By the court, yes. That doesn't mean you personally have to believe he's innocent. It takes a threshold of evidence and a D.A. who's convinced they have a case when the police make a murder arrest like this, so it's not like there aren't good reasons to have suspicions.
Yeah, I'll play it on my PC where I won't get giant pea soup blurry textures or ass-crappy enemy leveling thanks to the Oscuro's Overhaul 1.3 mod. Xbox 360 is just a crippled PC, like the first one.
The Mac platform is a lot worse than Windows where I'm locked not only into proprietary OS (which is outdated every year and you have to re-buy it)
OS X isn't outdated every year, you don't have to re-buy it, and to actually argue that it's a negative point that Apple keeps its OS refreshed is ludicrous. Why aren't you mentioning how outdated the six-year-old Windows XP is and how you "have to re-buy it" when Vista comes out? I always laugh when people penalize Apple for keeping its OS up to date while giving Microsoft a pass for not updating at all beyond a new firewall in a service pack.
As for proprietary hardware, I suspect if OS X became the dominant player, Jobs would loosen the reigns on hardware licensing, but right now, their business is hardware. They sell appliances; you're not meant to go in and "change the processor," because they don't believe users should ever be forced to care about that. You don't take your TV apart to upgrade it; you go out and buy a new one to replace the old one.
A complete lie; Mac Word behaves just like the Windows version. To claim it has nothing to do with it is stupid and ignorant because Microsoft Word actually began as a Mac application back in the 80s and was ported to Windows later on.
At the shell blog, they've already stated that it's too late to change interfaces (like the Install Font dialog that dates back to Windows 3.1). Proof and polish means the minor fixes you stated, not the glaring interface incosistencies I'm referring to (like the 5+ conflicting menu styles or the multiple Properties buttons).
Some games do ignore the key; some don't. There are a lot that don't, including recent ones. I'm aware that the Windows key is tied to several system shortcuts, but about the only one that some people use is the Run command. As for removing the key, it's silly that I would have to do that.
IE7 has the worst interface I've ever seen in a browser. Stop and refresh are over on the right side of the address bar, and a bunch of toolbar buttons are sitting below that on the right side of the tab bar, so you get less space for your tabs unless you run full screen, which I'm not going to do on a widescreen monitor (the proliferation of wide screen displays has made Windows' maximize feature obsolete and ridiculous).
RC isn't a beta; it stands for Release Candidate, the stage after beta, meaning it's been released as a candidate for RTM to fish out any remaining unseen bugs.
The only improvement I've seen in RC2 over the last release is that Vista is no longer randomly blue-screening for me on startup. However, UAC is still INCREDIBLY annoying (you'll see...), it still takes too long to boot compared to the 12 seconds that OS X takes on the same hardware, and none of the sloppy interface issues have been fixed. It's a really inconsistent experience and still gaudy as hell. Some of it honestly looks like an amatueur KDE theme. This is surprising to me, since surely Microsoft can afford high-quality graphic artists. It was a relief to switch over to the Windows Classic theme, although some controls come out even uglier.
All that said, a couple of games that gave me incompatibility warnings in the last release no longer do so. I laughed last night when I discovered that accidentally hitting the Windows key STILL boots you out of a fullscreen game. That thing has to be the most worthless key ever invented. TheInquirer is reporting that Microsoft is telling industry partners that Vista runs games 10-15% slower than XP does. We'll see if that pans out according to benchmarks.
BeOS was not UNIX-based. Heck, BeOS wasn't even multiuser.
It was most definitely based on and inspired by UNIX.
Because releasing Yet Another Unix is a) not particularly interesting technologically
It's better to ship something that already works then something that some techies might find "interesting."
b) surprising from a company infamous for NIH-syndrome
Steve Jobs was always progressive when it came to UNIX back in the 80s.
a bit lame in todays world.
Again, this statement isn't backed up with anything.
Apple could quite reasonably have released OS X based on a Windows-NT-derived core (and it was considered) and most users and developers wouldn't be able to tell the difference (although it probably would have had better performance, SMP, memory management, etc - albeit at the price of being at Microsoft's mercy, something Apple probably, understandably, didn't want to do).
NT was only considered as a last resort possibility. OS X supports things like SMP far better than NT does.
Nowhere in the article summary is this mentioned as humourous.
I guess you missed the part where the author posts the IE6 picture and calls it funny, then tries to recreate it in IE7.
It's therefore not entirely unreasonable to assume that it's a serious investigation.
All he said was that he wanted to see how IE7 would react if the user clicked yes for every prompt that came up. In the process, he uncovered a few flaws in Protective Mode and UAC (IE7 has to be restarted for Protected Mode to re-enable, for instance). In the end, he resets IE7 to test how well it reverts to its default state. It successfully removes every toolbar but Yahoo, so it's actually a positive article, but you didn't even bother to RTFA.
Also, why the "Microsoft apologists" bit? It's a bullshit article with a silly premise, pointing it out as such isn't "apologising" for Microsoft at all.
Because as a Microsoft apologist, you didn't bother to RTFA so that you'd realize it's not a silly premise, that it's actually a praising of IE7, and that it's simply a test of how IE7 behaves under a user stress test of clicking yes for every prompt, and how well it reverts to its default state when you tell it to reset.
You're a moron who didn't even bother to read the article and realize what you're criticizing. Case. Closed. Next.
Apple was never going to succeed with Copland. Copland was a disjointed mess of technologies. Apple's other choice before NeXT was BeOS, also based on UNIX. Because Apple was desperate for a new OS doesn't mean the fact that they went with a UNIX-based solution was a mistake or something they settled on with reservations. On the contrary, I'm surprised anyone is arguing such given all the open source software that now happily runs on OS X and how open the system really is.
There is something to be said for a system that has stood the test of time, and despite its quirks, UNIX is here to stay. Even the PS3 and the Wii will be running it.
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Hey, look. An angry, anti-social Microsoft fan.
Any other bizarre, seething posts you'd like to share with the class?
IT'S JUST A HUMOR ARTICLE. IT SAYS RIGHT IN THE ARTICLE THAT HE'S DOING IT ON PURPOSE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS. NOTHING MORE.
Okay? Get it? We know it requires user action to infest IE7 with toolbars. That's not the point of the article, which is just to see what happens and laugh on a Sunday. For crying out loud, why does everyone think they have to leap forward and be some sort of heroic truthbringer to the poor Slashdot masses who won't understand the article? We're not idiots.
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The slashdot post here is definately FUD. It gives the impression that IE7 happily installs all kinds of crap.
Uh, no it doesn't. It just says someone tried to install as many toolbars in IE7 as they could to see what would happen. It's a lazy Sunday humor item.
There's an amusing pro-Microsoft contingent here at Slashdot that springs to action and declares everything "FUD" no matter if it's actually critical of their beloved company or not. Frankly, Microsoft fans are like young Republicans. Strange, militant outcasts who are obsessive about defending their company and who never get laid or invited to parties. Loosen up, man!
There's really not a lot to say about it. A few things become abundantly clear when you use it:
1.) It feels very much like a redressed XP. It behaves the same as previous versions of Windows have. There are even dialogs dating back to Windows 3.1, like the Install Font dialog.
2.) UAC is incredibly annoying. You'll see. You will hate it.
3.) Something feels weird about it. I often find myself wanting to go back to XP. It might be the inconsistent interface that I'm not used to, or the overuse of gaudy visual effects (the animated ribbon swoosh used everywhere looks straight out of a 1980s public access channel logo). Maybe it's the nasty colors used everywhere in the the aquamarine/sea-green theme that is Aero.
It's a weird feeling to use Vista, like it should have been out three years ago. It feels very dated in places.
Vista is so big and bloated that Microsoft's own developers don't understand it completely and consider it overly complex. It's so bad that they've already publicly discussed starting over for the next one (codenamed "Vienna") and just running pre-Vienna apps in a virtualized sandbox.
Yes, it is necessary, or else everything would be pirated to hell and back. And using goofy, loaded words like "evil" just illustrates how juvenile Slashdot becomes when tackling the issue of creators' rights. Basically, you guys want to stack everything in favor of the pirates and against the creators.
Besides, the GPL is essentially a form of DRM (digital rights management).
Apple's 64-bit support is going to make Microsoft look silly, since Leopard running in 64-bit mode natively runs 32-bit applications and 32-bit device drivers using no emulation or translation. As it is, 64-bit Windows, particularly 64-bit Vista, is something of a joke and really quite useless.
Mainstream users have already overwhelmingly rejected service-based products in another lucrative market--music downloads. Time and time again, they have flocked to the download-and-own model and not the subscription model. What makes you and Microsoft think software will be any different? Why would I want to risk having to always have my broadband WiFi up and running (and secured) just to run a spreadsheet? Hell, my ISP has downtime at least once a month. What will I do on those days?
Major OS X releases have offered far more than eye candy, and I for one don't mind paying to keep my operating system updated throughout the decade as opposed to being forced to use a stagnant Wndows XP for six years and then getting hit with a $400 price tag for the "ultimate" version of the new product. And all these years, XP Pro has been a whopping $250. You'd think in 2006, the price would have gone down a little.
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By the court, yes. That doesn't mean you personally have to believe he's innocent. It takes a threshold of evidence and a D.A. who's convinced they have a case when the police make a murder arrest like this, so it's not like there aren't good reasons to have suspicions.
Yeah, I'll play it on my PC where I won't get giant pea soup blurry textures or ass-crappy enemy leveling thanks to the Oscuro's Overhaul 1.3 mod. Xbox 360 is just a crippled PC, like the first one.
OS X isn't outdated every year, you don't have to re-buy it, and to actually argue that it's a negative point that Apple keeps its OS refreshed is ludicrous. Why aren't you mentioning how outdated the six-year-old Windows XP is and how you "have to re-buy it" when Vista comes out? I always laugh when people penalize Apple for keeping its OS up to date while giving Microsoft a pass for not updating at all beyond a new firewall in a service pack.
As for proprietary hardware, I suspect if OS X became the dominant player, Jobs would loosen the reigns on hardware licensing, but right now, their business is hardware. They sell appliances; you're not meant to go in and "change the processor," because they don't believe users should ever be forced to care about that. You don't take your TV apart to upgrade it; you go out and buy a new one to replace the old one.
The "market leader" isn't leading, which is the point. IBM was in the same position decades ago--on top, yet not relevant to the market anymore.
A complete lie; Mac Word behaves just like the Windows version. To claim it has nothing to do with it is stupid and ignorant because Microsoft Word actually began as a Mac application back in the 80s and was ported to Windows later on.
At the shell blog, they've already stated that it's too late to change interfaces (like the Install Font dialog that dates back to Windows 3.1). Proof and polish means the minor fixes you stated, not the glaring interface incosistencies I'm referring to (like the 5+ conflicting menu styles or the multiple Properties buttons).
Bill, is that you?
How's MSN Soapbox coming? Heh.
Some games do ignore the key; some don't. There are a lot that don't, including recent ones. I'm aware that the Windows key is tied to several system shortcuts, but about the only one that some people use is the Run command. As for removing the key, it's silly that I would have to do that.
IE7 has the worst interface I've ever seen in a browser. Stop and refresh are over on the right side of the address bar, and a bunch of toolbar buttons are sitting below that on the right side of the tab bar, so you get less space for your tabs unless you run full screen, which I'm not going to do on a widescreen monitor (the proliferation of wide screen displays has made Windows' maximize feature obsolete and ridiculous).
RC isn't a beta; it stands for Release Candidate, the stage after beta, meaning it's been released as a candidate for RTM to fish out any remaining unseen bugs.
The only improvement I've seen in RC2 over the last release is that Vista is no longer randomly blue-screening for me on startup. However, UAC is still INCREDIBLY annoying (you'll see...), it still takes too long to boot compared to the 12 seconds that OS X takes on the same hardware, and none of the sloppy interface issues have been fixed. It's a really inconsistent experience and still gaudy as hell. Some of it honestly looks like an amatueur KDE theme. This is surprising to me, since surely Microsoft can afford high-quality graphic artists. It was a relief to switch over to the Windows Classic theme, although some controls come out even uglier.
All that said, a couple of games that gave me incompatibility warnings in the last release no longer do so. I laughed last night when I discovered that accidentally hitting the Windows key STILL boots you out of a fullscreen game. That thing has to be the most worthless key ever invented. TheInquirer is reporting that Microsoft is telling industry partners that Vista runs games 10-15% slower than XP does. We'll see if that pans out according to benchmarks.
It was most definitely based on and inspired by UNIX.
It's better to ship something that already works then something that some techies might find "interesting."
Steve Jobs was always progressive when it came to UNIX back in the 80s.
Again, this statement isn't backed up with anything.
NT was only considered as a last resort possibility. OS X supports things like SMP far better than NT does.
I guess you missed the part where the author posts the IE6 picture and calls it funny, then tries to recreate it in IE7.
All he said was that he wanted to see how IE7 would react if the user clicked yes for every prompt that came up. In the process, he uncovered a few flaws in Protective Mode and UAC (IE7 has to be restarted for Protected Mode to re-enable, for instance). In the end, he resets IE7 to test how well it reverts to its default state. It successfully removes every toolbar but Yahoo, so it's actually a positive article, but you didn't even bother to RTFA.
Because as a Microsoft apologist, you didn't bother to RTFA so that you'd realize it's not a silly premise, that it's actually a praising of IE7, and that it's simply a test of how IE7 behaves under a user stress test of clicking yes for every prompt, and how well it reverts to its default state when you tell it to reset.
You're a moron who didn't even bother to read the article and realize what you're criticizing. Case. Closed. Next.
Apple was never going to succeed with Copland. Copland was a disjointed mess of technologies. Apple's other choice before NeXT was BeOS, also based on UNIX. Because Apple was desperate for a new OS doesn't mean the fact that they went with a UNIX-based solution was a mistake or something they settled on with reservations. On the contrary, I'm surprised anyone is arguing such given all the open source software that now happily runs on OS X and how open the system really is.
There is something to be said for a system that has stood the test of time, and despite its quirks, UNIX is here to stay. Even the PS3 and the Wii will be running it.
Hey, look. An angry, anti-social Microsoft fan.
Any other bizarre, seething posts you'd like to share with the class?
You know, it's just a pointless humor article. It's just to laugh at on a Sunday. No big deal. "Only pushing 16%?" That's a lot of market share.
Microsoft fans are like young Republicans. Weird, militant outcasts who never get laid.
Dear Microsoft apologists:
IT'S JUST A HUMOR ARTICLE. IT SAYS RIGHT IN THE ARTICLE THAT HE'S DOING IT ON PURPOSE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS. NOTHING MORE.
Okay? Get it? We know it requires user action to infest IE7 with toolbars. That's not the point of the article, which is just to see what happens and laugh on a Sunday. For crying out loud, why does everyone think they have to leap forward and be some sort of heroic truthbringer to the poor Slashdot masses who won't understand the article? We're not idiots.
Uh, no it doesn't. It just says someone tried to install as many toolbars in IE7 as they could to see what would happen. It's a lazy Sunday humor item.
There's an amusing pro-Microsoft contingent here at Slashdot that springs to action and declares everything "FUD" no matter if it's actually critical of their beloved company or not. Frankly, Microsoft fans are like young Republicans. Strange, militant outcasts who are obsessive about defending their company and who never get laid or invited to parties. Loosen up, man!
There's really not a lot to say about it. A few things become abundantly clear when you use it:
1.) It feels very much like a redressed XP. It behaves the same as previous versions of Windows have. There are even dialogs dating back to Windows 3.1, like the Install Font dialog.
2.) UAC is incredibly annoying. You'll see. You will hate it.
3.) Something feels weird about it. I often find myself wanting to go back to XP. It might be the inconsistent interface that I'm not used to, or the overuse of gaudy visual effects (the animated ribbon swoosh used everywhere looks straight out of a 1980s public access channel logo). Maybe it's the nasty colors used everywhere in the the aquamarine/sea-green theme that is Aero.
It's a weird feeling to use Vista, like it should have been out three years ago. It feels very dated in places.
Vista is so big and bloated that Microsoft's own developers don't understand it completely and consider it overly complex. It's so bad that they've already publicly discussed starting over for the next one (codenamed "Vienna") and just running pre-Vienna apps in a virtualized sandbox.
Let's hear it for Akamai! Microsoft has been using Akamai for every public Vista release. More amusing is that Akamai is running on Linux.
Yes, it is necessary, or else everything would be pirated to hell and back. And using goofy, loaded words like "evil" just illustrates how juvenile Slashdot becomes when tackling the issue of creators' rights. Basically, you guys want to stack everything in favor of the pirates and against the creators.
Besides, the GPL is essentially a form of DRM (digital rights management).
Yeah, and Mussolini made the trains run on time.
Apple's 64-bit support is going to make Microsoft look silly, since Leopard running in 64-bit mode natively runs 32-bit applications and 32-bit device drivers using no emulation or translation. As it is, 64-bit Windows, particularly 64-bit Vista, is something of a joke and really quite useless.
Mainstream users have already overwhelmingly rejected service-based products in another lucrative market--music downloads. Time and time again, they have flocked to the download-and-own model and not the subscription model. What makes you and Microsoft think software will be any different? Why would I want to risk having to always have my broadband WiFi up and running (and secured) just to run a spreadsheet? Hell, my ISP has downtime at least once a month. What will I do on those days?
Major OS X releases have offered far more than eye candy, and I for one don't mind paying to keep my operating system updated throughout the decade as opposed to being forced to use a stagnant Wndows XP for six years and then getting hit with a $400 price tag for the "ultimate" version of the new product. And all these years, XP Pro has been a whopping $250. You'd think in 2006, the price would have gone down a little.