The "25 Shortcomings of Vista" reeks of misconceptions or even just plain outright lies. I'm just going to pick out one that is, as you said, purely speculative. I have a samba server setup at home on Gentoo and I can access it just fine from linux. WinXP can access my Vista PC fine, as can my samba server mount and use a share I setup on Vista.
Also, #18:
Buried Controls Many options and controls are further buried, requiring a half-dozen mouse clicks or more to get to. Network settings and display settings are offenders here.
Funny, some might have said the same thing in WinXP, until they realized there is a classic view. Vista also has this classic view.
And, #25:
WordPad Ability to open.doc files has been removed.
Are they serious? Who the hell uses WordPad to open.doc files? I can't even believe they would list this as a shortcoming. When people want to open.doc files, they use the obvious program: Microsoft Word or OpenOffice. Besides, even when you could open.doc files in WordPad, it never opened them correctly - if the document contains images of any kind, don't count on viewing them, and it never got table data aligned correctly.
#8:
Activation The need to activate the product via the Web could prove to be a time-waster during mass deployments.
Key Management Service Your organization can host the Key Management Service (KMS) internally to automatically activate computers running Windows Vista. To use the KMS, you must have a minimum of 25 computers running Windows Vista that are connected together. Computers that have been activated through KMS will be required to reactivate by connecting to your organization's network at least every six months.
Currently the KMS software runs on a local computer running Windows Vista or the Microsoft Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" operating system. In the future, it will run on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system.
Last but not least, #6:
Memory Vista loves RAM, but more is better. Plan on 2 Gbytes to meet real-world needs.
No... just, no. Vista does use more RAM than WinXP, but why do you think that is? That's right, Aero and the Windows Sidebar. Between those two, I'm using a whopping 48 megs of RAM. You can always turn them off if your system is strapped for RAM. Right now my system is sitting at 696MB usage, which might seem like a lot, until you read that 452MB of that is for cache. So, I'm really only using 244MB.
McDonald's doesn't throw away their used oil. The oil is filtered daily, until it becomes useless (usually about a week). Once this happens, a third-party company comes to pump it out of their oil tanks and refill the tanks with new oil. This old oil is reprocessed to become useful again.
It's funny that I was modded flamebait. Maybe some mods have a personal interest rather than objective take on what I said? Nah...
So why did I say that? Because I believe it's true, of course. My first online fps I played was Unreal Tournament; you just can't beat the accuracy that a keyboard and mouse offer compared to a controller. I've been played online fps for years, yet when I sat down at an anime con (Anime Weekend Atlanta) and tried playing Halo, I failed miserably. Using the left analog stick to move around felt fine (although I still prefer a keyboard), but using the right analog stick to look around/aim was difficult.
Think about it terms of different types pointing devices: most laptops have a touchpad, but some have a 'nub' (not sure what they're called). It's a pointing stick of sorts, just like the analog stick on Xbox controllers. Now, let's say you have a choice between a nub and the touchpad. Which would you choose? I used to think I would choose the nub, but after using that Xbox controller I realized I would rather have the touchpad (or better yet, a real mouse).
This is why I say "wake me up when it works on my PC". Not because I have a bias towards PC gaming, but because the input devices are superior for certain types of games. I say certain games because a controller is better for quite a few. Platformers, RPGs, puzzle games, etc.; but for games like first person shooters and real-time strategies, I'll stick a keyboard and mouse, thanks.
Emerge is a python script that belongs to the portage ebuild. And portage is:
* sys-apps/portage
Latest version available: 2.1.1
Latest version installed: 2.1.1
Size of downloaded files: 1,029 kB
Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/index.xml Description: The Portage Package Management System. The primary package management and distribution system for Gentoo.
License: GPL-2
A little note on Gentoo: if you do the CLI-based install, yes, it doesn't prompt you to set a root password, and you're right, it does prompt it via documentation; however, with the livecds now available (as of 2006.0 release), you can use a console-based installer or gtk-based installer, both which do prompt to set the root password (gives a clear option to).
You compare PCI Express and AGP with USB and PS2, and you're comparing apples and oranges. PS/2 and USB can exist harmoniously; have you ever seen a motherboard with a PCI Express slot and AGP? I've never seen one, though they might exist, they're not common, and certainly not cost-effective. But, what really brings in the adoption of new hardware? Ah, it's the need for it, and the money to buy it.
It will make a good business, freezing people so their savings would grow and they could see the future.
I can see it now: I am the mayor of a small size city. Cryogenically frozen, I wake up years later to millions of dollars. The only bad thing is there are scattered floods, fire, and burned down buildings, and Godzilla is about to step on my pod. But hey, at least I made a lot of money! I can fix those pesky missing buildings and power outages later.
Please. Heating a house has nothing to do with America's dependency on foreign oil. Nearly all houses that don't use electricity directly for heating use natural gas, which is plentiful according to http://www.naturalgas.org/overview/resources.asp - 1090.997 Tcf (trillion cubic feet).
If you and your friend are drinking one night and say something like, "Yo, we need to pop a cap in Mr. X's ass." and one of you goes out and purchases a deer rifle - an overzealous DA can press charges and you'll probably be convicted by the average jury.... even if the conversation wasn't serious and you bought the rifle for a deer hunt.
As one of my English teachers in high school said (poorly paraphrased), "We can sit here and talk about what if's all day, but at the end of the day, none of it ever happened."
I didn't know Myspace was a pre-requisite for the exchange of emails and phone calls, nor that the going rate for "facilitating" rape was thirty fucking million dollars.
Even if Myspace *was* a pre-requisite for email, the rape didn't occur on-line. She met someone on-line and then decided to follow-up with a personal get-together. Where was her mother when she was getting ready for her "date"? What kind of mother teaches a 14-year-old girl that it's OK to meet strange guys? Finally, what's to say that age-verification would have prevented the rape? Do they really think that she would have been totally safe if she was meeting a completely anonymous boy her own age?
I was going to mod you down as troll for such a tunnel vision comment, but I'll reply.
Who cares if he's doing it for the sake of his company also? Even if he's doing it solely for his company, hats off to him for using his weight with Google to try to do something good.
You're downplaying the original CSS redesign. Before the redesign, Slashdot was not anywhere near CSS/HTML spec compliant. The redesign accomplished 2 things:
- pages load faster due to smaller pages - seperated most of the styling from the content (CSS) - easier to maintain/modify
Don't downplay the original CSS redesign. While the front look may have not been altered much, a lot of changes went on behind the scenes.
The scenario you paint isn't similar. They are requiring (certain) business -- which, by the way, require licenses from the government to operate -- to secure their networks; although I do not agree that the steps the law outlines is anywhere being close to secure, that isn't the point of this post. Making it a criminal offense to not lock your door is not the same as making it a criminal offense not to secure your wireless network. Does leaving your door unlocked allow multiple people to use your house to commit crimes? Yes, you could argue that someone could do this, but it wouldn't be very long before they were caught and arrested.
Business who run wireless networks need to secure them; I say, leave the broadcast and default SSID on, but require instead for a key to be used to get on the wireless network. Problem solved.
You don't get it. George Carlin is implying that by calling it a "near miss" you're downplaying the seriousness of it. Call it what it is, a "near hit".
"here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. Bullshit, my friend. It's a near hit! A collision is a near miss." - Airline Announcements, George Carlin
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Oh you mean because permissions/ownership properties aren't retained? Ah well, it's still fine.
Just a guess, but the TCP/IP stack and everything that ties into it?
Also, #18:
Funny, some might have said the same thing in WinXP, until they realized there is a classic view. Vista also has this classic view.
And, #25:
Are they serious? Who the hell uses WordPad to open
#8:
I suppose the author of the article missed the article on their own website about key management servers, and also on the Microsoft support website, which states:
Last but not least, #6:
No... just, no. Vista does use more RAM than WinXP, but why do you think that is? That's right, Aero and the Windows Sidebar. Between those two, I'm using a whopping 48 megs of RAM. You can always turn them off if your system is strapped for RAM. Right now my system is sitting at 696MB usage, which might seem like a lot, until you read that 452MB of that is for cache. So, I'm really only using 244MB.
McDonald's doesn't throw away their used oil. The oil is filtered daily, until it becomes useless (usually about a week). Once this happens, a third-party company comes to pump it out of their oil tanks and refill the tanks with new oil. This old oil is reprocessed to become useful again.
uTorrent is smaller and faster. The downside is that it isn't cross-platform (and very ugly when using wine).
It's funny that I was modded flamebait. Maybe some mods have a personal interest rather than objective take on what I said? Nah...
So why did I say that? Because I believe it's true, of course. My first online fps I played was Unreal Tournament; you just can't beat the accuracy that a keyboard and mouse offer compared to a controller. I've been played online fps for years, yet when I sat down at an anime con (Anime Weekend Atlanta) and tried playing Halo, I failed miserably. Using the left analog stick to move around felt fine (although I still prefer a keyboard), but using the right analog stick to look around/aim was difficult.
Think about it terms of different types pointing devices: most laptops have a touchpad, but some have a 'nub' (not sure what they're called). It's a pointing stick of sorts, just like the analog stick on Xbox controllers. Now, let's say you have a choice between a nub and the touchpad. Which would you choose? I used to think I would choose the nub, but after using that Xbox controller I realized I would rather have the touchpad (or better yet, a real mouse).
This is why I say "wake me up when it works on my PC". Not because I have a bias towards PC gaming, but because the input devices are superior for certain types of games. I say certain games because a controller is better for quite a few. Platformers, RPGs, puzzle games, etc.; but for games like first person shooters and real-time strategies, I'll stick a keyboard and mouse, thanks.
Wake me up when it runs on my PC. For first person shooters, keyboard + mouse > controller.
* sys-apps/portage
Latest version available: 2.1.1
Latest version installed: 2.1.1
Size of downloaded files: 1,029 kB
Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/index.xml
Description: The Portage Package Management System. The primary package management and distribution system for Gentoo.
License: GPL-2
WGA isn't required for SP2, it's a separate download.
A little note on Gentoo: if you do the CLI-based install, yes, it doesn't prompt you to set a root password, and you're right, it does prompt it via documentation; however, with the livecds now available (as of 2006.0 release), you can use a console-based installer or gtk-based installer, both which do prompt to set the root password (gives a clear option to).
You compare PCI Express and AGP with USB and PS2, and you're comparing apples and oranges. PS/2 and USB can exist harmoniously; have you ever seen a motherboard with a PCI Express slot and AGP? I've never seen one, though they might exist, they're not common, and certainly not cost-effective. But, what really brings in the adoption of new hardware? Ah, it's the need for it, and the money to buy it.
Agent Switcher for Firefox is an easy way around the agent check.
I can see it now: I am the mayor of a small size city. Cryogenically frozen, I wake up years later to millions of dollars. The only bad thing is there are scattered floods, fire, and burned down buildings, and Godzilla is about to step on my pod. But hey, at least I made a lot of money! I can fix those pesky missing buildings and power outages later.
Please. Heating a house has nothing to do with America's dependency on foreign oil. Nearly all houses that don't use electricity directly for heating use natural gas, which is plentiful according to http://www.naturalgas.org/overview/resources.asp - 1090.997 Tcf (trillion cubic feet).
As one of my English teachers in high school said (poorly paraphrased), "We can sit here and talk about what if's all day, but at the end of the day, none of it ever happened."
Don't forget the defense lawyer. He deserves it for just being there.
It's because you're using the wrong position type. Use "fixed" instead.
I am not a lawyer, but it wasn't rape. The article clearly states "sexual assault". That is a broad definition and varies from state to state. See: http://www.google.com/search?q=define:sexual+assa
I was going to mod you down as troll for such a tunnel vision comment, but I'll reply.
Who cares if he's doing it for the sake of his company also? Even if he's doing it solely for his company, hats off to him for using his weight with Google to try to do something good.
You're downplaying the original CSS redesign. Before the redesign, Slashdot was not anywhere near CSS/HTML spec compliant. The redesign accomplished 2 things:
- pages load faster due to smaller pages
- seperated most of the styling from the content (CSS)
- easier to maintain/modify
Don't downplay the original CSS redesign. While the front look may have not been altered much, a lot of changes went on behind the scenes.
The scenario you paint isn't similar. They are requiring (certain) business -- which, by the way, require licenses from the government to operate -- to secure their networks; although I do not agree that the steps the law outlines is anywhere being close to secure, that isn't the point of this post. Making it a criminal offense to not lock your door is not the same as making it a criminal offense not to secure your wireless network. Does leaving your door unlocked allow multiple people to use your house to commit crimes? Yes, you could argue that someone could do this, but it wouldn't be very long before they were caught and arrested.
Business who run wireless networks need to secure them; I say, leave the broadcast and default SSID on, but require instead for a key to be used to get on the wireless network. Problem solved.
You didn't read the fine summary. This guy is calling into work. If he does it enough he'll lose his job. You don't think that's serious?
Where do you get this? I have been a customer with Vonage for a long time (July 2004) and have never had to sign a one-year contract.
You don't get it. George Carlin is implying that by calling it a "near miss" you're downplaying the seriousness of it. Call it what it is, a "near hit".
"here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. Bullshit, my friend. It's a near hit! A collision is a near miss." - Airline Announcements, George Carlin