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Myth 1:
Windows applications that do not make system calls will run just as fast as on Windows (no more no less).
I will agree on the having to test, but also on Windows, to an extent, you have to test to make sure that the device that says it works on Windows actually does properly.
For some strange reason it is run by the record companies which are the biggest offenders for ripping off the artists. I have not seen one case of the RIAA trying to protect the artists from the record companies. There is also ample proof of them ripping off the consumers, suing on behalf of someone who released their songs for free download, blatant lies and slander. Oddly enough most of the proof of the lies and slander you can find by reading the press releases then going to the studies that they provide on the RIAA site that does not support their press releases.
So my question is with them being so blatantly illegal, why aren't these guys all in jail?
We have received information that you are performing illegal public broadcasts of your music to dogs.
Cease and desist this activity! Dogs have no way of paying for the possibility of hearing our music.
We also expect proper compensation for each song you have already played for dogs. Our legal team has calculated that $2000 is a reasonable sum to ask for each song.
Do not make us take you to court.
As ridiculous as it is, Microsoft has a patent on the "elseif" statement, so every non-Microsoft programming language now has to suffer with just "else if". *slight sarcasm*
Hey guys, guess what we have different laws from you.
We have business laws that require that when you pay money you have to get something in return. IT IS THE LAW! We don't want your completely broken copyright, or patent system.
Furthermore, since the US is so fond of prosecuting US laws that happened on Canadian soil, I think you deserve the same treatment and if any of you lay foot on Canadian soil, you should be prosecuted as the criminals you are.
The sad part being that your lies are best dis proven by the stats you publish. Maybe you should read them.
The CRIA and CMPDA don't seem to understand is that the basis of the business law in Canada requires that when you pay for something, you get something in return. Either a physical form, a license, or a service.
When you buy a product, you have complete ownership of that product to do with what you want. Now the companies can set what the warranty covers, but they can't control what you do with it.
Because of the greed of the Music and Film industries this wasn't going to work for them because they wanted to control public showing. Part of Canadian law covers that in the form of purchasing a license.
This allowed them to license the property for private, or various forms of publish showing. The only problem is you own the license to that performance, not the media it was originally delivered on.
If I were to download a copy of the blu-ray versions of the movies I own on DVD, that's not illegal because media and format are physical things, I own a license to watch that movie already, it doesn't matter how I get the physical form of it.
There is the special case Rental License which is paying for the ability to borrow a license someone else owns for a set period of time. There are quite a few restrictions put on rentals to prevent the abuse that the CRIA and CMPDA have tried over the years.
What the music and video industries have been able to do in other countries is take your money, but give nothing in return. You are paying for the possibility that they might let you listen/watch what you paid for, you have no ownership, license, or rental.
Business law requires that you either get ownership, a license, or a rental license. All business law is predicated on that. Any modifications to those rules is unconstitutional and is a criminal offense. If this rule was somehow overruled, it would invalidate all business law in Canada.
Another interesting aspect of this basis of law is that you also can't get anything for free. To get a product, license, or rental, you have to pay, or do something for it.
This is one of the reasons why a lot of these "free" contest have skill testing questions before you can win the prise, or other forms of "work". In answering the question, you have done some work, to get the prise.
Also many cars have been sold for a cent because you can't just give a friend a car, no matter what shape it's in. Though now, may only apply to BC, a law has been passed that you have to pay at least $50 for a car. The government wants some tax money.
He's comparing upgrading Windows, to upgrading Linux, not switching from Windows XP to Linux.
There is no training cost because you are already familiar with it. Support for hardware is very rarely dropped, so you don't need any new hardware. The newest Linux distos will run about the same speed as the old distro on the same hardware
Each new version of Windows on the other hand you have a sharp drop in performance with each new version. (Excluding Windows 7 that isn't released yet) Requiring new hardware, usually a new computer just to be able to do the same thing you used to do at the same speed you were used to. Also most computers do not have Windows Vista Ultimate installed so the price of the upgrade to that still applies.
That being said, even though your comment was off topic for the thread, yes there is a cost from switching from Windows XP to Linux if you are not familiar with it.
Compatibility mode is pretty much IE7's rendering engine.
It's a slightly upgraded version of IE7's rendering engine. The most obvious visual clue to this is that images are bilinear filtered instead of pixel doubling. One of our QA at work had IE8 installed and there were things breaking in IE8 compatibility mode that worked fine in when tested in IE7.
It should be noted that the site in question did not do any specific browser checks and was designed to work in IE7, Firefox and Safari.
Part of the problem is every Beta of IE8 has had major standards compliance problems in standards compliance mode. How can you change your site to work in IE8 when you don't know what IE8 is eventually going to render like?
Some of the biggest problems I've run into is images being right beside each other and there's a space between them for some strange reason. That was fixed in Beta 2, but there's still the problem where you have two images on different lines separated by a break tag and there's something like a 3 pixel line between the two images vertically.
It sounds like the Release Candidate is now publically available, it wasn't before, maybe they've got the standards compliant mode rendering standards compliantly, but I only have so much time and after testing two betas on XP and the one in Windows 7 and found them to be useless for trying to test, how do I know I'm not wasting my time again on a RC?
What I really loved was when my sound card drivers didn't have the latest DRM crap in them for Vista. I could play PCM WAV files fine, but when I tried to play a MP3 file in WMP it would say "Codec Not Installed".
It took me 2 hours, at the time, to find out that nothing was wrong with my installation, just that MP3 files go through the DRM layer and they wouldn't play because my sound drivers did not support the latest version of Vista's DRM yet.
The memory manager used in the Windows NT series was designed back in 1989 for very different systems than we use now. With Windows 7 they have ripped out that old memory manager and replaced it with something designed for modern computers. One of the reasons why it takes less memory than Vista.
I concur that feelings matter a lot when "measuring" speed. I was working on this one install and it originally updated the status 5 times through out the install. What was really bad was that the first "20%" took most of the time. the install percent was broken down by section.
I was able to figure out about how much of the time each section actually took, using a stop watch, and I changed the percents according to that.
We then did some testing with some of our top client, one with just the percent change, another with having more frequent status updates that better showed how far along it was. Our clients felt that the more frequent status updates was faster. In fact, it was about 20% slower, but I must admit, even to me the more frequent status updates just felt faster.
Bill Gates said they had to release the next version of Windows in 2000. There is no way it would be ready in time, so the Windows team concentrated on the Business APIs for Windows 2000. Parts of the multimedia API were completely missing, like the video capturing API.
Now before you say, but I could capture video in Windows 2000. Yes, you could, but not through the Win32 API because it wasn't written yet.
That being said, even though the Win32 Video API was in XP, there was a major design flaw in the multi-media timer so many companies continued to use the work arounds they'd come up with in Windows 2000.
Windows XP was the finished version of Windows 2000.
Almost, except back then they were saying that in 2006 they would no longer be selling office as a product, instead you would pay for a subscription. Once you stopped paying for the subscription you would no longer be able to use the product.
Also as part of the subscription you would get any "upgrades" they make to the product. To use the product you would have to make sure that all "upgrades" and updates were installed first, thus "eliminating" security problems.
Might be because the RIAA keeps functioning illegally, slanders and purposely lies.
When is the US Department of Justice going to do something about this criminal organization? They are a monopoly that for decades has abused the artists they are supposed to protect and villainized their customers.
To support my accusation, look at the article this it attached to.
Also look at the many claims they make about Canada and Piracy. Just pull up the studies they done that "support" their position. Problem is you will find their own data does not support their claim.(See previous/. articles for more references) They also like to apply US law to Canada. Guess what RIAA and MPAA, US law is not Canadian law.
Suing people with out computers for distributing files.
For some strange reason people are always talking about replacing a technology instead of augmenting it.
I can see some people not want to touch their screen. Personally for some tasks I'd like to be able just to press this big button on the screen. After using my Palm, some of the tasks are just easier, or more fun to just tap on the screen.
That being said, I wouldn't want to get rid of my mouse and keyboard. I don't think touch screen would work to well playing FPS games. I want my experience improved, not replaced.
Your government knew fully well that the Japanese were negotiating with the Soviet Union for a conditional surrender. The US Intelligence was working really well at that time.
The US wanted an unconditional surrender. They wanted to end the war quickly. They wanted to test the bomb on people. They didn't want the massive casualties of land battle.
How much of the above played into the decision to bomb I don't know, and I'm sure there were other things involved. All that being said, it probably saved lives on both sides.
My brother explained to me when you go to University you get educated and when you go to an Institute of Technology you learn.
Basically that education deals with theoretical, where learning deals with practical.
Depending on the field of study, theory and practical can be close to each other, or very far apart. In computers most theory is so out dated that it's either been disproved, or has been found to be impractical.
One of the main reasons for many of the deaths in the twin towers after the first planes hit was because of lack of communication between fire, police and ambulance.
The technology was available at the time and offered to them many times. They refused and continue to refuse to buy system that allow the 3 of them to talk.
In Canada our fire and ambulance services were forced to use an integrated communication system and it is saving many lives that in the past wouldn't have been saved since it allows the closest service to respond and help the person in need.
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Myth 1:
Windows applications that do not make system calls will run just as fast as on Windows (no more no less).
I will agree on the having to test, but also on Windows, to an extent, you have to test to make sure that the device that says it works on Windows actually does properly.
The RIAA purpose is to protect the artists.
For some strange reason it is run by the record companies which are the biggest offenders for ripping off the artists. I have not seen one case of the RIAA trying to protect the artists from the record companies. There is also ample proof of them ripping off the consumers, suing on behalf of someone who released their songs for free download, blatant lies and slander. Oddly enough most of the proof of the lies and slander you can find by reading the press releases then going to the studies that they provide on the RIAA site that does not support their press releases.
So my question is with them being so blatantly illegal, why aren't these guys all in jail?
Dear Rogerborg,
We have received information that you are performing illegal public broadcasts of your music to dogs.
Cease and desist this activity! Dogs have no way of paying for the possibility of hearing our music.
We also expect proper compensation for each song you have already played for dogs. Our legal team has calculated that $2000 is a reasonable sum to ask for each song.
Do not make us take you to court.
As ridiculous as it is, Microsoft has a patent on the "elseif" statement, so every non-Microsoft programming language now has to suffer with just "else if". *slight sarcasm*
Here in Canada we have a Communist party.
In the US it is illegal. We don't have freedom of speech, but it sure seems like we have a lot more than the US that claims to have it.
Hey guys, guess what we have different laws from you.
We have business laws that require that when you pay money you have to get something in return. IT IS THE LAW! We don't want your completely broken copyright, or patent system.
Furthermore, since the US is so fond of prosecuting US laws that happened on Canadian soil, I think you deserve the same treatment and if any of you lay foot on Canadian soil, you should be prosecuted as the criminals you are.
The sad part being that your lies are best dis proven by the stats you publish. Maybe you should read them.
The CRIA and CMPDA don't seem to understand is that the basis of the business law in Canada requires that when you pay for something, you get something in return. Either a physical form, a license, or a service.
When you buy a product, you have complete ownership of that product to do with what you want. Now the companies can set what the warranty covers, but they can't control what you do with it.
Because of the greed of the Music and Film industries this wasn't going to work for them because they wanted to control public showing. Part of Canadian law covers that in the form of purchasing a license.
This allowed them to license the property for private, or various forms of publish showing. The only problem is you own the license to that performance, not the media it was originally delivered on.
If I were to download a copy of the blu-ray versions of the movies I own on DVD, that's not illegal because media and format are physical things, I own a license to watch that movie already, it doesn't matter how I get the physical form of it.
There is the special case Rental License which is paying for the ability to borrow a license someone else owns for a set period of time. There are quite a few restrictions put on rentals to prevent the abuse that the CRIA and CMPDA have tried over the years.
What the music and video industries have been able to do in other countries is take your money, but give nothing in return. You are paying for the possibility that they might let you listen/watch what you paid for, you have no ownership, license, or rental.
Business law requires that you either get ownership, a license, or a rental license. All business law is predicated on that. Any modifications to those rules is unconstitutional and is a criminal offense. If this rule was somehow overruled, it would invalidate all business law in Canada.
Another interesting aspect of this basis of law is that you also can't get anything for free. To get a product, license, or rental, you have to pay, or do something for it.
This is one of the reasons why a lot of these "free" contest have skill testing questions before you can win the prise, or other forms of "work". In answering the question, you have done some work, to get the prise.
Also many cars have been sold for a cent because you can't just give a friend a car, no matter what shape it's in. Though now, may only apply to BC, a law has been passed that you have to pay at least $50 for a car. The government wants some tax money.
Not true anymore. With Windows Vista Microsoft requires that you have the old OS installed first before it will allow you to do a clean install.
There have been ways around this, but Microsoft has been working hard to eliminate these.
He's comparing upgrading Windows, to upgrading Linux, not switching from Windows XP to Linux.
There is no training cost because you are already familiar with it. Support for hardware is very rarely dropped, so you don't need any new hardware. The newest Linux distos will run about the same speed as the old distro on the same hardware
Each new version of Windows on the other hand you have a sharp drop in performance with each new version. (Excluding Windows 7 that isn't released yet) Requiring new hardware, usually a new computer just to be able to do the same thing you used to do at the same speed you were used to. Also most computers do not have Windows Vista Ultimate installed so the price of the upgrade to that still applies.
That being said, even though your comment was off topic for the thread, yes there is a cost from switching from Windows XP to Linux if you are not familiar with it.
They do have their malware removal tool and have free anti-virus software coming out.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/154146/microsoft_drops_onecare_antivirus_product.html
That being said, there will probably still be the Genuine Disadvantage stuff.
What, no vote Cowboyneal in a /. poll?
Windows 2008 Server is the server version of Windows Vista.
I've been playing TF2 and have killed hundreds of virtual representations of real people.
I've even made maps of real places and put cops in them to kill. Hrmm, I must be getting ready for a real killing spree now.
That, or maybe I'm just going to go out and teach people about the scriptures.
Compatibility mode is pretty much IE7's rendering engine.
It's a slightly upgraded version of IE7's rendering engine. The most obvious visual clue to this is that images are bilinear filtered instead of pixel doubling. One of our QA at work had IE8 installed and there were things breaking in IE8 compatibility mode that worked fine in when tested in IE7.
It should be noted that the site in question did not do any specific browser checks and was designed to work in IE7, Firefox and Safari.
Part of the problem is every Beta of IE8 has had major standards compliance problems in standards compliance mode. How can you change your site to work in IE8 when you don't know what IE8 is eventually going to render like?
Some of the biggest problems I've run into is images being right beside each other and there's a space between them for some strange reason. That was fixed in Beta 2, but there's still the problem where you have two images on different lines separated by a break tag and there's something like a 3 pixel line between the two images vertically.
It sounds like the Release Candidate is now publically available, it wasn't before, maybe they've got the standards compliant mode rendering standards compliantly, but I only have so much time and after testing two betas on XP and the one in Windows 7 and found them to be useless for trying to test, how do I know I'm not wasting my time again on a RC?
What I really loved was when my sound card drivers didn't have the latest DRM crap in them for Vista. I could play PCM WAV files fine, but when I tried to play a MP3 file in WMP it would say "Codec Not Installed".
It took me 2 hours, at the time, to find out that nothing was wrong with my installation, just that MP3 files go through the DRM layer and they wouldn't play because my sound drivers did not support the latest version of Vista's DRM yet.
The memory manager used in the Windows NT series was designed back in 1989 for very different systems than we use now. With Windows 7 they have ripped out that old memory manager and replaced it with something designed for modern computers. One of the reasons why it takes less memory than Vista.
I concur that feelings matter a lot when "measuring" speed. I was working on this one install and it originally updated the status 5 times through out the install. What was really bad was that the first "20%" took most of the time. the install percent was broken down by section.
I was able to figure out about how much of the time each section actually took, using a stop watch, and I changed the percents according to that.
We then did some testing with some of our top client, one with just the percent change, another with having more frequent status updates that better showed how far along it was. Our clients felt that the more frequent status updates was faster. In fact, it was about 20% slower, but I must admit, even to me the more frequent status updates just felt faster.
Bill Gates said they had to release the next version of Windows in 2000. There is no way it would be ready in time, so the Windows team concentrated on the Business APIs for Windows 2000. Parts of the multimedia API were completely missing, like the video capturing API.
Now before you say, but I could capture video in Windows 2000. Yes, you could, but not through the Win32 API because it wasn't written yet.
That being said, even though the Win32 Video API was in XP, there was a major design flaw in the multi-media timer so many companies continued to use the work arounds they'd come up with in Windows 2000.
Windows XP was the finished version of Windows 2000.
Almost, except back then they were saying that in 2006 they would no longer be selling office as a product, instead you would pay for a subscription. Once you stopped paying for the subscription you would no longer be able to use the product.
Also as part of the subscription you would get any "upgrades" they make to the product. To use the product you would have to make sure that all "upgrades" and updates were installed first, thus "eliminating" security problems.
How come I'm dying of not surprise?
/. articles for more references) They also like to apply US law to Canada. Guess what RIAA and MPAA, US law is not Canadian law.
Might be because the RIAA keeps functioning illegally, slanders and purposely lies.
When is the US Department of Justice going to do something about this criminal organization? They are a monopoly that for decades has abused the artists they are supposed to protect and villainized their customers.
To support my accusation, look at the article this it attached to.
Also look at the many claims they make about Canada and Piracy. Just pull up the studies they done that "support" their position. Problem is you will find their own data does not support their claim.(See previous
Suing people with out computers for distributing files.
For some strange reason people are always talking about replacing a technology instead of augmenting it.
I can see some people not want to touch their screen. Personally for some tasks I'd like to be able just to press this big button on the screen. After using my Palm, some of the tasks are just easier, or more fun to just tap on the screen.
That being said, I wouldn't want to get rid of my mouse and keyboard. I don't think touch screen would work to well playing FPS games. I want my experience improved, not replaced.
Your government knew fully well that the Japanese were negotiating with the Soviet Union for a conditional surrender. The US Intelligence was working really well at that time.
The US wanted an unconditional surrender. They wanted to end the war quickly. They wanted to test the bomb on people. They didn't want the massive casualties of land battle.
How much of the above played into the decision to bomb I don't know, and I'm sure there were other things involved. All that being said, it probably saved lives on both sides.
My brother explained to me when you go to University you get educated and when you go to an Institute of Technology you learn.
Basically that education deals with theoretical, where learning deals with practical.
Depending on the field of study, theory and practical can be close to each other, or very far apart. In computers most theory is so out dated that it's either been disproved, or has been found to be impractical.
One of the main reasons for many of the deaths in the twin towers after the first planes hit was because of lack of communication between fire, police and ambulance.
The technology was available at the time and offered to them many times. They refused and continue to refuse to buy system that allow the 3 of them to talk.
In Canada our fire and ambulance services were forced to use an integrated communication system and it is saving many lives that in the past wouldn't have been saved since it allows the closest service to respond and help the person in need.