I now hold no secrets from my wife, but I sure as hell do not give her my passwords nor does she give me mine.
I couldn't resist, does that make sense to you? You don't give her yours, and she doesn't give you yours. Isn't that redundant? How can she if you don't share it with her. If you don't have any secrets doesn't that means she knows what your passwords are?
Secret
Adjective:
Not known or seen or not meant to be known or seen by others: "a secret plan".
Am currently installing PC-BSD 9 on ZFS. The installer has been slick, so far, with simple and reasonable choices to select from, and with Knoppix-like magic in hardware detection. It is taking forever, but then I seem to recall every BSD install I've ever done taking forever as well...and the box itself isn't particularly fast by today's measures (Athlon XP 1800, 1.5g RAM). (I strongly suspect it will get faster with a bit of ZFS tweaking and maybe a lighter kernel.)
A good rule to follow with ZFS is 2GB RAM for every 1TB in the pool. More information here
Not to get in the way of a good froth, but, the turn of the century was 12 years ago. Unless your centuries have more than 100 years, then my all means carry on!
You do understand those were used before blogs nor are they exclusive to blogs? You may be shocked to discover things like pages, bookmarks, wallpaper held meaning before you discovered blogs as well. How is it working out telling people to do things on the internet?
You've either ignored or missed that I have one machine running Win 7 64 bit, for the sole reason that an application requires more the 4 GB memory.
I did miss it, oops! I was working up a good froth too! While some trickery permits windows to support 3gigs, you may be surprised to discover that applications on Windows XP 32bit are limited to 2gigs per process*. In reality besides specialized programs, games are the only thing which average users run that could come remotely close to that.
Limits on memory and address space vary by platform, operating system, and by whether the IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE value of the LOADED_IMAGE structure and 4-gigabyte tuning (4GT) are in use. IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE is set or cleared by using the/LARGEADDRESSAWARE linker option.
Linker in this case means it needs to be compiled in, so it's not standard.
As far as Macbooks at work go, my impression is that the users are pretty much on their own on support, but they ask for them anyway. Shrug. I'm not an Apple guy; some things I observe without understanding.
I wouldn't mind a machine to play around with but the experience is riddled with change. The whole copy paste thing screws up my muscle memory (cmd + v instead of ctrl+v) takes some getting used to and when I'm working on something engrossing, details like that really slow me down. Good luck on your migration, I hope it's smooth.
If the software worked in 2008, why wouldn't it now?... What, is CS3 suddenly going to stop working on XP merely because XP got older?
It's not that its older, it's that while you're staying stationary things are changing around you. A designer sends you a CS5 file (this is already not the most current version) which uses features not present in CS3, it's Friday 10 'til 5 and you have changes you need to make what do you do now?
CS5 came out in 2010, CS5.5 is already out, and CS6 is on it's way, that's a 12-18 month upgrade cycle which should be factored into your business model if you like to stay competitive.
Yes, documents may be saved for older versions, but that isn't always an option. CS3 is a workhorse, one I've spent a lot of time using and was very reluctant to jump from (I kept it installed side by side CS5 until I was very comfortable, you're most productive with the tools you're most familiar with, and CS4 "felt" bloated), but it's getting long in the tooth. By far my biggest gripe when working on projects with other designers is assets. Specifically fonts. However, this is an organizational gripe not something unique to the tools in question.
I did not. I said Microsoft is "trying" to force upgrades, and for the most part it isn't working.
In both of your posts you use the word forces. Regardless if you include trying, is it still being forced? As far as it not working, having over 75%
of the listed traffic on the low end, doesn't seem like a failure to me. Hell, there was an article where IE6 usage drops below 1% in the US. Change is happening.
They're doing more with their computers, have more invested in them, and the pain to upgrade is significantly more
So somehow shitcanning all of that is less traumatic (you're staunchly advocating a platform shift as less hassle, have you seen how people get lost when Office changes?)? If these things are so precious then they should be backed up. How about this easy setup: store work files on a network share, or another HD. Base operating system lives by itself.
...and I absolutely disagree that the longer you delay the worse upgrades are. Had I upgraded every time Microsoft craps out another version, I'd have been running Vista for almost three years. (shudder) I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
If they weren't we wouldn't be having this discussion about you needing to get real work done. Your company hasn't even made a 64bit switch. Instead your company is dumping an entire platform, which means software, policies, users all need to be retooled. If switching platforms was less of a pain, why has your company only now decided to do it instead of 2 operating system releases ago (Apple has had 3 releases in that time period)? While I understand your sentiments about Vista as of SP1 many things were addressed, most of the lamenting was due to lack of 3rd party drivers, arguably due to Microsoft changing things late in the game.
I think the fundamental misunderstanding is that we're approaching this from two different points: I see operating systems as a way to run applications that I need to run. You appear to see operating systems as an end in themselves.
I have applications which I need to run and they require 64bit Windows. My company made this jump awhile ago (5 years). Your legacy requirements, will those be present with Apple? Does your software or hardware work with it? Hypothetically if I decided to go to Apple (as you guys are doing) we'd have to re-buy all of the tools I use (this is the key factor) at great expense, as well as new hardware at a premium, and try and move what files we could over, and then modify our workflow. If we don't do that and stick with Windows 8 (again hypothetically) we only have to move our files. You say that's more traumatic, I disagree. =)
Since when is a bunch of upgrades, some more painful than others, somehow better than a forklift replacement every 10-12 years?
Depending if you need to get some work done and you are unable to do it with legacy software. Browser testing, CG, 64bit software development, Video Processing are examples where your 10-12 year model wouldn't work not only because of legacy software issues. You NEED a 64bit OS to run more and more things. If you do that kind of work you would have already had to upgrade. Windows XP 64 was largely overlooked due to poor driver support (and is no longer available as of July 2005). The 64bit requirement in my case is not Microsoft forcing anything upon me, it's a matter of I need something that is supported and runs my software. You won't get 10-12 years out of Apple machines, divide that by 3. Upgrades aren't as crappy as you make them out to be, seems like a lot of your headache are based around yo
You said Microsoft "forces" upgrades yet your company is going to Apple whose obsolescence cycle is 2-3x faster than that of the platform you're coming from. Then you say you don't want to upgrade to the "new" platform since you have work to do. So what is your point?
Who said anything about Linux? You think 2012 is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop? I don't.
No. I said nothing of the sort. I listed the three mainstream platforms which businesses use, so please tell me which platforms are viable for business and then let me proceed to say "So you think this is the year of the _____ desktop?" It has for the last 20+ years been the year of the Windows desktop.
Mind you, I'm not an Apple fan -- I was offered an Apple laptop and an iPad, and turned them down. I'm still on Windows. XP. And I don't really care to upgrade, because I need to get work done.
If you look at my comment history I'm not a "fan" either. The longer you delay the worse upgrades are, especially for Apple.
But personally, (this might be a hint) I don't think the number of upgrades is nearly as important as how traumatic individual upgrades are.
My point is that the platform you're going to has a much higher churn rate. How is that upgrade path for the G4 looking? "Oh I need to get a new machine? and purchase a new version of my XYZ software?"
When I've needed to create animated gifs I've found this very helpful in a pinch. Depending on what you're doing (say making previews of videos on a media site) ffmpeg, and mplayer are extremely useful. Example. Good luck!
Bingo. But there's an ugly side to trying to force migration -- you can't always control to what product businesses will migrate.
If these businesses didn't have something that required them running windows they would've already done so, no? For many businesses it comes down to a money thing. What else are they going to do? Linux on the desktop? You said yourself about switching "...from something that works to something else that we're not sure works" so that rules out Linux and Apple. Apple is not cheaper. So what options do you have?
Does Microsoft truly think that trying to FORCE the remaining employees off XP will somehow magically make them all move to Windows 7? Is it something in the Redmond water system that causes such questionable judgement?
"it is true that Apple continues to support the previous version of Mac OS X (though not iOS) with security updates. So, during the reign of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple will release security updates for 10.6 Snow Leopard, though not for 10.5 Leopard or anything earlier."
Apple also changed hardware platforms, what about all those people on PowerPC G3 and G4s and new software developed for Intel only? Remind me who has the more questionable judgement? What about browser standards? Less IE6 (and IE7, IE8...) the better for everyone.
What Microsoft really needs is something else to sell. Something that people actually want to buy. Instead of trying to force us away from something that works to something else that we're not sure works. In what universe is that considered a winning move?
Companies who make software are doing that for them, specifically games. Adobe CS5 has two applications which are 64bit only, Adobe Premiere and After Effects. Adobe Photoshop has 32bit and 64bit versions but CS5 users running on 64-bit native should realize noticeably greater gains in performance Besides the fact that XP is hacked to swiss cheese Windows Vista/Windows7 driver security models should be a reason alone. It's pretty nice to be able to install drivers without a reboot or not having say a graphics driver crash and bring your whole system down. You seem to forget that when XP came out it was considered a bloated pig compared to Win98 and Win2k due to most people not having enough RAM (2001 most machines had maybe 128megs, 256 was upper end.) Check out the comments:
I was quite happy with WinXP... fast user switching is way cool, however when working in Excel XP, the thing is dog slow... I have a 400k workbook, and it takes forever to save changes...
I'll put 2k back on, and test the speed increase..
btw, the machine is a 1.4 TBird, gig of CAS 2, 10k quantums on a 29160, GF3... Anything in Office should hardly break a sweat, funny thing too is that the ram usage peaked at like 180 megs... crazy, eh?
I liked the review, lots of pretty graphs;)
we still run NT4 here at the office... only run office apps, on 550 K7's w/256 megs..
Did you even read the link? They're still supporting it, although not in the current form, ONLY now that there is a large stink about it. Did they not read what they were endorsing before? How about withdrawing support entirely? Too many of these companies involved and simply playing lip service. It's like saying "We promise to do our best!" promises, especially from a corporation, are not legally binding. So how is this backing off support if they want to work on it?
If you want to save as much lives as you can while preventing overpopulation, we westerners should be first ones to go
Why do you ask others to do something you do not? Nothing is stopping you from killing yourself for the greater good. BTW Is Japan, China, or India in the West now? Population in the West isn't growing at alarming rates. We have enough food in the world for everyone, it's a distribution issue. Africa has lots of natural resources... what is the problem there? Oh it's the fucking people who live there like it's a giant crab bucket!
Then you probably also understand that it is the US and Europe that uses most of the resources on our planet.
How many people does Europe and the US feed? Why aren't these countries supporting themselves if they're such great places to live? Do you know what the US has done for wheat production? Norman Borlaug. Please don't mistake this for patriotism.
People from other places on Earth use far fewer resources per one person than we do.
Yeah because they're stuck in the dark ages? Let's rewind western civilization to the point where these other countries are at and see what the usage is like! So far every country which advances seems to do the same thing (minus the R&D expenditures) .
This won't deter people, look at the popularity of URL shortening services for a reference. It's a tool and it has a potential for misuse. People are assholes, story at 11.
We all know the real answers, and that is "Bob Parsons is wealthy. Bob Parsons wanted to murder a fucking elephant because he's a fucking psychopath and the thought of killing something gets him hard."
murder/mrdr/
Noun:
The unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
Verb:
Kill (someone) unlawfully and with premeditation.
Remind me how they have a monopoly on search and browsers again? If you choose to use their services and install their browser because it's a better product it doesn't make Google a monopoly. If I'm following your logic correctly then does McDonalds have a monopoly on hamburgers?
If MSFT-Bing wasn't around to snap at GOOG's heels, the world's internet advertising agency would love to make Firefox die.
The don't make money exclusively through Chrome. Regardless of which browser you use they've got advertising services which work across them all (Gmail/Google Search/Docs etc.) DoubleClick and Ad Sense come to mind.
If most traffic went through Chrome, they could finally get serious with tracking.
More serious than having an email account which can be attached to your searches to associate your profile info with? What about Google Analytics and other client side scripts? You are aware that you can mitigate some of these risks with a VPN, disabling JavaScript, or simply not using their services?
There'd be nowhere else to go.
What world do you live in where there are only two browsers?
Greetings and thanks for pointing out the mistake! The subtleties of language are maddening at times, especially getting unicode through slashdot. Happy Holidays!
What you were seeing is that if it weren't the law, companies would still be allowed to do it.
I wasn't "seeing" anything. What is so challenging about this? I reply to a comment about someone's opinion (represented as fact) that children have an inalienable right to use services on the internet. I disagree. You do not have a right to use someone's private property. If that's the case, you'll have no problem with letting me login to your email or (if you're a company) allow me access to whatever services you offer, no matter what! After all, it's my inalienable right as a child of the internet.
Corporations (which we're discussing) see things as what is legal and what isn't, not right or wrong. Go talk to an accountant sometime, cheers!
Yes, children have rights, independently of being adults and having the right to vote.
Thanks for taking that out of context. So according to the GP children have a right to use any and all services on the internet no matter what, like it's an inalienable right! HAH!
A service provider is not allowed to do arbitrary age discrimination.
When I was ten (1997), I had an account on virtually all website/email services that were big (relatively) at the time. There was never question of deleting my account because I was a kid.
Probably because they didn't know you were a kid? The only time this comes up is when there are problems, and much of this is automated now. Yay for progress.
Stripping kids of the right to use that kind of service is the same as stripping kids from having the right to use the Internet.
Do children have rights? I thought most of those came when you were of age to vote and serve one's country, able to sign a contract etc. To be clear I'm not a fan of these laws or requirements but what right is it to use a service offered by a private party, especially when they're a minor? What right is it to violate that private party's terms of service without consequence?
As an exercise: when you're at someone's home you (hopefully) observe their rules and customs. If they ask you to remove your shoes and you refuse, insisting it's your right to wear shoes, you don't have a right to be in that person's home if they ask you to leave. Obviously you don't care but most people will if they want to be welcome back.
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Menus are compact, the keyboard shortcut is written right on the menu item, so it teaches you the fast interface. The only people a ribbon helps are new users.
Which apparently the world is full of. FAQs were created to address common questions and are deployed across websites, software, and even helpdesks to address common issues much like what the Ribbon does. Less basic questions are a good thing for everyone. If you're as proficient as you state you have (hopefully) realized you are able to continue using the same familiar keyboard shortcuts. New users win, power users win. I fail to see the challenge here.
I'd argue that a user interface that requires you to Google how to make it useful is exactly the kind of condescension this thread is about.
There is a help system built in which can address questions a user may have and apparently that wasn't used either. It has videos and text instruction. While typing in "hide ribbon" which someone would by double clicking (or even right clicking! are you going to argue most users don't do either of these things too - I see people double clicking hyperlinks all the time) customizing the ribbon is detailed as well as how to restore the classic menu (since I can't link you to the 2010 help system). Let me guess tl;dr? I don't even use office daily and yet I know these things. What does that say about you? At some point you need to become proficient with the tools you use on a daily basis, it's not that hard and if it is why don't you take some initiative and change that? It's not 1986 anymore and office computer proficiency is an essential skill for an increasing majority of paid professions at some point.
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I'm glad you're happy and have discovered a useful feature, however, it's apparently taken you about 5 years to discover this? I know progress happen slowly but that's ridiculous. "This feature sure does irritate me, if only there was some way to change it, oh well!" ~1500 days after the introduction of the ribbon a random slashdot post details a solution.
Seriously though, did you just start using Office or did you buy this/. account? I'll cut you some slack then. We live in the information age and there is frankly no excuse with Google being integrated into nearly every browser (so about 1 click away) why you haven't taken some initiative to become proficient with tools you use. Your sig hints that you're aware of Google.
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I now hold no secrets from my wife, but I sure as hell do not give her my passwords nor does she give me mine.
I couldn't resist, does that make sense to you? You don't give her yours, and she doesn't give you yours. Isn't that redundant? How can she if you don't share it with her. If you don't have any secrets doesn't that means she knows what your passwords are?
Secret
Adjective:
Not known or seen or not meant to be known or seen by others: "a secret plan".
Good morning btw, have some coffee, it helps!
Guess that's why more are retiring with 6 figure salaries, six-figure pensions soar for California school administrators.
Am currently installing PC-BSD 9 on ZFS. The installer has been slick, so far, with simple and reasonable choices to select from, and with Knoppix-like magic in hardware detection. It is taking forever, but then I seem to recall every BSD install I've ever done taking forever as well...and the box itself isn't particularly fast by today's measures (Athlon XP 1800, 1.5g RAM). (I strongly suspect it will get faster with a bit of ZFS tweaking and maybe a lighter kernel.)
A good rule to follow with ZFS is 2GB RAM for every 1TB in the pool. More information here
Not to get in the way of a good froth, but, the turn of the century was 12 years ago. Unless your centuries have more than 100 years, then my all means carry on!
You do understand those were used before blogs nor are they exclusive to blogs? You may be shocked to discover things like pages, bookmarks, wallpaper held meaning before you discovered blogs as well. How is it working out telling people to do things on the internet?
You've either ignored or missed that I have one machine running Win 7 64 bit, for the sole reason that an application requires more the 4 GB memory.
I did miss it, oops! I was working up a good froth too! While some trickery permits windows to support 3gigs, you may be surprised to discover that applications on Windows XP 32bit are limited to 2gigs per process*. In reality besides specialized programs, games are the only thing which average users run that could come remotely close to that.
Memory Limits for Windows Releases says:
Limits on memory and address space vary by platform, operating system, and by whether the IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE value of the LOADED_IMAGE structure and 4-gigabyte tuning (4GT) are in use. IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE is set or cleared by using the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE linker option.
Linker in this case means it needs to be compiled in, so it's not standard.
As far as Macbooks at work go, my impression is that the users are pretty much on their own on support, but they ask for them anyway. Shrug. I'm not an Apple guy; some things I observe without understanding.
I wouldn't mind a machine to play around with but the experience is riddled with change. The whole copy paste thing screws up my muscle memory (cmd + v instead of ctrl+v) takes some getting used to and when I'm working on something engrossing, details like that really slow me down. Good luck on your migration, I hope it's smooth.
If the software worked in 2008, why wouldn't it now? ... What, is CS3 suddenly going to stop working on XP merely because XP got older?
It's not that its older, it's that while you're staying stationary things are changing around you. A designer sends you a CS5 file (this is already not the most current version) which uses features not present in CS3, it's Friday 10 'til 5 and you have changes you need to make what do you do now?
CS5 came out in 2010, CS5.5 is already out, and CS6 is on it's way, that's a 12-18 month upgrade cycle which should be factored into your business model if you like to stay competitive.
Yes, documents may be saved for older versions, but that isn't always an option. CS3 is a workhorse, one I've spent a lot of time using and was very reluctant to jump from (I kept it installed side by side CS5 until I was very comfortable, you're most productive with the tools you're most familiar with, and CS4 "felt" bloated), but it's getting long in the tooth. By far my biggest gripe when working on projects with other designers is assets. Specifically fonts. However, this is an organizational gripe not something unique to the tools in question.
I did not. I said Microsoft is "trying" to force upgrades, and for the most part it isn't working.
In both of your posts you use the word forces. Regardless if you include trying, is it still being forced? As far as it not working, having over 75% of the listed traffic on the low end, doesn't seem like a failure to me. Hell, there was an article where IE6 usage drops below 1% in the US. Change is happening.
They're doing more with their computers, have more invested in them, and the pain to upgrade is significantly more
So somehow shitcanning all of that is less traumatic (you're staunchly advocating a platform shift as less hassle, have you seen how people get lost when Office changes?)? If these things are so precious then they should be backed up. How about this easy setup: store work files on a network share, or another HD. Base operating system lives by itself.
...and I absolutely disagree that the longer you delay the worse upgrades are. Had I upgraded every time Microsoft craps out another version, I'd have been running Vista for almost three years. (shudder) I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
If they weren't we wouldn't be having this discussion about you needing to get real work done. Your company hasn't even made a 64bit switch. Instead your company is dumping an entire platform, which means software, policies, users all need to be retooled. If switching platforms was less of a pain, why has your company only now decided to do it instead of 2 operating system releases ago (Apple has had 3 releases in that time period)? While I understand your sentiments about Vista as of SP1 many things were addressed, most of the lamenting was due to lack of 3rd party drivers, arguably due to Microsoft changing things late in the game.
I think the fundamental misunderstanding is that we're approaching this from two different points: I see operating systems as a way to run applications that I need to run. You appear to see operating systems as an end in themselves.
I have applications which I need to run and they require 64bit Windows. My company made this jump awhile ago (5 years). Your legacy requirements, will those be present with Apple? Does your software or hardware work with it? Hypothetically if I decided to go to Apple (as you guys are doing) we'd have to re-buy all of the tools I use (this is the key factor) at great expense, as well as new hardware at a premium, and try and move what files we could over, and then modify our workflow. If we don't do that and stick with Windows 8 (again hypothetically) we only have to move our files. You say that's more traumatic, I disagree. =)
Since when is a bunch of upgrades, some more painful than others, somehow better than a forklift replacement every 10-12 years?
Depending if you need to get some work done and you are unable to do it with legacy software. Browser testing, CG, 64bit software development, Video Processing are examples where your 10-12 year model wouldn't work not only because of legacy software issues. You NEED a 64bit OS to run more and more things. If you do that kind of work you would have already had to upgrade. Windows XP 64 was largely overlooked due to poor driver support (and is no longer available as of July 2005). The 64bit requirement in my case is not Microsoft forcing anything upon me, it's a matter of I need something that is supported and runs my software. You won't get 10-12 years out of Apple machines, divide that by 3. Upgrades aren't as crappy as you make them out to be, seems like a lot of your headache are based around yo
Who said anything about Linux? You think 2012 is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop? I don't.
No. I said nothing of the sort. I listed the three mainstream platforms which businesses use, so please tell me which platforms are viable for business and then let me proceed to say "So you think this is the year of the _____ desktop?" It has for the last 20+ years been the year of the Windows desktop.
Mind you, I'm not an Apple fan -- I was offered an Apple laptop and an iPad, and turned them down. I'm still on Windows. XP. And I don't really care to upgrade, because I need to get work done.
If you look at my comment history I'm not a "fan" either. The longer you delay the worse upgrades are, especially for Apple.
But personally, (this might be a hint) I don't think the number of upgrades is nearly as important as how traumatic individual upgrades are.
My point is that the platform you're going to has a much higher churn rate. How is that upgrade path for the G4 looking? "Oh I need to get a new machine? and purchase a new version of my XYZ software?"
When I've needed to create animated gifs I've found this very helpful in a pinch. Depending on what you're doing (say making previews of videos on a media site) ffmpeg, and mplayer are extremely useful. Example. Good luck!
Bingo. But there's an ugly side to trying to force migration -- you can't always control to what product businesses will migrate.
If these businesses didn't have something that required them running windows they would've already done so, no? For many businesses it comes down to a money thing. What else are they going to do? Linux on the desktop? You said yourself about switching "...from something that works to something else that we're not sure works" so that rules out Linux and Apple. Apple is not cheaper. So what options do you have?
Does Microsoft truly think that trying to FORCE the remaining employees off XP will somehow magically make them all move to Windows 7? Is it something in the Redmond water system that causes such questionable judgement?
Apple seems to do pretty well doing just that. You get about 2-3 years out of a platform before having to upgrade to run the newest stuff on average. From the article:
"it is true that Apple continues to support the previous version of Mac OS X (though not iOS) with security updates. So, during the reign of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple will release security updates for 10.6 Snow Leopard, though not for 10.5 Leopard or anything earlier."
10.5 was released in October 2007 and is now unsupported, unlike Windows XP which was released in 2001.
Apple also changed hardware platforms, what about all those people on PowerPC G3 and G4s and new software developed for Intel only? Remind me who has the more questionable judgement? What about browser standards? Less IE6 (and IE7, IE8...) the better for everyone.
What Microsoft really needs is something else to sell. Something that people actually want to buy. Instead of trying to force us away from something that works to something else that we're not sure works. In what universe is that considered a winning move?
Companies who make software are doing that for them, specifically games. Adobe CS5 has two applications which are 64bit only, Adobe Premiere and After Effects. Adobe Photoshop has 32bit and 64bit versions but CS5 users running on 64-bit native should realize noticeably greater gains in performance Besides the fact that XP is hacked to swiss cheese Windows Vista/Windows7 driver security models should be a reason alone. It's pretty nice to be able to install drivers without a reboot or not having say a graphics driver crash and bring your whole system down. You seem to forget that when XP came out it was considered a bloated pig compared to Win98 and Win2k due to most people not having enough RAM (2001 most machines had maybe 128megs, 256 was upper end.) Check out the comments:
I was quite happy with WinXP... fast user switching is way cool, however when working in Excel XP, the thing is dog slow... I have a 400k workbook, and it takes forever to save changes...
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I'll put 2k back on, and test the speed increase..
btw, the machine is a 1.4 TBird, gig of CAS 2, 10k quantums on a 29160, GF3... Anything in Office should hardly break a sweat, funny thing too is that the ram usage peaked at like 180 megs... crazy, eh?
I liked the review, lots of pretty graphs
we still run NT4 here at the office... only run office apps, on 550 K7's w/256 megs..
The 25 Year Old UNIX Bug.
BSA stands ready to work with Chairman Smith and his colleagues on the Judiciary Committee to resolve these issues.
Did you even read the link? They're still supporting it, although not in the current form, ONLY now that there is a large stink about it. Did they not read what they were endorsing before? How about withdrawing support entirely? Too many of these companies involved and simply playing lip service. It's like saying "We promise to do our best!" promises, especially from a corporation, are not legally binding. So how is this backing off support if they want to work on it?
If you want to save as much lives as you can while preventing overpopulation, we westerners should be first ones to go
Why do you ask others to do something you do not? Nothing is stopping you from killing yourself for the greater good. BTW Is Japan, China, or India in the West now? Population in the West isn't growing at alarming rates. We have enough food in the world for everyone, it's a distribution issue. Africa has lots of natural resources... what is the problem there? Oh it's the fucking people who live there like it's a giant crab bucket!
Then you probably also understand that it is the US and Europe that uses most of the resources on our planet.
How many people does Europe and the US feed? Why aren't these countries supporting themselves if they're such great places to live? Do you know what the US has done for wheat production? Norman Borlaug. Please don't mistake this for patriotism.
People from other places on Earth use far fewer resources per one person than we do.
Yeah because they're stuck in the dark ages? Let's rewind western civilization to the point where these other countries are at and see what the usage is like! So far every country which advances seems to do the same thing (minus the R&D expenditures) .
This won't deter people, look at the popularity of URL shortening services for a reference. It's a tool and it has a potential for misuse. People are assholes, story at 11.
We all know the real answers, and that is "Bob Parsons is wealthy. Bob Parsons wanted to murder a fucking elephant because he's a fucking psychopath and the thought of killing something gets him hard."
murder/mrdr/
Noun:
The unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
Verb:
Kill (someone) unlawfully and with premeditation.
Elephants are people now?
Remind me how they have a monopoly on search and browsers again? If you choose to use their services and install their browser because it's a better product it doesn't make Google a monopoly. If I'm following your logic correctly then does McDonalds have a monopoly on hamburgers?
If MSFT-Bing wasn't around to snap at GOOG's heels, the world's internet advertising agency would love to make Firefox die.
The don't make money exclusively through Chrome. Regardless of which browser you use they've got advertising services which work across them all (Gmail/Google Search/Docs etc.) DoubleClick and Ad Sense come to mind.
If most traffic went through Chrome, they could finally get serious with tracking.
More serious than having an email account which can be attached to your searches to associate your profile info with? What about Google Analytics and other client side scripts? You are aware that you can mitigate some of these risks with a VPN, disabling JavaScript, or simply not using their services?
There'd be nowhere else to go.
What world do you live in where there are only two browsers?
Greetings and thanks for pointing out the mistake! The subtleties of language are maddening at times, especially getting unicode through slashdot. Happy Holidays!
Thanks for the laugh!
What you were seeing is that if it weren't the law, companies would still be allowed to do it.
I wasn't "seeing" anything. What is so challenging about this? I reply to a comment about someone's opinion (represented as fact) that children have an inalienable right to use services on the internet. I disagree. You do not have a right to use someone's private property. If that's the case, you'll have no problem with letting me login to your email or (if you're a company) allow me access to whatever services you offer, no matter what! After all, it's my inalienable right as a child of the internet.
Corporations (which we're discussing) see things as what is legal and what isn't, not right or wrong. Go talk to an accountant sometime, cheers!
Yes, children have rights, independently of being adults and having the right to vote.
Thanks for taking that out of context. So according to the GP children have a right to use any and all services on the internet no matter what, like it's an inalienable right! HAH!
A service provider is not allowed to do arbitrary age discrimination.
It's not arbitrary when it's the fucking law.
When I was ten (1997), I had an account on virtually all website/email services that were big (relatively) at the time. There was never question of deleting my account because I was a kid.
Probably because they didn't know you were a kid? The only time this comes up is when there are problems, and much of this is automated now. Yay for progress.
Stripping kids of the right to use that kind of service is the same as stripping kids from having the right to use the Internet.
Do children have rights? I thought most of those came when you were of age to vote and serve one's country, able to sign a contract etc. To be clear I'm not a fan of these laws or requirements but what right is it to use a service offered by a private party, especially when they're a minor? What right is it to violate that private party's terms of service without consequence?
As an exercise: when you're at someone's home you (hopefully) observe their rules and customs. If they ask you to remove your shoes and you refuse, insisting it's your right to wear shoes, you don't have a right to be in that person's home if they ask you to leave. Obviously you don't care but most people will if they want to be welcome back.
Menus are compact, the keyboard shortcut is written right on the menu item, so it teaches you the fast interface. The only people a ribbon helps are new users.
Which apparently the world is full of. FAQs were created to address common questions and are deployed across websites, software, and even helpdesks to address common issues much like what the Ribbon does. Less basic questions are a good thing for everyone. If you're as proficient as you state you have (hopefully) realized you are able to continue using the same familiar keyboard shortcuts. New users win, power users win. I fail to see the challenge here.
I'd argue that a user interface that requires you to Google how to make it useful is exactly the kind of condescension this thread is about.
There is a help system built in which can address questions a user may have and apparently that wasn't used either. It has videos and text instruction. While typing in "hide ribbon" which someone would by double clicking (or even right clicking! are you going to argue most users don't do either of these things too - I see people double clicking hyperlinks all the time) customizing the ribbon is detailed as well as how to restore the classic menu (since I can't link you to the 2010 help system). Let me guess tl;dr? I don't even use office daily and yet I know these things. What does that say about you? At some point you need to become proficient with the tools you use on a daily basis, it's not that hard and if it is why don't you take some initiative and change that? It's not 1986 anymore and office computer proficiency is an essential skill for an increasing majority of paid professions at some point.
I'm glad you're happy and have discovered a useful feature, however, it's apparently taken you about 5 years to discover this? I know progress happen slowly but that's ridiculous. "This feature sure does irritate me, if only there was some way to change it, oh well!" ~1500 days after the introduction of the ribbon a random slashdot post details a solution.
/. account? I'll cut you some slack then. We live in the information age and there is frankly no excuse with Google being integrated into nearly every browser (so about 1 click away) why you haven't taken some initiative to become proficient with tools you use. Your sig hints that you're aware of Google.
Seriously though, did you just start using Office or did you buy this