For me, the only physics I would have been interested in if that tiger had escaped near me would have been one of ballistics. From the barrel of a shotgun.
And yet... we again have the issue that you are shooting the messenger. If the only way to fix an annoyance is via the registry, then that is a problem for Microsoft, not O'Reilly.
You evidently are new around here. Nowhere in the O'Reilly series is a section that says that it is for novices, intermediate or even advanced users. The books are targetted to solve annoyances. They are aimed at all levels. This (gasp!) often requires editing the registry.
Your stance is problematic, because you seem to think that the book was targeted at mums and dads with no clue what they are doing. You assume wrongly. Almost any long time reader of O'Reilly books will tell you that they write their books to provide useful and important information in a clear fashion. They don't care if it seems too "hard".
Time to get off your high horse perhaps? Or was -1 troll you were modded appropriate?
Well, just remember: it was the record companies who "allowed" this sort of dastardly service. As Mr McGuiness says:
More people are listening to music than ever before through many more media than ever before. Part of the problem is that the record companies, through lack of foresight and poor planning, allowed an entire collection of digital industries to arise that enabled the consumer to steal with impunity the very recorded music that had previously been paid for. I think that's been a cultural problem for the record industry - it has generally been inclined to rely for staff on poorly paid enthusiasts rather than developing the kind of enterprise culture of Silicon Valley where nearly every employee is a shareholder.
Quick! Someone call the waaambulance! We've got a bleeder!
How the hell is that insightful? It's bloody well wrong! Sheesh. GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment and it's a desktop environment, not a freaking window manager.
Way to go idiot Slashdot mods. If anything, I would have modded this as a troll.
I suppose this might be seen as baiting (it's not), but to install a new drive I compiled it, then did an insmod. Never once had to restart the computer on my Ubuntu box. Also, apps startup fairly fast (except, of course, OpenOffice.org - gah). I've never had to defrag my HDD either.
Of course, there are few games I'm interested in that will run on Ubuntu. So the gaming stuff sounds pretty interesting.
However, I only really speak of one aspect of Notes that I find absolutely infuriating. Don't know about the rest of the product - never actually used it. Our clients have big problems with HTML email though. That's frustrating enough - especially when users of old versions of things like Outlook and Outlook Express, and even Thunderbird or Eudora can read the email OK but Notes users cannot.
That's all very interesting, till you got to this point:
"Oh, PS. Vista self optimizes, and this inlcudes everything from driver and file placement and load order to prefetch and smartfetch identifying the applications and you the user. Plus there is the initial index time for Search, cleanup etc. So the first day install will not be a speed demon, but if you leave the system on or play with it once a day for 7 days, you will find your boot time go from 90secs on Day 1 to 15secs on day 7, and the same with application load times, extra."
Fair argument. I suppose I can see why they were discussed so much. Remembering the upgrade from OS X 10.2 to 10.3 that was a fairly major upgrade, to the printing system, everything. I suppose that a point release of OS X is much like a distro upgrade of Ubuntu.
Missing the point. Hardy Heron will be news because it introduces new features and will be greater than just a point release. It will be a major release.
Actually, this article isn't about an actual service pack upgrade, this is about speculation about the possibility of a service pack being released by Microsoft.
All the other stories you mention are actual upgrades.
If SP1 brings out new features, then I'll take back what I say. But as far as I can tell so far, it's just going to be a bunch of fixes. Incidently, I never saw why point releases for OS X were so special either - at least in terms of news.
Just my $0.02 - which I should point out is not a troll. Way to go mods of my parent comment.
If the "But please, don't let facts come in the way of decade old prejudices..." was targeted at myself, then you aim badly. I have no idea what the rendering engine is for Notes. Couldn't care less. Also, I was responding to someone who said that IE was the default renderer, I made the assumption that if this was right then it's pretty unhelpful for those who don't have access to Internet Explorer.
The company I work for has a hell of a time trying to deal with old Notes clients that won't render reasonable HTML emails correctly. The only prejudice here is for the stupid programming that causes so much grief for others.
I always wonder why Microsoft gets so much publicity for point version upgrades. I mean, the other day I got an update from Ubuntu. So what?
If Microsoft have waited this long for a full update, then something is seriously screwed in Redmond. Something is even more screwed with the rest of us for finding the service pack upgrade so fascinating.
However, are they going to open source Lotus Notes? It seems not.
This leads me to ask when are they going to fix their crappy HTML renderer in their Notes mail client? It must have the most braindead, broken, bizarre HTML renderer in the business. Why, their are wholecottageindustriesaroundonhowtoworkonit'scrudulousness.
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Whatever, I wouldn't be shooting it. If it turned on the one doing the shooting, I'll be long gone. :P
For me, the only physics I would have been interested in if that tiger had escaped near me would have been one of ballistics. From the barrel of a shotgun.
Surely someone would have calculated how far away a tiger needed to be from the public? Or doesn't anyone know how far a tiger can leap at SF zoo?
Are you seriously saying a Chinese mini-sub didn't kidnap an Australian prime minister?
Harold Holt would be turning in his grave.
And yet... we again have the issue that you are shooting the messenger. If the only way to fix an annoyance is via the registry, then that is a problem for Microsoft, not O'Reilly.
You evidently are new around here. Nowhere in the O'Reilly series is a section that says that it is for novices, intermediate or even advanced users. The books are targetted to solve annoyances. They are aimed at all levels. This (gasp!) often requires editing the registry.
Your stance is problematic, because you seem to think that the book was targeted at mums and dads with no clue what they are doing. You assume wrongly. Almost any long time reader of O'Reilly books will tell you that they write their books to provide useful and important information in a clear fashion. They don't care if it seems too "hard".
Time to get off your high horse perhaps? Or was -1 troll you were modded appropriate?
You had me all convinced all the way till "classy-looking strip malls".
Only after I point out that there are some amazing C++ bindings for GNOME called gnomemm, created by the gtkmm crowd.
Really? Name one.
How the hell is that insightful? It's bloody well wrong! Sheesh. GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment and it's a desktop environment, not a freaking window manager.
Way to go idiot Slashdot mods. If anything, I would have modded this as a troll.
I thought that access control fitted in neatly with Digital Rights Management... what am I missing here?
Hey, I though none of us believe in absolute truth!
I suppose this might be seen as baiting (it's not), but to install a new drive I compiled it, then did an insmod. Never once had to restart the computer on my Ubuntu box. Also, apps startup fairly fast (except, of course, OpenOffice.org - gah). I've never had to defrag my HDD either.
Of course, there are few games I'm interested in that will run on Ubuntu. So the gaming stuff sounds pretty interesting.
Who by?
Meh, it's OK.
However, I only really speak of one aspect of Notes that I find absolutely infuriating. Don't know about the rest of the product - never actually used it. Our clients have big problems with HTML email though. That's frustrating enough - especially when users of old versions of things like Outlook and Outlook Express, and even Thunderbird or Eudora can read the email OK but Notes users cannot.
Yup, sounds like Notes.
That's all very interesting, till you got to this point:
"Oh, PS. Vista self optimizes, and this inlcudes everything from driver and file placement and load order to prefetch and smartfetch identifying the applications and you the user. Plus there is the initial index time for Search, cleanup etc. So the first day install will not be a speed demon, but if you leave the system on or play with it once a day for 7 days, you will find your boot time go from 90secs on Day 1 to 15secs on day 7, and the same with application load times, extra."
Surely there must be a better way?
Fair argument. I suppose I can see why they were discussed so much. Remembering the upgrade from OS X 10.2 to 10.3 that was a fairly major upgrade, to the printing system, everything. I suppose that a point release of OS X is much like a distro upgrade of Ubuntu.
Missing the point. Hardy Heron will be news because it introduces new features and will be greater than just a point release. It will be a major release.
Actually, this article isn't about an actual service pack upgrade, this is about speculation about the possibility of a service pack being released by Microsoft.
All the other stories you mention are actual upgrades.
If SP1 brings out new features, then I'll take back what I say. But as far as I can tell so far, it's just going to be a bunch of fixes. Incidently, I never saw why point releases for OS X were so special either - at least in terms of news.
Just my $0.02 - which I should point out is not a troll. Way to go mods of my parent comment.
Actually, no. That opinion is really how I feel about Microsoft service packs. Exactly how long did it take for them to release this one?
People are acting like this is a new operating system upgrade, not just a bunch of fixes. Sheesh.
If the "But please, don't let facts come in the way of decade old prejudices..." was targeted at myself, then you aim badly. I have no idea what the rendering engine is for Notes. Couldn't care less. Also, I was responding to someone who said that IE was the default renderer, I made the assumption that if this was right then it's pretty unhelpful for those who don't have access to Internet Explorer.
The company I work for has a hell of a time trying to deal with old Notes clients that won't render reasonable HTML emails correctly. The only prejudice here is for the stupid programming that causes so much grief for others.
I always wonder why Microsoft gets so much publicity for point version upgrades. I mean, the other day I got an update from Ubuntu. So what?
If Microsoft have waited this long for a full update, then something is seriously screwed in Redmond. Something is even more screwed with the rest of us for finding the service pack upgrade so fascinating.
Well that is hardly helpful to those who wish to use a Lotus Notes client on a non-Microsoft platform.
However, are they going to open source Lotus Notes? It seems not.
This leads me to ask when are they going to fix their crappy HTML renderer in their Notes mail client? It must have the most braindead, broken, bizarre HTML renderer in the business. Why, their are whole cottage industries around on how to work on it's crudulousness.