And if the title read "OSS Web Stacks Outperforms.Net" I would bet it would not say anything like this The article's conclusion is that.Net outperforms the open source stacks, mainly because of its tighter integration, but also notes that running the open source stacks on Windows (WAMP) delivered strong performance.
It is important to note that strong is not stronger and, in fact, could mean weaker. Couldn't it?
Also, in our imaginary world, the article might say:
The conclusion is that OSS outperforms the.Net stack, mainly because of a stronger development model, but also notes that running the.Net stacks on OSS is impossible.
I'm wondering if the high throughput numbers for the.Net stack were caused by it deliving huge binary files to the client. Ya know, 17MB Active X controls. Anyway, I didn't randomly come up with this conclusion, the article didn't mention the transactions per second for.Net. So, I conclude from ALL of the data that it did one transaction of 17MB*.
*No math was done to come up with the 17MB figure.
Also, no animals were harmed during the writing of this comment.
This article is about MS and their tactics, so one might expect a passionate response about MS.
If we all go fight AIDS, will Microsoft just sit around and do nothing? Will you help us undo what they do? Can you convince MS to help out? Should be easy, Bill's already in the fight.
Nobody thinks that MS's tactics are a bigger problem than fighting AIDS, we just, ya know, were on a tech website discussing tech issues, possibly passionately. We're sorry to have offended you in anyway.
What's really desirable that runs on, say, GNU/Linux but not Windows?
I thought I'd add Amarok, http://amarok.kde.org/, to that list. It's the one program that I've seen where users are constantly asking, "when are you guys going to port it to Windows?" And what's great is that the answer remains, "Not for a long while, if ever."
Have you heard of a USB flash key? Your complaints are starting to sound really hollow.
Did they have USB flash drives back when Windows XP was released? (Notice how I changed "key" to "drive" because I assume that was what the parent poster was trying to say.)
I would totally buy XP or Vista if it Just Worked(tm) after a fresh install like Ubuntu does.
That would make it an OS worthy of the Desktop.
So, instead of attaching files to e-mails we should:
All run webservers and have e-mail programs that know how to publish to them and all of the cool new security issues that'll bring with it.
Or, we should all rent access on a webserver somewhere and either know how to publish documents on it, or have our e-mail program do that.
Or, we could all have publically accessible Windows Shares where the URL://fredsbox/myshare will somehow magically work everywhere.
New Microsoft Outlook 2007, The Safe Way
No more of that nasty bold text (or any other formatting for that matter) ruining your otherwise clean message.
Enjoy getting humorous images mailed to you? Not any more!!!
Viruses, no way, not in a text only package! (Unless the sender figures out something we didn't check, like, a buffer overflow if you make a line of text 4097 characters with no breaks.)
E-cards are so 2006, NOW ASCII-cards!!!
Unless you are conducting criminal activity I don't see why you are concernced.
What if "it" becomes illegal?
What if somebody else thinks "it" is illegal?
What if "it" is illegal, but shouldn't be?
What if they tell everyone else "it" is illegal, but don't tell them what "it" is?
What if "it" is something YOU did?
The easiest method of switching the search engine to Google takes 3 steps.
Surf to google. Seems easy enough, but of the family member I support 3 out of 5 would be stumped here.
Notice the notice on Google's site. No technical barrier here, except you have to see it, I think they'd all eventually see this.
Click the link. Not a hard step, but were they convinced above that they should? Is that Google's issue? I don't know. Should it be?
Seems easy, but 0 effort it is not.
Microsoft know this. They're doing nothing overtly bad here. They're just using an "innocent" default, typical human behavior and a monopoly to get another monopoly (or at least gain market share). Is it illegal? I think so. So, I don't think this story is being blown out of proportion.
Whether they sue or not, does not mean the school or entity didn't have to spend money on lawyers or audit personnel or a settlement. MS can afford their own defense, they don't need your help. The schools on the other hand...
I personally don't see why this is a problem, but then I'm one of those strange people that happens to agree with the notion of paying for commercial software.
It's free!!! What other piece of software, that is not Microsoft's, makes you verify the OS on which you are running it? It's crazy that this is required! How can it be a positive!?!?
c) Actually attempts to pass off things like tabbed browsing and a search bar as innovative
Well, it is, for Explorer. That's just marketing anyway, it's nothing to do with the quality of the product, which is what most of us devlopers are interested in.
So, I don't mean to go all "Senstionalist Title" on your ass, but the post links to a mozilla blog explaining how they've added this feature to the TRUNK. Announcing a new feature in a blog is not quite a press release, but it's a hell of lot more forthcoming that what "quietly added" implies. Also, it's been added to the Trunk, so it's not likely to actually show up in any Mozilla build for a while, much longer, if ever, in a release. This is really the way to add something like this. Put it in to see where and how it will be used and whether that's good or bad.
This topic isn't about what Windows does, it's about what Linux does!
From the topic When compared to their Window's equivalents, the names of many Linux programs are difficult to recognize and even tougher to remember.
The topic clearly tries to show that Linux program names are poor compared to Windows. Thus, an argument either for or against this assumption would need to show examples from at least one of the two operating environments, preferably both. I chose to show not only how poorly programs are named in Windows, but also to show how poorly programs are organized in Windows. In other words, this is clearly not a problem that Windows has solved.
Again, my overall point is that the author of the article chose examples that proved his/her point. One could easily choose examples that prove that Linux naming is better than Windows. For example, "Serpentine Audio CD Creator" on Ubuntu Breezy vs. "Nero" on Windows.
But that's part of the problem. "Most" computer makers customize Windows with add-ons, 3rd party media players, but that makes it impossible for the neophyte to discuss software with anybody else. Say there's a feature in Musicmatch Multimedia Jukebox for which your buddy was pining, so you tell him how to run it:
Go to the menu...
What menu?
The Start Menu
Oh.
Now, click Multimedia.
I don't have Multimedia.
What do you have?
I have, My Documents, Settings, Windows Update, New Document, Programs...
Oh yeah, sorry, click Programs, then Multimedia.
Ok, I clicked Programs... ooh, there's a lot here... What am I looking for?
Multimedia
(long pause) There's like 100 things, they're not in any order I can discern and they go off the screen (another long pause) no, there's no Multimedia.
(much dialog occurs before our players find "Dell's Musicmatch Jukebox" in Programs -> Dell -> Dell Toys. Then, it turns out, its and old version of MMJB that doesn't have the cool feature. Oh well, it was fun, good times.)
Again, we can all make up stories using "facts" to present what we want. For instance, you conveniently dropped "VLC" from your menu entry. So, instead of the menu entry being "VLC Movie Player" which would have messed up your example, you just put "Movie Player". Don't worry, I did the same. My menu entry says "VLC Media Player" and I made up the location of the Dell branded Musicmatch Jukebox because I couldn't find it.
Let's do the comparison one more time using the names in my Ubuntu Breezy menus vs. the EXE names on Windows. Fair is fair, right?
Web Browser
Windows: iexpore, Opera, Mozilla, Firefox
Linux: Opera Web Browser, Mozilla Web Browser, Firefox Web Browser
Graphics Editing
Windows: photoshop (a place to buy photos?), illustrator
Linux: GIMP Image Editor
Movie Playback
Windows: wmp
Linux: Totem Movie Player, MPlayer, Xine, VLC Media Player
DVD Playback:
Windows: WinDVD (what titles can I win?), wmp
Linux: Totem Movie Player, Xine, VLC Media Player
Simple Text Editing
Windows: Notepad, Wordpad, TextPad
Linux: Text Editor
Instant Messaging
Windows: AIM
Linux: Gaim Internet Messenger
Music Playback:
Windows: wmp, Itunes (you tunes we all tunes to Itunes), WinAmp (I don't want Windows louder)
Linux: Beep Media Player, Rhythmbox Music Player
CD Ripping:
Windows: Itunes, wmp
Linux: Sound Juicer CD Ripper
CD Burning
Windows: Roxio, Nero
Linux: Gnome Toaster, Serpentine Audio CD Creator, Nero
It's pretty clear that Windows needs some consistency work before it will reach the level of polish and ease of use found in today's modern Linux distros. Anybody can write a story that manipulates the details in their favor.
Firefox as a 1.x product has existed for 1 year.
Firefox as a name, about 1.75ish years (Feb. 2004).
Firefox as a project about ~ 3 years. (Phoenix first released 2002-09-23, got that from here.)
Unlikely that it has bugs much older than that.
When you researched your post, maybe you didn't realize this "bug" was for the Mozilla Suite or possibly for the Gecko engine. Regardless, since the article said all Firefox security issues had been patched, I think maybe you just made it all up.
That's OK, most posts come out of people's posteriors.
1) How many "browsers" does Mozilla-family browsers represent? How many browsers does IE represent? I'm thinking 2-3 for Mozilla (Suite, Firefox, and possibly Camino) and 1 for IE (just 6.0).
Heh, Dude(tte), that'd be way to easy and take way too little time. I've got way too much time to waste to be saving my excess time with way to easy shortcuts.
See, Google succeeds by getting developers involved. They say things like, "What do you guys think?" or "Hey, what kind of cool things can you do with this?"
Microsoft says, "Here are the most innovative maps in the world, bow down to our greatness!". Then, they step back behind the curtain.
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It is important to note that strong is not stronger and, in fact, could mean weaker. Couldn't it?
Also, in our imaginary world, the article might say: The conclusion is that OSS outperforms the
I'm wondering if the high throughput numbers for the .Net stack were caused by it deliving huge binary files to the client. Ya know, 17MB Active X controls. Anyway, I didn't randomly come up with this conclusion, the article didn't mention the transactions per second for .Net. So, I conclude from ALL of the data that it did one transaction of 17MB*.
*No math was done to come up with the 17MB figure.
Also, no animals were harmed during the writing of this comment.
Nobody thinks that MS's tactics are a bigger problem than fighting AIDS, we just, ya know, were on a tech website discussing tech issues, possibly passionately. We're sorry to have offended you in anyway.
How do you TRIGGER the incremental update
I believe it's consistent across platforms (I'm using Linux) and it's Help->Check for Updates...
WARNING! Dumb Joke WARNING! Amarok totally amarocks
I would totally buy XP or Vista if it Just Worked(tm) after a fresh install like Ubuntu does.
That would make it an OS worthy of the Desktop.
New Microsoft Outlook 2007, The Safe Way
No more of that nasty bold text (or any other formatting for that matter) ruining your otherwise clean message.
Enjoy getting humorous images mailed to you? Not any more!!!
Viruses, no way, not in a text only package! (Unless the sender figures out something we didn't check, like, a buffer overflow if you make a line of text 4097 characters with no breaks.)
E-cards are so 2006, NOW ASCII-cards!!!
Unless you are conducting criminal activity I don't see why you are concernced.
What if "it" becomes illegal?
What if somebody else thinks "it" is illegal?
What if "it" is illegal, but shouldn't be?
What if they tell everyone else "it" is illegal, but don't tell them what "it" is?
What if "it" is something YOU did?
Seems easy, but 0 effort it is not.
Microsoft know this. They're doing nothing overtly bad here. They're just using an "innocent" default, typical human behavior and a monopoly to get another monopoly (or at least gain market share). Is it illegal? I think so. So, I don't think this story is being blown out of proportion.
How do I get rid of the search box entirely?
View->Toolbars->Customize
Then, click and drag the search box off of the toolbar.
Finally, click "Close".
How do you do it in IE7? I'd try, but it wouldn't install. Something about needing windows.
Whether they sue or not, does not mean the school or entity didn't have to spend money on lawyers or audit personnel or a settlement. MS can afford their own defense, they don't need your help. The schools on the other hand...
innovative has lost all meaning.
So, I don't mean to go all "Senstionalist Title" on your ass, but the post links to a mozilla blog explaining how they've added this feature to the TRUNK. Announcing a new feature in a blog is not quite a press release, but it's a hell of lot more forthcoming that what "quietly added" implies. Also, it's been added to the Trunk, so it's not likely to actually show up in any Mozilla build for a while, much longer, if ever, in a release. This is really the way to add something like this. Put it in to see where and how it will be used and whether that's good or bad.
This topic isn't about what Windows does, it's about what Linux does!
From the topic When compared to their Window's equivalents, the names of many Linux programs are difficult to recognize and even tougher to remember.
The topic clearly tries to show that Linux program names are poor compared to Windows. Thus, an argument either for or against this assumption would need to show examples from at least one of the two operating environments, preferably both. I chose to show not only how poorly programs are named in Windows, but also to show how poorly programs are organized in Windows. In other words, this is clearly not a problem that Windows has solved.
Again, my overall point is that the author of the article chose examples that proved his/her point. One could easily choose examples that prove that Linux naming is better than Windows. For example, "Serpentine Audio CD Creator" on Ubuntu Breezy vs. "Nero" on Windows.
But that's part of the problem. "Most" computer makers customize Windows with add-ons, 3rd party media players, but that makes it impossible for the neophyte to discuss software with anybody else. Say there's a feature in Musicmatch Multimedia Jukebox for which your buddy was pining, so you tell him how to run it:
... ooh, there's a lot here ... What am I looking for?
Go to the menu...
What menu?
The Start Menu
Oh.
Now, click Multimedia.
I don't have Multimedia.
What do you have?
I have, My Documents, Settings, Windows Update, New Document, Programs...
Oh yeah, sorry, click Programs, then Multimedia.
Ok, I clicked Programs
Multimedia
(long pause) There's like 100 things, they're not in any order I can discern and they go off the screen (another long pause) no, there's no Multimedia.
(much dialog occurs before our players find "Dell's Musicmatch Jukebox" in Programs -> Dell -> Dell Toys. Then, it turns out, its and old version of MMJB that doesn't have the cool feature. Oh well, it was fun, good times.)
Again, we can all make up stories using "facts" to present what we want. For instance, you conveniently dropped "VLC" from your menu entry. So, instead of the menu entry being "VLC Movie Player" which would have messed up your example, you just put "Movie Player". Don't worry, I did the same. My menu entry says "VLC Media Player" and I made up the location of the Dell branded Musicmatch Jukebox because I couldn't find it.
Let's do the comparison one more time using the names in my Ubuntu Breezy menus vs. the EXE names on Windows. Fair is fair, right?
Web Browser
Windows: iexpore, Opera, Mozilla, Firefox
Linux: Opera Web Browser, Mozilla Web Browser, Firefox Web Browser
Graphics Editing
Windows: photoshop (a place to buy photos?), illustrator
Linux: GIMP Image Editor
Movie Playback
Windows: wmp
Linux: Totem Movie Player, MPlayer, Xine, VLC Media Player
DVD Playback:
Windows: WinDVD (what titles can I win?), wmp
Linux: Totem Movie Player, Xine, VLC Media Player
Simple Text Editing
Windows: Notepad, Wordpad, TextPad
Linux: Text Editor
Instant Messaging
Windows: AIM
Linux: Gaim Internet Messenger
Music Playback:
Windows: wmp, Itunes (you tunes we all tunes to Itunes), WinAmp (I don't want Windows louder)
Linux: Beep Media Player, Rhythmbox Music Player
CD Ripping:
Windows: Itunes, wmp
Linux: Sound Juicer CD Ripper
CD Burning
Windows: Roxio, Nero
Linux: Gnome Toaster, Serpentine Audio CD Creator, Nero
It's pretty clear that Windows needs some consistency work before it will reach the level of polish and ease of use found in today's modern Linux distros. Anybody can write a story that manipulates the details in their favor.
Firefox as a 1.x product has existed for 1 year.
Firefox as a name, about 1.75ish years (Feb. 2004).
Firefox as a project about ~ 3 years. (Phoenix first released 2002-09-23, got that from here.)
Unlikely that it has bugs much older than that.
When you researched your post, maybe you didn't realize this "bug" was for the Mozilla Suite or possibly for the Gecko engine. Regardless, since the article said all Firefox security issues had been patched, I think maybe you just made it all up.
That's OK, most posts come out of people's posteriors.
IE with a Linux distribution
NOOOOOOO! Why would you want that?
There are a finite number of slashdotters that recognize sarcasm.
1) How many "browsers" does Mozilla-family browsers represent? How many browsers does IE represent? I'm thinking 2-3 for Mozilla (Suite, Firefox, and possibly Camino) and 1 for IE (just 6.0).
2) Why is the "One caveat" buried at the end?
Do:
View -> Character Coding -> Windows Craptastic Character Encoding (1252).
Then view the exploit page.
You can just go Tools/Manage Add Ons, FYI.
Heh, Dude(tte), that'd be way to easy and take way too little time. I've got way too much time to waste to be saving my excess time with way to easy shortcuts.
Way's a funny word.
3) Microsoft included an Add-on manger with this version of IE 7. It allows BHOs to be turned on and off.
Am I the only one that's ever done: Tools -> Internet Options -> Programs Tab -> Manage Add Ons Button in IE6?
Even their evolutionary stuff has already been done, by them! The screens look exactly the same in IE6 as 7.
There's always got to be a "Yeah that's neat, but..." post. Here's mine:
Yeah, that's neat, but when's the firmware update coming that supports Ogg. MP3s are so 2002.
See, Google succeeds by getting developers involved. They say things like, "What do you guys think?" or "Hey, what kind of cool things can you do with this?"
Microsoft says, "Here are the most innovative maps in the world, bow down to our greatness!". Then, they step back behind the curtain.