Only people who didn't read the directions turned it all the way off.
The rest always click 'Yes', because they have no idea what it means.
UAC was a good idea, but it's an appalling implementation; it tells you little that's useful about what the program is trying to do and half the time the window comes up minimised so the application just appears to have hung.
I'm sure that if you install linux from a distro that's 2-3 years old that updating all of that goes really quickly and smoothly.
And that Linux distro includes thousands of applications, probably a few dozen installed by default, whereas Windows is just the operating system and a web browser.
Install just the base OS, X11 and Firefox and I suspect you'll see far less security updates on the Linux system than Vista.
"even hackers admit we're doing a better job making our products more secure than anyone else"
It's much easier to make your products more secure when they start out as a huge mass of security holes than when they're already secure by design; fixing a hundred Windows security bugs probably takes less time than finding a single Linux security bug.
It a whole lot more objective than leaving it up to police officers.
If every law was 'objectively' enforced 24/7, life would be unbearable and most of us would be in jail; the end result would be social collapse or civil war.
I doubt anyone who's stood in a British railway station watching a diesel locomotive idling at the platform spewing out black clouds of particulates could really consider them 'green'; similarly a British university study a few years back found that the average commute on the London Underground was as harmful to your health as smoking a couple of cigarettes because of all the junk in the air down there.
Nor are they even particularly energy-efficient unless they're packed to capacity, which they won't be if you're using the full capacity of the tracks in order to make the best use of all that hugely expensive infrastructure; if you're running trains on a regular basis all day long you can pretty much guarantee that most will be half-empty.
Why wouldn't it, if all it takes to reach a new audience (even if small) is a simple recompile?
So you seriously think that Foobarsoft is going to recompile their software for ARM and ship it straight out the door without first doing a thorough QA program to check that it actually works?
Ah, based on past experience of Windows software, I guess you may be right.
If ARM netbooks/tablets with Windows come out, you can be sure that many Windows applications will be quickly ported to ARM. For most, it would be just a recompile away, anyway.
But if I have to buy my applications again, why would I bother with Windows? And if all I get is a recompiled mouse-and-keyboard application, why would I want to run it on a tablet?
And why will Foobarsoft recompile its Windows applications for ARM until there's a market big enough to worry about?
Hence "its better with Windows" being plastered on the promo sites for certain eee models last year.
The funny part is that my EeePC works so much better with Linux than it does with Windows... I don't even remember the last time I booted it into the Windows partition.
Actually, thanks to.Net a lot of windows applications won't even need a recompile.
Sticking Windows and then.Net onto an ARM and telling people that it will run their Windows applications sounds like a recipe for disaster; half of them will discover that most of the Windows apps they own won't run, and the other half will discover that they run so slow they weren't worth bothering with in the first place.
I can only assume that Asus are announcing this now to win some goodies from Microsoft but won't be dumb enough to actually release it.
But I suspect people will still want to run applications on it.
The only reason to run Windows is to run Windows applications, so if Windows applications don't run, why would anyone choose it over Linux or iWhatever?
So am I the only one noticing the growing trend to vilify capitalism and individualism in this country?
If you're only just noticing then you must have missed most of the last century when 'progressives' took over the US government to the point where even most so-called 'conservatives' today would have been considered far-left a century ago.
Whitmore says the investment Apple's customers have made in content for those devices in terms of apps, videos, and music purchased at the iTunes Store creates Apple's 'stickiness.'
Wow, it's almost like Windows where the thousands of dollars worth of Windows software I own are the only thing keeping me stuck to having a Windows PC in the house.
The Delta IV and Atlas V rockets are proven for cargo. To get a rocket 'man rated', i.e. ready for a human to launch in, requires vastly different engineering.
No it doesn't. The cost of 'man-rating' the Delta and Atlas would be under a billion dollars; it's primarily a matter of trajectory changes to allow safe aborts, and allowing an abort to orbit after an engine failure.
After all, the shuttle is 'man rated' and kills its crew about 2.5% of the time, so it's a pretty damn low bar to pass; any current expendable with a launch escape system would be safer..
To be fair to Intel, most graphics cards then were on the PCI bus, not AGP, so they didn't have the opportunity to use the host RAM except via a very slow mechanism.
If by 'most' you mean 'Voodoo-2', yes. From what I remember all the cards I was using at the time Intel was trying to sell the i740 (Permedia-2, TNT, etc) were on the AGP bus.
I believe 3dfx were pretty much the last holdouts on PCI, because game developers had deliberately restricted their games to run well on Voodoo cards, thereby ensuring that they didn't need much bus bandwidth (any game which actually took advantage of AGP features so it ran well on a TNT but badly on a Voodoo was slated in reviews).
The i740 card.... great expections, poor real world experience.
Everyone I knew in the graphics business thought that Intel had gone completely insane with the i740; other companies were trying to cram more and more faster and faster RAM onto their cards while Intel were going to use slow system RAM over a snail-like AGP bus.
So I'd say the expectations were pretty low, at least among those who knew what they were talking about.
Compared to PCs, yes, but not when compared to the rest of the 'real Unix' market. Back in the 90s we had servers and workstations from many Unix vendors and the Suns were generally the cheapest of the bunch and the easiest to work with.
Why do you assume a different GUI means it won't run the same apps?
How are you going to take a mouse-and-keyboard GUI and magically turn it into a touch GUI without rewriting any code?
Sure, you can use a finger to move a mouse pointer and a pop-up keyboard to type, but the whole point of the thread is that that is a lousy interface for a tablet.
The problem with Windows on a tablet is the GUI, not the OS.
The problem with Windows on a tablet is that people only buy Windows to run Windows apps, so with a new GUI that doesn't run Windows apps there's no reason to buy a 'Windows' tablet rather than one that runs MacOS or Linux.
There is no reason why you can't run Windows 7 on a slate with a different GUI that is custom-tailored to a touchscreen environment.
Sure. You just can't run any Windows applications without rewriting them to use the new GUI.
In which case, what's the point of paying the Windows tax?
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NetworkManager is an abortion that doesn't play well with the usual Unixy config files, but is strangely necessary for the desktop to operate correctly. I think this finally got fixed in more recent versions (Fedora 12).
I tried the beta at the weekend and NetworkManager resolutely refused to enable my wireless LAN; I had to go to the command line and 'ifup wlan0' to get it to work. I guess that's better than the Ubuntu NetworkManager repeatedly asking for my 64-character WPA2 password even though it's already been configured.
Audio is just plain broken. Major features -- such as the ability to mix external audio -- have been missing since Fedora 11. Nobody seems to care, or know how the new audio system, Pulse Audio, works.
It's not just Fedora, I don't believe anyone anywhere knows how Pulse Audio works:).
Every Kilo counts - there are no tricks, or move closer to the equator.
First stage mass makes little difference to overall performance because it doesn't have to be carried into space... if the first stage is heavier you typically just load more fuel to compensate, and fuel is generally cheap compared to the hardware in the first stage (obviously that's not true for the shuttle SRBs, which is another reason why they were a really dumb idea).
It's pretty amazing that they even were able to track the problem down to a particular bit.
To be fair, Voyager doesn't have many bits in its memory:). Tracking down a bad bit is much easier when you have 4k of RAM than when you have 4GB of RAM.
I guess that the "classic" hard drives will reach some sort of physical limit sometime in the (not so distant) future.
I believe you'll find that SSDs are closer to their physical limits than hard drives are at this point, though both are likely to hit those limits before long; as I understand it flash memory isn't expected to scale down more than another two or three generations of transistor size.
And there are far more people willing to spend $200 on a 3TB hard drive than there are willing to spend $200 on an 80GB SSD.
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Only people who didn't read the directions turned it all the way off.
The rest always click 'Yes', because they have no idea what it means.
UAC was a good idea, but it's an appalling implementation; it tells you little that's useful about what the program is trying to do and half the time the window comes up minimised so the application just appears to have hung.
I'm sure that if you install linux from a distro that's 2-3 years old that updating all of that goes really quickly and smoothly.
And that Linux distro includes thousands of applications, probably a few dozen installed by default, whereas Windows is just the operating system and a web browser.
Install just the base OS, X11 and Firefox and I suspect you'll see far less security updates on the Linux system than Vista.
"even hackers admit we're doing a better job making our products more secure than anyone else"
It's much easier to make your products more secure when they start out as a huge mass of security holes than when they're already secure by design; fixing a hundred Windows security bugs probably takes less time than finding a single Linux security bug.
It a whole lot more objective than leaving it up to police officers.
If every law was 'objectively' enforced 24/7, life would be unbearable and most of us would be in jail; the end result would be social collapse or civil war.
The only 64 bit flash is an outdated alpha so you really should not be using that one.
If you count a 64-bit build of the latest released version of Flash as 'outdated', yes.
As far as I can see the 64-bit 'alpha' works just as well as the 32-bit Flash on Linux. Of course that's not saying much.
I doubt anyone who's stood in a British railway station watching a diesel locomotive idling at the platform spewing out black clouds of particulates could really consider them 'green'; similarly a British university study a few years back found that the average commute on the London Underground was as harmful to your health as smoking a couple of cigarettes because of all the junk in the air down there.
Nor are they even particularly energy-efficient unless they're packed to capacity, which they won't be if you're using the full capacity of the tracks in order to make the best use of all that hugely expensive infrastructure; if you're running trains on a regular basis all day long you can pretty much guarantee that most will be half-empty.
Why wouldn't it, if all it takes to reach a new audience (even if small) is a simple recompile?
So you seriously think that Foobarsoft is going to recompile their software for ARM and ship it straight out the door without first doing a thorough QA program to check that it actually works?
Ah, based on past experience of Windows software, I guess you may be right.
If ARM netbooks/tablets with Windows come out, you can be sure that many Windows applications will be quickly ported to ARM. For most, it would be just a recompile away, anyway.
But if I have to buy my applications again, why would I bother with Windows? And if all I get is a recompiled mouse-and-keyboard application, why would I want to run it on a tablet?
And why will Foobarsoft recompile its Windows applications for ARM until there's a market big enough to worry about?
Hence "its better with Windows" being plastered on the promo sites for certain eee models last year.
The funny part is that my EeePC works so much better with Linux than it does with Windows... I don't even remember the last time I booted it into the Windows partition.
Actually, thanks to .Net a lot of windows applications won't even need a recompile.
Sticking Windows and then .Net onto an ARM and telling people that it will run their Windows applications sounds like a recipe for disaster; half of them will discover that most of the Windows apps they own won't run, and the other half will discover that they run so slow they weren't worth bothering with in the first place.
I can only assume that Asus are announcing this now to win some goodies from Microsoft but won't be dumb enough to actually release it.
It's a tablet, not a desktop.
But I suspect people will still want to run applications on it.
The only reason to run Windows is to run Windows applications, so if Windows applications don't run, why would anyone choose it over Linux or iWhatever?
So am I the only one noticing the growing trend to vilify capitalism and individualism in this country?
If you're only just noticing then you must have missed most of the last century when 'progressives' took over the US government to the point where even most so-called 'conservatives' today would have been considered far-left a century ago.
Whitmore says the investment Apple's customers have made in content for those devices in terms of apps, videos, and music purchased at the iTunes Store creates Apple's 'stickiness.'
Wow, it's almost like Windows where the thousands of dollars worth of Windows software I own are the only thing keeping me stuck to having a Windows PC in the house.
The Delta IV and Atlas V rockets are proven for cargo. To get a rocket 'man rated', i.e. ready for a human to launch in, requires vastly different engineering.
No it doesn't. The cost of 'man-rating' the Delta and Atlas would be under a billion dollars; it's primarily a matter of trajectory changes to allow safe aborts, and allowing an abort to orbit after an engine failure.
After all, the shuttle is 'man rated' and kills its crew about 2.5% of the time, so it's a pretty damn low bar to pass; any current expendable with a launch escape system would be safer..
To be fair to Intel, most graphics cards then were on the PCI bus, not AGP, so they didn't have the opportunity to use the host RAM except via a very slow mechanism.
If by 'most' you mean 'Voodoo-2', yes. From what I remember all the cards I was using at the time Intel was trying to sell the i740 (Permedia-2, TNT, etc) were on the AGP bus.
I believe 3dfx were pretty much the last holdouts on PCI, because game developers had deliberately restricted their games to run well on Voodoo cards, thereby ensuring that they didn't need much bus bandwidth (any game which actually took advantage of AGP features so it ran well on a TNT but badly on a Voodoo was slated in reviews).
The i740 card.... great expections, poor real world experience.
Everyone I knew in the graphics business thought that Intel had gone completely insane with the i740; other companies were trying to cram more and more faster and faster RAM onto their cards while Intel were going to use slow system RAM over a snail-like AGP bus.
So I'd say the expectations were pretty low, at least among those who knew what they were talking about.
the people leading the industry are buying it and they think a closed environment, the most closed environment since ENIAC (!) is a good thing.
Of course they do; they all want to own that 'closed environment'.
Few things make a 'business leader' happier than owning a profitable monopoly.
Sun Hardware was actually quite pricy...
Compared to PCs, yes, but not when compared to the rest of the 'real Unix' market. Back in the 90s we had servers and workstations from many Unix vendors and the Suns were generally the cheapest of the bunch and the easiest to work with.
Why do you assume a different GUI means it won't run the same apps?
How are you going to take a mouse-and-keyboard GUI and magically turn it into a touch GUI without rewriting any code?
Sure, you can use a finger to move a mouse pointer and a pop-up keyboard to type, but the whole point of the thread is that that is a lousy interface for a tablet.
The problem with Windows on a tablet is the GUI, not the OS.
The problem with Windows on a tablet is that people only buy Windows to run Windows apps, so with a new GUI that doesn't run Windows apps there's no reason to buy a 'Windows' tablet rather than one that runs MacOS or Linux.
There is no reason why you can't run Windows 7 on a slate with a different GUI that is custom-tailored to a touchscreen environment.
Sure. You just can't run any Windows applications without rewriting them to use the new GUI.
In which case, what's the point of paying the Windows tax?
NetworkManager is an abortion that doesn't play well with the usual Unixy config files, but is strangely necessary for the desktop to operate correctly. I think this finally got fixed in more recent versions (Fedora 12).
I tried the beta at the weekend and NetworkManager resolutely refused to enable my wireless LAN; I had to go to the command line and 'ifup wlan0' to get it to work. I guess that's better than the Ubuntu NetworkManager repeatedly asking for my 64-character WPA2 password even though it's already been configured.
Audio is just plain broken. Major features -- such as the ability to mix external audio -- have been missing since Fedora 11. Nobody seems to care, or know how the new audio system, Pulse Audio, works.
It's not just Fedora, I don't believe anyone anywhere knows how Pulse Audio works :).
Every Kilo counts - there are no tricks, or move closer to the equator.
First stage mass makes little difference to overall performance because it doesn't have to be carried into space... if the first stage is heavier you typically just load more fuel to compensate, and fuel is generally cheap compared to the hardware in the first stage (obviously that's not true for the shuttle SRBs, which is another reason why they were a really dumb idea).
It's pretty amazing that they even were able to track the problem down to a particular bit.
To be fair, Voyager doesn't have many bits in its memory :). Tracking down a bad bit is much easier when you have 4k of RAM than when you have 4GB of RAM.
I guess that the "classic" hard drives will reach some sort of physical limit sometime in the (not so distant) future.
I believe you'll find that SSDs are closer to their physical limits than hard drives are at this point, though both are likely to hit those limits before long; as I understand it flash memory isn't expected to scale down more than another two or three generations of transistor size.
And there are far more people willing to spend $200 on a 3TB hard drive than there are willing to spend $200 on an 80GB SSD.