They also have to meet development schedules or else their projects aren't going to be so profitable. Often resulting in rather buggy first releases and loads of patches.
That's what is good and bad about the Open Source community, plenty of stuff going on and different ideas being tried which can be good. But there needs to be a point where things meet up and all work together well. Gnome and KDE really do need to merge at some point if systems that run those desktops are to have a good selection of apps with a fairly uniform look and feel.
Look at the word processors before Word, Word Perfect and Wordstar were popular. Wordstar was one of the most horrible word processors you could design. Everything used cryptic keypresses which they changed in a later version to more sensible ones annoying all their customers in the process.
Both word perfect and wordstar were also very late in moving to Windows, in fact I don't recall wordstar even making it.
Two fairly horrible to use pieces of sofware, certainly very hard to adapt to foreign languages too.
That's not really true, you have to take into account the different cultures from around the world when designing software. Not everyone reads left to right or top to bottom. Most people can only memorise approx 6.5 digits, can only tolerate a tree with a few levels etc...
Not everyone has good colour vision, not everyone is good with double clicking and so on..
Shortcuts should always be well thought out, experienced used should be considered as they can improve their productivity vastly with good shortcuts.
There used to be plenty of database, spreadsheets and word processors before Microsoft Office appeared. Why do you think their products have taken market share so fast? sure they have been bundled but that doesn't explain it entirely. If their design was poor then people wouldn't clone their ideas (see Star and Open Office, they look quite similar).
I'm no Microsoft fan but you have to admit they know how to design pretty good interfaces on the whole.
It's all very well thinking of the technical considerations (and there's quite a lot to consider), but don't forget to consider users and the usability of the desktop. Why do people use Microsoft products? because they're either forced to (at work) or they they find them easy to use (at home). Microsoft spends a lot of time ensuring their products are very usable and open source desktops need to do the same. Usability labs, heuristic evaluation etc.. all should be used (yes I am studying HCI before you ask).
I'm pretty sure this new plane with rely a lot on the use of modern technology, computers stabilising the plane etc... Don't ask me why but I'm always a bit nervous of large machines or vehicles that rely heavily on computers and computer software. It's not so bad if the ECU in your car fails, you aren't going to fall out of the sky. Anyway it will be an impressive feat if they can produce this plane, once again it will be a proof of what the UK can achieve in partnership with others.
DVD has the technology to allow you to watch the original cut of the film or the special edition yet Lucas will just say that the original cut wasn't his original vision for the film. Yeah right, the first film was nearly chopped around and turned into a TV series. The original Star Wars release doesn't have the Episode IV: A New Hope at the start either, that was slipped in later. The original versions need to be seen in the context of when they were made.
1. Wait for something to become popular 2. Produce an alternative 3. Watch it fail 4. Produce alternative v2 5. See it suceed 6. PROFIT!
Can't they let anyone develop a nice bit of software? why do they have to kill off anyone that produces cool stuff for their browser and OS, it's like they're short of ideas or something.
Bluetooth isn't really adding a lot to our lives at this stage, it's more of a replacement for infrared links and hotsync cables.
Of course once TVs VCRs etc.. start supporting it then we'll see the true advantage of it. Programming your VCR from a PDA, turning the oven off with your laptop and so on.
I bet they wish they hadn't sold all that IPnnow. But then it would just have tempted them into doing what SCO are doing right now (making it appear that their distro is the only legal one).
Depends how it is implemented, if the firewall is just a task running then yes, a trojan can kill that task. If you build it into the kernel then it's another matter, still technically possible to disarm it using registry tweaks etc.. though.
Yes, there was once a time when Bill did clever things with code. But he doesn't have a technical role at the company.
Microsoft are in a tricky situation regarding security. If they ship Windows with a really good firewall then the makers of firewall software will be annoyed. Same goes for anti-virus etc...
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Maybe banner adverts will be used?
Thing is you've bought their product, why should you have to buy drivers for it?
But then you have to pay for the recording costs, promotional costs, music videos, artist royalty, recording company profits etc.............
When you buy anything you're not just paying material costs, you have to pay for R&D, design etc...
They also have to meet development schedules or else their projects aren't going to be so profitable. Often resulting in rather buggy first releases and loads of patches.
That's what is good and bad about the Open Source community, plenty of stuff going on and different ideas being tried which can be good. But there needs to be a point where things meet up and all work together well. Gnome and KDE really do need to merge at some point if systems that run those desktops are to have a good selection of apps with a fairly uniform look and feel.
Development tools are generally more quirky since they are used by developers who understand more about computers.
Why focus primarily on Windows? sure it's a large chunk of their market but Office is one of their best products if you can forgive Clippy.
Look at the word processors before Word, Word Perfect and Wordstar were popular. Wordstar was one of the most horrible word processors you could design. Everything used cryptic keypresses which they changed in a later version to more sensible ones annoying all their customers in the process.
Both word perfect and wordstar were also very late in moving to Windows, in fact I don't recall wordstar even making it.
Two fairly horrible to use pieces of sofware, certainly very hard to adapt to foreign languages too.
I've been coding and programming GUI stuff for about 10 years now.
That's not really true, you have to take into account the different cultures from around the world when designing software. Not everyone reads left to right or top to bottom. Most people can only memorise approx 6.5 digits, can only tolerate a tree with a few levels etc...
Not everyone has good colour vision, not everyone is good with double clicking and so on..
Shortcuts should always be well thought out, experienced used should be considered as they can improve their productivity vastly with good shortcuts.
There used to be plenty of database, spreadsheets and word processors before Microsoft Office appeared. Why do you think their products have taken market share so fast? sure they have been bundled but that doesn't explain it entirely. If their design was poor then people wouldn't clone their ideas (see Star and Open Office, they look quite similar).
I'm no Microsoft fan but you have to admit they know how to design pretty good interfaces on the whole.
How about electrical interference from cell phones, laptops etc.... all of these may cause electronics and on-board computers some problems.
It's all very well thinking of the technical considerations (and there's quite a lot to consider), but don't forget to consider users and the usability of the desktop. Why do people use Microsoft products? because they're either forced to (at work) or they they find them easy to use (at home). Microsoft spends a lot of time ensuring their products are very usable and open source desktops need to do the same. Usability labs, heuristic evaluation etc.. all should be used (yes I am studying HCI before you ask).
I'm pretty sure this new plane with rely a lot on the use of modern technology, computers stabilising the plane etc... Don't ask me why but I'm always a bit nervous of large machines or vehicles that rely heavily on computers and computer software. It's not so bad if the ECU in your car fails, you aren't going to fall out of the sky. Anyway it will be an impressive feat if they can produce this plane, once again it will be a proof of what the UK can achieve in partnership with others.
But then there's the fact that explorer now requires the IE HTML engine. I doubt you can return XP back to the Win95/NT style interface.
Maybe the original scenes should be on the disc, at least then you might be able to make a playlist.
I'd like to see you revise that when 2.6 is in common use. 2.4 is ok, but 2.6 is outstanding.
DVD has the technology to allow you to watch the original cut of the film or the special edition yet Lucas will just say that the original cut wasn't his original vision for the film. Yeah right, the first film was nearly chopped around and turned into a TV series. The original Star Wars release doesn't have the Episode IV: A New Hope at the start either, that was slipped in later. The original versions need to be seen in the context of when they were made.
Microsofts approach
1. Wait for something to become popular
2. Produce an alternative
3. Watch it fail
4. Produce alternative v2
5. See it suceed
6. PROFIT!
Can't they let anyone develop a nice bit of software? why do they have to kill off anyone that produces cool stuff for their browser and OS, it's like they're short of ideas or something.
Bluetooth isn't really adding a lot to our lives at this stage, it's more of a replacement for infrared links and hotsync cables.
Of course once TVs VCRs etc.. start supporting it then we'll see the true advantage of it. Programming your VCR from a PDA, turning the oven off with your laptop and so on.
Simple to use search engine for a simple to use OS. Not that rate any of them that highly.
I bet they wish they hadn't sold all that IPnnow. But then it would just have tempted them into doing what SCO are doing right now (making it appear that their distro is the only legal one).
You have to sign up to an ISP package to get free calls.
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I remember hearing that there's a pub in St Albans which offers WiFi access. Ok just found the info:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/28381.h
Anyway, if you can swallow your pride then use AOL, they have a long trial period in their latest pack, free calls included.
Of course, Microsoft Windblows :)
Depends how it is implemented, if the firewall is just a task running then yes, a trojan can kill that task. If you build it into the kernel then it's another matter, still technically possible to disarm it using registry tweaks etc.. though.
Yes, there was once a time when Bill did clever things with code. But he doesn't have a technical role at the company.
Microsoft are in a tricky situation regarding security. If they ship Windows with a really good firewall then the makers of firewall software will be annoyed. Same goes for anti-virus etc...