It does, since a long time, but is designed to do this from a properly configured network; If you have ever worked for a big company which runs Windows you would know, it's quite nice since in most cases you don't need to do anything else other than click on the apps you want to install... But you are right about this misleading home users.
Consider launching an Open Source application you downloaded from the web which doesn't have an installer, you just extracted the binaries wherever you downloaded the compressed archive; On XP you have to remember the path where the binaries where extracted (the hard part =P), browse to them using explorer and double-click the executable. On Vista click the start menu, start typing the name of the executable (for example "avide" for avidemux) and click on the link to launch it.
The nice thing about Vista is that most tasks can be perfumed using the start menu search functionality, so all the tasks require the same steps to be performed, I don't know about you, but I save a lot of time of UI interaction when using Vista and my grandfather loves the idea of not having to learn (actually write down) so many different steps for each different task.
I can only assume you haven't used Vista yet, because this is quite easy to respond.
Accessing the Device Manager: On XP click the start menu, right click computer, go the the correct tab and click the "Device Manager" button. On Vista click the start menu, type "Device" and click on "Device Manager".
Removing a program: On XP click the start menu, click "Control Panel" and click on "Uninstall program". On Vista click the start menu, type "Remove" and click in "Add or remove programs".
Configuring Windows tasks in general: On XP find whatever obscure way to change what you want one window after the other. On Vista type what you want to do.
Browsing the Web with firefox while listening to you MP3 collection: On XP open an idiotic page with a hidden MIDI playing in a loop, you mute the computer and curse the site; you music is gone. On Vista open the same idiotic page, click the volume tray icon and mute firefox, the MIDI is no longer audible and you can keep listening to your music.
Apple don't let you develop for the iPhone freely; it has to be done under their conditions and with their approval, asking the OS to be open sourced is foolish and it will never happen, Apple has shown what does it thinks about developer freedom.
More likely they will try to find a way to prohibit Android from being installed.
C# is a child language of Java more than anything. You could probably convert 90% of C# code directly to java with a simple find/replace regex for keywords.
Wrong, C# is much more powerful since you can use unmanaged code in your managed apps with the unsafe keyword. I made a real-time computer vision application in C# for a robot and before that I tried Java, let me tell you this, C# was 20x faster because I could directly access the memory of the image acquired by the webcam.
I still think Linux will get more security issues when its market share grows, and haven't used an OLPC but I recently read about an OLPC engineer who said that their error was to make a new GUI when there are many better options...
But I agree on pretty much everything else you said and admit your reply was nice and insightful. Sorry if I called you a fanboy, my mistake; I will try to read more than one post before saying something like that again. =)
Say whatever you want, virus are a gold mine but there is no gold in the Linux lands, just wait when it gets more market share.
I'm not defending Windows, my experience with Vista is quite poor as you can read from my previous posts. But that doesn't mean I have to agree with symbolset comment which is clearly fanboyism and plain stupid; just read what he said, he is trying to make a point comparing how he, a geek, use Linux versus how a grandma uses Windows, bullshit.
I use both and I keep both crystal clean; thought Windows needs more attention.
Oh, and by the way, have you heard of free speech the semi-ideal of Linux fanboys? How comes you are saying that my post shouldn't be allowed.
I hate mac fanboys, but Linux fanboys, they are the worst of all because they think they are sooo smart and never have a second thought; just like any standard religion I must say.
Who would target Linux for their attacks when it has suc a small market share. Any OS has security issues and bugs that need to be fixed, this is pretty easy to see in the recent Debian SSL entropy issue, there are a lot of virus and attacks for Windows because there are a lot of Windows users, is just that.
Is kind of depressing to see your comment modded as insightful, I thought geeks used logic instead of fanboyism.
You sound too much like a fanboy for using that username; Windows Longhorn betas had the indexed search feature before Spotlight was released. Apple shiped first, but that's all, it wasn't an original idea.
You are also forgetting Vista's new Multimedia Framework with native HD support.
So you are saying there isn't a shortage of skilled IT workers but that they are not willing to work for anything under 70k; and that those who work for less than that are not skilled... Bullshit.
From here it seems like there are smart ass geeks that won't find a job because they think themselves superior, and that there are humble and passionate geeks that will work in whatever is challenging or fun and will end up earning 70k+ after less than 3 years of work.
Is difficult to be sure if an applicant is good enough for a job on an interview, too easy to pretend; any company is going to test you before offering a huge paycheck... Welcome to the real world.
I run Vista, so this would never happen to me as it no longer use a boot.ini file... But I do have to reboot quite often because the #$% thing keeps crashing for no reason:P
I don't understand your reply, he said UAC wouldn't stop it from happening but that Vista has a new boot system that no longer use a boot.ini file (changes are made with bootsect.exe). He is right and... I don't know what are you discussing. What's your point? You seem to be off-topic.
I'm posting an advice to US citizens, not its corrupt government, and I do so because I have strong ties with them, professional and personal, and would be really sad if they continue in their downward spiral to failure.
Maybe you are from China, maybe you are from Europe. I love Europe and I dislike China, I like my western culture and I would like it to prevail, I stand against war and stupid things like this bill, but fighting Asia economically to protect our values and way of life, that's something I will always feel urged to yell.
If an European country becomes the next super power that's OK with me, but I really fear Asia is going to eat us, the western world, pretty soon, and as an engineer I know this over bureaucratic laws are destroying progress in the US; just look how fast China is building stuff and inverting in infrastructure while Americans are wasting time with this stuff.
Anyway, as this is an open forum, and I have the right to free speech, I feel obligated to say you are an egocentric asshole who thinks too highly of himself. Thanks, bye.
I remember how the downfall happened; it involved a catastrophic event of huge dimensions, huge and expanded dimensions, painful ones, the goatse was called and when "they" started posting this horror it just became a matter of time until the collapse.
Yes sir yes! As you are the one dictating orders here I will moderate myself down to hell.
It was just a saying, th idea of my comment is that instead of spending so much time, money and work suing, and dealing which such claims, the US should work on keeping its economy the best in the world, and prolonging its status as the only super power. It was an advice, and a good one, but do whatever you want, I'm fine in another country.
12 separate offenses? What a waste of money and work force, this will become a huge overhead for the legal system, and a costly one, the American government should be more concerned in getting ahead of China than in suing their citizens a hundred time for a simple crime. What a waste of resources.
I agree with improving the browser and following the standards, but why ask to untie Windows and IE?, what about MacOS X and Linux? Linux and MacOS X are slowly getting market share from Windows and seems like this isn't going to stop, so why should Microsoft sell an OS without a web browser, why punish a company out to extinction? Is just because it isn't European? I understand Opera asking to make IE standards complaint, but what business do they have with the OS?
Even at 'only' $250, it's that or a Wii. And the Wii is a stable platform, whereas your cutting edge premium card is going to look overpriced and behind the curve tomorrow
Don't get me wrong, Wii is a nice little console, but it looked behind the curve in its launch date, and it looks behind the curve today. I don't understand why fanboys have to troll everything; we are comparing PC video cards here, why are you talking about the Wii?
A year ago I bought this laptop with a GeForce 7900 and have been playing Oblivion, Bioshock and Team Fortress 2, this games wouls never run on the Wii; it looks great, have high FPS, and it's one year old. You are just trolling.
The command line management tools are great! Microsoft had to develop a new command line interface since the new Core version of Windows Server doesn't have a GUI, this new tool is called Windows PowerShell and is based on.NET, is not yet fully ready in RC0 but you can already play with it and see it's power.
I also run Windows Server 2008 RC0 as my desktop OS. Has anyone noticed how fast Visual Studio debugging programs run on it? I'm developing a very intensive software application and if I launch the thing from Visual Studio in Vista for debugging things are really, REALLY, slow; usually around 2 refreshes per second (real time is critical here) but when I'm debugging from Visual Studio in Server 2008 the thing runs almost as if I were running the release version outside Visual Studio.
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It does, since a long time, but is designed to do this from a properly configured network; If you have ever worked for a big company which runs Windows you would know, it's quite nice since in most cases you don't need to do anything else other than click on the apps you want to install... But you are right about this misleading home users.
What about this?
Consider launching an Open Source application you downloaded from the web which doesn't have an installer, you just extracted the binaries wherever you downloaded the compressed archive; On XP you have to remember the path where the binaries where extracted (the hard part =P), browse to them using explorer and double-click the executable. On Vista click the start menu, start typing the name of the executable (for example "avide" for avidemux) and click on the link to launch it.
The nice thing about Vista is that most tasks can be perfumed using the start menu search functionality, so all the tasks require the same steps to be performed, I don't know about you, but I save a lot of time of UI interaction when using Vista and my grandfather loves the idea of not having to learn (actually write down) so many different steps for each different task.
I can only assume you haven't used Vista yet, because this is quite easy to respond.
Accessing the Device Manager: On XP click the start menu, right click computer, go the the correct tab and click the "Device Manager" button. On Vista click the start menu, type "Device" and click on "Device Manager".
Removing a program: On XP click the start menu, click "Control Panel" and click on "Uninstall program". On Vista click the start menu, type "Remove" and click in "Add or remove programs".
Configuring Windows tasks in general: On XP find whatever obscure way to change what you want one window after the other. On Vista type what you want to do.
Browsing the Web with firefox while listening to you MP3 collection: On XP open an idiotic page with a hidden MIDI playing in a loop, you mute the computer and curse the site; you music is gone. On Vista open the same idiotic page, click the volume tray icon and mute firefox, the MIDI is no longer audible and you can keep listening to your music.
Could give more, but I think that's enough.
Apple don't let you develop for the iPhone freely; it has to be done under their conditions and with their approval, asking the OS to be open sourced is foolish and it will never happen, Apple has shown what does it thinks about developer freedom.
More likely they will try to find a way to prohibit Android from being installed.
C# is a child language of Java more than anything. You could probably convert 90% of C# code directly to java with a simple find/replace regex for keywords.
Wrong, C# is much more powerful since you can use unmanaged code in your managed apps with the unsafe keyword. I made a real-time computer vision application in C# for a robot and before that I tried Java, let me tell you this, C# was 20x faster because I could directly access the memory of the image acquired by the webcam.
I still think Linux will get more security issues when its market share grows, and haven't used an OLPC but I recently read about an OLPC engineer who said that their error was to make a new GUI when there are many better options...
But I agree on pretty much everything else you said and admit your reply was nice and insightful. Sorry if I called you a fanboy, my mistake; I will try to read more than one post before saying something like that again. =)
Say whatever you want, virus are a gold mine but there is no gold in the Linux lands, just wait when it gets more market share.
I'm not defending Windows, my experience with Vista is quite poor as you can read from my previous posts. But that doesn't mean I have to agree with symbolset comment which is clearly fanboyism and plain stupid; just read what he said, he is trying to make a point comparing how he, a geek, use Linux versus how a grandma uses Windows, bullshit.
I use both and I keep both crystal clean; thought Windows needs more attention.
Oh, and by the way, have you heard of free speech the semi-ideal of Linux fanboys? How comes you are saying that my post shouldn't be allowed.
I hate mac fanboys, but Linux fanboys, they are the worst of all because they think they are sooo smart and never have a second thought; just like any standard religion I must say.
Who would target Linux for their attacks when it has suc a small market share. Any OS has security issues and bugs that need to be fixed, this is pretty easy to see in the recent Debian SSL entropy issue, there are a lot of virus and attacks for Windows because there are a lot of Windows users, is just that.
Is kind of depressing to see your comment modded as insightful, I thought geeks used logic instead of fanboyism.
You sound too much like a fanboy for using that username; Windows Longhorn betas had the indexed search feature before Spotlight was released. Apple shiped first, but that's all, it wasn't an original idea.
You are also forgetting Vista's new Multimedia Framework with native HD support.
Typo: The Inspiron price is $1,099
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspnnb_1720?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&~oid=us~en~29~inspnnb_1720_anav2~~
Don't be a fanboy, use real data:
MacBook.
2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
1GB memory
120GB hard drive
$1,099.00
Inspiron 1720
Intel® Core(TM) 2 Duo T7250 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB/2MB cache)
3GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz
320GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
128MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8400M GS
$1,558
Macs ARE overpriced and always will because is a completely closed platform; closed software and closed hardware. No competence; no free market.
Enough with the fanboy apple to oranges or Ferrari to bicycle bullshit, it doesn't apply.
So you are saying there isn't a shortage of skilled IT workers but that they are not willing to work for anything under 70k; and that those who work for less than that are not skilled... Bullshit.
From here it seems like there are smart ass geeks that won't find a job because they think themselves superior, and that there are humble and passionate geeks that will work in whatever is challenging or fun and will end up earning 70k+ after less than 3 years of work.
Is difficult to be sure if an applicant is good enough for a job on an interview, too easy to pretend; any company is going to test you before offering a huge paycheck... Welcome to the real world.
I run Vista, so this would never happen to me as it no longer use a boot.ini file... But I do have to reboot quite often because the #$% thing keeps crashing for no reason :P
Technically it could've happened on Vista
Wrong, Vista no longer use a boot.ini file, changes to the boot process can only be made by running bootsect.exe in a CMD window.
I don't understand your reply, he said UAC wouldn't stop it from happening but that Vista has a new boot system that no longer use a boot.ini file (changes are made with bootsect.exe). He is right and... I don't know what are you discussing. What's your point? You seem to be off-topic.
Good response, thanks!
I'm posting an advice to US citizens, not its corrupt government, and I do so because I have strong ties with them, professional and personal, and would be really sad if they continue in their downward spiral to failure.
Maybe you are from China, maybe you are from Europe. I love Europe and I dislike China, I like my western culture and I would like it to prevail, I stand against war and stupid things like this bill, but fighting Asia economically to protect our values and way of life, that's something I will always feel urged to yell.
If an European country becomes the next super power that's OK with me, but I really fear Asia is going to eat us, the western world, pretty soon, and as an engineer I know this over bureaucratic laws are destroying progress in the US; just look how fast China is building stuff and inverting in infrastructure while Americans are wasting time with this stuff.
Anyway, as this is an open forum, and I have the right to free speech, I feel obligated to say you are an egocentric asshole who thinks too highly of himself. Thanks, bye.
Anyone here? Where did you all go?
I remember how the downfall happened; it involved a catastrophic event of huge dimensions, huge and expanded dimensions, painful ones, the goatse was called and when "they" started posting this horror it just became a matter of time until the collapse.
Yes sir yes! As you are the one dictating orders here I will moderate myself down to hell.
It was just a saying, th idea of my comment is that instead of spending so much time, money and work suing, and dealing which such claims, the US should work on keeping its economy the best in the world, and prolonging its status as the only super power. It was an advice, and a good one, but do whatever you want, I'm fine in another country.
I see, I admit being an ignorant on how the US legal system works :)
12 separate offenses? What a waste of money and work force, this will become a huge overhead for the legal system, and a costly one, the American government should be more concerned in getting ahead of China than in suing their citizens a hundred time for a simple crime. What a waste of resources.
I agree with improving the browser and following the standards, but why ask to untie Windows and IE?, what about MacOS X and Linux? Linux and MacOS X are slowly getting market share from Windows and seems like this isn't going to stop, so why should Microsoft sell an OS without a web browser, why punish a company out to extinction? Is just because it isn't European? I understand Opera asking to make IE standards complaint, but what business do they have with the OS?
Even at 'only' $250, it's that or a Wii. And the Wii is a stable platform, whereas your cutting edge premium card is going to look overpriced and behind the curve tomorrow
Don't get me wrong, Wii is a nice little console, but it looked behind the curve in its launch date, and it looks behind the curve today. I don't understand why fanboys have to troll everything; we are comparing PC video cards here, why are you talking about the Wii?
A year ago I bought this laptop with a GeForce 7900 and have been playing Oblivion, Bioshock and Team Fortress 2, this games wouls never run on the Wii; it looks great, have high FPS, and it's one year old. You are just trolling.
The command line management tools are great! Microsoft had to develop a new command line interface since the new Core version of Windows Server doesn't have a GUI, this new tool is called Windows PowerShell and is based on .NET, is not yet fully ready in RC0 but you can already play with it and see it's power.
Check it out yourself!
I also run Windows Server 2008 RC0 as my desktop OS. Has anyone noticed how fast Visual Studio debugging programs run on it? I'm developing a very intensive software application and if I launch the thing from Visual Studio in Vista for debugging things are really, REALLY, slow; usually around 2 refreshes per second (real time is critical here) but when I'm debugging from Visual Studio in Server 2008 the thing runs almost as if I were running the release version outside Visual Studio.
Makes me wonder why such huge improvement.