The vast majority of what you've presented aren't O/S issues, they are UI issues.
And that's one of the biggest problems with Windows. There is woefully insufficient distinction between the two.
To the user, the UI is the OS. That is why OSX and Windows split the domestic PC market. The internals of a UNIX or NT based system are of interest only to a Geek.
Question is how long will M$ let hardware vendors (Dell, HP, IBM) etc ship XP rather than one of the mirriad of Vista versions???
The right question to ask is whether customers will opt for the legacy XP install when they are ready to upgrade to Vista-certified hardware and can get Vista installed at the OEM price.
The right question to ask ---if you are in direct sales or big box retail-- is how long XP will remain mass-market.
So at best, its performance is comparable to XP?
Sounds like a compelling argument to me for complete replacement of every OS on our network!
Here I thought 'upgrades' were supposed to improve performance.
You want "performance," you upgrade to software, hardware and drivers optimized for Vista.
But a slightly less responsive GUI may seem a fair trade-off to your network administrator for improved security, ease of deployment, etc., etc.
Systems dedicated to a single task and running software that has been tested and refined for over twenty years shouldn't be crashing, no matter what OS you are running.
I can tell you this isn't going to happen. Know why? Those same tax payers are using Windows at home.
---and everywhere else they use a computer as well.
Which is why the school offers evening classes in Windows for seniors, certification programs in Office for those with physical disabilities, etc., etc.
In our very strained rustbelt economy, these skills are marketable at any age, your ticket out of welfare, a lesson everyone has learned but the Geek on the Big State U Campus.
"This page not working with Internet Explorer. Use Firefox!"
Wonderful. Piss off the 80%-90% of gamers who are running IE. Gamers who have actually been known to crack open their wallets to pay twenty dollars for a halfway decent shareware game.
Ideology over common sense. The perfect model for the cash-starved FOSS developer.
Plus Apple is REASONABLE - $129 for a single OS upgrade or $199 for a 5 license Family Pack!
The problem is that in the home PC market the OEM Windows upgrade is simply bundled into your next OEM system purchase. The cycle isn't 18 months, it is four to five years.
If Apple were to pre-load Widows on Macs, or even better, partner with a PC maker like Dell to load and sell, they could make a nice profit selling desirable, expensive hardware, get massive application and driver support, and Microsoft would actually be on their side.
This assumes:
a) customers will jump at the chance to maintain two operating systems, software libraries, and skill sets.
b) customers will take equal delight in having to maintain hardware compatibility with both OSX and Vista.
c] that the direct seller or big box retailer will cheerfully take on the added pain and expense that dual-boot or virtualization would bring to service and support in the mass market
Come/.! NewYorkCountryLawyer is trying to do something good here.
Can we get serious for a minute? Please?
The typical Slashdot poster scarcely understands the distinction between civil and criminal law. Rules of Evidence? The conduct of pre-trial dispositions? The impeachment of expert witnesses? Give me a break.
This isn't Amateur Night at the Apollo. This is an appearance in Federal District Court. You'll not find a tougher audience anywhere in this world.
You spar with the pros before a meet with the pros.
You do not waste your time posting queries to an anonymous public forum.
This leaves me with my question: Will Apple follow Microsoft's lead and implement a DRM loving policy?"
The short answer is "Yes."
If you want to sell the Mac in the consumer market. If you want to compete with that Vista media PC from HP or Dell and it's 50 GB HD-DVD or Blu-Ray drive. If you want to sell that big HD wide-screen monitor.
If you want to sell HD content through iTunes.
The mwre title of the next and last Harry Potter novel became headline news worldwide. Think of what the video rights to that series alone is worth. Think of what it is worth to Apple.
it might well be worth it- a milti-billion dollar merger, a head of state's emergency meeting, etc, etc.
The reality is that the principals almost never meet until the deal has been made.
There are good arguments for keeping your distance. FDR's failing health colors every intepretation of the Yalta Conference, even though it is not at all clear that he had any better cards to play.
the Astrox Corporation says it could revolutionize the transportation industry.
The Concord was also supposed to ignite a revolution in air travel.
How many people need to be anywhere in two hours?
---if it means paying a very hefty Concord-like surcharge over first-class air?
How many airports can handle this beast?
---if the number is small, you will be spending hours in transit before you board.
Post 9/11, how many airlines remain financially strong enough to invest in radically new technology, particularly technology of immediate interest only in the most volatile high-end markets.
When the board looks at executive perks, does your flight to Beijing on the hyper-plane make the cut?
A movie that was exactly the same as GTA San Andreas would barely show up as a blip on their radar.
There is a fundamental distinction between watching a movie for two hours and role-playing it's central character for days or weeks on end. You might want to read Gene Wolfe's cautionary tale "When I Was Ming the Merciless."
The thing that always leaps to my mind, and they touched on it in tfa, is the persecution of comics in the late 40's early 50's.
Comics in the late forties and fifties saw a massive decline in sales.
Content was stagnant. The kids began watching TV.
Adults were drawn to the raw pulp fiction paperback novels of Mickey Spillane and others.
The solution for some publishers was the horror comic. Sold for its shock value.
Sold off the same racks as Pogo, Casper and Scrooge McDuck.
You bought comics at the neighborhood drugstore or you bought them at the tobacco shop which sold True Detective bondage openly and hard-core porn under the table. There was nothing in between.
Flash forward to the 80's when comics started going really adult in this country for the first time. Really dark, gory, and real
Sold and priced for distribution to adults through independent bookstores outside the red light district.
Because they were just comic books
They were not comic books. They were "graphic novels." The distinction is more than a marketing gimmick when the artist is Frank Miller and the title "The Dark Knight Returns."
Handsome and plausible retro-tech on display throughout the movie. The ultimate Geek fan-boy as the villian. The Mac logo on the keyboard. What more could you ask for?
we/.ers are the ppl our friends and family look to when it comes to advice on a new PC, so why dun we juz get everyone to vote with their wallets and then maybe as a whole, consumers wouldn't be held hostage by DRM and the big media companies..
The Geek is insignificant in the home market.
Harry Potter is significant in the home market. Captain Jack Sparrow is significant in the hone market.
2. Stop developing drugs for stupid shit. Yes, lots of people have Type2 diabetes. We already have a cure for that; a treadmill. Stop wasting money to develop a drug *just* to make money off a stupid disease.
when you have your license to practice medicine and have a real and hard-won understanding of the disease, then you can begin preaching to those who are diabetic. not before.
If you or your family member is going to the hospital every week, something (lifestyle or mental) needs to be fixed.
it could never be, of course, that someone in your family has a chronic. life-threatening, disease. it could never be, of course, that they cannot get the treatment they need elsewhere.
Why does it cost $200 for an x-ray
because the machines are safer, the scans less stressful to the patient, and more revealing to the doctor? because the consequences of a mistake can be dire?
If the pharmaceutacals "own" a cancer drug, an AIDS drug, a heart valve palsy drug, then fucking TAKE it from them and give it to the world. If they have to be compensated under eminent domain laws, then give them a twenty year extension on their stupid penis pills, their fat-buster pills, or their toenail fungus cures.
then the pharmaceutical house --- which is not a business, after all, and not a charity --- will put all its resources into projects which do make money:
sexual enhancements, diet drugs, and over the counter cures for athlete's foot
or it will relocate in a country where cutting-edge research, billion-dollar investments in industry and the employment of thousands and tens of thousands of skilled workers is not considered a bad thing.
congratulations.
you have just out-sourced the american pharmaceutical industry. set the clock back 100 years.
you are god's gift to the anti-free trade, economic nationalists in both the Republican and Democratic parties.
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And that's one of the biggest problems with Windows. There is woefully insufficient distinction between the two.
To the user, the UI is the OS. That is why OSX and Windows split the domestic PC market. The internals of a UNIX or NT based system are of interest only to a Geek.
The right question to ask is whether customers will opt for the legacy XP install when they are ready to upgrade to Vista-certified hardware and can get Vista installed at the OEM price.
The right question to ask ---if you are in direct sales or big box retail-- is how long XP will remain mass-market.
Sounds like a compelling argument to me for complete replacement of every OS on our network!
Here I thought 'upgrades' were supposed to improve performance.
You want "performance," you upgrade to software, hardware and drivers optimized for Vista.
But a slightly less responsive GUI may seem a fair trade-off to your network administrator for improved security, ease of deployment, etc., etc.
Systems dedicated to a single task and running software that has been tested and refined for over twenty years shouldn't be crashing, no matter what OS you are running.
Show us someone who got fired for buying the "IBM Compatible" Windows PC and you might actually have a point.
---and everywhere else they use a computer as well.
Which is why the school offers evening classes in Windows for seniors, certification programs in Office for those with physical disabilities, etc., etc.
In our very strained rustbelt economy, these skills are marketable at any age, your ticket out of welfare, a lesson everyone has learned but the Geek on the Big State U Campus.
"This page not working with Internet Explorer. Use Firefox!"
Wonderful. Piss off the 80%-90% of gamers who are running IE. Gamers who have actually been known to crack open their wallets to pay twenty dollars for a halfway decent shareware game.
Ideology over common sense. The perfect model for the cash-starved FOSS developer.
The problem is that in the home PC market the OEM Windows upgrade is simply bundled into your next OEM system purchase. The cycle isn't 18 months, it is four to five years.
This assumes:
a) customers will jump at the chance to maintain two operating systems, software libraries, and skill sets.
b) customers will take equal delight in having to maintain hardware compatibility with both OSX and Vista.
c] that the direct seller or big box retailer will cheerfully take on the added pain and expense that dual-boot or virtualization would bring to service and support in the mass market
easier said than done.
and the dog ate my homework. really and for true.
the problem is that, in a civil action, the plaintiff only has to persuade a jury that his explanation is more likely than the defendant's.
it's within a jury's right to see through the geek's over-elaborate defenses.
so, keep it simple, stupid.
The typical Slashdot poster scarcely understands the distinction between civil and criminal law. Rules of Evidence? The conduct of pre-trial dispositions? The impeachment of expert witnesses? Give me a break.
This isn't Amateur Night at the Apollo. This is an appearance in Federal District Court. You'll not find a tougher audience anywhere in this world.
You spar with the pros before a meet with the pros.
You do not waste your time posting queries to an anonymous public forum.
Those shiny plastic disks are cheap, portable, durable, media.
50 GB today. In five years, ten years, perhaps 500 GB, 1000 GB, or more.
I'll take the odds that the FedEx van will still be able to deliver more and cheaper HD content to your door than fiber.
The short answer is "Yes."
If you want to sell the Mac in the consumer market. If you want to compete with that Vista media PC from HP or Dell and it's 50 GB HD-DVD or Blu-Ray drive. If you want to sell that big HD wide-screen monitor.
If you want to sell HD content through iTunes.
The mwre title of the next and last Harry Potter novel became headline news worldwide. Think of what the video rights to that series alone is worth. Think of what it is worth to Apple.
The real revolution in travel may be in a return to comfort over speed.
The QM2. Deluxe rail excursions patterned on the Orient Express of legend.
You have retirees in good health and with money to spend. You have a younger generation bone-weary of the airbus.
The reality is that the principals almost never meet until the deal has been made.
There are good arguments for keeping your distance. FDR's failing health colors every intepretation of the Yalta Conference, even though it is not at all clear that he had any better cards to play.
The Concord was also supposed to ignite a revolution in air travel.
How many people need to be anywhere in two hours?
---if it means paying a very hefty Concord-like surcharge over first-class air?
How many airports can handle this beast?
---if the number is small, you will be spending hours in transit before you board.
Post 9/11, how many airlines remain financially strong enough to invest in radically new technology, particularly technology of immediate interest only in the most volatile high-end markets.
When the board looks at executive perks, does your flight to Beijing on the hyper-plane make the cut?
You don't know us very well, do you?
There is a fundamental distinction between watching a movie for two hours and role-playing it's central character for days or weeks on end. You might want to read Gene Wolfe's cautionary tale "When I Was Ming the Merciless."
Comics in the late forties and fifties saw a massive decline in sales.
Content was stagnant. The kids began watching TV.
Adults were drawn to the raw pulp fiction paperback novels of Mickey Spillane and others.
The solution for some publishers was the horror comic. Sold for its shock value.
Sold off the same racks as Pogo, Casper and Scrooge McDuck.
You bought comics at the neighborhood drugstore or you bought them at the tobacco shop which sold True Detective bondage openly and hard-core porn under the table. There was nothing in between.
Flash forward to the 80's when comics started going really adult in this country for the first time. Really dark, gory, and real
Sold and priced for distribution to adults through independent bookstores outside the red light district.
Because they were just comic books
They were not comic books. They were "graphic novels." The distinction is more than a marketing gimmick when the artist is Frank Miller and the title "The Dark Knight Returns."
Handsome and plausible retro-tech on display throughout the movie. The ultimate Geek fan-boy as the villian. The Mac logo on the keyboard. What more could you ask for?
The Geek is insignificant in the home market.
Harry Potter is significant in the home market. Captain Jack Sparrow is significant in the hone market.
when you have your license to practice medicine and have a real and hard-won understanding of the disease, then you can begin preaching to those who are diabetic. not before.
If you or your family member is going to the hospital every week, something (lifestyle or mental) needs to be fixed.
it could never be, of course, that someone in your family has a chronic. life-threatening, disease. it could never be, of course, that they cannot get the treatment they need elsewhere.
Why does it cost $200 for an x-ray
because the machines are safer, the scans less stressful to the patient, and more revealing to the doctor? because the consequences of a mistake can be dire?
then the pharmaceutical house --- which is not a business, after all, and not a charity --- will put all its resources into projects which do make money:
sexual enhancements, diet drugs, and over the counter cures for athlete's foot
or it will relocate in a country where cutting-edge research, billion-dollar investments in industry and the employment of thousands and tens of thousands of skilled workers is not considered a bad thing.
congratulations.
you have just out-sourced the american pharmaceutical industry. set the clock back 100 years.
you are god's gift to the anti-free trade, economic nationalists in both the Republican and Democratic parties.
where will you strike next?
To some Linux is a Movement. To others it is an Operating System.
You are not obliged to sign on to the Revolution when Debian is your Distro of choice. Thank God.