> the PC was cheaper and progressed much faster than anyone in the 80s or early 90s could have imagined,
As obvious as this is today, I think just about EVERYONE in the computer industry underestimated the decendants of the IBM PC 5150. If you look at the PC today, it is hard to believe that it's direct ancestor, the IBM PC, was barely more powerful than the Commodore 64.
really not all that much different from Slackware 9.1 as far as I can tell. Just the usual package updates as you would expect. The core of what makes Slackware Slackware (installation, directory layout, config files, pkgtools) is pretty much the same. But maybe for me the difference seems even less, since I've been synching with Slackware-current every few weeks for about a half year now.
Take for example, the commodire 64. This had a user interface that came up in about a second, and was immediately useable. Nobody ever looked at my C64 in a confused way wondering what it does. They knew. It was obvious.
It does, somewhat. It was implemented to thwart fake login screens. Under the NT based operating systems, no apps are allowed to intercept ctrl-alt-del. So the only way to fake the login screen is to bypass the OS alltogether.
I'll start to believe when the Google Zeitgeist shows more than 5% for Mac or Linux. I've watched that page for quite some time now, and the only large shifts I've seen has been from one Windows version to another.
Seriously, this is not a troll of flaimbait. If Windows is really so bad as many people claim, why does it have so many users? I'm not looking for unhelpful onliners like "most users are idiots", etc. Some Linux and a lot of MacOS X users claim that their platform is superior to Windows in every way. Many Apple users will even argue that the Mac platform is not even more expensive (although they often confuse price with value). If so, why don't more people switch?
I'm a reasonably advanced computer user. Of the major platforms, I use Win2k/XP, Linux quite a lot, OS X somewhat less. In my opinion, they are pretty comparable for most things I want to do (and they each have their own set of quirks). But maybe I'm missing something obvious. So if anyone has some INSIGHTFUL comments on why people don't switch en masse to superior platforms, please let me know. And no flames please, let's try to keep the discussion polite.
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According to sandpile.org the P1 topped at 300mhz, the last model introduced in 1999.
What I want to know is: 1. Does a typical MBA really make $150K? 2. If (as seems to be the implicit assumption) the science PhD could do the MBA's jobs as well, any company hiring PhD's can gain competitive advantage (lowers wage costs) by hiring science PhD's instead of MBA's. Don't companies realize this? Or is there more to MBA's than we all assume?
> Margin of error applies to survey methodologies -- ask a sample, project the answer to a larger population.
The sample is the WebSideStory user base, the population is all the WWW. Since one is persumably more interested in the population than in this sample, there is a margin of error.
> Open/Applications/AppleScript/Script Editor.app and type in: > display dialog "Hello World!" > Click run. Yeah, Windows is almost as easy to use as a Mac;-)
I've tried this once. It was not quite as comfortable as you imagine.
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I found this slightly disturbing:
Sure. OS X has a couple of undocumented API calls 'CGSSetWorkspace' and 'CGSGetWorkspace' which allow you to split the window trees into different desktops and move between them.
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Believe me there is a lot in OS X that is undocumented and suggests interesting things.
While not many people blame Apple for keeping Quartz closed source, many would argue that at least the APIs should be exposed. This gives independent app writers a level playing field when writing apps that might compete with Apple's own offerings.
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I don't really understand why Apple doesn't offer them. I've hears several reasons: the dock, expose, tranparent windows, or whatever makes them unnecessary, they're confusing for new users, etc, etc. But none of these addres the fact that Aqua WITH optionally selectable virtual windows (selectable for the "advanced user") is BETTER than WITHOUT. You can make all the same arguments for the presence of Terminal: it's unnecessary and confusing for the majority of users, but I bet few Mac users would want Apple to leave it out.
Especially for those of us who have mixed LANs at home. This was the first I had heard of a way to disable 445, the replacement Netbios port (even if it's a convoluted way to do it).
There is plenty of information around if you know therightqueries.
In a few years, when everyone is on broad band and storage costs half of what it does now, they will upgrade to "premium" 256 kbps songs. Lots of people will buy their collection again, just like they did with their record collection.
I haven't been following the DVD formats, so can someone tell me if the DVD+/-RW thing has been settled yet? And whether we'll have to go through the whole thing again with DVD-HD and Blu-Ray? And whether for backups I'm not better off just buying some cheap IDE hard disks and put them in an external enclosure?
Seriously, I suspect that anyone who know what CERT is already runs Mozilla (or at least know he should). More significant is that this is on the Washington Post. With all respect for CERT, the mainstream press is what we need here.
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The Complete Story of Caldera/SCOX, as told by Yahoo.
Indeed. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the IBM zSeries with Linux can easiliy run into the millions. And don't forget these guys.
> OGG although free does not compete with MP3 (PRO) which in turn does not compete with AAC.
At 128kbps, Apple's AAC encoder was beaten by Ogg and Musepack in a recent public listening test, and performed only slightly better than Lame MP3.
> the PC was cheaper and progressed much faster than anyone in the 80s or early 90s could have imagined,
As obvious as this is today, I think just about EVERYONE in the computer industry underestimated the decendants of the IBM PC 5150. If you look at the PC today, it is hard to believe that it's direct ancestor, the IBM PC, was barely more powerful than the Commodore 64.
really not all that much different from Slackware 9.1 as far as I can tell. Just the usual package updates as you would expect. The core of what makes Slackware Slackware (installation, directory layout, config files, pkgtools) is pretty much the same. But maybe for me the difference seems even less, since I've been synching with Slackware-current every few weeks for about a half year now.
HELP
?SYNTAX ERROR
READY.
HI
?SYNTAX ERROR
READY.
HELLO?
?SYNTAX ERROR
READY.
EAT FLAMING DEATH
?SYNTAX ERROR
READY.
It does, somewhat. It was implemented to thwart fake login screens. Under the NT based operating systems, no apps are allowed to intercept ctrl-alt-del. So the only way to fake the login screen is to bypass the OS alltogether.
I'll start to believe when the Google Zeitgeist shows more than 5% for Mac or Linux. I've watched that page for quite some time now, and the only large shifts I've seen has been from one Windows version to another.
Seriously, this is not a troll of flaimbait. If Windows is really so bad as many people claim, why does it have so many users? I'm not looking for unhelpful onliners like "most users are idiots", etc. Some Linux and a lot of MacOS X users claim that their platform is superior to Windows in every way. Many Apple users will even argue that the Mac platform is not even more expensive (although they often confuse price with value). If so, why don't more people switch?
I'm a reasonably advanced computer user. Of the major platforms, I use Win2k/XP, Linux quite a lot, OS X somewhat less. In my opinion, they are pretty comparable for most things I want to do (and they each have their own set of quirks). But maybe I'm missing something obvious. So if anyone has some INSIGHTFUL comments on why people don't switch en masse to superior platforms, please let me know. And no flames please, let's try to keep the discussion polite.
According to sandpile.org the P1 topped at 300mhz, the last model introduced in 1999.
> most researchers in the fight against spam have failed to classify it as an artificial living organism
Who would have thought Skynet has its origins in spam?
What I want to know is:
1. Does a typical MBA really make $150K?
2. If (as seems to be the implicit assumption) the science PhD could do the MBA's jobs as well, any company hiring PhD's can gain competitive advantage (lowers wage costs) by hiring science PhD's instead of MBA's. Don't companies realize this? Or is there more to MBA's than we all assume?
> Margin of error applies to survey methodologies -- ask a sample, project the answer to a larger population.
The sample is the WebSideStory user base, the population is all the WWW. Since one is persumably more interested in the population than in this sample, there is a margin of error.
I was taught in statistics class that estimates should come with standard deviations (or standard errors)
I didn't know ARM "shipped" any processors at all.
> As a user, I can install any application I want in my own directory
/home (and maybe /tmp) and mount it with noexec. Most home users won't bother though.
If you want more security, you can use a separate partition for
> Open /Applications/AppleScript/Script Editor.app and type in: ;-)
> display dialog "Hello World!"
> Click run. Yeah, Windows is almost as easy to use as a Mac
In this case it actually is:
Open Notepad and type in:
MsgBox("Hello world!")
Save as hello.vbs, click and run.
> Very comfortably, on a big pile of money.
I've tried this once. It was not quite as comfortable as you imagine.
I don't really understand why Apple doesn't offer them. I've hears several reasons: the dock, expose, tranparent windows, or whatever makes them unnecessary, they're confusing for new users, etc, etc. But none of these addres the fact that Aqua WITH optionally selectable virtual windows (selectable for the "advanced user") is BETTER than WITHOUT. You can make all the same arguments for the presence of Terminal: it's unnecessary and confusing for the majority of users, but I bet few Mac users would want Apple to leave it out.
> Of course, the giant and huge drawback of Rhapsody is that you don't to keep any of the music if you cancel your subscription.
You can view them as complementary services. Use Rhapsody to discover new stuff, iTMS to buy what you want to keep.
In a few years, when everyone is on broad band and storage costs half of what it does now, they will upgrade to "premium" 256 kbps songs. Lots of people will buy their collection again, just like they did with their record collection.
I haven't been following the DVD formats, so can someone tell me if the DVD+/-RW thing has been settled yet? And whether we'll have to go through the whole thing again with DVD-HD and Blu-Ray? And whether for backups I'm not better off just buying some cheap IDE hard disks and put them in an external enclosure?
Seriously, I suspect that anyone who know what CERT is already runs Mozilla (or at least know he should). More significant is that this is on the Washington Post. With all respect for CERT, the mainstream press is what we need here.