I call bullshit, Win 2K and XP are about dead even in stability, and with driver focus having moved on to XP I would say it is slightly more stable overall. And NT4 had marginal memory management at best and was overall far less stable than 2000. Sounds like a lot of justification for being cheap and not upgrading to me.
TomsHardware pretty much sucks I think it is safe to reason that only admins who suck would participate in the survey. I have personally rolled out SP2 to over 1,000 client machines with no issues; update your BIOS, update your apps, apply SP2, have fewer issues. Is it really that hard to do your job?
Keep patting yourself on the back for choosing a different platform, it is most typical of the Linux community. The last thing I need is your "respect" if it is only based on agreeing with your viewpoint, it isn't worth having.
What a bunch of nonsense, only here at the peoples republic of/. could MS acknowledging application compatability be construed as a move to monopolize other software categories. Honestly, do you read what you post, you are saying MS is trying to kill off third party firewall/anti-spyware/anti-virus software so they can charge for it, when the already give away a firewall and anti-spyware software for free.
I'll tell you what has gotten old, and has been for a while, the "Anything Buy Microsoft" crowd and their double standards. You chill out Bitch, my Gentoo box suits me just fine when I want to use it, but I choose to use MS products for the majority of my productivity.
and have not gone to SP2 yet, you have ZERO rights to bitch. I snagged SP2 off a torrent (right here at/.) the day it officially hit MSDN and have not had an issue. I have rolled it out professionally on over 600 machines with no issues, there are no serious application compatability issues if you patch your apps. Combine SP2 with MS anti-spyware beta and some decent anti-virus software and you are in for a much better experience and far fewer worries. I am kind of shocked at how low the SP2 install base currently is, this just proves that most people want to bitch about Windows but when given the chance to fix it they won't. If MS gives you the tools to secure your PC but you can't be bothered then whose responsibility is it?
The only way to take reviews seriously is to read a cross-section of reviews from a variety of sites and reader comments. To put all your faith in to "enthusiast sites" is risky at best. That said there are several I do trust, and unlike the author I will "name names"; Anandtech, Xbit, HardOCP and TechReport. Even with those sites the extent of my trust is limited, and if your web shopping isn't balanced with a healthy dose of skepticism you are in for a bumpy ride.
And it is not just the hardware sites that are guilty, the entire body of supposed computer journalist are questionable in my book. From Dvorak and his (now incoherent) ramblings to Bob Cringeley and his imaginary industry insider information to Cnet an their long history of "pay for play" reviews, the whole business is a mess. Even consumer opinion sites are questionable as we now know many sites remove unfavorable reviews for certain products (how many bad reviews have you ever read at Newegg??) or allow authors and publishers to hide behind user names (Amazon).
How many sites and print rags came out and called the Mac mini what it really is (a slow and slightly over-priced home computer)? Hardly any were honest, and most sites ran with the "fast enough for most task" excuse, but these are the same sites/magazines/newspapers who shred the Celeron for only being "fast enough for most task" when in most cases the current crop of Celeron Ds are faster at those basic task than the G4. Is this not clearly bias? If it's not being paid for then it is, at the very least, a type of advocacy that does not belong in tech journalism.
The same comparison can be made when Linux distros are reviewed, Windows vs. Linux articles, etc... As long as web reports and tech journalist in general dabble in "Anything But Microsoft" advocacy the industry will continue to ignore them, and in many cases rightfully so. The only way web journalism will be taken seriously is if it embraces a higher standard.
people should put some effort into using their PC or put it back in the box and return it. There comes a point where users have to be responsible for their actions and security and I don't see it getting much more dumbed down. You can turn on Automatic Updates, firewalls, anti-virus and anti-spyware scanners (all with automatic update functions) but if you are too lazy to read the dialog box that says your definitions are grossly out of date, or too cheap to pay for a subscription upgrade then you get what you deserve.
I can't tell you how many users I have watched over the years dismiss every dialog box with an affirmative answer and then scream how much their computer sucks when it does what they told it to do. I always get the "oooh, I'm so lucky to know a geek like you, how do you figure all of this out?" when 90% of the time the answer is RTFM. Yes, some of what we do is deeply technical, but on the desktop it isn't nearly that mystical. Put some F'ing effort in people.
I was moving my father in-law over to a new PC last month, I had told him to burn his data to a CD so we could just copy it to his new PC (his old PC was sans network card and not worth investing in). When I came over he handed me a CD but said he had newer files that he also needed. I suggested he burn those to a CD while I started copying these over to his new PC... he asked me how to do that? I replied "the same you created this disk, just with the newer files" and he sat and stared at the desktop??? He is far from senile and a fairly responsible person at work (even holds a couple degrees) but doing the same task twice was simply beyond him? I discussed spyware and virus stuff with him, explained the Windows Firewall, etc... He was simply at a loss, even though I worked very hard to keep it simple. There comes a point where the industry can't make it any easier and people have to either commit to learning and find another interest.
What the hell, does Gov. Taft post on/.? Who else would defend Ohio by labeling my post as flamebaite, not anyone who lives here and isn't milking the state government gravy train, that is for certain. Learn to moderate or don't use the points idiots. Ohio is in bad shape from one end to the other, there is no denying this.
But if the job market keeps retracting like it has I won't be here much longer, can't afford to stay. And Cleveland is such a mess now and there seems to be no hope of it turning around yet a third time. Last one out of town shut out the lights...
okay, you put your data on it, I'll wait right here until you get back to me. I seem to recall Hitachi having quite a few quality issues before and after they bought IBMs drive unit.
thousands of dollars with rebates. Anyone who can't handle this procedure is either lazy or stupid, it is just too simple. And people who act like they "don't have the time to be bothered" are trying to convince themselves, not everyone else. That's too bad, there are a lot of reasons I don't shop at Best Buy often, now there is one more.
"file trading isn't stealing, it is a violation of copyright law. Also, there is a reason to believe that file trading actually helps the artists by increasing the public's awareness of their music/art/whatever."
The sad part is you actually have repeated this bullshit enough you probably now believe it.
Hold on there pal, I'm from Apple's credit department, you still owe us the following...
1. One arm, left or right, your choice
2. One leg, again, your choice
3. 1/5th of your immortal soul
and you have not finished your KoolAid. When those task are complete you may commence eating your Mac. And good news, if you need to replace it, we know accept.....
95% of the support people I have to call for additional information speak English as a second language
95% of all projects are scoped by non-technical people who don't really understand what they are asking for
...and that is just the stuff off the top of my head, if I really stop to think about it I might weep. And none of you politically correct whiners start up with the whole "xenophobe/global economy/blah blah blah" nonsense, 95% of phone support people suck no matter what language they speak but when I have to call MS at 3a.m. to get an unsupported HotFix it makes it that much harder when I have to repeat myself 3 times.
Well, you would be wrong, I ordered one the night of the keynote speech, and while I loved the form factor it was SLOOOWWWW. I let my wife try it for a week, the way it hung on loading web pages and even simple stuff like cropping photos drove her nuts, and I had the 1.42/512/80gb/BT+AE model. Thanks for proving my point, anyone who doesn't like Apple is automatically trolling. Bottom line, the mini is slow and outdated for many users, and while everyone (myself included) was oooohhhing and aaaahhhing over the form factor the truth slipped by; once again form trumps function with Apple.
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I call bullshit, Win 2K and XP are about dead even in stability, and with driver focus having moved on to XP I would say it is slightly more stable overall. And NT4 had marginal memory management at best and was overall far less stable than 2000. Sounds like a lot of justification for being cheap and not upgrading to me.
TomsHardware pretty much sucks I think it is safe to reason that only admins who suck would participate in the survey. I have personally rolled out SP2 to over 1,000 client machines with no issues; update your BIOS, update your apps, apply SP2, have fewer issues. Is it really that hard to do your job?
Keep patting yourself on the back for choosing a different platform, it is most typical of the Linux community. The last thing I need is your "respect" if it is only based on agreeing with your viewpoint, it isn't worth having.
It is, for better or worse, what a large part of the computing population uses while you pat yourself on the back for being different.
I'll tell you what has gotten old, and has been for a while, the "Anything Buy Microsoft" crowd and their double standards. You chill out Bitch, my Gentoo box suits me just fine when I want to use it, but I choose to use MS products for the majority of my productivity.
Because there aren't that many, although I know it makes Mac zealots feel much better to believe there are.
Did you notice the part where this only effects Enterprise Customers? So your points, while valid in a sense, don't apply to this discussion.
and have not gone to SP2 yet, you have ZERO rights to bitch. I snagged SP2 off a torrent (right here at /.) the day it officially hit MSDN and have not had an issue. I have rolled it out professionally on over 600 machines with no issues, there are no serious application compatability issues if you patch your apps. Combine SP2 with MS anti-spyware beta and some decent anti-virus software and you are in for a much better experience and far fewer worries. I am kind of shocked at how low the SP2 install base currently is, this just proves that most people want to bitch about Windows but when given the chance to fix it they won't. If MS gives you the tools to secure your PC but you can't be bothered then whose responsibility is it?
I'm surprised you can handle Linux if you found SP2 so confounding, but I really enjoyed your FUD.
And it is not just the hardware sites that are guilty, the entire body of supposed computer journalist are questionable in my book. From Dvorak and his (now incoherent) ramblings to Bob Cringeley and his imaginary industry insider information to Cnet an their long history of "pay for play" reviews, the whole business is a mess. Even consumer opinion sites are questionable as we now know many sites remove unfavorable reviews for certain products (how many bad reviews have you ever read at Newegg??) or allow authors and publishers to hide behind user names (Amazon).
How many sites and print rags came out and called the Mac mini what it really is (a slow and slightly over-priced home computer)? Hardly any were honest, and most sites ran with the "fast enough for most task" excuse, but these are the same sites/magazines/newspapers who shred the Celeron for only being "fast enough for most task" when in most cases the current crop of Celeron Ds are faster at those basic task than the G4. Is this not clearly bias? If it's not being paid for then it is, at the very least, a type of advocacy that does not belong in tech journalism.
The same comparison can be made when Linux distros are reviewed, Windows vs. Linux articles, etc... As long as web reports and tech journalist in general dabble in "Anything But Microsoft" advocacy the industry will continue to ignore them, and in many cases rightfully so. The only way web journalism will be taken seriously is if it embraces a higher standard.
I can't tell you how many users I have watched over the years dismiss every dialog box with an affirmative answer and then scream how much their computer sucks when it does what they told it to do. I always get the "oooh, I'm so lucky to know a geek like you, how do you figure all of this out?" when 90% of the time the answer is RTFM. Yes, some of what we do is deeply technical, but on the desktop it isn't nearly that mystical. Put some F'ing effort in people.
I was moving my father in-law over to a new PC last month, I had told him to burn his data to a CD so we could just copy it to his new PC (his old PC was sans network card and not worth investing in). When I came over he handed me a CD but said he had newer files that he also needed. I suggested he burn those to a CD while I started copying these over to his new PC... he asked me how to do that? I replied "the same you created this disk, just with the newer files" and he sat and stared at the desktop??? He is far from senile and a fairly responsible person at work (even holds a couple degrees) but doing the same task twice was simply beyond him? I discussed spyware and virus stuff with him, explained the Windows Firewall, etc... He was simply at a loss, even though I worked very hard to keep it simple. There comes a point where the industry can't make it any easier and people have to either commit to learning and find another interest.
What the hell, does Gov. Taft post on /.? Who else would defend Ohio by labeling my post as flamebaite, not anyone who lives here and isn't milking the state government gravy train, that is for certain. Learn to moderate or don't use the points idiots. Ohio is in bad shape from one end to the other, there is no denying this.
But if the job market keeps retracting like it has I won't be here much longer, can't afford to stay. And Cleveland is such a mess now and there seems to be no hope of it turning around yet a third time. Last one out of town shut out the lights...
Trust me, even free state wide wi-fi would not be a good reason to stay here, run far away and never speak those words aloud.
okay, you put your data on it, I'll wait right here until you get back to me. I seem to recall Hitachi having quite a few quality issues before and after they bought IBMs drive unit.
thousands of dollars with rebates. Anyone who can't handle this procedure is either lazy or stupid, it is just too simple. And people who act like they "don't have the time to be bothered" are trying to convince themselves, not everyone else. That's too bad, there are a lot of reasons I don't shop at Best Buy often, now there is one more.
The sad part is you actually have repeated this bullshit enough you probably now believe it.
open sores software?
1. One arm, left or right, your choice
2. One leg, again, your choice
3. 1/5th of your immortal soul
and you have not finished your KoolAid. When those task are complete you may commence eating your Mac. And good news, if you need to replace it, we know accept.....
wait for it...
that's right, babies!!!!
I wish I had mod points sir, because you get it. You hit multiple nails firmly on the head, etc...
Okay, who ratted me out, which one of you? Step forward and there will be no trouble...
I already work late 95% of the year
95% of the support people I have to call for additional information speak English as a second language
95% of all projects are scoped by non-technical people who don't really understand what they are asking for
...and that is just the stuff off the top of my head, if I really stop to think about it I might weep. And none of you politically correct whiners start up with the whole "xenophobe/global economy/blah blah blah" nonsense, 95% of phone support people suck no matter what language they speak but when I have to call MS at 3a.m. to get an unsupported HotFix it makes it that much harder when I have to repeat myself 3 times.
seraching for XXX pR0n than anything to do with Vin Diesel.
fine support folks in India? Seems reasonable to me...
Well, you would be wrong, I ordered one the night of the keynote speech, and while I loved the form factor it was SLOOOWWWW. I let my wife try it for a week, the way it hung on loading web pages and even simple stuff like cropping photos drove her nuts, and I had the 1.42/512/80gb/BT+AE model. Thanks for proving my point, anyone who doesn't like Apple is automatically trolling. Bottom line, the mini is slow and outdated for many users, and while everyone (myself included) was oooohhhing and aaaahhhing over the form factor the truth slipped by; once again form trumps function with Apple.