"What did we think? As a result of the fixes, Office would be slower, crash more and be less efficient?"
You weren't a Mac user in the mid-90s were you?
Word 6:
Slower? Yep!
Crashed more often? Oh yeah!
Less efficient? The media took up space in the dumpster no more or less efficiently than anything else in there. The boxes and manuals had glossy stock covers which meant they had to be thrown away in "mix recyclables" instead of "white paper". So I would say, "Yes, slightly less efficient."
Actually, I agree with all the real points of your post. And it's unfair to the current Mac team at Microsoft to give them too much flack for the marketing droids and the sins of their (hopefully sacked) coding elders. It's just that... well Word 6 was REALLY bad.
"hacker" vs "cracker", an English only thing?
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So anyone who's read much Slashdot knows that lots of folks get worked up over the distinction between the words "hacker" and "cracker". My question: Is this and English language only thing? Do any other languages have 2 words and constant debate over which means what? If so, do any of the automated translation engines get it right?
According to the dealer I got my copy of the 10.1 upgrade from, they were only allowed to give this disk to people who had receipts from the purchase of 10.0 (which I did). If this was really the case (I've not seen the paperwork), then the only people who legally own a copy of this CD also have paid for a full operating system.
Therefore, it's important to remember that the problem isn't really that someone's going to pay $20 for a full operating system. It's that if you hose your drive or repartition or some such, you can now do your reinstall in one step instead of two. This hack does NOTHING to install software that you wouldn't legally own anyway.
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You weren't a Mac user in the mid-90s were you?
Word 6:
Slower? Yep!
Crashed more often? Oh yeah!
Less efficient? The media took up space in the dumpster no more or less efficiently than anything else in there. The boxes and manuals had glossy stock covers which meant they had to be thrown away in "mix recyclables" instead of "white paper". So I would say, "Yes, slightly less efficient."
Actually, I agree with all the real points of your post. And it's unfair to the current Mac team at Microsoft to give them too much flack for the marketing droids and the sins of their (hopefully sacked) coding elders. It's just that... well Word 6 was REALLY bad.
So anyone who's read much Slashdot knows that lots of folks get worked up over the distinction between the words "hacker" and "cracker". My question: Is this and English language only thing? Do any other languages have 2 words and constant debate over which means what? If so, do any of the automated translation engines get it right?
According to the dealer I got my copy of the 10.1 upgrade from, they were only allowed to give this disk to people who had receipts from the purchase of 10.0 (which I did). If this was really the case (I've not seen the paperwork), then the only people who legally own a copy of this CD also have paid for a full operating system. Therefore, it's important to remember that the problem isn't really that someone's going to pay $20 for a full operating system. It's that if you hose your drive or repartition or some such, you can now do your reinstall in one step instead of two. This hack does NOTHING to install software that you wouldn't legally own anyway.