I used to respect the FSF, now I think they are a bunch of retards. They are beginning to sound like the people who don't want the forest cut down but they live in houses made of wood and play guitars made of rare wood that has been cut down.
While this is true, how long did Microsoft allow Internet Explorer to install programs and other components without asking the users permission first? This is why we were always told to turn scripting off. Sure you can always give permission to bad files being installed it is more likely to happen when you are not asked to install these files.
Can they secure it? I am not so sure. After reading the Bill Gates letter about installing Movie Maker on his own PC that is making the rounds lately I am not so sure they can. You have to wonder why businesses, who have lost millions of dollars because of Windows viri, have not sued Microsoft for the loss. Simply typing in my password in Unix or MacOS X keeps them pretty viri free. Despite people buying Windows and Security programs from whomever they choose they still think malware, viri and the like are just normal things that happen when you use computers. If Microsoft has done anything that is evil it is brainwashing people into thinking this is a normal part of everyday computer use......even the businesses buy into it.
Microsoft is doing something smart. The one program most often sold with a new PC is security software. Bundling their own security software and a copy of office makes sense to get users hooked early on. However why would you buy security software from someone who makes such a security hole ridden OS in the first place. While I don't keep a copy of office on my PC, I do use one on my Mac. Still, I fire up open office more than I do any Microsoft program.
Not really.
I would like a way for to know when non RSS sites are updated. One that actually works and alerts me via a dialog. Auto file saving! I download files to update devices around the house and it would be nice if when a new version of a watched file was released it would auto download and then let me know it was done. Macros would be nice as well.
No, part of the Quicktime code. Apple settled with them in the end so it wound up being legal. There was also that Stacker bugaboo.
Microsoft also hired some of the Macs UI design team for Windows 3.x. It was all legal but they knew what they wanted to copy and who to hire to do it. Susan Kare. She has taken down a lot of the Windows icons she did and only left Solitaire on her site. She also did some work on IBM OS/2.
Also if you go back to Xerox Parc both Apple and Microsoft took parts of the OS they were working on and used it. Apple paid Xerox, Microsoft did not. Of course there was a vast difference in what Xerox had and what Apple and Microsoft came out with but Xerox did have the seed of the idea.
Still until they port one or two programs I use over to the Mac I still have to keep my PC's around.;-)
Is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black?
Microsoft has a history of taking other peoples code and selling it as their own. Sometimes not even bothering to change the comments in the code.
We programmed landleveling program on an Apple II+ in 1979. That code has remain pretty much unchanged since a port to GW basic for the PC. That is the oldest code we have written that is still being used.
Before that we used a strip programmable HP-Calculator (computer?) to run the numbers.
The SR-71 blackbird pilots used to have a way to tell when the cones on the engine did not make the right decision and let in a bit of supersonic airflow before it got it right. The short but massive increase in thrust would throw their head into the side window on the side that had the malfunction. They hit pretty hard too!
When I was a young teen we used to manage an apartment complex where about six SR-71 pilots lived. They were all good friends and they had some great stories!
So does the SR-71 or at least it used to. I live in the flight pattern for beale air force base and have for many years. Back in the 70's SR-71's and their T-38 chase planes and U-2's filled the air. Even being 25 miles away the SR-71 doing an engine run up would make the air rumble. Sonic Booms were part and parcel as well. Now we only get the booms of the Beale EOD and the Explosions from the gold fields mining near the base. Still the U-2's and T-38's, KC-135's and C-5A's fly by.
True, Balmer is a pit stained idiot who often speaks without first engaging his brain but blaming Vista all on Balmer just does not fly. The problem with Vista has been the keeping of outdated code in the OS. Bill Gates was always proud to say the what ever version of the OS was released it would still run old DOS1.0 programs. Longhorn was Microsofts Copland. When Apple was developing Copland as the be all of the new Mac OS, features were being added, taken away, changed but the product never seemed to move ahead.
Apple scraped Copland when Steve came back and used his NextStep to make OS X. Microsoft never scraped Longhorn as they should have. Having emulation to run the last OS's software while having a new better OS has been the way to go and Apple has do it right. Going by the reviews of PC magazines Intel Macs run Windows better. Get the best from both worlds with one computer. I have more Windows boxes than Macs but my most trouble free windows machine is my Mac laptop and I am A+,N+, MCP, MCSE certified.
I don't think we have to worry. When they are on their way here with a cure for all diseases, unlimited power, anti-gravity and such, they will see our television and radio broadcasts and they would turn around and head for home. SETI would then hear on their telescopes "Leave us alone and stop calling us!".
Being a long time Amateur radio operator myself I have had a chance to see and even participate in such emergencies. I am glad to see them getting the recognition they deserve!
Of course if you found that some had stolen code and put it into your product......would probably get you fired from Microsoft if you told anybody about it.
Just wait until the RIAA finds out the aliens have been making copies of those gold records to give to their friends or worse yet, they ripped the gold discs and put them on the alien interet at zorbak.binaries.music.nasa.gold.disc.slestak
I don't know, the RIAA sure seems scared to go after any organized crime group that is mass duplicating their discs and selling them on the street for a few bucks a pop. The mass duplication is so bad that pirate copies are flooding into legit channels. If you buy 10 discs at the record store chances are at least one of them is a bootleg copy. Of course for the RIAA it is a lot safer to go after Ma and Pa and Junior for downloading a copy of Brittany Spears latest trash.
While Voyager 1 is 15 billion miles away the amount of power from its radio reaching the antennas here on earth is barely noticeable and takes some of the biggest radio dishes to pick up. The amount of data that could pass through that connection is meager at best. It is one thing to hear the signal but quite another to get any data from it.
Laser ground to air stations do not make much sense but an in orbit laser communication system does. If we plan to go to Mars we will need a fat data pipe to and from the spacecraft and lasers make the most sense here. Not only would it provide audio, video and data links between earth and the spacecraft it could give the crew internet access, TV channels from earth for entertainment, music channels from earth which could be important for such a long trip.
They can always have radio as a backup and they can use radio where it is best used, between ground and air stations.
What a deal they made! You have to wonder what would happen if MS had to play like any other software company had to and not have a tie in to the per machine cost. When the better DRDOS came out and was really eating into Microsofts DOS sales MS dropped a windows beta on the world that when run and found you were running DRDOS told you future windows versions will not work with it, has to be the one of the greatest dirty tricks of all time.
It was also pretty hard to believe MS when they stated that the Mac OS had little to do with the development of Windows when they hired UI Design artists like Susan Kare who worked on the Mac UI. Check out this site: http://www.kare.com/portfolio.html
Strangely I see a lot of parallels between Apple and Microsoft during the Vista development. When Apple was developing Copeland, the next generation Mac OS, release dates kept slipping and grand features would pop up and disappear just as quickly. Apple had lost its way, which was great because Jobs came back and Copeland was dumped and NextOS was made into OS X. Which gives me the power of Mac OS and Unix as well.
I really think Microsoft should have dumped vista and started from scratch on a new Windows OS. I think Longhorn was Microsofts Copeland and they made the wrong decision. I have two XP boxes running XP SP2 and I won't be upgrading those to Vista anytime soon. I am even running XP on my mac laptop with parallels desktop. Time will tell if they can make Vista into something better but every PC I have been around lately is still running XP.
If memory serves and mine might be as faulty as Microsofts, the bought a program that was indeed based on CP/M called QDOS. Microsoft was in no way interested in selling an OS, all they wanted was to sell Microsoft Basic, their main reason for being at the time. IBM wanted a DOS so to please IBM Microsoft, Bill, sold them the DOS before he had bought it.
Steve Balmer said that too much is being made about this "feature" of excel. "How important are math operations in spreadsheets anyway" he stated while the pit stains in his shirt grew in size.
Does this trace back to the old Windows calculator bug? 2.00 -.02=?
I wonder if this has cost companies any money. I can't test this on my computer as I am using NeoOffice.
I really see no difference between the Creationists and the Atheists. Seems like both are trying to impose their views on other people. Trying to stop the other side and trying to get the message out to all people possible. Atheists are just pushing the Atheists religion. If you have groups of Atheists that meet with each other and go out to "spread the word" as it were, how is that any different than what the creationists do? As a true Atheists I could care less what either of the parties do.
Spell checkers are fine but they make mistakes as well. The best thing I have found, and this goes for any project, software or printed word, is to have someone who is not connected to the project or better yet not even connected with the subject proofread what the public sees. They will often catch mistakes that jump off the page but people working on the project just don't notice. I have made some really stupid mistakes that I never saw but were on the cover of a book I was publishing. I am SO glad it was proofread before it went to press.
Attempting to tell programs the correct grammar or spelling does not always go well. While most will thank you for your input on catching their mistakes, others take it like you step on their babies head.
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I used to respect the FSF, now I think they are a bunch of retards. They are beginning to sound like the people who don't want the forest cut down but they live in houses made of wood and play guitars made of rare wood that has been cut down.
While this is true, how long did Microsoft allow Internet Explorer to install programs and other components without asking the users permission first? This is why we were always told to turn scripting off. Sure you can always give permission to bad files being installed it is more likely to happen when you are not asked to install these files.
Can they secure it? I am not so sure. After reading the Bill Gates letter about installing Movie Maker on his own PC that is making the rounds lately I am not so sure they can. You have to wonder why businesses, who have lost millions of dollars because of Windows viri, have not sued Microsoft for the loss. Simply typing in my password in Unix or MacOS X keeps them pretty viri free. Despite people buying Windows and Security programs from whomever they choose they still think malware, viri and the like are just normal things that happen when you use computers. If Microsoft has done anything that is evil it is brainwashing people into thinking this is a normal part of everyday computer use......even the businesses buy into it.
Microsoft is doing something smart. The one program most often sold with a new PC is security software. Bundling their own security software and a copy of office makes sense to get users hooked early on. However why would you buy security software from someone who makes such a security hole ridden OS in the first place. While I don't keep a copy of office on my PC, I do use one on my Mac. Still, I fire up open office more than I do any Microsoft program.
Not really. I would like a way for to know when non RSS sites are updated. One that actually works and alerts me via a dialog. Auto file saving! I download files to update devices around the house and it would be nice if when a new version of a watched file was released it would auto download and then let me know it was done. Macros would be nice as well.
No, part of the Quicktime code. Apple settled with them in the end so it wound up being legal. There was also that Stacker bugaboo. Microsoft also hired some of the Macs UI design team for Windows 3.x. It was all legal but they knew what they wanted to copy and who to hire to do it. Susan Kare. She has taken down a lot of the Windows icons she did and only left Solitaire on her site. She also did some work on IBM OS/2. Also if you go back to Xerox Parc both Apple and Microsoft took parts of the OS they were working on and used it. Apple paid Xerox, Microsoft did not. Of course there was a vast difference in what Xerox had and what Apple and Microsoft came out with but Xerox did have the seed of the idea. Still until they port one or two programs I use over to the Mac I still have to keep my PC's around. ;-)
Is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black? Microsoft has a history of taking other peoples code and selling it as their own. Sometimes not even bothering to change the comments in the code.
We programmed landleveling program on an Apple II+ in 1979. That code has remain pretty much unchanged since a port to GW basic for the PC. That is the oldest code we have written that is still being used. Before that we used a strip programmable HP-Calculator (computer?) to run the numbers.
The SR-71 blackbird pilots used to have a way to tell when the cones on the engine did not make the right decision and let in a bit of supersonic airflow before it got it right. The short but massive increase in thrust would throw their head into the side window on the side that had the malfunction. They hit pretty hard too!
When I was a young teen we used to manage an apartment complex where about six SR-71 pilots lived. They were all good friends and they had some great stories!
So does the SR-71 or at least it used to. I live in the flight pattern for beale air force base and have for many years. Back in the 70's SR-71's and their T-38 chase planes and U-2's filled the air. Even being 25 miles away the SR-71 doing an engine run up would make the air rumble. Sonic Booms were part and parcel as well. Now we only get the booms of the Beale EOD and the Explosions from the gold fields mining near the base. Still the U-2's and T-38's, KC-135's and C-5A's fly by.
True, Balmer is a pit stained idiot who often speaks without first engaging his brain but blaming Vista all on Balmer just does not fly. The problem with Vista has been the keeping of outdated code in the OS. Bill Gates was always proud to say the what ever version of the OS was released it would still run old DOS1.0 programs. Longhorn was Microsofts Copland. When Apple was developing Copland as the be all of the new Mac OS, features were being added, taken away, changed but the product never seemed to move ahead. Apple scraped Copland when Steve came back and used his NextStep to make OS X. Microsoft never scraped Longhorn as they should have. Having emulation to run the last OS's software while having a new better OS has been the way to go and Apple has do it right. Going by the reviews of PC magazines Intel Macs run Windows better. Get the best from both worlds with one computer. I have more Windows boxes than Macs but my most trouble free windows machine is my Mac laptop and I am A+,N+, MCP, MCSE certified.
I don't think we have to worry. When they are on their way here with a cure for all diseases, unlimited power, anti-gravity and such, they will see our television and radio broadcasts and they would turn around and head for home. SETI would then hear on their telescopes "Leave us alone and stop calling us!".
Actually it is the chemtrails airlines spew out in order to deliver mind control drugs ;-)
Being a long time Amateur radio operator myself I have had a chance to see and even participate in such emergencies. I am glad to see them getting the recognition they deserve!
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Of course if you found that some had stolen code and put it into your product......would probably get you fired from Microsoft if you told anybody about it.
Just wait until the RIAA finds out the aliens have been making copies of those gold records to give to their friends or worse yet, they ripped the gold discs and put them on the alien interet at zorbak.binaries.music.nasa.gold.disc.slestak
I don't know, the RIAA sure seems scared to go after any organized crime group that is mass duplicating their discs and selling them on the street for a few bucks a pop. The mass duplication is so bad that pirate copies are flooding into legit channels. If you buy 10 discs at the record store chances are at least one of them is a bootleg copy. Of course for the RIAA it is a lot safer to go after Ma and Pa and Junior for downloading a copy of Brittany Spears latest trash.
While Voyager 1 is 15 billion miles away the amount of power from its radio reaching the antennas here on earth is barely noticeable and takes some of the biggest radio dishes to pick up. The amount of data that could pass through that connection is meager at best. It is one thing to hear the signal but quite another to get any data from it.
Laser ground to air stations do not make much sense but an in orbit laser communication system does. If we plan to go to Mars we will need a fat data pipe to and from the spacecraft and lasers make the most sense here. Not only would it provide audio, video and data links between earth and the spacecraft it could give the crew internet access, TV channels from earth for entertainment, music channels from earth which could be important for such a long trip.
They can always have radio as a backup and they can use radio where it is best used, between ground and air stations.
What a deal they made! You have to wonder what would happen if MS had to play like any other software company had to and not have a tie in to the per machine cost. When the better DRDOS came out and was really eating into Microsofts DOS sales MS dropped a windows beta on the world that when run and found you were running DRDOS told you future windows versions will not work with it, has to be the one of the greatest dirty tricks of all time.
It was also pretty hard to believe MS when they stated that the Mac OS had little to do with the development of Windows when they hired UI Design artists like Susan Kare who worked on the Mac UI. Check out this site: http://www.kare.com/portfolio.html
Strangely I see a lot of parallels between Apple and Microsoft during the Vista development. When Apple was developing Copeland, the next generation Mac OS, release dates kept slipping and grand features would pop up and disappear just as quickly. Apple had lost its way, which was great because Jobs came back and Copeland was dumped and NextOS was made into OS X. Which gives me the power of Mac OS and Unix as well.
I really think Microsoft should have dumped vista and started from scratch on a new Windows OS. I think Longhorn was Microsofts Copeland and they made the wrong decision. I have two XP boxes running XP SP2 and I won't be upgrading those to Vista anytime soon. I am even running XP on my mac laptop with parallels desktop. Time will tell if they can make Vista into something better but every PC I have been around lately is still running XP.
If memory serves and mine might be as faulty as Microsofts, the bought a program that was indeed based on CP/M called QDOS. Microsoft was in no way interested in selling an OS, all they wanted was to sell Microsoft Basic, their main reason for being at the time. IBM wanted a DOS so to please IBM Microsoft, Bill, sold them the DOS before he had bought it.
Steve Balmer said that too much is being made about this "feature" of excel. "How important are math operations in spreadsheets anyway" he stated while the pit stains in his shirt grew in size.
Does this trace back to the old Windows calculator bug? 2.00 -.02=?
I wonder if this has cost companies any money. I can't test this on my computer as I am using NeoOffice.
I really see no difference between the Creationists and the Atheists. Seems like both are trying to impose their views on other people. Trying to stop the other side and trying to get the message out to all people possible. Atheists are just pushing the Atheists religion. If you have groups of Atheists that meet with each other and go out to "spread the word" as it were, how is that any different than what the creationists do? As a true Atheists I could care less what either of the parties do.
I was wondering when someone would catch it!
Spell checkers are fine but they make mistakes as well. The best thing I have found, and this goes for any project, software or printed word, is to have someone who is not connected to the project or better yet not even connected with the subject proofread what the public sees. They will often catch mistakes that jump off the page but people working on the project just don't notice. I have made some really stupid mistakes that I never saw but were on the cover of a book I was publishing. I am SO glad it was proofread before it went to press.
Attempting to tell programs the correct grammar or spelling does not always go well. While most will thank you for your input on catching their mistakes, others take it like you step on their babies head.
Get a Mac Laptop. It comes with the restore discs. With Parallels Desktop mine runs Windows just as good as my PC does.