My sentiments exactly - he has come under a lot of stick for his software of late, and most of it is justified.
If Longhorn delivers more than just a rehashed xp then I will be pleased.
This latest project does seem more community driven and a genuine willingness to offer a decent stable OS.
I believe this openness would not have been forthcoming without having a certain penguin snapping at his heels, and I sense a few interesting years ahead of us.
I -like you, disable it from every machine I clean up.
Kazaa continues to run for the user that installed it, and all the other things - realplayer, winamp etc are all common and not required. People wonder why their machines take so long booting with all the crap its loading. At least if they can *SEE* that something is running they can make a concious decision to close it.
The Search bars from various places are becoming a pain in the rear at the moment. My final action is usually disabling 3rd Party browser enhancements.
My personal pet-peeve is with so called Popup-stoppers. I have seen some which popup a message to tell you they have blocked a popup.
Its totally insane!
Without this sensory equipment in the car your last line of defense (Airbag) would not work, and you would most likely die in a major collision.
We demanded car manufacturers fit safety devices in our vehicles, and now if as a side effect of this it can identify the criminals and bad drivers, then so be it.
They are already planning for it, as it happens, there is a storm occuring at the moment (Classed as a Level 3 out of a scale upto 5).
The interested parties (ie utility/communications companies) all know about this and are monitoring the situation. They also estimate Aurora to reach very far south in the next couple of weeks. The article is here.
Some of the time I agree with you, having the noise from my machine is peaceful and automatically cancelled out by my brain.
Its like the sound of your car ticking over.
*However* I then get to work and sit in a room with our machines in and cannot hear any noise whatsoever. The stock machines we use are silent by comparison.
Its almost spooky and I wonder sometimes if all the fans are necessary in my own machine.
The lifespan of any component in my machine is at most 2-3years. I'm always eager for more speed/space so theres always a line of spares to pass down the feeding chain (me->wife->son).
I dont think if I removed most of the fans from my machine (apart from the essential ones) the machines would die before replacement.
Rendering so much XML data that quickly is commendable, but to push the envelope it really needs to go into hardware - maybe this would make a nice addition to the Graphics cards of the future?
Also the other anonymous poster who replied to you is correct - they WILL find ways to optimise the rendering, and then we will all benefit.
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Hey, pass me some of that parchment, theres no toilet roll left!
My sentiments exactly - he has come under a lot of stick for his software of late, and most of it is justified.
If Longhorn delivers more than just a rehashed xp then I will be pleased.
This latest project does seem more community driven and a genuine willingness to offer a decent stable OS.
I believe this openness would not have been forthcoming without having a certain penguin snapping at his heels, and I sense a few interesting years ahead of us.
I dont even see this as a beta - its a starting point to getting the best of what we need.
MS *WANT* you to bitch about it, they want to know whats wrong with it.
They want to spend the time fixing everything until you cannot bitch any more.
Most of all, I believe they have listened and want to ship a complete finished stable operating system.
That hide feature on the bar is so deceptive.
I -like you, disable it from every machine I clean up.
Kazaa continues to run for the user that installed it, and all the other things - realplayer, winamp etc are all common and not required. People wonder why their machines take so long booting with all the crap its loading.
At least if they can *SEE* that something is running they can make a concious decision to close it.
The Search bars from various places are becoming a pain in the rear at the moment. My final action is usually disabling 3rd Party browser enhancements.
My personal pet-peeve is with so called Popup-stoppers. I have seen some which popup a message to tell you they have blocked a popup.
Its totally insane!
did somebody ask for me?
It isnt the CD itself that causes the problem.
its one of the commands sent from Mandrake to the Device. There doesnt have to be a cd in the drive at the time.
Without this sensory equipment in the car your last line of defense (Airbag) would not work, and you would most likely die in a major collision.
We demanded car manufacturers fit safety devices in our vehicles, and now if as a side effect of this it can identify the criminals and bad drivers, then so be it.
hmmmmmm its turned all subscription on me - i found an alternative link via google though.
If this doesnt work for you, you will have to register.
I just posted something about this further up - the link is here.
They are already planning for it, as it happens, there is a storm occuring at the moment (Classed as a Level 3 out of a scale upto 5).
The interested parties (ie utility/communications companies) all know about this and are monitoring the situation. They also estimate Aurora to reach very far south in the next couple of weeks. The article is here.
All kids have those anyway. It's called acne!!
Yeahhhhhh finally, decent images, mod parent up :D
In other news, parrot sellers are having their most profitable year on record.
Some of the time I agree with you, having the noise from my machine is peaceful and automatically cancelled out by my brain.
Its like the sound of your car ticking over.
*However* I then get to work and sit in a room with our machines in and cannot hear any noise whatsoever. The stock machines we use are silent by comparison.
Its almost spooky and I wonder sometimes if all the fans are necessary in my own machine.
The lifespan of any component in my machine is at most 2-3years. I'm always eager for more speed/space so theres always a line of spares to pass down the feeding chain (me->wife->son).
I dont think if I removed most of the fans from my machine (apart from the essential ones) the machines would die before replacement.
Thats confusing!!
Who do I send my $699 to?
Currently on their examples page, they have a pretty complex map generated in SVG:
Our speed testcase. 1.8 MB. The fastest rendering time was around 6 seconds on a 1,4 GHz Athlon. WITH progressive rendering. (At the bottom of the page)
Rendering so much XML data that quickly is commendable, but to push the envelope it really needs to go into hardware - maybe this would make a nice addition to the Graphics cards of the future?
Also the other anonymous poster who replied to you is correct - they WILL find ways to optimise the rendering, and then we will all benefit.
Sounds similar to the illusive WMD search from the US and British gov'ts :)
Couldn't we just use something like google's PageRank system - have millions of little chess playing pigeons poking away?
:O What, you mean your not using BitTorrent.....
The key count would usually be a factor in this decision ;)
Yes I agree, they expect their machines to simply work.
;)
Either way, its a damn shame the release date has been wound back.
Sounds more like final tweaking turned up more than a little hiccup
He said they speculate that it was done via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. .
At least a couple of years old if I remember correctly.
I dont mind them developing on beefy desktop machines connected on the standard office LAN - makes everybodies lives easier.
What I dont understand is:
How the fuck they can run an unpatched outlook - possibly on more than one machine.
Christ, these are tech folks at the sharp end of the wedge, designing software thats uncheatable.
They should operate using *COMMON SENSE* and follow logical advice, heck its the same advice we tell our Aunts n Parents:
*UPDATE YOUR SYSTEM*
:D dont ya just love technology ;)
I think I would do the inverse.
Leaving an open wireless net MAY be enough to enable reasonable doubt that you were the infringer to allow these lawsuits to simply vanish.
Since I'm in England these dont effect me (yet), but I doubt it will be long before similar actions start.