Re:Why is MS so much slower than Apple?
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In the short period of 2 years since the initial release of Mac OS X, Apple has produced 2 major and numerous minor upgrades with significant performance improvement and lots of new features
Or maybe it's because Microsoft has done more to support their current OSes' lifecycles? Sorry, but I've gone through the 2 major *paid* updates of OS X in order to have compatability with certain software.
OS X 10.0 is now obsolete. Windows 2000 is still very much useable, supported, and widely-used.
Actually, you'll just be giving the military pilots a head start on commercial jet aviation, before they head out to the big bucks of the corporate world.
What is also really corny is the justification of saving money by using off-the-shelf hardware. Umm, most of the costs will stem from putting the bird up in space, so you better spend what it takes to make sure it'll work.
He better not be planning on a banner ad revenue model.
Shopper John wants to make a purchase at the Acme store. He gives his credit card to clerk Mike, who's handles the transaction with the credit company. In the meantime, he makes note of the number and expiration date.
The flaw isn't merely digital...it's also in the way transactions usually too intimately involve more people than it should.
inability to change vote(sure you can ask for a new ballot, but when you see that line waiting, you kind of want to get done as soon as possible, plus you have to re-vote on everything else)
tampering-prone(I found the pre-cut holes flimsy on my ballot), who knows if those double-punched holes were due to voter mistake or worker-tampering?
complicated setup - having to insert in a specific orientation and then making sure it fits properly in the 2 red buttons is more painful than it should be.
I think these problems were overlooked due to wider margins in the past and statistical techniques that trivialize the importance of any single one vote. This election cycle will undoubtedly be a Good Thing in bringing about election process reform.
Apparently what it comes down are the right IT personnel. Maybe your run-of-the-mill MCSE can't double-click fast enough in the face of a seasoned UNIX keyboarder...but NT is good enough to keep some major corporate sites running.
Heh, I wonder why a detailed post with some truth in the facts and some glint of reasoning isn't moderated up, while a flame that used the magic word "microserf" is.
Cheating really hit a new low with Ultima Online. Because it was the first persistent MMORPG brought to the masses, it was really asking for it. Duping, house-breakins, hacked stats, 3rd party clients, etc. What really sucked was that there was no avoiding it (like you could in Diablo), and at times, due to the persistent nature, even forced you to play or respond back even when you didn't want to. You literally couldn't put the game down, and only later did I realize how pure evil this is. Once, I stayed up for 4 hours when I should have been asleep for work, defending my friend's house from a few players using the latest house-breakin exploit. So far, Diablo II is working out pretty well. Multiplayer on closed Battle.net seems to be clean, and coop play, even among anonymous players, can be trusted. It suffers from the resulting lag of anti-cheating measures(storing characters on there servers), but it's well worth it.
well DUHHHH... In zero gravity, there will be no force holding down the ink. That's why the commies used pencil, plus they can go back and rewrite history. But Americans, noooo, they want everything permanant on the record.
Maybe it's time ethics are considered by all the engineers, programmers, hacker-types, etc that drive this new world forward. Since its existence, for example, the medical community has had to evaluate and intro/retro-spect their behavior(Nazi medical expiriments, AIDS in Africa, steroid abuse in East Germany...). And look at the way gamers and geeks responded to charges that FPS's increase youth violence(not that I believe so). If the greatest evil out there is Microsoft, some reprioritizing needs to be done. Ok, maybe I'm going to far, but just because something can be done or be discovered by some technical snafu or quantum-physical law, doesn't mean it should be done for technical sake.
The problem is...the primary user on a desktop will always want root-like privileges. It's their computer after all. They don't want to even have to login/logout.
The problem is...who wants to shoulder the expense of running a proxy, while running legal risk at the same time, for free? In the end, the responsibilities of file sharing rest with the end server and client. The utlimate protection is simple civil, massive, and decentralized disobedience.
It sounds like it would run over a LAN and a cheap 10baseT NIC would do fine (for ~1 MB/min). The real question is...what are they going to use for the networking protocol (like IPX, Samba), or something proprietary that will only run on Windows?
Heh? "Closed source hack" or not, now you don't need to logout/login anymore, as you were so used to doing. Just trying to help, and you spit back venomous UNIX bigtry? and to #533, isn't the whole point of this discussion about development environments? UIs, GUIs and how they help you get stuff done are an important part of that:)
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In the short period of 2 years since the initial release of Mac OS X, Apple has produced 2 major and numerous minor upgrades with significant performance improvement and lots of new features
Or maybe it's because Microsoft has done more to support their current OSes' lifecycles? Sorry, but I've gone through the 2 major *paid* updates of OS X in order to have compatability with certain software.
OS X 10.0 is now obsolete. Windows 2000 is still very much useable, supported, and widely-used.
Actually, you'll just be giving the military pilots a head start on commercial jet aviation, before they head out to the big bucks of the corporate world.
ABC went under such vertical integration with Disney years ago. Now they they don't produce anything worth watching.
What is also really corny is the justification of saving money by using off-the-shelf hardware. Umm, most of the costs will stem from putting the bird up in space, so you better spend what it takes to make sure it'll work. He better not be planning on a banner ad revenue model.
Flash 5 now uses JavaScript-like syntax, and has a HUGE important addition: arrays.
Shopper John wants to make a purchase at the Acme store. He gives his credit card to clerk Mike, who's handles the transaction with the credit company. In the meantime, he makes note of the number and expiration date. The flaw isn't merely digital...it's also in the way transactions usually too intimately involve more people than it should.
- No feedback on who or what you voted for
- inability to change vote(sure you can ask for a new ballot, but when you see that line waiting, you kind of want to get done as soon as possible, plus you have to re-vote on everything else)
- tampering-prone(I found the pre-cut holes flimsy on my ballot), who knows if those double-punched holes were due to voter mistake or worker-tampering?
- complicated setup - having to insert in a specific orientation and then making sure it fits properly in the 2 red buttons is more painful than it should be.
I think these problems were overlooked due to wider margins in the past and statistical techniques that trivialize the importance of any single one vote. This election cycle will undoubtedly be a Good Thing in bringing about election process reform.That's IE 5.5 beta on the OS X public beta.
cmd /f on
cd doc [ctrl+D]
becomes "Documents and Settings"
Ha! With a streaming Quicktime server layer, my dialup box will RoX j00!
Apparently what it comes down are the right IT personnel. Maybe your run-of-the-mill MCSE can't double-click fast enough in the face of a seasoned UNIX keyboarder...but NT is good enough to keep some major corporate sites running.
Heh, I wonder why a detailed post with some truth in the facts and some glint of reasoning isn't moderated up, while a flame that used the magic word "microserf" is.
Cheating really hit a new low with Ultima Online. Because it was the first persistent MMORPG brought to the masses, it was really asking for it. Duping, house-breakins, hacked stats, 3rd party clients, etc. What really sucked was that there was no avoiding it (like you could in Diablo), and at times, due to the persistent nature, even forced you to play or respond back even when you didn't want to. You literally couldn't put the game down, and only later did I realize how pure evil this is. Once, I stayed up for 4 hours when I should have been asleep for work, defending my friend's house from a few players using the latest house-breakin exploit. So far, Diablo II is working out pretty well. Multiplayer on closed Battle.net seems to be clean, and coop play, even among anonymous players, can be trusted. It suffers from the resulting lag of anti-cheating measures(storing characters on there servers), but it's well worth it.
The new mouse may look snazzy(very much indeed), but I wonder why it doesn't come with a scrolling wheel?
Congress is about politics, not economics or technology. guess what? politics are about allocating funding and resources.
well DUHHHH... In zero gravity, there will be no force holding down the ink. That's why the commies used pencil, plus they can go back and rewrite history. But Americans, noooo, they want everything permanant on the record.
Maybe it's time ethics are considered by all the engineers, programmers, hacker-types, etc that drive this new world forward. Since its existence, for example, the medical community has had to evaluate and intro/retro-spect their behavior(Nazi medical expiriments, AIDS in Africa, steroid abuse in East Germany...). And look at the way gamers and geeks responded to charges that FPS's increase youth violence(not that I believe so). If the greatest evil out there is Microsoft, some reprioritizing needs to be done. Ok, maybe I'm going to far, but just because something can be done or be discovered by some technical snafu or quantum-physical law, doesn't mean it should be done for technical sake.
The problem is...the primary user on a desktop will always want root-like privileges. It's their computer after all. They don't want to even have to login/logout.
The problem is...who wants to shoulder the expense of running a proxy, while running legal risk at the same time, for free? In the end, the responsibilities of file sharing rest with the end server and client. The utlimate protection is simple civil, massive, and decentralized disobedience.
BeOS...10 seconds or less on my 450 mhz 192 MB boxen.
It sounds like it would run over a LAN and a cheap 10baseT NIC would do fine (for ~1 MB/min). The real question is...what are they going to use for the networking protocol (like IPX, Samba), or something proprietary that will only run on Windows?
Heh? "Closed source hack" or not, now you don't need to logout/login anymore, as you were so used to doing. Just trying to help, and you spit back venomous UNIX bigtry? and to #533, isn't the whole point of this discussion about development environments? UIs, GUIs and how they help you get stuff done are an important part of that :)
This might help for you... http://www.microsoft.com/technet /win2000/runas.asp
Here's some software to help design your primers. http://www.alkami.com/primers/refdsgn.htm Primers run about $50 a pop and will last about 10-20 rxn's, depending on if you're using a coffee straw or a PipetMan. Find em here: http://www.stratagene.com/pcr/pcrprimers.htm or http://www.lifetech.com You can also buy many reagents (phenol, chloroform, B-mercaptoethanol isopropanol, glycogen, NaAc, etc) relatively inexpensively, and do a decent DNA extraction.
perldoc -t DBI > DBI.txt and you've got yourself an (almost as good)O'Reilly book :)