Well,... its more like mainboard which I would be proud to show in my computer and another Barbie gay model which I would be embarassed to show. But anyway, ATI owners, there are still non-transparent cases out so you can relax.
Is ATI concentrating on usual Barbie collectors with this colors or what?
Not true. Accelerate your mouse pointer properly, and read up about Fitt's law sometime.
While Fitt's law is valid for normal setup, I'm having two 24" 1920x1200 monitors and Fitt's law does not apply here
Relative to which modern OS?
Any OS
Not true. You obviously aren't talking about OS X. Things have changed, you know, since the Bad Old Days of Macs.
Yeah, and I run OS9 on G5 or mini... how? Yes it is true.
Not true.
Wow, your arguments are to good for me to be possible to answer them
First sentence true. Second sentence straw man.
Straw man for not liking OSX defaults? Like sloppy focus which can't be reconfigured? I'm not saying my defaults are best for everybody, I'm saying OSX defaults go against my expectations of how WM should behave.
Not true.
Hope you don't mean Mail.app? Damn thing is worthless
Not true. Do you know what 'most' means?
Yes, true. Do you know what you actualy asked?
Not true.
So, having one window metal brushed, one gray silver one white and few others is my imagination?
Not true. I really would advise you to try OS X before you make judgements against Macs based on OS 9.
No OS9 chooser was usable. OSX chooser is not. And network in finder is the most stupid approach to any network I saw. Again same question, how can I run OS9 on my two machines?
Not true (You can use StarOffice or OpenOffice or whatever you like).
Yeah, and it looks and works how? Alienated completely with poor view quality. Runing OO.o on Windows or Linux doesn't look as cripled. On OSX it does. While NeoOffice is much better, they are way of to get to ODF (neooffice is still OO.o 1.1 without ODF). Neither world is perfect. One missing this, other that.
Not true.
Yes true.
Doesn't matter -- anything you can do with virtual desktops you can do with application switching and exposé.
Get serious. Just example, on my Linux I've got XGL installed. But I don't use expose like feature either. It is unusable on Mac just as on Linux. Some of us don't have 5 windows only.
Not true. If you like xterm, Eterm, etc., just use them. Virtually all X11 software runs fine on OS X.
Yeah, and they work alienated with internationalization and keyboard problems. As does whole X11 software on OSX.
Maybe I should do that, too. Write something, and reply to myself, saying that I agree. Not that anyone figures this shit out. I've added comments with links directly from the Slashdot summary and I've been modded +1 informative. Gee, gotta wonder sometimes.
??? Ok, shitforbrains, then tell me how one can edit his comment to add what he forgot. If I would try to hide the fact as you say I wouldn't be posting under the same nick.
If you want more screen real estate in an Apple laptop, there's the 15" and 17" MacBook Pro models.
Where's the LARGER screen estate you talk about? I need 1920x1200 min on my notebook (I always buy 15" with this res). And I wouldn't like to drag 17" notebook for that sake of more pixels and even with that 17" cow not enough.
I'm not sure what you value your time at, but I don't have the time nor CPU cycles to run spyware detectors, malware detectors, virus & trojan detectors, etcetera. I also don't have the time to f*ck with a corrupted registry nor to format/reinstall the OS along with all the software/drivers every 6 months just because I decide to use the comuter. I'll probably settle for a simple firewall though.
What are those? I'm a linux person. I hate Windows as much as any anti-MS. But I have to aknowledge the fact that my only Windows computer is still running the first installation. And I don't run those on Windows either.
I bought 2 macs for my parents after I was tired of doing the above and more everytime I came to their house. I run Linux, Mac, and Windows myself and if I ever move off a Ubuntu, I'll consider a Mac before any Windows.
I simply set up my parents with Linux, and there's still no single complaint.
Because being cheap is going to cost me more in the end.
Yeah, this is why Linux is the cheapest. Cheapest hardware, fastest installation, fastest upgrading of OS, and practically no maintenance.
I have two Apple PCs. G5dual and mini (which was not my choice and is to my personal misfortune worth 600$ waiting to pissed enough over it and throw it into trash. Yeah, I know. Now million posts will follow that I should sell it for 50$ which is better than nothing or to send this mini to them. NOT GONNA HAPPEN'. Damn thing is acceptable loss of my other bussines. And I rather throw it in the trash than hear anyone saying this mini is being reffered as computer).
Well, for your info OSX has more flaws than Windows or Linux together. Worst dual monitor setup support ever (while I agree that both monitors are working, note that I use always 2 24" WS monitors. Now imagine my mouse milleage when I want to access menu. And I could go on and on). Consuming astronomical ammount of RAM. Trashing all over the network drives with AppleDouble, AppleShare, etc. Damn 0.5s time lag on mouse events. No configurable WM. Windows don't have that either, but at least they pose sensible defaults. Best mailer one could come up with OSX is still only Thunderbird. I'm still waiting to succesfully run at least most of the movies (MPlayer and VLC are working best, but still with a lot of crashing). Can do that on both, Windows and Linux. Too many window themes, but there's no one default theme. Stupid network chooser. No decent crossplatform compatible Office suite. MS Office would still account as the best Office suite on OSX, but I refuse to use.doc or.xls. Damn ICal can't connect to most iCal servers. No virtual desktops. Windows lacks this one too. I know I could install the shareware or freeware implementation. But unfortunatelly implementation sucks for the same reasons why Windows Virtual desktops you install with ATI suck. THE... WORST... TERMINAL... EVER. Yeah, I tried iTerm and all other terminals. Few of them could come to the state of actualy being usable if people have really low terminal needs
Display has way to small both resolution and dimension for that price. Damn thing is practicaly unusable. OSX Aqua is not really space savy interface. Large icons, large space between, damn irresonable spacing between controls.
One can buy a lot better notebook much lower price.
It'll be insanely tough to convince customers that a 600mhz, 256mb ram linux machine is equivalent or better than a 2.0ghz, 512mb winbox
Hey, I'm a techie and I'll buy one.
Wanna know why? Small and obviously perfectly runs linux, I can create my self one hell of a media center with it (or irc console, or office machine, or browsing, mailing), but in the same time require as less space as possible.
I'm very satisfied with buying Opterons for my workstations (and I got 10 of them), but for my media center or low-needs purposes, this machine is more than ideal. Or at least it seems so. Why would anybody wanted to buy something small but overpriced or something big and clumsy if he doesn't need it.
Really? 1. It can be overthrown as prior art. 2. It is not valid worldwide. EU doesn't recognise SW patents for example. 3. Too much of business already depends on Linux for this to go down without a major incident. IBM, Novell, Sony... They won't just let MS take their piece of pie without a fight. 4. They are being trialed as monopolist, meaning... they are in disadvantage and enforcing this would mean that accusation is having merit. 5. OIN. Look at the patents MS breaks there and read what OIN is.
If you want to blame someone, blame those who allow such patents to exist.
Guess what. I'm from EU;)
A successful public business has a responsibility to its shareholders to use every available avenue to maximize corporate value.
Yeah, they could start making better products if they want to achieve this goal.
This step with patenting issues would be valid if it was taken before companies started depending on Linux and Linux was just a hobby OS of willing hackers. Now is just a futile attempt (pissing against the wind), which is not to be taken seriously.
I know that in your idealistic world, a "good company" just wouldn't register these patents, but that's not reality.
[sarcasm] Yeah, this is probably the reason why SCO is winning. [/sarcasm]
Yeah, you're right, Microsoft should sit around and allow its IP to be stolen, if that's the case, by a bunch of self-satisfied nerds. Maybe once you're old enough to have a job, you'll understand the ways of the real world.
Which IP? TAB handling? Virtual desktops? Wearable devices?
99.9% of MS IP is shamefull stealing from long existing projects. Name one real IP invented by MS.
What Ballmer is saying is this: if (and that's a big if) there's patent or IP imfringement anyhere in the Linux kernal, they'll look into it and take legal action if they have to.
Unfortunately, too late for MS. If they did that 2-3 years ago, they might've even succeded. It would be easy to pick on standalone home developers, a free open season on Linux hackers.
Now? Not really. Too many corporations are getting money from Linux and they will fight for their piece of pie. If they would proceed with this steps, all they would achieve is corporate fight without any rules, but no gain.
Should MS not enforce their rights, they're hosed and the stockholder get's POed.
Unfortunatelly, MS stockholders stand just as much chance as SCO.
It's a sound business decision and, frankly, so obvious that it should not have even been reported. It falls into the "duh, no shit, sherlock" category. So what else is new? This ain't FUD people, this is business as usual.
In bussines, timing is everything. MS has missed this oportunity (as every other time). While I agree with your saying it isn't FUD, it is not sensible reality either. It would like MS is declaring the start of the last battle in this war (First they ignore you, they they laugh at you, they get scared, they fight, they lose), where MS is not fighting, but pissing against the wind. And this is business as usual to.
You must ask yourself--Why do you need a patch to get something to work with a new kernel?
Bugs exist, and now you have a proof. Bugs are the common thing in bleeding edge.
Fast patch, but why was it necessary in the first place? And we want everyone on Windows to switch to Linux...
There are two things in this case, one is using bleeding edge distro and one is using stable distro like RHEL. If one expects to have everything shiny and new, he can expect bugs. If one expects stability and just works, bleeding edge is not for him.
One of the main features I'm looking forward to in FC5 is the inclusion of Beagle
In that case you should upgrade beagle to 0.2.3, and here is why http://planet.gnome.org/ search for "joe: yes I also want to know about the leak". His site doesn't seem to work now
Well now in a few days that will probably get us an update to 2.6.16 which might be broken as well as you say.
1. There already is a patch 2. Livna rpms will have this patch applied as soon as kernel 2.6.16 gets out for FC
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From what I have seen so far (have you tried the Vista beta yet?) there are a number of usability enhancements beyond mere eye-candy in Vista.
Did you mean: 1. performance meter? There were already zillion of "like-this" software-s. But most of the real problem lies in - central registry, which is filled with too much non-sense that doesn't belong there and duplicated keys. - the way windows accessed drives without a good scheduling - implementing snail_speed_and_resource_hungry-technique like.Net where it does not belong - showing performance where it doesn't matter. If apps start faster, it doesn't mean they run faster. They were just preloaded and as such they consumed RAM which could be used much better If you don't address the problem where it lies, every solution produces just additional mess
2. scheduled defragmenter?Win98 had it, and what good did it do
3. power management? Until you can control when devices are accessed and how they are accessed. File system provides better disk handling? All in vain. Even linux takes a day or two of tweaking to boost battery performance. But diff here is: while you can change the inside of linux, you can't do that for windows
4. stupidity like using USB memory as system. Yeah, that one is gonna be usable... as soon as USB gets GB/s speeds instead of MB/s. In translation, it is good that cars have handbrake, but it is not smart to promote it as casual driving tool.
5. TCP/IP stack? I won't speak about TCP/IP stack, since I haven't tested it terrily. So this might really be improvement. Especialy if they cleaned out the duplicated network settings in registry, where your networking could break without any reason.
6. media center? you can install MythTV under linux, you can install Media center under windows, Mac should already include media center. Problem is, 0.1% of people needs media center.
7. speech recognition? even gui translation in our language is poor and speech recognition is much harder to implement.
8. app based volume? almost all apps had this one so far, they just provided central interface for that. But not to bash, this is a usability improvement
9. DX10? Wow, 10 must be the gods number. But they were proclaiming the same about previous 9
10. calendar, photo app? yeah, now name one system that didn't include those for a few years now. Will I be able to publish my calendar to my apache based CalDAV server? Or flikr?
11. mp11? but it will still lack all but wmX codecs from the start, meaning... will play shit by default
12. eye-candy? windows is the last one to get here, so what is so revolutionary here?
11. security? ok, now you won't need to install anti-spyware, anti-virus, anti-trojan. Good for users, but it will piss of quite a few companies out there. But these features are not even nearly important in the security scheme
Not to be bashing Vista, I'm bashing you and your bad taste for what is good. Not even one feature in that article (except TCP/IP stack) could be called improvement. Real improvement over previous versions in Vista lies in 1. least-privilege model (every other OS had it in its stone age) 2. userland drivers (every other OS had it in its stone age) Both are booster for security model (one could say carbon copy of other OSs), and both will provide much safer environment for Windows users. All others can be threated as casual improvements of the system, but they are far from what it could be called selling point. All I can say in the end, those two are enough good reason for Windows users to upgrade, even I as non-MS user will recomend the upgrade to the people depending on Windows because of them. But for non-Windows or users that plan to migrate they are not, becase same two features are present in any other OS.
The opposite of win is "lose", the opposite of tight is "loose"
Thanks, it seems that I made this mistake quite a few times so far:D How terrible reality based on my comments, MS loosing:) (well, at least in the times of Win3.1 (bsod-ing everywhere) they were probably on drugs in that time, and as such completely loosed) while being sued:)
p.s. And thanks god I hate English language (it is my 4th), so this kind of mistakes don't really bother me. Or should I pronounce it my Engrish???
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That's a given for Mac users!
Was there ever any doubt??? Well, at least point 1 in the parents comment is worth of Insightfull.
Well,... its more like mainboard which I would be proud to show in my computer and another Barbie gay model which I would be embarassed to show. But anyway, ATI owners, there are still non-transparent cases out so you can relax.
Is ATI concentrating on usual Barbie collectors with this colors or what?
Not true. Accelerate your mouse pointer properly, and read up about Fitt's law sometime.
While Fitt's law is valid for normal setup, I'm having two 24" 1920x1200 monitors and Fitt's law does not apply here
Relative to which modern OS?
Any OS
Not true. You obviously aren't talking about OS X. Things have changed, you know, since the Bad Old Days of Macs.
Yeah, and I run OS9 on G5 or mini... how? Yes it is true.
Not true.
Wow, your arguments are to good for me to be possible to answer them
First sentence true. Second sentence straw man.
Straw man for not liking OSX defaults? Like sloppy focus which can't be reconfigured? I'm not saying my defaults are best for everybody, I'm saying OSX defaults go against my expectations of how WM should behave.
Not true.
Hope you don't mean Mail.app? Damn thing is worthless
Not true. Do you know what 'most' means?
Yes, true. Do you know what you actualy asked?
Not true.
So, having one window metal brushed, one gray silver one white and few others is my imagination?
Not true. I really would advise you to try OS X before you make judgements against Macs based on OS 9.
No OS9 chooser was usable. OSX chooser is not. And network in finder is the most stupid approach to any network I saw. Again same question, how can I run OS9 on my two machines?
Not true (You can use StarOffice or OpenOffice or whatever you like).
Yeah, and it looks and works how? Alienated completely with poor view quality. Runing OO.o on Windows or Linux doesn't look as cripled. On OSX it does. While NeoOffice is much better, they are way of to get to ODF (neooffice is still OO.o 1.1 without ODF). Neither world is perfect. One missing this, other that.
Not true.
Yes true.
Doesn't matter -- anything you can do with virtual desktops you can do with application switching and exposé.
Get serious. Just example, on my Linux I've got XGL installed. But I don't use expose like feature either. It is unusable on Mac just as on Linux. Some of us don't have 5 windows only.
Not true. If you like xterm, Eterm, etc., just use them. Virtually all X11 software runs fine on OS X.
Yeah, and they work alienated with internationalization and keyboard problems. As does whole X11 software on OSX.
Thanks for troll^H^H^H^H^Hplaying.
No trolling, truth only.
Maybe I should do that, too. Write something, and reply to myself, saying that I agree. Not that anyone figures this shit out. I've added comments with links directly from the Slashdot summary and I've been modded +1 informative. Gee, gotta wonder sometimes.
??? Ok, shitforbrains, then tell me how one can edit his comment to add what he forgot. If I would try to hide the fact as you say I wouldn't be posting under the same nick.
If you want more screen real estate in an Apple laptop, there's the 15" and 17" MacBook Pro models.
Where's the LARGER screen estate you talk about? I need 1920x1200 min on my notebook (I always buy 15" with this res). And I wouldn't like to drag 17" notebook for that sake of more pixels and even with that 17" cow not enough.
MacBook pro
15.4-inch widescreen display 1440x900 resolution
17-inch widescreen display 1680x1050 resolution
Larger display == better notebook?
Not better. Too small resultion for me to be usable, MacBook pro res is too small too. And your comment fails.
Better screren == more expensive notebook.
PC notebook with better screen (even if someone buys 12" or 13") == a lot cheaper than MacBook
I'm not sure what you value your time at, but I don't have the time nor CPU cycles to run spyware detectors, malware detectors, virus & trojan detectors, etcetera. I also don't have the time to f*ck with a corrupted registry nor to format/reinstall the OS along with all the software/drivers every 6 months just because I decide to use the comuter. I'll probably settle for a simple firewall though.
What are those? I'm a linux person. I hate Windows as much as any anti-MS. But I have to aknowledge the fact that my only Windows computer is still running the first installation. And I don't run those on Windows either.
I bought 2 macs for my parents after I was tired of doing the above and more everytime I came to their house. I run Linux, Mac, and Windows myself and if I ever move off a Ubuntu, I'll consider a Mac before any Windows.
I simply set up my parents with Linux, and there's still no single complaint.
Because being cheap is going to cost me more in the end.
Yeah, this is why Linux is the cheapest. Cheapest hardware, fastest installation, fastest upgrading of OS, and practically no maintenance.
With a much better OS?
.doc or .xls.
Actualy, yes.
I have two Apple PCs. G5dual and mini (which was not my choice and is to my personal misfortune worth 600$ waiting to pissed enough over it and throw it into trash. Yeah, I know. Now million posts will follow that I should sell it for 50$ which is better than nothing or to send this mini to them. NOT GONNA HAPPEN'. Damn thing is acceptable loss of my other bussines. And I rather throw it in the trash than hear anyone saying this mini is being reffered as computer).
Well, for your info OSX has more flaws than Windows or Linux together.
Worst dual monitor setup support ever (while I agree that both monitors are working, note that I use always 2 24" WS monitors. Now imagine my mouse milleage when I want to access menu. And I could go on and on).
Consuming astronomical ammount of RAM.
Trashing all over the network drives with AppleDouble, AppleShare, etc.
Damn 0.5s time lag on mouse events.
No configurable WM. Windows don't have that either, but at least they pose sensible defaults.
Best mailer one could come up with OSX is still only Thunderbird.
I'm still waiting to succesfully run at least most of the movies (MPlayer and VLC are working best, but still with a lot of crashing). Can do that on both, Windows and Linux.
Too many window themes, but there's no one default theme.
Stupid network chooser.
No decent crossplatform compatible Office suite. MS Office would still account as the best Office suite on OSX, but I refuse to use
Damn ICal can't connect to most iCal servers.
No virtual desktops. Windows lacks this one too. I know I could install the shareware or freeware implementation. But unfortunatelly implementation sucks for the same reasons why Windows Virtual desktops you install with ATI suck.
THE... WORST... TERMINAL... EVER. Yeah, I tried iTerm and all other terminals. Few of them could come to the state of actualy being usable if people have really low terminal needs
Need more reasons why OSX is the worst OS ever?
Not to mention their second screen praising. Catch is that any option you would like to use has been sold separately.
Tempting price? Where the hell do you live in?
Display has way to small both resolution and dimension for that price. Damn thing is practicaly unusable. OSX Aqua is not really space savy interface. Large icons, large space between, damn irresonable spacing between controls.
One can buy a lot better notebook much lower price.
It'll be insanely tough to convince customers that a 600mhz, 256mb ram linux machine is equivalent or better than a 2.0ghz, 512mb winbox
Hey, I'm a techie and I'll buy one.
Wanna know why?
Small and obviously perfectly runs linux, I can create my self one hell of a media center with it (or irc console, or office machine, or browsing, mailing), but in the same time require as less space as possible.
I'm very satisfied with buying Opterons for my workstations (and I got 10 of them), but for my media center or low-needs purposes, this machine is more than ideal. Or at least it seems so. Why would anybody wanted to buy something small but overpriced or something big and clumsy if he doesn't need it.
Doesn't matter, a patent is a patent.
;)
Really?
1. It can be overthrown as prior art.
2. It is not valid worldwide. EU doesn't recognise SW patents for example.
3. Too much of business already depends on Linux for this to go down without a major incident. IBM, Novell, Sony... They won't just let MS take their piece of pie without a fight.
4. They are being trialed as monopolist, meaning... they are in disadvantage and enforcing this would mean that accusation is having merit.
5. OIN. Look at the patents MS breaks there and read what OIN is.
If you want to blame someone, blame those who allow such patents to exist.
Guess what. I'm from EU
A successful public business has a responsibility to its shareholders to use every available avenue to maximize corporate value.
Yeah, they could start making better products if they want to achieve this goal.
This step with patenting issues would be valid if it was taken before companies started depending on Linux and Linux was just a hobby OS of willing hackers. Now is just a futile attempt (pissing against the wind), which is not to be taken seriously.
I know that in your idealistic world, a "good company" just wouldn't register these patents, but that's not reality.
[sarcasm] Yeah, this is probably the reason why SCO is winning. [/sarcasm]
Yeah, you're right, Microsoft should sit around and allow its IP to be stolen, if that's the case, by a bunch of self-satisfied nerds. Maybe once you're old enough to have a job, you'll understand the ways of the real world.
Which IP? TAB handling? Virtual desktops? Wearable devices?
99.9% of MS IP is shamefull stealing from long existing projects. Name one real IP invented by MS.
What Ballmer is saying is this: if (and that's a big if) there's patent or IP imfringement anyhere in the Linux kernal, they'll look into it and take legal action if they have to.
/ 1321238
Unfortunately, too late for MS. If they did that 2-3 years ago, they might've even succeded. It would be easy to pick on standalone home developers, a free open season on Linux hackers.
Now? Not really. Too many corporations are getting money from Linux and they will fight for their piece of pie. If they would proceed with this steps, all they would achieve is corporate fight without any rules, but no gain.
One case that proves what I'm saying. OIN http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/10
MS is just too late with this idea as every time.
Should MS not enforce their rights, they're hosed and the stockholder get's POed.
Unfortunatelly, MS stockholders stand just as much chance as SCO.
It's a sound business decision and, frankly, so obvious that it should not have even been reported. It falls into the "duh, no shit, sherlock" category. So what else is new? This ain't FUD people, this is business as usual.
In bussines, timing is everything. MS has missed this oportunity (as every other time). While I agree with your saying it isn't FUD, it is not sensible reality either. It would like MS is declaring the start of the last battle in this war (First they ignore you, they they laugh at you, they get scared, they fight, they lose), where MS is not fighting, but pissing against the wind. And this is business as usual to.
What do you think the fly is going to get hit with? :)
Not a good day to be a fly on the wall in Ballmers office.
???
Or did you mean, funny day to be a fly on the wall in Ballmers office, but bad day to be a chair?
You must ask yourself--Why do you need a patch to get something to work with a new kernel?
Bugs exist, and now you have a proof. Bugs are the common thing in bleeding edge.
Fast patch, but why was it necessary in the first place? And we want everyone on Windows to switch to Linux...
There are two things in this case, one is using bleeding edge distro and one is using stable distro like RHEL. If one expects to have everything shiny and new, he can expect bugs. If one expects stability and just works, bleeding edge is not for him.
p.s. What a lame case of trolling!
One of the main features I'm looking forward to in FC5 is the inclusion of Beagle
In that case you should upgrade beagle to 0.2.3, and here is why http://planet.gnome.org/ search for "joe: yes I also want to know about the leak". His site doesn't seem to work now
but have they fixed the runaround that they put you through just to play MP3's?
. html
Out of the box?
In short, no.
But here is how you do it
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/fedora5
Well now in a few days that will probably get us an update to 2.6.16 which might be broken as well as you say.
1. There already is a patch
2. Livna rpms will have this patch applied as soon as kernel 2.6.16 gets out for FC
From what I have seen so far (have you tried the Vista beta yet?) there are a number of usability enhancements beyond mere eye-candy in Vista.
.Net where it does not belong
Did you mean:
1. performance meter? There were already zillion of "like-this" software-s. But most of the real problem lies in
- central registry, which is filled with too much non-sense that doesn't belong there and duplicated keys.
- the way windows accessed drives without a good scheduling
- implementing snail_speed_and_resource_hungry-technique like
- showing performance where it doesn't matter. If apps start faster, it doesn't mean they run faster. They were just preloaded and as such they consumed RAM which could be used much better
If you don't address the problem where it lies, every solution produces just additional mess
2. scheduled defragmenter?Win98 had it, and what good did it do
3. power management? Until you can control when devices are accessed and how they are accessed. File system provides better disk handling? All in vain. Even linux takes a day or two of tweaking to boost battery performance. But diff here is: while you can change the inside of linux, you can't do that for windows
4. stupidity like using USB memory as system. Yeah, that one is gonna be usable... as soon as USB gets GB/s speeds instead of MB/s. In translation, it is good that cars have handbrake, but it is not smart to promote it as casual driving tool.
5. TCP/IP stack? I won't speak about TCP/IP stack, since I haven't tested it terrily. So this might really be improvement. Especialy if they cleaned out the duplicated network settings in registry, where your networking could break without any reason.
6. media center? you can install MythTV under linux, you can install Media center under windows, Mac should already include media center. Problem is, 0.1% of people needs media center.
7. speech recognition? even gui translation in our language is poor and speech recognition is much harder to implement.
8. app based volume? almost all apps had this one so far, they just provided central interface for that. But not to bash, this is a usability improvement
9. DX10? Wow, 10 must be the gods number. But they were proclaiming the same about previous 9
10. calendar, photo app? yeah, now name one system that didn't include those for a few years now. Will I be able to publish my calendar to my apache based CalDAV server? Or flikr?
11. mp11? but it will still lack all but wmX codecs from the start, meaning... will play shit by default
12. eye-candy? windows is the last one to get here, so what is so revolutionary here?
11. security? ok, now you won't need to install anti-spyware, anti-virus, anti-trojan. Good for users, but it will piss of quite a few companies out there. But these features are not even nearly important in the security scheme
Not to be bashing Vista, I'm bashing you and your bad taste for what is good. Not even one feature in that article (except TCP/IP stack) could be called improvement. Real improvement over previous versions in Vista lies in
1. least-privilege model (every other OS had it in its stone age)
2. userland drivers (every other OS had it in its stone age)
Both are booster for security model (one could say carbon copy of other OSs), and both will provide much safer environment for Windows users. All others can be threated as casual improvements of the system, but they are far from what it could be called selling point.
All I can say in the end, those two are enough good reason for Windows users to upgrade, even I as non-MS user will recomend the upgrade to the people depending on Windows because of them. But for non-Windows or users that plan to migrate they are not, becase same two features are present in any other OS.
Ok, I hope this was a joke:) Either that, or you should be threated as a specimen showing late symptoms of oxygen deprivation:)
I especially liked the part of joke where you proclaim "Microsoft has the best tools. The best Network OS (Win2K3)". Good one, indeed:)
Now,... put a chair in this picture and it's perfect:)
yeah, and a fly picked up a straw and started beating over the elephant like mad.
The opposite of win is "lose", the opposite of tight is "loose"
Thanks, it seems that I made this mistake quite a few times so far:D How terrible reality based on my comments, MS loosing:) (well, at least in the times of Win3.1 (bsod-ing everywhere) they were probably on drugs in that time, and as such completely loosed) while being sued:)
p.s. And thanks god I hate English language (it is my 4th), so this kind of mistakes don't really bother me. Or should I pronounce it my Engrish???