i personally had high hopes for vista. Back when they were talking about how the entire thing was rewritten from the ground up. How features like IE were removed from the Kernel, and turned into ordinary apps. I was looking forward to the fact that MSFT would finally fore users and developers to deal with multiple users per computer in a proper way. That the mess that was win32 would be tossed completely in favor of ONLY Aero's.NET setup. I was hoping beyond hope that MSFT's purchase of VPC was a sign that they were going to do a VPC version of win32 inside of Vista so that Vista code ould be stab le and yet still maintain backward compatibility(ala wine, or Classic mode for OS X)
Then when in Jan. after the first beta was released and the WMF flaw was found not only in XP but Vista as well, and MSFt's excuse was that they hadn't yet checked that dll I knew MSFt was going down hill. Win32 code is still present and merely thrown on top. no separate layer just direct cross calling. no sand boxing old apps properly just an ugly hack to keep everything working. Then with Beta 2 MSFT has to "fine Tune" UAC means that the system doesn't work right. That security will be to complicated for the average users and weak admins which make up 75% of MSFT's install base. MSFT never learned the KISS principal creates a stronger security layer, and then you add on more complicated layers for fine grained control ala selinux, and the other systems designed for hardening a computer, but aren't needed by say my mother.
UAC can be tightened up well, and MSFT and real admins will do so for Servers and other important machines. But the home user will only get frustrated at it's complexity and find ways to disable it like they have already begun to do in the betas.
While I had High hopes for Vista, the above combined with the outrageous hardware requirements to deliver the same features found in OS X running on literally a 1/3 of the hardware has found my hope for vista gone. i have converted my brother to OS X If I can get my mother then all will be good. My brother could switch to linux if he desired, and my mother isn't a tech person.
On Office and Windows MSF is netting 300-400 percent profit per copy sold. The rest of MSFT products are running like any other industry at-20 to 50% (yes that's a negative)
without those two products MSFT would be bankrupt in less than a year.
So tell me why most companies push for 30-50 percent profit, and the hardware players (like dell) are pushing for 5% per unit sold and MSF can sell windows for 400%.
Why does Bill Gates go around the world saying computers(hardware) will soon be free but you will have to pay hourly if you want software to actually use that computer.
am I the only one who thinks that is just a little bit unfair to thousands of people who work to make the physical product to run his OS?
On one hand I agree with you. On the other MSFt is the same Company that brought us Fat32, Win Me, and Active X.
Because every web developer in the world needs direct write access to any where they like on the hard drive, that doesn't have permission controls of any kind.
Nope it's more they are covering their arse. read it again the BPI sent 17 notices, but 16 were lacking evidence. That means the 17th had enough evidence for the ISP lawyers to allow it to be "processed" in whatever the normal way is.
the ISP is simply not going to be sued by their customers for canceling accounts when no proof of illegal activities were done. Provide the evidence, and they will comply.
Easier to administer, and no known viruses in the wild and both potential exploits were either patched before the exploit was noticed or within hours afterwards.
When reliability is needed because kids are smart and will get around other defenses you don't want windows that break easily. hence why most schools have safety glass for their doors and windows.
Yes but MSFT was warned by security and 3rd party developers telling them that the base designs were heavily flawed. MSFT said it would be fixed later in a patch.
um anti-vir still supports win98. I know because we have it installed.
And the poor are not the only ones who haven't upgraded. we do it because MSFT broke networking in win2k on purpose to finish driving out netware installs. well we still have netware installed. it's running along just fine, and since it isn't broken why should we pay money to upgrade to something of lesser performance with twice the power behind it?
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I did it 20 years ago with a TI 99/4a and their speech module for programs written in TI basic.
I was 7 and making simple games in Basic. I needed a menu system so I built one. The text to speech software barely added 20% to the menu's size increasing it to some 20kb. that's right kilobytes.
I bet the other guy did it 20 years ago as well since by 1990 the comdore64 was really old.
while I agree with you completely i also know for some people theycan talk and drive. I rate myself 50/50.
If I have my hands free set on then I am fine(all long drives). For short drives don't use my hands free set so I will normally pull over at the nearest oportunity.
Holding the phone up just adds enough extra things to do, I notice that I have slowed down my reactions.(to feel safe if I have to answer the phone without a hands free I switch to speaker phone, others don't like it but I can always tell them to wait a moment till I get to somewhere safe.
actually this is the big point. Power companies can massively undersize wires that are traveling in free air.
Three conductors in free air 15 feet off the ground the power companies can run a #2 sized cable for 200 amps. Yet that same wire underground needs to be 4/0 or 250 MCM which is several times larger.
The cost of goods to run lines over head is considerable less even if you take into account storms trashing it. Just from a dollar point of view you can competely rebuild a surface grid two or three times for the cost of doing it once underground. Digging costs that much more. Digging near roads is even worse.
I think it makes long term sense to go underground but I do see the cost advantages of going above. Plus the union can hire more people.
I did that a few years back in Boston. i had to spend three days in the city. A legal parking spot for those days would of run me $45. Chancing a parking ticket was $15 a ticket. well I moved every day and was in a slightly different spot every night. I got one parking ticket on my last night.
Big deal. I can live with that. I don't know if they have changed the price since then though.
In order to get that car you need to sign a contract with SCO. Any code you develop belongs to SCO because any code that runs on unix is a derivative work. Oh and Contracts are what you use againist your friends.
Yes SCO is claiming such things in both the court of public opinion and sometimes in the court as well.
Any laid off developer would be better off collecting unemployment and staying out of SCO's lawyers reach.
Several cell phones just run at real time. So they really do run at 2.4 ghz for the signal processor, while the system itself is on another chip at a different speed.
REmember even though it's running at 2.4 ghz it's extremely dedicated and doesn't produce a lot of heat.
While I own a powerbook, just about any 12-15" laptop with a decent video out, and a couple of USB ports works great both ways.
my 12" powerbook normally sites on my desk with a USB keyboard and mouse plugged and on the keyboard tray and a 19" LCD off to the side. I can use both displays at the same time(a feature found in all OS's now a days) and the hot swap mini dvi port means i can unplug the 19"lcd and plug in my 27" tv, sit back and watch a dvd. Both displays automatically switch to the settings I like for each.
Then when i do travel I just have to carry a 4.5 pound notebook, and a light case containing a couple of cords a USB travel mouse. Most of the time while traveling i don't even both with carrying a power supply because I have 4 hours of wireless web surfing, and more if i turn off the wireless card.
That's called the best of both worlds. And as I stated you can do that with XP or linux as well(not sure about hot swap monitors for either, but that's relatively minor)
No because in 3,000 years of recorded history every tyrant has fallen, Every abused representiative goverment has collapased.
There is only one true way to lead people. By example. Every religion(or government) that says it's for peace while systematically killingor opressing others eventually falls apart.
I wouldn't mind christians(a baptisted methodist myself), or muslims or jews, if they actually followed the books they hold dear. All three religions believe in the exact same 10 commandments as holy words from God. If all those religions actually followed those 10 commandments we would all be a lot better off.
But then we add fine print, exceptions, and loop holes later in the book to bypass them.
My wiccian friends at least don't hide what they really are.
Heck my brother sent me a WMV movie to my gmail account. I was going to open it up at work but thought twice and played it on my mac when i got home.
It was safe(and funny) but you never know what lies within MSFT formatted files. It's all too easy to hide executable code in there. WMF, WMV, WMA, DOC, XLS, all allow that kind of code.
It's why i am glad for ODF. at least that way you can see what's inside.
That's my thought. Why shouldn't we study everything so we can bask in the full glory of God's work?
of course with knowledge comes the fact that most religions are just social engineering scams designed to control the population and make people feel better about themselves at the expense of others^H^H non-believers.
Oh well I have my beliefs and I don't care if no one else believes what I do. A good life involves giving to others, for in the end only kindness matters.
well an air cushion would be noisy as you could hear the air moving.
Now a mag lev system that could rotate and spin the ball would be cool. a Linear accelerator combined with brushless motor style controler surround the outside of the maglev system in the center with the ball just above it. A circlar linear accelerator(yes I said that and I mean it) with a center section for the actual levitation. come to think of it you would need 16 or 32 linear accelerators in a circular pattern. Computer controled and you could motion in any direction. The hard part would be balance the sphere would need to be balaced very well. if you used internal projectors they would need their own power supply and internal controler.
Damn I bet it would work. sounds like an MIT grad school project to me.
So you bought a saturn or Honda? Maybe a Toyota. Ford, GM, chrysler, use the plants here to make parts for assembly in mexico. They are shutting down the US based parts makers as well.
Very few cars are actually completely built in the USA. The bigger you go the better the chances but not always.
So one home machine with an accoutn for the father, mother, and child gets the father's account wiped because he was surfing pron. The kids homework is still there and the mothers letters are still there. You can delete the fathers account and create a new one.
I would say that is 66% better than having to wipe the entire machine to clean just one account. Business users are even better off. as you can remotely store the user folders and if one system is comprised you don't lose the entire network, and if a server goe down it's easier to duplicate if you don't already have multiple servers running off of a RAID drive system.
in 1996 I could login to my desktop at school from any machine on campus. I would get my settings and my files every time. When they were upgrading HD's only some users would go offline while others could continue to work.
it was considered old tech then yet I am still waiting to do the same thing with windows.
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i personally had high hopes for vista. Back when they were talking about how the entire thing was rewritten from the ground up. How features like IE were removed from the Kernel, and turned into ordinary apps. I was looking forward to the fact that MSFT would finally fore users and developers to deal with multiple users per computer in a proper way. That the mess that was win32 would be tossed completely in favor of ONLY Aero's .NET setup. I was hoping beyond hope that MSFT's purchase of VPC was a sign that they were going to do a VPC version of win32 inside of Vista so that Vista code ould be stab le and yet still maintain backward compatibility(ala wine, or Classic mode for OS X)
Then when in Jan. after the first beta was released and the WMF flaw was found not only in XP but Vista as well, and MSFt's excuse was that they hadn't yet checked that dll I knew MSFt was going down hill. Win32 code is still present and merely thrown on top. no separate layer just direct cross calling. no sand boxing old apps properly just an ugly hack to keep everything working. Then with Beta 2 MSFT has to "fine Tune" UAC means that the system doesn't work right. That security will be to complicated for the average users and weak admins which make up 75% of MSFT's install base. MSFT never learned the KISS principal creates a stronger security layer, and then you add on more complicated layers for fine grained control ala selinux, and the other systems designed for hardening a computer, but aren't needed by say my mother.
UAC can be tightened up well, and MSFT and real admins will do so for Servers and other important machines. But the home user will only get frustrated at it's complexity and find ways to disable it like they have already begun to do in the betas.
While I had High hopes for Vista, the above combined with the outrageous hardware requirements to deliver the same features found in OS X running on literally a 1/3 of the hardware has found my hope for vista gone. i have converted my brother to OS X If I can get my mother then all will be good. My brother could switch to linux if he desired, and my mother isn't a tech person.
On Office and Windows MSF is netting 300-400 percent profit per copy sold. The rest of MSFT products are running like any other industry at-20 to 50% (yes that's a negative)
without those two products MSFT would be bankrupt in less than a year.
So tell me why most companies push for 30-50 percent profit, and the hardware players (like dell) are pushing for 5% per unit sold and MSF can sell windows for 400%.
Why does Bill Gates go around the world saying computers(hardware) will soon be free but you will have to pay hourly if you want software to actually use that computer.
am I the only one who thinks that is just a little bit unfair to thousands of people who work to make the physical product to run his OS?
On one hand I agree with you. On the other MSFt is the same Company that brought us Fat32, Win Me, and Active X.
Because every web developer in the world needs direct write access to any where they like on the hard drive, that doesn't have permission controls of any kind.
Nope it's more they are covering their arse. read it again the BPI sent 17 notices, but 16 were lacking evidence. That means the 17th had enough evidence for the ISP lawyers to allow it to be "processed" in whatever the normal way is.
the ISP is simply not going to be sued by their customers for canceling accounts when no proof of illegal activities were done. Provide the evidence, and they will comply.
Easier to administer, and no known viruses in the wild and both potential exploits were either patched before the exploit was noticed or within hours afterwards.
When reliability is needed because kids are smart and will get around other defenses you don't want windows that break easily. hence why most schools have safety glass for their doors and windows.
Yes but MSFT was warned by security and 3rd party developers telling them that the base designs were heavily flawed. MSFT said it would be fixed later in a patch.
many of those flaws still exist.
I don't know about that. Dos 3.0 wasn't that bad.
Oh Did you mean since 1990?
um anti-vir still supports win98. I know because we have it installed.
And the poor are not the only ones who haven't upgraded. we do it because MSFT broke networking in win2k on purpose to finish driving out netware installs. well we still have netware installed. it's running along just fine, and since it isn't broken why should we pay money to upgrade to something of lesser performance with twice the power behind it?
I did it 20 years ago with a TI 99/4a and their speech module for programs written in TI basic.
I was 7 and making simple games in Basic. I needed a menu system so I built one. The text to speech software barely added 20% to the menu's size increasing it to some 20kb. that's right kilobytes.
I bet the other guy did it 20 years ago as well since by 1990 the comdore64 was really old.
while I agree with you completely i also know for some people theycan talk and drive. I rate myself 50/50.
If I have my hands free set on then I am fine(all long drives). For short drives don't use my hands free set so I will normally pull over at the nearest oportunity.
Holding the phone up just adds enough extra things to do, I notice that I have slowed down my reactions.(to feel safe if I have to answer the phone without a hands free I switch to speaker phone, others don't like it but I can always tell them to wait a moment till I get to somewhere safe.
againist MSFT? hundreds. Eolas comes to mind. of course most simply settle for a couple hundred million.
actually this is the big point. Power companies can massively undersize wires that are traveling in free air.
Three conductors in free air 15 feet off the ground the power companies can run a #2 sized cable for 200 amps. Yet that same wire underground needs to be 4/0 or 250 MCM which is several times larger.
The cost of goods to run lines over head is considerable less even if you take into account storms trashing it. Just from a dollar point of view you can competely rebuild a surface grid two or three times for the cost of doing it once underground. Digging costs that much more. Digging near roads is even worse.
I think it makes long term sense to go underground but I do see the cost advantages of going above. Plus the union can hire more people.
odd enough that is where I was on brookline. I forgot the address though.
I did that a few years back in Boston. i had to spend three days in the city. A legal parking spot for those days would of run me $45. Chancing a parking ticket was $15 a ticket. well I moved every day and was in a slightly different spot every night. I got one parking ticket on my last night.
Big deal. I can live with that. I don't know if they have changed the price since then though.
In order to get that car you need to sign a contract with SCO. Any code you develop belongs to SCO because any code that runs on unix is a derivative work. Oh and Contracts are what you use againist your friends.
Yes SCO is claiming such things in both the court of public opinion and sometimes in the court as well.
Any laid off developer would be better off collecting unemployment and staying out of SCO's lawyers reach.
Several cell phones just run at real time. So they really do run at 2.4 ghz for the signal processor, while the system itself is on another chip at a different speed.
REmember even though it's running at 2.4 ghz it's extremely dedicated and doesn't produce a lot of heat.
While I own a powerbook, just about any 12-15" laptop with a decent video out, and a couple of USB ports works great both ways.
my 12" powerbook normally sites on my desk with a USB keyboard and mouse plugged and on the keyboard tray and a 19" LCD off to the side. I can use both displays at the same time(a feature found in all OS's now a days) and the hot swap mini dvi port means i can unplug the 19"lcd and plug in my 27" tv, sit back and watch a dvd. Both displays automatically switch to the settings I like for each.
Then when i do travel I just have to carry a 4.5 pound notebook, and a light case containing a couple of cords a USB travel mouse. Most of the time while traveling i don't even both with carrying a power supply because I have 4 hours of wireless web surfing, and more if i turn off the wireless card.
That's called the best of both worlds. And as I stated you can do that with XP or linux as well(not sure about hot swap monitors for either, but that's relatively minor)
No because in 3,000 years of recorded history every tyrant has fallen, Every abused representiative goverment has collapased.
There is only one true way to lead people. By example. Every religion(or government) that says it's for peace while systematically killingor opressing others eventually falls apart.
I wouldn't mind christians(a baptisted methodist myself), or muslims or jews, if they actually followed the books they hold dear. All three religions believe in the exact same 10 commandments as holy words from God. If all those religions actually followed those 10 commandments we would all be a lot better off.
But then we add fine print, exceptions, and loop holes later in the book to bypass them.
My wiccian friends at least don't hide what they really are.
Okay so I am not alone.
Yes it is from Jewel, but it also works.
Heck my brother sent me a WMV movie to my gmail account. I was going to open it up at work but thought twice and played it on my mac when i got home.
It was safe(and funny) but you never know what lies within MSFT formatted files. It's all too easy to hide executable code in there. WMF, WMV, WMA, DOC, XLS, all allow that kind of code.
It's why i am glad for ODF. at least that way you can see what's inside.
That's my thought. Why shouldn't we study everything so we can bask in the full glory of God's work?
of course with knowledge comes the fact that most religions are just social engineering scams designed to control the population and make people feel better about themselves at the expense of others^H^H non-believers.
Oh well I have my beliefs and I don't care if no one else believes what I do. A good life involves giving to others, for in the end only kindness matters.
well an air cushion would be noisy as you could hear the air moving.
Now a mag lev system that could rotate and spin the ball would be cool. a Linear accelerator combined with brushless motor style controler surround the outside of the maglev system in the center with the ball just above it. A circlar linear accelerator(yes I said that and I mean it) with a center section for the actual levitation. come to think of it you would need 16 or 32 linear accelerators in a circular pattern. Computer controled and you could motion in any direction. The hard part would be balance the sphere would need to be balaced very well. if you used internal projectors they would need their own power supply and internal controler.
Damn I bet it would work. sounds like an MIT grad school project to me.
So you bought a saturn or Honda? Maybe a Toyota. Ford, GM, chrysler, use the plants here to make parts for assembly in mexico. They are shutting down the US based parts makers as well.
Very few cars are actually completely built in the USA. The bigger you go the better the chances but not always.
My gmail account recieves about 25-40 a week. of course the filter catches them all. It even smetimes catches mail that it isn't supposed to.
My juno account however recieves 20-30 a day and it's filter catches 3-5.
It's a good thing I just use juno for junk mail filtering.
So one home machine with an accoutn for the father, mother, and child gets the father's account wiped because he was surfing pron. The kids homework is still there and the mothers letters are still there. You can delete the fathers account and create a new one.
I would say that is 66% better than having to wipe the entire machine to clean just one account. Business users are even better off. as you can remotely store the user folders and if one system is comprised you don't lose the entire network, and if a server goe down it's easier to duplicate if you don't already have multiple servers running off of a RAID drive system.
in 1996 I could login to my desktop at school from any machine on campus. I would get my settings and my files every time. When they were upgrading HD's only some users would go offline while others could continue to work.
it was considered old tech then yet I am still waiting to do the same thing with windows.