopular on Slashdot and probably the subject of death threats and what not, but there it is.
Deal with it.
True, but the average person isn't running mozilla, lynx or opera. According to the numbers, the average person runs Explorer and occasionally Netscape.
So either you're above average or below average (your choice).
Personally, the idea of allowing any outside access to my home computer gives me the willies. And there are no cheap X devices. You might as well just buy another computer and put the OS of your choice on it. As for ASPs, I'm not holding my breath.
Besides, as I understand, that's what VNC is for.
Why would a home user ever need a network layer for their GUI? It might make sense for the office, but with reasonably fast machines becoming cheaper and cheaper, it seems like quite a qood idea to cut out some of the deadweight. Plus it removes one potential security risk from the system, and that should be considered a good thing, right?
Yeah, and the moment dumbshits like you crack one off, the police open up on everyone.
It's about damn time SOMEBODY recognized just how serious the problem is. Not just for Microsoft users - that's today's issue - tomorrow's issue might very well be Linux and BSD viruses, worms and other exploits and they will be a whole lot tougher to kill. Not to mention that there is no chance to recoup losses by or force the programmers to get things fixed.
This may sound like a troll, but I am genuinely pissed.
Microsoft actually has pretty decent documentation for the applications. They've replaced their bound documentation with help files. Of course, it helps to be able to have a book open while you're staring at the problem, but I can't fault the quality of the help file.
Yeah, but can you do CMYK seps for your film output?
Get a professional tool, chum.
says more about the attitudes of tech support staff than it does about the inherent up/downsides of the operating systems in question. Both sides have their own religious zealots who care more about promoting their pet OS's than about what users actually need.
It's kind of sad, really.
A useless product connected to a Linux system is just as useless as a useless product connected to a Windows system.
Pizza Hut here also requires a landline.
So I switched to Papa John's. I can order from the internet and they apparently don't care what type of phone you have.
I will never go to Pizza Hut again.
What purpose does releasing a virus achieve?
Computer viruses do not exist naturally in the "wild" unlike their biologic namesakes. Therefore, they HAVE to be created by humans.
While I can think of many benign uses of computer virii, in every instance an objection has been raised to even that use.
What is the point of writing viruses then? If benign uses are out, then that leaves only criminal. One can argue that it is testing the system against which it is written, but then that requires that one get permission from EACH and EVERY potential infectee before deployment. Failure to do so is morally (and criminally) wrong.
Of course, another argument is that it is improving the overall health of the system through some sort of Stollian selection, but then it also raises the question: is this actually some sort of social engineering to which your subjects have not agreed?
Personally, I vehemently object to being jerked around by programmers who write the damnable things. The economic losses incurred each year due to malicious little shits writing e-mail transmitted viruses is staggering and yet no one seems to blame them. They blame the companies that write the software, they blame the system administrators, they blame everything but the source of the virus itself.
Virus writers.
That's Mr. Illiterate Graphic Artist to you, buddy ...