Ok, I'm going to call you on these - but first, some background.
When Vista came out, I didn't immediately jump onto it - I had no need, I was using Macs exclusively at home and XP exclusively at work, I had no spare time to 'play' with an OS.
In the past year my work role changed drastically - I was no longer the legacy systems developer that I had been for 5 years, I was moving into infrastructure support - so I decided it was time to buy a Windows laptop (Windows on bootcamp is not really decent for heavy usage, Apple haven't done a stellar job with the drivers).
So I went out and bought an XPS M1530 - 2GB ram, Core2Duo T7500. It came with Vista Home Premium. SP1 got put on as soon as the laptop hit my desk.
My first thought was 'Ok, get the drivers for XP and lets install XP Pro'. Only I didn't have the time, so I put it off. And then I kept finding other things to do, so it kept getting put off.
Until, eventually, it was several months later and I realised that Vista wasn't living up to its Slashdot hype - it wasn't getting in my way, I didn't have a slow system, it wasn't crashing, none of my apps were having issues, UAC was staying out of my way and only making an appearance when I *expected* it to make an appearance etc etc. In short, I sat back and realised there wasn't any reason for me to actually go back to XP Pro.
So here I sit, XPS in front of me, iMac on its pedistool over on one corner of the desk, Macbook Pro on another pedistool on the other corner of the desk, and a Dell Vostro 200 sat under the desk running Windows Server 2008 Standard. And I couldn't be happier.
Now, to address your points:
If you are having problems with the preinstalled software, that indicates a problem with your OEMs install more than anything - if several applications are all vying for the same job, I would expect a mess on any platform.
The power management works perfectly for me, it tells me when the batteries are low and it places the XPS into the right state for the right battery level. Even when the laptop is sleeping anyway. You can right click on the tray expansion icon and select which System Icons to always display - and Power is one of them (for me its ticked by default).
My XPS seems to happily speed step as required, and the laptop certainly doesn't get as hot as the Macbook Pro does.
I haven't yet had a problem with IE7 - certainly not anything that makes it impossible to use. I tend to use IE, Firefox and Safari about equally on this system.
Wireless works effortlessly for myself - on my travels I tend to roam between several networks (home, work, friends, BT Openzone etc etc) and setting up the new network is painless, and I have never had to reset one up after the first connection.
So, sorry but your assertion that 'Problems with Vista that you notice very quickly (but not in 10 minutes)' haven't yet applied to myself after several months of usage.
Now, its sad but all I am expecting in reply to this is the standard 'M$ shill' response - I'm no shill, just someone that hasn't had a problem.
You know, you might want to do some research and rethink your view on the security aspect of IIS and Apache - since version 5, IIS has been impressively secure.
a new file editor that will track changes made to a file (as a word processor does)
A large part of the 'as a word processor does' feature is that the file format itself supports it - all the changes are saved right along side each other and the word processor picks and chooses what to display to you at any particular point in time. If your file format does not support change tracking, you need to look at external change tracking solutions such as SVN/CVS or something on the file system level.
Ahh, thats where you are wrong:) The jet engines that made their debut in the 1940s were not conceived or developed in a vacuum, and development of various designs had been ongoing since the 1910s, with the axial flow turbine design (what all jet engines use today) first patented in 1921. The first flight with a jet engine occured in 1938, so jet engines most certainly did exist in the 1930s:)
(the case that comes to mind was a German firm that developed a new jet engine, and "coincidentally" Boeing managed to develop a nearly identical jet engine in a fraction of the time).
Boeing doesn't develop jet engines, it never has - its an airframe manufacturer, every jet engined aircraft it has developed has used a third party engine. I can't for the life of me think what 'new jet engine' you could possibly be talking about either.
I wonder just how much revenue Microsoft and or Mozilla get from the different CA root Authorities?
Not a lot, it would seem:
How much does the program cost?
Microsoft does not currently charge for the Root Certificate Program. However, there is a material cost to CAs payable to an assessor associated with meeting the annual audit requirements. The CA is solely responsible for, and shall bear all financial and other costs and obligations associated with, meeting the requirements of the Program.
You PAY THEM ONCE and then you don't have to see them again ever.
Why should that have any bearing on the analogy? A builder is under no requirement to build a property and then sell it - thats just the common way things work, but a builder could still build a house and retain ownership of it, theres nothing stopping him doing it.
But if the songwwriter/artist wants to sell his song to me he can, and then he can turn around and sell it to you, and your mum and your dog.
No, you completely misunderstand me - that isn't selling it in the same way the builder sells the house, thats selling it in the same way the builder rents the property out - when I talk about the artist selling the song, I'm talking about you buying the entire *rights* to the song, it becomes yours in entirety, and the artist can no longer sell anyone else limited rights to it. The artist loses his perpetual income.
1. Type about:config into the location bar and change the value browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped to true. After this, you need to restart Firefox. All this does is make it so that Firefox only searches the URLs you have typed and not the titles of pages.
This doesn't seem to work on any FF3 install I have tried it - I have that value set to true (and I have restarted Firefox), and my URL bar still matches page titles as well as urls (example: I type 'the' intending to go to thedailywtf.com, and I get 'EADS NV - The latest press releases', 'The Boeing Company', 'isoHunt - the bittorrent and p2p search engine', 'Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia' among others, none of which have 'the' in the url, and all of which have 'the' in the page title highlighted in the drop down results box).
And thats just on my home laptop, the same is true of both my works desktops - even with the value set to true the 'awesomebar' is still in effect.
Firefox 3.0.1 incase anyone is wondering - on all machines. Not that matters, the setting has never made a difference for me. Oh, and its a clean Firefox install, I don't have any addons installed.
Why? Chairmakers don't receive compensations for as long as people are enjoying their chairs. Builders don't receive compensation for as long as people enjoy their houses.
Builders certainly do receive compensation for as long as they wish, if they handle the transaction correctly - its called renting, and the builder retains ownership of the property while receiving a perpetual income from it.
For what its worth, an artist can also go down both routes - rent the song out to you, or sell the rights to the song completely. In the first instance he gets a perpetual income that is smaller per unit, in the second instance he gets a one-time income that is much greater. A builder can either sell the house or rent it out, and achieve the same result.
So, what do you want to do? Pay thousands of dollars per song and have complete freedom, or pay cents a song and have restrictions? Your choice, you can infact do both *right now*.
The only reason I can't use your car or house when you aren't using it is because of artificial laws saying I can't and granting you protection from such actions - whats the difference? I deprive you of something? Why is that important? Surely sharing is a good thing?
Sorry, I spotted my mistake right after I hit 'Submit' - I actually meant Saturn V stage 3 components (called the S-IVB stage, hence where I got stage 4 on the mind) - and there are 10 of them either in solar orbit or on the moon.
Just a slight correction, of the 16 Saturn V rockets built for the Apollo program, 5 Stage 4 components are now in a solar orbit and another 5 made it all the way to the lunar surface.
Not just affordable - renting means you can account the cost differently, removing it from your capital expenditure budget and moving it onto other budgets, as well as not listing it as either a debt or an asset. This is why a lot of large companies lease things such as fleet cars, or buildings (even if they create a subsidiary and lease it back to the parent).
What is being created here is a cytoplasmic hybrid embryo, where the cells nucleus is fully human DNA, but the cells mitochondria is not replaced and that has a DNA signature of its own, meaning that the cells reproduce as human, but the embryos themselves are only considered to be 99.9% human, and 0.1% animal.
We British seem to get along fine, with BT owning the last mile, the exchanges, the regional pipes and also being a content producer on the internet - I can take my ADSL service and go to any one of over 200 ISPs and get wildly varying levels of service for wildly varying prices.
This is what amazes me when people bring up the 'but how do I eat?' argument - someone always responds with 'support it!', which means that I have to now produce two different products to bring in money - the product itself, and the support product to charge money for.
There was certainly a sled on the Macbook I swapped the disk on - crappy little metal one that probably wouldn't be missed, but it was there non the less.
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So? Thats going to be academic in a few years when the Shuttles gathering dust in museums.
Ok, I'm going to call you on these - but first, some background.
When Vista came out, I didn't immediately jump onto it - I had no need, I was using Macs exclusively at home and XP exclusively at work, I had no spare time to 'play' with an OS.
In the past year my work role changed drastically - I was no longer the legacy systems developer that I had been for 5 years, I was moving into infrastructure support - so I decided it was time to buy a Windows laptop (Windows on bootcamp is not really decent for heavy usage, Apple haven't done a stellar job with the drivers).
So I went out and bought an XPS M1530 - 2GB ram, Core2Duo T7500. It came with Vista Home Premium. SP1 got put on as soon as the laptop hit my desk.
My first thought was 'Ok, get the drivers for XP and lets install XP Pro'. Only I didn't have the time, so I put it off. And then I kept finding other things to do, so it kept getting put off.
Until, eventually, it was several months later and I realised that Vista wasn't living up to its Slashdot hype - it wasn't getting in my way, I didn't have a slow system, it wasn't crashing, none of my apps were having issues, UAC was staying out of my way and only making an appearance when I *expected* it to make an appearance etc etc. In short, I sat back and realised there wasn't any reason for me to actually go back to XP Pro.
So here I sit, XPS in front of me, iMac on its pedistool over on one corner of the desk, Macbook Pro on another pedistool on the other corner of the desk, and a Dell Vostro 200 sat under the desk running Windows Server 2008 Standard. And I couldn't be happier.
Now, to address your points:
So, sorry but your assertion that 'Problems with Vista that you notice very quickly (but not in 10 minutes)' haven't yet applied to myself after several months of usage.
Now, its sad but all I am expecting in reply to this is the standard 'M$ shill' response - I'm no shill, just someone that hasn't had a problem.
Why does cargo need babysitting? Use the Progress resupply vehicle - no human lives to endanger while delivering new toilet roll to the ISS.
You know, you might want to do some research and rethink your view on the security aspect of IIS and Apache - since version 5, IIS has been impressively secure.
a new file editor that will track changes made to a file (as a word processor does)
A large part of the 'as a word processor does' feature is that the file format itself supports it - all the changes are saved right along side each other and the word processor picks and chooses what to display to you at any particular point in time. If your file format does not support change tracking, you need to look at external change tracking solutions such as SVN/CVS or something on the file system level.
Uhm, no - England and Wales are totally different countries, and both are seperate members of Great Britain, and by extension the United Kingdom.
Ahh, thats where you are wrong :) The jet engines that made their debut in the 1940s were not conceived or developed in a vacuum, and development of various designs had been ongoing since the 1910s, with the axial flow turbine design (what all jet engines use today) first patented in 1921. The first flight with a jet engine occured in 1938, so jet engines most certainly did exist in the 1930s :)
Actually, tell a lie, Boeing *did* develop engines, but only when it owned Pratt & Whitney in the late 1920s/early 1930s.
(the case that comes to mind was a German firm that developed a new jet engine, and "coincidentally" Boeing managed to develop a nearly identical jet engine in a fraction of the time).
Boeing doesn't develop jet engines, it never has - its an airframe manufacturer, every jet engined aircraft it has developed has used a third party engine. I can't for the life of me think what 'new jet engine' you could possibly be talking about either.
I wonder just how much revenue Microsoft and or Mozilla get from the different CA root Authorities?
Not a lot, it would seem:
How much does the program cost?
Microsoft does not currently charge for the Root Certificate Program. However, there is a material cost to CAs payable to an assessor associated with meeting the annual audit requirements. The CA is solely responsible for, and shall bear all financial and other costs and obligations associated with, meeting the requirements of the Program.
From Microsoft Root Certificate Program.
Builders CERTAINLY DO NOT.
You PAY THEM ONCE and then you don't have to see them again ever.
Why should that have any bearing on the analogy? A builder is under no requirement to build a property and then sell it - thats just the common way things work, but a builder could still build a house and retain ownership of it, theres nothing stopping him doing it.
But if the songwwriter/artist wants to sell his song to me he can, and then he can turn around and sell it to you, and your mum and your dog.
No, you completely misunderstand me - that isn't selling it in the same way the builder sells the house, thats selling it in the same way the builder rents the property out - when I talk about the artist selling the song, I'm talking about you buying the entire *rights* to the song, it becomes yours in entirety, and the artist can no longer sell anyone else limited rights to it. The artist loses his perpetual income.
1. Type about:config into the location bar and change the value browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped to true. After this, you need to restart Firefox. All this does is make it so that Firefox only searches the URLs you have typed and not the titles of pages.
This doesn't seem to work on any FF3 install I have tried it - I have that value set to true (and I have restarted Firefox), and my URL bar still matches page titles as well as urls (example: I type 'the' intending to go to thedailywtf.com, and I get 'EADS NV - The latest press releases', 'The Boeing Company', 'isoHunt - the bittorrent and p2p search engine', 'Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia' among others, none of which have 'the' in the url, and all of which have 'the' in the page title highlighted in the drop down results box).
And thats just on my home laptop, the same is true of both my works desktops - even with the value set to true the 'awesomebar' is still in effect.
Firefox 3.0.1 incase anyone is wondering - on all machines. Not that matters, the setting has never made a difference for me. Oh, and its a clean Firefox install, I don't have any addons installed.
His employment contract would prevent that.
for as long as people are enjoying them
Why? Chairmakers don't receive compensations for as long as people are enjoying their chairs. Builders don't receive compensation for as long as people enjoy their houses.
Builders certainly do receive compensation for as long as they wish, if they handle the transaction correctly - its called renting, and the builder retains ownership of the property while receiving a perpetual income from it.
For what its worth, an artist can also go down both routes - rent the song out to you, or sell the rights to the song completely. In the first instance he gets a perpetual income that is smaller per unit, in the second instance he gets a one-time income that is much greater. A builder can either sell the house or rent it out, and achieve the same result.
So, what do you want to do? Pay thousands of dollars per song and have complete freedom, or pay cents a song and have restrictions? Your choice, you can infact do both *right now*.
The only reason I can't use your car or house when you aren't using it is because of artificial laws saying I can't and granting you protection from such actions - whats the difference? I deprive you of something? Why is that important? Surely sharing is a good thing?
Sorry, I spotted my mistake right after I hit 'Submit' - I actually meant Saturn V stage 3 components (called the S-IVB stage, hence where I got stage 4 on the mind) - and there are 10 of them either in solar orbit or on the moon.
Just a slight correction, of the 16 Saturn V rockets built for the Apollo program, 5 Stage 4 components are now in a solar orbit and another 5 made it all the way to the lunar surface.
Not just affordable - renting means you can account the cost differently, removing it from your capital expenditure budget and moving it onto other budgets, as well as not listing it as either a debt or an asset. This is why a lot of large companies lease things such as fleet cars, or buildings (even if they create a subsidiary and lease it back to the parent).
What is being created here is a cytoplasmic hybrid embryo, where the cells nucleus is fully human DNA, but the cells mitochondria is not replaced and that has a DNA signature of its own, meaning that the cells reproduce as human, but the embryos themselves are only considered to be 99.9% human, and 0.1% animal.
For a start, "crawlable" does not mean it WILL be crawled.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html
We British seem to get along fine, with BT owning the last mile, the exchanges, the regional pipes and also being a content producer on the internet - I can take my ADSL service and go to any one of over 200 ISPs and get wildly varying levels of service for wildly varying prices.
This is what amazes me when people bring up the 'but how do I eat?' argument - someone always responds with 'support it!', which means that I have to now produce two different products to bring in money - the product itself, and the support product to charge money for.
I'm sorry, but I'm a developer, I hate people.
There was certainly a sled on the Macbook I swapped the disk on - crappy little metal one that probably wouldn't be missed, but it was there non the less.
Yup, and attempted get-arounds like this are stuff courts love to slap down.