The beginning of the End. Blow all your cash on Yahoo!, and when it ends up being as bad an acquisition as all of Balmer's other buys, maybe you can jack Vista up to a thousand dollars a pop for the "Jesus our marketing department is full of morons and our CEO is a doofus" edition.
Jesus. Drama Queen much? A piece of beta software exploded. It will be fixed in days if not hours. It's probably fixed by the time you posted your whiny rant. So dry your tears, Princess, and turn down the hyperbole a little.
Because I thought Bill said that Windows 7 would be out next year? What's the rush to saddle everyone with Vista if they are just going to make Vista look sick with all the spanking new features that I am sure Windows 7 will have? Kind of like how Vista was supposed to be a quantum leap past XP? Huh? Anyone? Huh?
Tell me, how do you KNOW that? I mean, if you've got, ya know, FACTS, then by all means share.
Oh stop it already. The demos of the Surface capabilities were faked. There is no way for their projector or IR motion sensors to know that a credit card was placed on the thing as shown in the demo, and the demos of cameras and phones were faked. And the current idea is to tag devices so they can be recognized anyway. And to top it all off, it's not a "touch" surface after the fashion of the iPhone.
It's fun that you've swallowed the hook, but no one has any info on the actual functionality of the Surface outside of controlled demos. Those are the facts. The iPhone, by counter example, is real and in the hands of actual consumers. When you or someone you know is sitting in front of a Surface and it is functioning as claimed, get back to me.
Right? The reason it took so long to deploy was because when it debuted it didn't actually exist as a product! A projector stuck in a table with a few infra red motion detectors and a Vista PC? The demos were fakes, people. It could not read bar codes and it certainly was not in anyway shape or form a "touch" surface. The same clowns trumpeting this typical "me too!" piece of crap from Microsoft derided the iPhone at every stage.
Face it. it's a big fat joke. Literally.
The freetards can now take their cue to whine incessantly about the least restrictive DRM scheme on the planet. And even tho Apple was forced to devise DRM because of the labels, the Microsofties can rant about Apple being the "new Microsft". Bous points if somone repeatedly claims that a product and service tied to a hardware device that attained it's market share purely on merit somehow constitutes an illegal monopoly.
There is no amount of whining that is sufficient for some people. If an iPod gave you no strings attached sex for the rest of your life, dorks would complain because it didn't make your breakfast.
Has their patch cycle fixed an OS that supplies trojan horses and viruses with a security level higher than the fucking user who setup the damn box in the first place?
Can you elaborate on this? What exactly have you seen wrt this?
When cleaning infected Windows systems, I often run across hidden malware and trojan.dll files and.exe that (when found after checking the show hidden system files checkbox) I cannot delete. Typically if infections are many and varied, I logon as Administrator in Safe Mode. Even after killing the running processes associated with the.dll, I cannot delete them because I do not have the privileges. The privileges were assigned to an user called "Valued Customer". The idea that a third party malicious code can assign itself hidden users and Admin level priviledges that as the system Administrator I cannot circumvent is ludicrous.
An OS that allows hidden processes and invisible files to alter settings without actually reflecting those setting changes in the apps that are supposed to monitor said changes?
You mean a rootkit? All operating systems suffer from this.
The particular examples are the aforementioned Valued Customer user with folders and files (hidden and not hidden) and privileges which does not show up in Users control panel, and the fact that some trojans and Malware turn off the Windows Firewall, which you can only find if you open the firewall control panel itself, because the useless Security Center application still reported the Firewall as active when it clearly was not.
The same patterns repeat over and over again. Hidden installations, hidden user levels, undeleteable files, processes that you as an administrator are not allowed or having difficulty stopping or deleting. There is no misunderstanding. Microsoft's Windows is replete with "features" that allow malicious code to install itself without notice, hide itself anywhere it chooses and prevent the legitimate user from removing it, even when they are made aware of it's presence.Hell, right now, a friends laptop is not able to get the Windows updates from the point at which it was infected by a virus. What was intent of a filesystem where third party code can prevent signed OS system updates from getting installed? In the face of this, the patching numerology practiced by SFI is embarrassing and simply useless. It certainly doesn't reflect the reality of the day to day Windows experience.
...exactly the reason many Apple supporters have no use for and even despise so-called tech reporting. Have Microsoft's policies made any difference WRT to the nightmare the average PC user puts up with on a daily basis? Has their patch cycle fixed an OS that supplies trojan horses and viruses with a security level higher than the fucking user who setup the damn box in the first place? An OS that allows hidden processes and invisible files to alter settings without actually reflecting those setting changes in the apps that are supposed to monitor said changes? God, go ahead, latch on to any pathetic attempt to excuse the miserable crap that is Microsoft's null security OS design.
In case it isn't yet clear to the wankers, nobody gives a damn about exploit counts, and nobody with a brain gives a damn about bug fix turn around times. The only numbers that matter is these: 150 thousand viruses and trojans for MS Windows and counting. None for Mac OS X.
Yes. Pointing out that OS Xs record is completely clean of the maladies that make the average Windows users life a networked hell. Hoo Boy, that's a real raver there. Someone sedate him!
...have any products? Do they compete in consumer space? Was there an existing product that Apple stole ideas from and subsequently rendered ZapMedia's product unsaleable? Maybe people need to watch "Connections" more often, but this idea that "ideas" are like rare diamonds and only one of a kind seems to permeate patent trollery. There are thousands if not millions of intelligent people forging ahead with technology and ideas and innovation. Apple's iTunes has many imitators and many predecessors, and none of them needed Apple to steal from, nor did Apple need to steal ideas. If you have the right people on a problem the solutions are obvious, and will be replicated across several companies several times.
Now, when ZapMedia can show that there is code in iTunes that was written by ZapMedia, they will have something. Otherwise, the idea that an idea or concept can be patented without ever creating a product design to sell or implement boggles me.
Maybe in 2003 or 04 your argument would be reasonable, but very few consumer programs get supported for that long.
Meh, his argument wasn't valid in 1992. There were plenty of cool apps for System 7, never mind the apps I had and have on 8, 9 and now X. Every Windows idiot worth his hyperbole thinks you don't have software if you don't have 20 crappy photo editing programs to choose from.
Can anymore hyperbole be stuffed into these pathetic excuses for journalism? "face government regulators"? Are you high? IT'S APPLE'S PHONE! It's THEIR OS! Like it or lump it. And don't even bother with bullshit about "monopolies". When the iPhone is 95% of the mobile phone market, we'll get back to you.
Tell these fucking idiots that Betamax was THE choice for professional video well into 2002? That it was supplanted by digital media this Millennium? HDDVD will not survive in any form, and certainly wasn't/isn't superior to BluRay the way Beta was superior to VHS. So it's fine for comparisons with respect to conquering the consumer space, but Beta did not disappear forever because the cheap ass VHS VCR was on top of everyones TV.
Microssoft's Vista is already on the way to the everyone-pays-for-everything-everytime utopia this jackass is imagining. Does anyone really believe that the DRM laden OS Microsoft has released *isn't* an attempt to get a never ending revenue stream from record labels who believe MS has the power to completely lock down what users see and hear?
How does a speculative article on what Apple may or may not do and what their relationship with AT&T may or not be in the future turn in to the hit whore headline "Apple Can't Afford iPhone's Carrier Exclusivity"?
...not shipped. There is a difference. If Apple said they "shipped" so many iPhones, you could claim they are, like X-Boxes, sitting on shelves. They said sold, and the most liekly explanation is that the unlocking count is much higher than the analyst states. Seeing as how it's his estimate, he's drawing the conclusion he wants from the data.
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The beginning of the End. Blow all your cash on Yahoo!, and when it ends up being as bad an acquisition as all of Balmer's other buys, maybe you can jack Vista up to a thousand dollars a pop for the "Jesus our marketing department is full of morons and our CEO is a doofus" edition.
Jesus. Drama Queen much? A piece of beta software exploded. It will be fixed in days if not hours. It's probably fixed by the time you posted your whiny rant. So dry your tears, Princess, and turn down the hyperbole a little.
Because I thought Bill said that Windows 7 would be out next year? What's the rush to saddle everyone with Vista if they are just going to make Vista look sick with all the spanking new features that I am sure Windows 7 will have? Kind of like how Vista was supposed to be a quantum leap past XP? Huh? Anyone? Huh?
Tell me, how do you KNOW that? I mean, if you've got, ya know, FACTS, then by all means share. Oh stop it already. The demos of the Surface capabilities were faked. There is no way for their projector or IR motion sensors to know that a credit card was placed on the thing as shown in the demo, and the demos of cameras and phones were faked. And the current idea is to tag devices so they can be recognized anyway. And to top it all off, it's not a "touch" surface after the fashion of the iPhone. It's fun that you've swallowed the hook, but no one has any info on the actual functionality of the Surface outside of controlled demos. Those are the facts. The iPhone, by counter example, is real and in the hands of actual consumers. When you or someone you know is sitting in front of a Surface and it is functioning as claimed, get back to me.
W00t! Troll! Too bad for the idiots who think a Big Ass Table is in anyway cool, what I said is pretty much the truth.
Right? The reason it took so long to deploy was because when it debuted it didn't actually exist as a product! A projector stuck in a table with a few infra red motion detectors and a Vista PC? The demos were fakes, people. It could not read bar codes and it certainly was not in anyway shape or form a "touch" surface. The same clowns trumpeting this typical "me too!" piece of crap from Microsoft derided the iPhone at every stage. Face it. it's a big fat joke. Literally.
Yes, without the functionality.
The freetards can now take their cue to whine incessantly about the least restrictive DRM scheme on the planet. And even tho Apple was forced to devise DRM because of the labels, the Microsofties can rant about Apple being the "new Microsft". Bous points if somone repeatedly claims that a product and service tied to a hardware device that attained it's market share purely on merit somehow constitutes an illegal monopoly.
There is no amount of whining that is sufficient for some people. If an iPod gave you no strings attached sex for the rest of your life, dorks would complain because it didn't make your breakfast.
When cleaning infected Windows systems, I often run across hidden malware and trojan
An OS that allows hidden processes and invisible files to alter settings without actually reflecting those setting changes in the apps that are supposed to monitor said changes? You mean a rootkit? All operating systems suffer from this.
The particular examples are the aforementioned Valued Customer user with folders and files (hidden and not hidden) and privileges which does not show up in Users control panel, and the fact that some trojans and Malware turn off the Windows Firewall, which you can only find if you open the firewall control panel itself, because the useless Security Center application still reported the Firewall as active when it clearly was not.
The same patterns repeat over and over again. Hidden installations, hidden user levels, undeleteable files, processes that you as an administrator are not allowed or having difficulty stopping or deleting. There is no misunderstanding. Microsoft's Windows is replete with "features" that allow malicious code to install itself without notice, hide itself anywhere it chooses and prevent the legitimate user from removing it, even when they are made aware of it's presence.Hell, right now, a friends laptop is not able to get the Windows updates from the point at which it was infected by a virus. What was intent of a filesystem where third party code can prevent signed OS system updates from getting installed?
In the face of this, the patching numerology practiced by SFI is embarrassing and simply useless. It certainly doesn't reflect the reality of the day to day Windows experience.
As well you should. It's always best to use the facts to defend against twats like yourself.
In case it isn't yet clear to the wankers, nobody gives a damn about exploit counts, and nobody with a brain gives a damn about bug fix turn around times. The only numbers that matter is these: 150 thousand viruses and trojans for MS Windows and counting. None for Mac OS X.
Yes. Pointing out that OS Xs record is completely clean of the maladies that make the average Windows users life a networked hell. Hoo Boy, that's a real raver there. Someone sedate him!
...have any products? Do they compete in consumer space? Was there an existing product that Apple stole ideas from and subsequently rendered ZapMedia's product unsaleable? Maybe people need to watch "Connections" more often, but this idea that "ideas" are like rare diamonds and only one of a kind seems to permeate patent trollery. There are thousands if not millions of intelligent people forging ahead with technology and ideas and innovation. Apple's iTunes has many imitators and many predecessors, and none of them needed Apple to steal from, nor did Apple need to steal ideas. If you have the right people on a problem the solutions are obvious, and will be replicated across several companies several times. Now, when ZapMedia can show that there is code in iTunes that was written by ZapMedia, they will have something. Otherwise, the idea that an idea or concept can be patented without ever creating a product design to sell or implement boggles me.
Meh, his argument wasn't valid in 1992. There were plenty of cool apps for System 7, never mind the apps I had and have on 8, 9 and now X. Every Windows idiot worth his hyperbole thinks you don't have software if you don't have 20 crappy photo editing programs to choose from.
Thanks for being the Voice of Reason. Seriously.
Can anymore hyperbole be stuffed into these pathetic excuses for journalism? "face government regulators"? Are you high? IT'S APPLE'S PHONE! It's THEIR OS! Like it or lump it. And don't even bother with bullshit about "monopolies". When the iPhone is 95% of the mobile phone market, we'll get back to you.
Didn't Sagan want this before the end of the Millennium? Could have been done, too.
Tell these fucking idiots that Betamax was THE choice for professional video well into 2002? That it was supplanted by digital media this Millennium? HDDVD will not survive in any form, and certainly wasn't/isn't superior to BluRay the way Beta was superior to VHS. So it's fine for comparisons with respect to conquering the consumer space, but Beta did not disappear forever because the cheap ass VHS VCR was on top of everyones TV.
Microssoft's Vista is already on the way to the everyone-pays-for-everything-everytime utopia this jackass is imagining. Does anyone really believe that the DRM laden OS Microsoft has released *isn't* an attempt to get a never ending revenue stream from record labels who believe MS has the power to completely lock down what users see and hear?
How does a speculative article on what Apple may or may not do and what their relationship with AT&T may or not be in the future turn in to the hit whore headline "Apple Can't Afford iPhone's Carrier Exclusivity"?
Kinda like Vista.
...not shipped. There is a difference. If Apple said they "shipped" so many iPhones, you could claim they are, like X-Boxes, sitting on shelves. They said sold, and the most liekly explanation is that the unlocking count is much higher than the analyst states. Seeing as how it's his estimate, he's drawing the conclusion he wants from the data.
...you keep telling yourself that. It will help you avoid the future of computing and feel better doing it.
Microsoft gives us an annoying shopping cart.