Actually, I don't use either. I far prefer email to IMs for online communication (yes, I'm an old guy), and while SL sounds interesting, I'm much too busy with my FirstLife to try it.
Also, considering Microsoft has so many employees, I have no doubt, that there have been people working there that comitted far worse than a crime of passion. Doesn't mean that the product is bad... Well, okay it is, but not because of some employee going nuts.
It's only a matter of time before the current CEO is tried for manslaughter. Those flying chairs are dangerous!
I disagree. True, nobody posted notes on telephone poles, but it was common to spread rumors about people in school. Even if those rumors never got beyond that particular school, the damage was done. It could even be done anonymously; most unpopular people have several tormentors, and they might not know which one told his friends that he wets the bed or who wrote the geekette's phone number in the boy's bathroom. For all practical purposes, cyberbullying isn't that different from regular bullying except, perhaps,for the ability to impersonate.
IANAL, but part of the job of the defense attorney is to make the jury not hate you. If you've pissed our your defense attorney, he just might neglect to object when the prosection mentions that you eat babies.
My "critical app" is Quicken. The Mac version of Quicken sux goats, and gnucash doesn't cut it either. MoneyDance comes the closest, but it's butt-ugly compared to Quicken. The day I find a Mac or Linux program that can replace Quicken is the day I kick Windows off my HD once and for all.
Bad OS practices can encourage bad apps. Until Vista, Windows defaulted to running as root, even though NT had user accounts since 1993. The developers kept writing software that assumed the user was root, and few users even noticed.
IMHO, the biggest danger during the Soviet era was stupidity. The Russians weren't about to start WW3 on purpose, but if they (or us) mistook a flock of geese for armed missles, the world would have been doomed.
Ummm...so you're essentially throwing EVERYTHING that makes you a republican out the window to vote for the most leftist presidential candidate from a major party EVER?
I didn't turn my back on the Republicans. They turned their backs on me. I wanted fiscal conservatives. I got spending that made the liberals turn green with envy. I wanted strong foriegn policy. I got a war over non-existant WMDs, which has weakened both our military and our political capital with other nations. I wanted to escape the Democrats fear-mongering. I got Republican fear-mongering.
Not neccesarily. Maybe they want to check out FF, but they're not ready to make it the default until they've used it enough to be sure it doesn't suck.
Oddly enough, on OSX Safari puts downloads into my Download folder by default. It seems very strange that they would have changed that in the Windows version.
We think think Nature is beautiful only because we have tamed it. Smallpox, tornadoes, and starving to death are all natural and none of the are beautiful. Maybe a tornado but only when our technology makes us safe.
We may have tamed 2 out of 3 (in the US), but having seen what was left of some towns in "tornado alley", we have yet to tame those.
I agree that when it comes to good old-fashioned butt-kicking, our military is #1. The main problem with the military is that the Commander-In-Chief is a moron. Everything he did was wrong, including starting the war in the first place.
OS/2 kicked W95's butt on multitasking, and even on compatibility with 16 bit Dos/Windows software. It failed because IBM couldn't market it well, but tech-wise, it totally whooped W95.
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Actually, I don't use either. I far prefer email to IMs for online communication (yes, I'm an old guy), and while SL sounds interesting, I'm much too busy with my FirstLife to try it.
Google has nothing to do with that.
It's only a matter of time before the current CEO is tried for manslaughter. Those flying chairs are dangerous!
I disagree. True, nobody posted notes on telephone poles, but it was common to spread rumors about people in school. Even if those rumors never got beyond that particular school, the damage was done. It could even be done anonymously; most unpopular people have several tormentors, and they might not know which one told his friends that he wets the bed or who wrote the geekette's phone number in the boy's bathroom. For all practical purposes, cyberbullying isn't that different from regular bullying except, perhaps,for the ability to impersonate.
I wouldn't recommend that until I know what file system it uses.
Interesting. I got my first PC, an 8088, in 1986. And I'm pretty sure the 286 was out by then.
IANAL, but part of the job of the defense attorney is to make the jury not hate you. If you've pissed our your defense attorney, he just might neglect to object when the prosection mentions that you eat babies.
My "critical app" is Quicken. The Mac version of Quicken sux goats, and gnucash doesn't cut it either. MoneyDance comes the closest, but it's butt-ugly compared to Quicken. The day I find a Mac or Linux program that can replace Quicken is the day I kick Windows off my HD once and for all.
Bad OS practices can encourage bad apps. Until Vista, Windows defaulted to running as root, even though NT had user accounts since 1993. The developers kept writing software that assumed the user was root, and few users even noticed.
IMHO, the biggest danger during the Soviet era was stupidity. The Russians weren't about to start WW3 on purpose, but if they (or us) mistook a flock of geese for armed missles, the world would have been doomed.
We're not out of the woods yet. If Obama picks Hilary as VP, she's only one assasination away from the Presidency.
I didn't turn my back on the Republicans. They turned their backs on me. I wanted fiscal conservatives. I got spending that made the liberals turn green with envy. I wanted strong foriegn policy. I got a war over non-existant WMDs, which has weakened both our military and our political capital with other nations. I wanted to escape the Democrats fear-mongering. I got Republican fear-mongering.
Well, I'm no x-purt on antimatter, but I do read bad Sci-Fi. :-P
It's possible that there might be other galaxies where antimatter is common. If so, "normal" matter would be as rare there as antimatter is here.
Not neccesarily. Maybe they want to check out FF, but they're not ready to make it the default until they've used it enough to be sure it doesn't suck.
How does that differ from regular TV?
Oddly enough, on OSX Safari puts downloads into my Download folder by default. It seems very strange that they would have changed that in the Windows version.
Hmm, on OSX (at least Leopard), Safari defaults to a "Download" folder. It almost sounds like Apple is TRYING to make its Windows software suck.
We may have tamed 2 out of 3 (in the US), but having seen what was left of some towns in "tornado alley", we have yet to tame those.
I'm sure the next "improvment" will be a tazer attachment that will zap anyone who tries to cover the camera.
I agree that when it comes to good old-fashioned butt-kicking, our military is #1. The main problem with the military is that the Commander-In-Chief is a moron. Everything he did was wrong, including starting the war in the first place.
I AM a COBOL developer, you insensitive clod!
OS/2 kicked W95's butt on multitasking, and even on compatibility with 16 bit Dos/Windows software. It failed because IBM couldn't market it well, but tech-wise, it totally whooped W95.
I'd call the NT kernel a pretty big leap. But that was probably the last one. XP/Vista are just evolutions of NT.
NT4 wasn't that great for stability. It beat W95's multiple daily crashes, but it still went down once or twice a week.
In some ways, I consider DOS 5.0 as the high point. 6.X was mostly 5.0 + utilities, and after that was Windows.