Dunno; I don't have much problem with white on black text. I prefer green or amber on black, though, but that's mostly nostalgia for the VT-220s I spent so much time in front of.
Um, sorry? I mean, great that you can get your hardware working fine under Win7. Good for you. But be sides that, so what?
You're fooling around with crap on personal computers. That's got nothing to do with enterprise management features and suitability for deployment in business. Nor does it address the original post I was responding to, which asserted that Win7 is better because the technology in it is newer.
On the enterprise end there are *lots* of enhancements and benefits, but since this is Slashdot, nobody's really going to care because they all work for Red Hat and don't use Windows in the enterprise (what a laugh).
or to translate, "Waaahh. I don't know the specifics, and if I did, nobody would care anyway because they're linux meanies and have cooties, and they suck and my dad can beat up theirs. Waaaahhh!"
So basically you're a low-level Windows admin with not that much understanding of technology and a chip on your shoulder? Cause that's what you sound like.
That doesn't address all the other stuff - software that you can still reuse, stuff with an upgrade path to new version. It's still far cheaper to move to a newer windows than a completely different OS for most businesses.
Believe me, I'd love to see MS lose it's market position, but it's probably not gonna happen because people refuse to move to Win7.
Problem is that it relies on OLD technology to 'work well'.
That's a dumb argument. I still slice bread with knife, a technology which has been around for thousands of years - I could move to spiffy new computer controlled laser system, but why? It's expensive, both to acquire and replace, it's more work to service, and it doesn't get me much.
So what if the technology is old? Why is the new technology any better? What is the new technology that Win7 introduces that makes it so much better than XP? You don't mention it in your post.
What alternative is there? You can't stay on XP forever - eventually support will go away, patches will stop, fire and blood will rain from the skies, etc. Eventually, IT will have to move to a new OS, and the odds are that OS will be Win 7 or whatever chunk of crap MS is peddling that year. It's still more compelling for business users than any alternative.
You could move to the Mac, but then you need all new software and you need to completely retrain your staff. Same thing for Linux. So you can move to Win 7 - where you can at least expect some of your software to continue working. Developers can keep cranking out crap in VisualStudio (which is a shitty fucking IDE, whatever it's cadre of loyal adherents say about it), executives can continue using Outlook and schedule meetings with each other, your shitty ActiveX control laden intranet will work without changes (MS is never, ever, ever, gonna give that shit up if they can help it).
Why not a polygamous civil union? I mean, it's not my kind of thing (having one wife is enough work for me, thanks) but why limit it to just two people?
I know at least two gay couples that would like to marry, and neither has any interest in doing so in a church.
And, in fairness, there's nothing wrong with them wanting to get married in a church. If their church allows for that, then all's well. Gay marriage legislation should in no way require that clergy perform marriages for gay people.
In reality, marriage under the law and marriage in a religious institution are different things with the same name. However, because many people do both things at once and because they don't distinguish between the two things, they get conflated.
Almost everybody involved in this case is trying to get the machinery of government involved to reflect their particular morality here. The only people who have a position that doesn't involve this are those who advocate separating government involvement with the term marriage entirely.
Actually, I think marriage shouldn't be something government regulates. I don't even thing we need civil unions - we can and should handle all legal functions of marriage differently (contractual arrangements or whatever).
Also, I wasn't implying that people who don't agree with me are acting in bad faith. I'm sure there's lots of folks out there who don't realize their dislike of gays actually boils down to "fags are icky," but that's really what it is.
Yeah, basically those two things are what it really does all boil down to. They'll wiggle about trying to call you intolerant for not tolerating their attempts to use the machinery of government to restrict the rights of others, or whatever other dishonest bullshit they feel compelled to spew. But basically it's fags are gross and/or the bible says so.
I hadn't realized that we'd nominated dictionary publishers to be the official guardians of what does and does not count as grammatical English.
Of course, I'm a (computational) linguist and we do tend to have a bit of an anti-prescriptivist bent these days. I guess it's just because we prefer dealing with facts rather than random peoples' personal prejudices.
There's nothing wrong with "worser," as a word. It's been in the English language with the same meaning you appear to attribute to it for about 500 years (judging by the OED entry).
Hell, it even shows up in Shakespeare:
Oth. IV. i. 105 How do you Lieutenant? Cas. The worser, that you giue me the addition
Spreadsheets aren't like guns, they're like methamphetamine.
It starts out innocently enough - a couple sheets here or there - maybe a long weekend working out a household budget. It's all good fun. By the time you realize a problem, though, you're hitting the 65k row limit. You're writing VBA and macros, you're embedding external data sources - and haven't backed up your work for days. It drives you insane and causes brain damage.
Watching CA and Symantec die would be kind of satisfying, if only from a "revenge for all the problems your shitty fucking products have given me over the years" perspective.
And deeply insightful remarks about anti-MS prejudice at Slashdot.
Maybe instead of coming to a place where the exact same thing happens every time a story like this crops up, you could go someplace else where you wouldn't be frustrated.
Slashdot Mirror
Dunno; I don't have much problem with white on black text. I prefer green or amber on black, though, but that's mostly nostalgia for the VT-220s I spent so much time in front of.
The guy posted to his blog about it. On the same day as the inauguration.
Seriously, the tone of the summary is dumb as fuck. The press release is from today, as is the blog post. It's not even a fucking newspaper article.
You really had to struggle to provide that equivalence. You did manage to work in feminists, though, so good job.
Um, sorry? I mean, great that you can get your hardware working fine under Win7. Good for you. But be sides that, so what?
You're fooling around with crap on personal computers. That's got nothing to do with enterprise management features and suitability for deployment in business. Nor does it address the original post I was responding to, which asserted that Win7 is better because the technology in it is newer.
Which is a stupid argument to make.
or to translate, "Waaahh. I don't know the specifics, and if I did, nobody would care anyway because they're linux meanies and have cooties, and they suck and my dad can beat up theirs. Waaaahhh!"
So basically you're a low-level Windows admin with not that much understanding of technology and a chip on your shoulder? Cause that's what you sound like.
That doesn't address all the other stuff - software that you can still reuse, stuff with an upgrade path to new version. It's still far cheaper to move to a newer windows than a completely different OS for most businesses.
Believe me, I'd love to see MS lose it's market position, but it's probably not gonna happen because people refuse to move to Win7.
That's a dumb argument. I still slice bread with knife, a technology which has been around for thousands of years - I could move to spiffy new computer controlled laser system, but why? It's expensive, both to acquire and replace, it's more work to service, and it doesn't get me much.
So what if the technology is old? Why is the new technology any better? What is the new technology that Win7 introduces that makes it so much better than XP? You don't mention it in your post.
What alternative is there? You can't stay on XP forever - eventually support will go away, patches will stop, fire and blood will rain from the skies, etc. Eventually, IT will have to move to a new OS, and the odds are that OS will be Win 7 or whatever chunk of crap MS is peddling that year. It's still more compelling for business users than any alternative.
You could move to the Mac, but then you need all new software and you need to completely retrain your staff. Same thing for Linux. So you can move to Win 7 - where you can at least expect some of your software to continue working. Developers can keep cranking out crap in VisualStudio (which is a shitty fucking IDE, whatever it's cadre of loyal adherents say about it), executives can continue using Outlook and schedule meetings with each other, your shitty ActiveX control laden intranet will work without changes (MS is never, ever, ever, gonna give that shit up if they can help it).
Why not a polygamous civil union? I mean, it's not my kind of thing (having one wife is enough work for me, thanks) but why limit it to just two people?
I know at least two gay couples that would like to marry, and neither has any interest in doing so in a church.
And, in fairness, there's nothing wrong with them wanting to get married in a church. If their church allows for that, then all's well. Gay marriage legislation should in no way require that clergy perform marriages for gay people.
Heh. 40 odd years ago, you'd be defending your state's right to jim crow laws over interference from the damn leftists.
They get hung up on the word marriage.
In reality, marriage under the law and marriage in a religious institution are different things with the same name. However, because many people do both things at once and because they don't distinguish between the two things, they get conflated.
The IRS doesn't recognize civil union, just married or not?
Actually, I think marriage shouldn't be something government regulates. I don't even thing we need civil unions - we can and should handle all legal functions of marriage differently (contractual arrangements or whatever).
Also, I wasn't implying that people who don't agree with me are acting in bad faith. I'm sure there's lots of folks out there who don't realize their dislike of gays actually boils down to "fags are icky," but that's really what it is.
Yeah, basically those two things are what it really does all boil down to. They'll wiggle about trying to call you intolerant for not tolerating their attempts to use the machinery of government to restrict the rights of others, or whatever other dishonest bullshit they feel compelled to spew. But basically it's fags are gross and/or the bible says so.
Yep, it works.
I've been seeing floaters in my eyes as long as I can remember.
I hadn't realized that we'd nominated dictionary publishers to be the official guardians of what does and does not count as grammatical English.
Of course, I'm a (computational) linguist and we do tend to have a bit of an anti-prescriptivist bent these days. I guess it's just because we prefer dealing with facts rather than random peoples' personal prejudices.
You'd make an awful manager.
There's nothing wrong with "worser," as a word. It's been in the English language with the same meaning you appear to attribute to it for about 500 years (judging by the OED entry).
Hell, it even shows up in Shakespeare:
Ugh - emacs. Never touch the stuff.
That shit'll kill you.
Spreadsheets aren't like guns, they're like methamphetamine.
It starts out innocently enough - a couple sheets here or there - maybe a long weekend working out a household budget. It's all good fun. By the time you realize a problem, though, you're hitting the 65k row limit. You're writing VBA and macros, you're embedding external data sources - and haven't backed up your work for days. It drives you insane and causes brain damage.
Just say no to spreadsheets.
Watching CA and Symantec die would be kind of satisfying, if only from a "revenge for all the problems your shitty fucking products have given me over the years" perspective.
Doubt it, though.
I live in your mom's basement, dude - it makes it more convenient for when I fuck her in the ass.
And deeply insightful remarks about anti-MS prejudice at Slashdot.
Maybe instead of coming to a place where the exact same thing happens every time a story like this crops up, you could go someplace else where you wouldn't be frustrated.
Or you could eat a nice big dick.