Well I didn't spend $100 on an upgrade, I'm running a preview version and plan on going back to Win 2000 afterwards. Morally superior huh? Maybe you ought to read a dictionary, because this has nothing to do with morality. I was simply pointing out that XP does have a command prompt that can still be used to do a variety of things one could previously do at the command line in DOS.
That might be why they changed to the motto to "yes you can", because they knew it wouldn't be appropriate anymore (the original "you can fly" motto was developed before the attacks").
And I'm not sure there's anything tasteless about hiring celebrities to show up at your launch event, just b/c others are doing it for free at funerals and what not for the victims. Now if it was the other way around, then yeah that would be extremely tasteless. While not their biggest fan, I just think they are trying to move on and not let this whole thing shut America down... and make some money of course.
Just thought I might set the record straight for some of you that obviously didn't do any research on this. It is true that DOS has been removed from Windows, starting with ME and now complete with XP. However to say the XP does not have a command prompt or command line is, well, ignorant. The command prompt is still alive and well in XP and works much like it always has. Yes there are commands that used to work in DOS and 9x that are no longer there, but I can still do much of what I need to do with it. For those of you who think that MS has given up on the command prompt, you might want to check out the PowerToys for XP release with its command prompt additions. The whole point of MS removing DOS was to remove the very cause of alot of the stability problems in Windows. Windows itself was created (well actually Xerox's GUI) to make a move away from command line interfaces (CLI), not away from command prompts, which will be around for a long time to come.
Of course I'm dual booting XP and Linux so I really don't have anything to worry about, got command prompts and command line interfaces and whatever else you want to call them out the...
I have to supress a laugh every time I hear Bill, Larry, or oh what's his name... talk about anything. And it's even funnier when their underlings voice their opinions. While I am a user of many Microsoft software applications, I can't say that everything they do makes me all warm inside. But I am getting sick of everyone whining about everything MS puts out, expecially all the controversy over.NET and XP. Yes XP has WPA and it sucks (here's a little tip, install on A, wait 120... maybe 121 days and install on B), but XP is a step in the right direction (albeit all the MS and MSN plugs).
Now on.NET, as in a previous post (which I was actually surprised to see), there's nothing evil or such about it. It is simpley a set of technologies and frameworks that enable developers to do so actually cool... stuff, and let's consumers/users access that cool... stuff. Now what MS builds on top of and using.NET is what should worry everyone, although I'm not one who things that everything that comes from the beast is bad or junk. My question is, would everyone rather the alternatives?
I shouldn't have to remind everyone that not too long ago Sun was a big bad wolf, one that wanted (and still does) everyone to work on thin clients/terminals connected to huge Sun mainframes running, you guessed it, Sun software (at least they would hope so). What does everyone actually thing Java was created for? It was developed to be a write once, run everywhere development solution (which I will admit, I love) that would also be a basis for thin client/terminal systems.
And then there's Oracle and the great dumpster diving Larry Ellison. His latest idea is to create a giant database of user information to be used by the government and whoever else, in addition to issuing everyone some sort of digital ID and ID card. The scary part is that there's alot or work and time going into this.
My point is that we shouldn't align ourselves to closely to any one of the companies, and others. Technology changes to quickly and unpredictably for anyone company to keep a stranglehold for too long... just ask IBM. If you don't like something, don't use it. If you hear something bad about a product or technology, don't take someone's word for it (this really applies to this who get news from the likes of ZDNet and CNet), reasearch it and draw your own conclusions.
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Well I didn't spend $100 on an upgrade, I'm running a preview version and plan on going back to Win 2000 afterwards. Morally superior huh? Maybe you ought to read a dictionary, because this has nothing to do with morality. I was simply pointing out that XP does have a command prompt that can still be used to do a variety of things one could previously do at the command line in DOS.
Oh and this is a message board.
That might be why they changed to the motto to "yes you can", because they knew it wouldn't be appropriate anymore (the original "you can fly" motto was developed before the attacks"). And I'm not sure there's anything tasteless about hiring celebrities to show up at your launch event, just b/c others are doing it for free at funerals and what not for the victims. Now if it was the other way around, then yeah that would be extremely tasteless. While not their biggest fan, I just think they are trying to move on and not let this whole thing shut America down... and make some money of course.
Just thought I might set the record straight for some of you that obviously didn't do any research on this. It is true that DOS has been removed from Windows, starting with ME and now complete with XP. However to say the XP does not have a command prompt or command line is, well, ignorant. The command prompt is still alive and well in XP and works much like it always has. Yes there are commands that used to work in DOS and 9x that are no longer there, but I can still do much of what I need to do with it. For those of you who think that MS has given up on the command prompt, you might want to check out the PowerToys for XP release with its command prompt additions. The whole point of MS removing DOS was to remove the very cause of alot of the stability problems in Windows. Windows itself was created (well actually Xerox's GUI) to make a move away from command line interfaces (CLI), not away from command prompts, which will be around for a long time to come. Of course I'm dual booting XP and Linux so I really don't have anything to worry about, got command prompts and command line interfaces and whatever else you want to call them out the...
I have to supress a laugh every time I hear Bill, Larry, or oh what's his name... talk about anything. And it's even funnier when their underlings voice their opinions. While I am a user of many Microsoft software applications, I can't say that everything they do makes me all warm inside. But I am getting sick of everyone whining about everything MS puts out, expecially all the controversy over .NET and XP. Yes XP has WPA and it sucks (here's a little tip, install on A, wait 120... maybe 121 days and install on B), but XP is a step in the right direction (albeit all the MS and MSN plugs).
Now on .NET, as in a previous post (which I was actually surprised to see), there's nothing evil or such about it. It is simpley a set of technologies and frameworks that enable developers to do so actually cool... stuff, and let's consumers/users access that cool... stuff. Now what MS builds on top of and using .NET is what should worry everyone, although I'm not one who things that everything that comes from the beast is bad or junk. My question is, would everyone rather the alternatives?
I shouldn't have to remind everyone that not too long ago Sun was a big bad wolf, one that wanted (and still does) everyone to work on thin clients/terminals connected to huge Sun mainframes running, you guessed it, Sun software (at least they would hope so). What does everyone actually thing Java was created for? It was developed to be a write once, run everywhere development solution (which I will admit, I love) that would also be a basis for thin client/terminal systems.
And then there's Oracle and the great dumpster diving Larry Ellison. His latest idea is to create a giant database of user information to be used by the government and whoever else, in addition to issuing everyone some sort of digital ID and ID card. The scary part is that there's alot or work and time going into this.
My point is that we shouldn't align ourselves to closely to any one of the companies, and others. Technology changes to quickly and unpredictably for anyone company to keep a stranglehold for too long... just ask IBM. If you don't like something, don't use it. If you hear something bad about a product or technology, don't take someone's word for it (this really applies to this who get news from the likes of ZDNet and CNet), reasearch it and draw your own conclusions.
Let the flames being...