Well firstly, since Windows is more then just a kernel, just because the Dev kit has it does not mean Windows as a whole does. Secondly, Athalons, P4, Celerons and Xeons are all the same architecture, ia32. If you had used the P4 and say, Itanium or Opteron/A64 you would have a point, which is why I qualified the statement in the beginning with 'to a large extent.'
Its their computer, they can decide how you use it. If your job doesn't require you to change the system settings, its much easier to remove the ability instead of just trust you to do your work and it prevents problems due to mistakes. If its corporate policy to have a single screensaver and wallpaper, then you should be locked out of changing them, because I have never met someone who could be trusted not to change it after they were told not to if they could. Most workers think they can be trusted not to do the mundane things they were told not to, but time has told that they can't. Its not your system you just use it, so suck it up.
They're gonna see the Beemer, so don't worry about it. However, you might have a different problem and may want to reply to the next 'Male enhancement' message that pops up in your inbox.
How the hell is this a troll? Open your eyes around here. This little tidbit of 'expert' opinion pops up EVERYWHERE. Half the people here don't live in the real world and look upon anyone who touches Windows as some lowlife scum. Unless you run your own business and can therefore choose what you use, Microsoft is a cost of doing business. Unless you never want to play a game or have infinite patience and limitless optimism, Most people at home are going to run Windows. No not everyone wants to run Linux. No not every has a choice not to use Microsoft products. No Microsoft is not out to get you by breaking everything when you install an update. It is unfortunate when it happens, but its just that, an unfortunate accident. It happens in Linux too.
They want to make Longhorn the best and most secure Windows yet, and so far IE is a huge hurdle to that end. While they said if you wanted a new IE you had to wait for Longhorn, perhaps they realized that since its a big problem now, if we go about fixing those problems then letting it loose and seeing how it fares, they'll end up with a better IE in Longhorn since it will have actually have been tested against the hoards that attempt to exploit it.
Wow! I mean so what? It was never all that difficult to get SuSE before. Are they worried that everyones going to go for a free distro instead, like they have been all this time.
The popularity of the Playstation wasn't waning, the sales were, because of course after 6 years everyone except me had one.
What made everyone move from Nintendo, who then was number one, to the newcomer Sony? Final Fantasy 7. People buy consoled for the games, not the hardware, and there aren't any more loyal then those who wait for the next game in a popular franchise. As long as Sony had the big franchises, their fans aren't going anywhere until the developer decides the hardware is no longer a viable platform. In 2000 there was no threat to Sony's dominance, and there still really isn't.
I prefer that my ISP has a webmail front to my POP accounts. I can it anywhere, anytime, and still download it and keep it locally when I get home. I don't really worry about storage, but I don't trust webmail providers to backup the important messages I need to keep.
How do you argue that an opinion is untrue? Anyone can believe anything they want, the difference is when they start loudly proclaiming it as a truth, then the problem is that they said it, not that they thought it.
Do you think that someone is going to go all the way to the CCIE level, without already having a job in the field? For one, the cost alone is going to turn everyone away except those who really need it. The MCSE and CCIE are two completely different beasts that you can not compare, and the reasons for getting them are different. If however you want to talk about the CCNA to the MCP, or possibly even MCSE to CCNP then you might have a better comparison, but even then your getting them for different reasons. You can get basic Cisco certs just as easy as the MCP without having any real experience in networking, but since its the MS certs that are looked upon by most as the one to get your foot in the door, most people go for that as their first, by the time they're looking at others, they either hate their job and won't waste the money, or they've had some experience and have learned from it.
If I buy a CD and it plays in my CD player, I don't care if its copy protected or not, It will be accepted as long as it works as advertised.
Its been said before but its valid every time, what seems important on Slashdot to the majority of people here isn't important to the majority of people in the real world.
This goes way beyond 'over the top' right to 'absolutely stupid's' front door. There's a reason you put a plain vanilla $200 pos in the trunk of your car, that being if your car gets stolen, its a lot less of a loss. For instance on EBay you can find a used E450 for US $1,299.00. This guy just took a valuable system, it would be very easy to sell, and pre-packaged it in a nice steal-able box. I almost hope it drives off.
I bought SimCity 4 and the Rush Hour expansion. After installing the expansion, running it cam back with the error "Please insert the correct disk." Rush Hour is one disk and it was the one that was in there, so just to play the game I legally bought, I had to find a NoCD crack for it.
Copy protection my ass, I had to go and look for a way around it just to play it. I'm glad I did though, damn its fun.
I picked those two because when I think of making a place nicer to live in, those are the first things that come to my mind.
A single plant would have little effect in a house or a small apartment since any window would let in far more crap then the plant cleaned up, and the 'psychological affect', is only there if you like plants, but then again, thats why you got it in the first place. Every house I've ever been in, new or old, has the walls painted with this butt ugly eggshell, therefore it does not need to be painted again for that reason, who still has that really off white. If you have kids, you have to be one cold hearted person not to put their school work or paintings on the refrigerator. Which of course leads to wall hangings, paintings, statuette and so on.
Well firstly, everytime someone does something interesting, theres an army of people deriding it because it doesn't add any functionality.
Secondly, everyone does stuff that is not of a functional nature, so saying anything bad or deogatory about someone elses hard work when obviouly they are quite proud of it simply because it didn't make it any faster is a little hypocritical. For instance ever painted a room or bought a plant? Did painting the room add any space or help you organize the room better? Did the plant clean up after you or remind you that you had things to do? They wern't very functional endevors now were they, but you did them anyways.
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Well firstly, since Windows is more then just a kernel, just because the Dev kit has it does not mean Windows as a whole does. Secondly, Athalons, P4, Celerons and Xeons are all the same architecture, ia32. If you had used the P4 and say, Itanium or Opteron/A64 you would have a point, which is why I qualified the statement in the beginning with 'to a large extent.'
I think you'll find thats to a large extent implied when you say 'different architectures.'
fascist network policies
Its their computer, they can decide how you use it. If your job doesn't require you to change the system settings, its much easier to remove the ability instead of just trust you to do your work and it prevents problems due to mistakes. If its corporate policy to have a single screensaver and wallpaper, then you should be locked out of changing them, because I have never met someone who could be trusted not to change it after they were told not to if they could. Most workers think they can be trusted not to do the mundane things they were told not to, but time has told that they can't. Its not your system you just use it, so suck it up.
I thought it was enabled by default on architectures that supported it.
Long johns? I don't know what help a few doughnuts are going to be with the weather we have.
Absolutly fantastic, thank you for the laugh. Of course all the idiots are on their way now, damn stampede.
They're gonna see the Beemer, so don't worry about it. However, you might have a different problem and may want to reply to the next 'Male enhancement' message that pops up in your inbox.
How the hell is this a troll? Open your eyes around here. This little tidbit of 'expert' opinion pops up EVERYWHERE. Half the people here don't live in the real world and look upon anyone who touches Windows as some lowlife scum. Unless you run your own business and can therefore choose what you use, Microsoft is a cost of doing business. Unless you never want to play a game or have infinite patience and limitless optimism, Most people at home are going to run Windows. No not everyone wants to run Linux. No not every has a choice not to use Microsoft products. No Microsoft is not out to get you by breaking everything when you install an update. It is unfortunate when it happens, but its just that, an unfortunate accident. It happens in Linux too.
No the best posts will be the ones from 'experts' who will tell you not to run Windows because MS is evil and trying to destroy your computer.
They want to make Longhorn the best and most secure Windows yet, and so far IE is a huge hurdle to that end. While they said if you wanted a new IE you had to wait for Longhorn, perhaps they realized that since its a big problem now, if we go about fixing those problems then letting it loose and seeing how it fares, they'll end up with a better IE in Longhorn since it will have actually have been tested against the hoards that attempt to exploit it.
You want to be out of work too?
Wow! I mean so what? It was never all that difficult to get SuSE before. Are they worried that everyones going to go for a free distro instead, like they have been all this time.
The popularity of the Playstation wasn't waning, the sales were, because of course after 6 years everyone except me had one.
What made everyone move from Nintendo, who then was number one, to the newcomer Sony? Final Fantasy 7. People buy consoled for the games, not the hardware, and there aren't any more loyal then those who wait for the next game in a popular franchise. As long as Sony had the big franchises, their fans aren't going anywhere until the developer decides the hardware is no longer a viable platform. In 2000 there was no threat to Sony's dominance, and there still really isn't.
I prefer that my ISP has a webmail front to my POP accounts. I can it anywhere, anytime, and still download it and keep it locally when I get home. I don't really worry about storage, but I don't trust webmail providers to backup the important messages I need to keep.
How do you argue that an opinion is untrue? Anyone can believe anything they want, the difference is when they start loudly proclaiming it as a truth, then the problem is that they said it, not that they thought it.
Do you think that someone is going to go all the way to the CCIE level, without already having a job in the field? For one, the cost alone is going to turn everyone away except those who really need it. The MCSE and CCIE are two completely different beasts that you can not compare, and the reasons for getting them are different. If however you want to talk about the CCNA to the MCP, or possibly even MCSE to CCNP then you might have a better comparison, but even then your getting them for different reasons. You can get basic Cisco certs just as easy as the MCP without having any real experience in networking, but since its the MS certs that are looked upon by most as the one to get your foot in the door, most people go for that as their first, by the time they're looking at others, they either hate their job and won't waste the money, or they've had some experience and have learned from it.
No you could use it to log into a number of partnered websites and services, it would be like a passport to the web.
I liked Word and Excel 4 on my Mac. I still have the disks somewhere and it still surprises me how responsive they were on the SE we had.
If I buy a CD and it plays in my CD player, I don't care if its copy protected or not, It will be accepted as long as it works as advertised.
Its been said before but its valid every time, what seems important on Slashdot to the majority of people here isn't important to the majority of people in the real world.
With enough power to serve an entire department.
This goes way beyond 'over the top' right to 'absolutely stupid's' front door. There's a reason you put a plain vanilla $200 pos in the trunk of your car, that being if your car gets stolen, its a lot less of a loss. For instance on EBay you can find a used E450 for US $1,299.00. This guy just took a valuable system, it would be very easy to sell, and pre-packaged it in a nice steal-able box. I almost hope it drives off.
I don't understand why I wouldn't have all day to play a game.
Care to explain what you use to differentiate between a linux distro and 'based on Linux' phrase.
I bought SimCity 4 and the Rush Hour expansion. After installing the expansion, running it cam back with the error "Please insert the correct disk." Rush Hour is one disk and it was the one that was in there, so just to play the game I legally bought, I had to find a NoCD crack for it.
Copy protection my ass, I had to go and look for a way around it just to play it. I'm glad I did though, damn its fun.
I picked those two because when I think of making a place nicer to live in, those are the first things that come to my mind.
A single plant would have little effect in a house or a small apartment since any window would let in far more crap then the plant cleaned up, and the 'psychological affect', is only there if you like plants, but then again, thats why you got it in the first place. Every house I've ever been in, new or old, has the walls painted with this butt ugly eggshell, therefore it does not need to be painted again for that reason, who still has that really off white. If you have kids, you have to be one cold hearted person not to put their school work or paintings on the refrigerator. Which of course leads to wall hangings, paintings, statuette and so on.
Well firstly, everytime someone does something interesting, theres an army of people deriding it because it doesn't add any functionality.
Secondly, everyone does stuff that is not of a functional nature, so saying anything bad or deogatory about someone elses hard work when obviouly they are quite proud of it simply because it didn't make it any faster is a little hypocritical. For instance ever painted a room or bought a plant? Did painting the room add any space or help you organize the room better? Did the plant clean up after you or remind you that you had things to do? They wern't very functional endevors now were they, but you did them anyways.