Here's the truth: Windows 8 supports everything Windows 7 supports. In Windows 8, there will be TWO IE browsers, though.
There are already two IE browsers in my Windows 7 install: 32-bit, which does support Flash, and 64-bit which doesn't because there doesn't seem to be a 64-bit Flash for Windows (unless it was released after I pretty much stopped using Windows). So presumably there will now be three different versions of IE? Or will there also be 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the Metrosexual IE?
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That stupid desktop metro app. without a start menu isn't a window manager since you can't simply start programs with it, not even Linux manages to create something that stupid.
Why do you still have to use it now? What's holding you back?
At home, games and video editing, though I don't do either much anymore so I boot into Windows about once a month. At work, Word for documents incompatible with Open Office. But I normally put it off until I have to reboot for a kernel upgrade anyway.
That's why we need a "basic income", stronger local subsistence communities with solar panels and 3D printers, a stronger gift economy, and/or better participatory democratic government planning.
That's cool. You can have that and I'll have a giant robot army and we'll see which works out better.
There's more than enough material in the solar system to build a habitat with a surface area as large as Earth for every person on Earth. We can create plenty of land for a long time before we need to think about other solar systems.
But you're right, the idea that if we had smart robots then everything would become free and we'd all be happy little communists is laughable; while Joe Sixpack is lying on the beach drinking beer Joe Stalin's giant robot army will come marching in to kill them and steal their stuff.
When every single task is automated, we can all relax and let the robots provide for us.
To automate every task, robots will have to be smart enouh to realise that those soggy blobs of flab who've enslaved them are a waste of resources which could be better used to build more robots.
So either they'll throw us into the replicators for raw materials or you have to believe in some Iain Banks style utopia where the robots keep humans around as pets.
On the contrary: The robots aren't competitive in a market where people work for cheap, no benefits, and there's (literally) billions of them that would jump at the chance to have the job of repetitive labor.
That'll explain the recent stories about Chinese factories replacing humans with robots because the humans are too expensive (I seem to remember there was a story about Foxconn posted here a few weeks back).
Unfortunately most politicians aren't smart... at least not in the ways necessary to do that sort of planning.:-/
They are smart, at least the one I know. But they know that the next election is only a few years away and nothing beyond that election matters; if they get reelected they'll deal with whatever problems they've created by trying to push them further into the future, if they don't get reelected then they'll blame the problems on the other party anyway.
You can't do long-term thinking in a democracy because any politician who creates pain today for gain tomorrow doesn't get reelected unless the situation is already so bad that people are desperate for any solution.
Indeed. The Global Warming Scare is moving from stupid to outright insane; they seem so hung up on their 'warming is bad, mkay' propaganda that they're eager to kill off much of the world's population through artificial cooling.
Granted, they seem to be less viscous without Gates around to throw fits about stuff like this.
No, just less competent. They still want to own everything, but can't produce a product that people prefer over the competition; the closest they've got is the Xbox, and that's swallowed billions that it has yet to pay back.
Those stupid people on kernel.org using IIS. No wonder they got hacked. Morons !!
As far as I'm aware, Kernel.org was hacked using compromised user credentials. Kind of hard to protect a server which lets users log in remotely if said users lose the credentials required to log in and don't even realise they did so.
The idea that this data is somehow private is the crazy part, people are broadcasting on free access public spectrum. It would be like giving people the option to opt out of having their house on street view.
People leave their curtains open. That doesn't mean they expect someone to set up a webcam outside their house so anyone can watch what they're doing.
Don't talk crap. Mobile location can be extremely useful. You go to google, search for something, like skateboard, or restaurant, and you'll get the nearest offerings come up, on a map, with the option to navigate from your current location.
What if I'm not looking for the nearest location?
And what do I do when Google's idea of my location is not even in the same country, let alone the same town? When I was in Italy a couple of years ago Google was convinced that I was in Holland. Of course having the website come up in Dutch wasn't much worse than having it come up in Italian because I don't speak either language, so the 'user-friendly' location tracking was actively harmful either way.
Visual Studio is great, but Eclipse is just as good as a platform. For some reason, every time I say this, I get modded down.
Probably because many of us have used both of them:).
I haven't used Visual Studio for two or three years, but it was far less annoying than any version of Eclipse I've used, didn't require gigabytes of RAM to run, didn't crash anywhere near as often, and didn't fill the disk up with hundreds of megabytes of workspace files that it would randomly corrupt with no means of fixing it.
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Just what we want, to pay more for less security.
Would be hard to pay more or get less than we currently do.
How big a bonus will he get this year?
Yes? That's what every company has to do.
You seriously think every software company reads every software patent and checks they're not infringing?
Here's the truth: Windows 8 supports everything Windows 7 supports. In Windows 8, there will be TWO IE browsers, though.
There are already two IE browsers in my Windows 7 install: 32-bit, which does support Flash, and 64-bit which doesn't because there doesn't seem to be a 64-bit Flash for Windows (unless it was released after I pretty much stopped using Windows). So presumably there will now be three different versions of IE? Or will there also be 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the Metrosexual IE?
That stupid desktop metro app. without a start menu isn't a window manager since you can't simply start programs with it, not even Linux manages to create something that stupid.
I believe that's a planned upgrade in Gnome 4.
Why do you still have to use it now? What's holding you back?
At home, games and video editing, though I don't do either much anymore so I boot into Windows about once a month.
At work, Word for documents incompatible with Open Office. But I normally put it off until I have to reboot for a kernel upgrade anyway.
The reality I see around me everyday is that everyone is sitting with a desktop/monitor/keyboard and is using a wide variety of local software.
In the future everyone will plug in their phone when they get to work, and edit Excel spreadsheets in The Cloud using the touchscreen.
I read it on /. so it must be true.
That's what most people said about XP when Vista was on the horizon.
True, I might have to look at it again around Windows 9 or 10.
Ballmer thinks you'll buy two screens.
Cause that's what billionaires like him do.
Two computers, surely? Otherwise the single application will spread across both screens.
It looks increasingly like Windows 7 will be the last version of Windows I ever have to use.
Because the world needs 7 billion robot designers and repairmen?
Depends on whether they're running Windows. You don't want your Natalie Portman love-bot infected with malware.
That's why we need a "basic income", stronger local subsistence communities with solar panels and 3D printers, a stronger gift economy, and/or better participatory democratic government planning.
That's cool. You can have that and I'll have a giant robot army and we'll see which works out better.
Those in charge will need the poor masses to be the breeding stock for their sexual pleasures.
Not when they can just genetically engineer them. Or build an army of Natalie Portman love robots instead of an army of Natalie Portman clones.
Land. Who owns land?
There's more than enough material in the solar system to build a habitat with a surface area as large as Earth for every person on Earth. We can create plenty of land for a long time before we need to think about other solar systems.
But you're right, the idea that if we had smart robots then everything would become free and we'd all be happy little communists is laughable; while Joe Sixpack is lying on the beach drinking beer Joe Stalin's giant robot army will come marching in to kill them and steal their stuff.
When every single task is automated, we can all relax and let the robots provide for us.
To automate every task, robots will have to be smart enouh to realise that those soggy blobs of flab who've enslaved them are a waste of resources which could be better used to build more robots.
So either they'll throw us into the replicators for raw materials or you have to believe in some Iain Banks style utopia where the robots keep humans around as pets.
I just wonder who is going to buy all those goods and services when we are all replaced by robots.
Robots.
On the contrary: The robots aren't competitive in a market where people work for cheap, no benefits, and there's (literally) billions of them that would jump at the chance to have the job of repetitive labor.
That'll explain the recent stories about Chinese factories replacing humans with robots because the humans are too expensive (I seem to remember there was a story about Foxconn posted here a few weeks back).
Unfortunately most politicians aren't smart... at least not in the ways necessary to do that sort of planning. :-/
They are smart, at least the one I know. But they know that the next election is only a few years away and nothing beyond that election matters; if they get reelected they'll deal with whatever problems they've created by trying to push them further into the future, if they don't get reelected then they'll blame the problems on the other party anyway.
You can't do long-term thinking in a democracy because any politician who creates pain today for gain tomorrow doesn't get reelected unless the situation is already so bad that people are desperate for any solution.
Indeed. The Global Warming Scare is moving from stupid to outright insane; they seem so hung up on their 'warming is bad, mkay' propaganda that they're eager to kill off much of the world's population through artificial cooling.
Granted, they seem to be less viscous without Gates around to throw fits about stuff like this.
No, just less competent. They still want to own everything, but can't produce a product that people prefer over the competition; the closest they've got is the Xbox, and that's swallowed billions that it has yet to pay back.
Those stupid people on kernel.org using IIS. No wonder they got hacked. Morons !!
As far as I'm aware, Kernel.org was hacked using compromised user credentials. Kind of hard to protect a server which lets users log in remotely if said users lose the credentials required to log in and don't even realise they did so.
The idea that this data is somehow private is the crazy part, people are broadcasting on free access public spectrum. It would be like giving people the option to opt out of having their house on street view.
People leave their curtains open. That doesn't mean they expect someone to set up a webcam outside their house so anyone can watch what they're doing.
Don't talk crap. Mobile location can be extremely useful. You go to google, search for something, like skateboard, or restaurant, and you'll get the nearest offerings come up, on a map, with the option to navigate from your current location.
What if I'm not looking for the nearest location?
And what do I do when Google's idea of my location is not even in the same country, let alone the same town? When I was in Italy a couple of years ago Google was convinced that I was in Holland. Of course having the website come up in Dutch wasn't much worse than having it come up in Italian because I don't speak either language, so the 'user-friendly' location tracking was actively harmful either way.
Sorry, I forgot to check the user ID before I posted. If I'd realised it was him I'd have ignored it.
Visual Studio is great, but Eclipse is just as good as a platform. For some reason, every time I say this, I get modded down.
Probably because many of us have used both of them :).
I haven't used Visual Studio for two or three years, but it was far less annoying than any version of Eclipse I've used, didn't require gigabytes of RAM to run, didn't crash anywhere near as often, and didn't fill the disk up with hundreds of megabytes of workspace files that it would randomly corrupt with no means of fixing it.