10 years ago, The Sci-Fi channel presented sci-fi and slashdot presented news for nerds.
Hell, that was true even 5 years ago.
Today, SyFy cares about whatever everyone else is doing to gain viewers and slashdot cares about posting slashvertisments and trolls in order to rank up the page views and cares not how true anything it posts may or may not be.
In short, both have fallen to their corporate overlords and are no longer useful for their original purposes. They are both, basically like every other channel/website respectively that they originally differentiated themselves from and go their initial view/user base.
Could they blow up Destiny in the process? Or at least figure out an excruciating way to kill off Carlyle and his arrogant 'I'm only going to do this if its not like the other shows!' bad acting? I truly despise his acting, and that very stupid 'I know how to make this better' when he clearly doesn't know how to make it better, or even as good as what he's comparing against.
Bring all the SGU people back in one piece, just not Carlyle. I want to see him die in the bridge of Destiny... by getting hit in the face with a drone like Anubis.
Yes, and the obscure show that no one has heard of that you're referencing without telling anyone is far better than Stargate. Its better because its obscure and makes your dick bigger. You don't get to define 'great science fiction'.
Should I just be grateful that there is no SciFi "reality" show yet?
There is, its called Faceoff. Its a reality show about the makeup artists that do scifi/fantasy makeup work. If they weren't trying so hard to turn it into Jersey Shore drama fest, it wouldn't be that bad.
Thats next week. The week after that its 'The White Sanford and Son' followed by 'Dyke Road Truckers' the following week... and maybe some Alaskans mixed in to call them names.
Instead of being locked into 10k workstation installs of a certain software package you are locked into a server install that is used by 10k clients. Either way, you aren't just switching it out at the flip of a switch.
ActiveX really doesn't change anything, your central website manages what versions the client uses, so its not like you can't force/require specific client side installation rules... and it can all be controlled by group policy.
ActiveX's problem was that old versions of IE either never asked the user by default and/or had bugs that allowed drive by installs even if the user was supposed to be prompted. If you think ActiveX is bad, you must also think every web browser plugin is bad as well, including Mozilla plugins as today they all work pretty much the same. Do you support Flash?
AND WHY THE FUCK DOES THIS NEW SLASHDOT BULLSHIT DOUBLE SPACE EVERY GOD DAMN POST I MAKE?
What the fuck is wrong with you guys these days, you fucking suck now. And yes, the use of the word fuck and caps were required to get my point across.
One of the complaints I've heard about Firefox is that there is no way to do an installation similar to how msi files are setup. I don't know if Chrome suffers from the same issue.
You hear this from wanna be admins that don't know what they are doing.
An MSI file easily falls into the ActiveDirectory software rollout system without little effort.
What they don't realize is so does any half way decent installer, as the ActiveDirectory system will be happy to use a standard EXE and some command line switches to get the done. They could also, of course, take the 3 or for seconds to write an MSI wrapper if its that important too them, though it would offer no benefit.
The downside is, by using MSI, you're stuck dealing with all the bullshit bugs in the 'Windows Installer Service' and which ever version my be installed, upgrading it if need be, dealing with absolutely retarded bugs like deadlocking due to calling an EXE setup for a MSI from within an MSI.
Any admin with half a clue (or anyone who can use Google competently) can find the information on MSDN (public, no account or fee required) on how to make Firefox work. Its just one of those things where those of us who KNOW how to do it aren't really saying anything because its clear the people complaining about it haven't put any effort into the issue, they're just whining that someone else isn't doing their job.
But... the MSI issue isn't Firefox's problem, the complete lack of Group Policy support OR ANY ALTERNATIVE is what kills it in a large business environment.
Mozilla formed the base of 6, not 5. 5 was abandon very early on in favor of starting over as Mozilla.
Eitherway, Netscape died with version 4, anything after that was a joke at best. Not that most of what came before it wasn't as well, but it was most certainly dead the day Mozilla was announced.
Wow, that's just sad. I guess everyone is keeping their kids at home today (or they're staying in voluntarily). There is so much paranoia about molesters lurking around every corner and so much out-of-control protectionism (kids on bikes today wear more pads than I used to when I played football). I guess kid's gathering places like Chuck E. Cheese's have just went to hell as a result.
The funny part to all this is, the statistics recorded by the FBI show absolutely no increase in crimes like abduction, molestation, or the like since they came into existence.
The difference is now you hear about every thing that happens because we live in a world where EVERYONE is connected to EVERYONE else. Which creates two problems: 1) idiotic people freak out and think the world is getting scarier when everything is the exact same, you're simply more aware of the horrible things that happen because sensationalism raises your viewing rate. 2) More idiotic kids do bad things like shoot up schools because it will get them world wide coverage.
The only real change is instead of postal workers getting fed up and shooting up a Luby's, its not angsty teenagers that shoot up schools because someone called them names.
We've turned into a bunch of pussies where 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' turned into 'words will scare me for live and ruin my entire future!@$!@$!@'
If you visited the store, you should know already you have absolutely no need for contraceptives anyway, they don't really do anything but maybe allow for easy cleanup when all you do is jerk off. Whats next, you'll wonder why live action Lord of the Rings players don't carry condoms? Its kind of self explanatory.
Plus with X-Windows and/or VNC you can do it on a couple of cheap PCs with a network cable anyway.
And this is an acceptable substitute for a locally attached display? Do you like lag for no reason what so ever? Seriously... VNC? You could not have picked a more shitty example of how to do multiple monitors. I'm pretty sure what you've described is in a text book somewhere as how NOT to do it.
I have 2 USB ports, means I can plugin my mouse dongle and my laptop cooler power supply cable... and not my phone to charge or sync... but I've still got an unused firewire, ethernet and MDP port... instead, with lightpeak/thunderbolt I can have all 3 devices I want plugged in today, and tomorrow I can unplug my phone and put a fast external drive in it if I want... Or I can plugin my phone, ethernet, external disk and my mouse and cooler, or I can drop ANY one of those in favor of an extra ANY ONE OF THOSE.
5 ports that all use the same connections/protocols and are all sufficiently capable of replacing any of the 4 different ports on my laptop means I have far more flexibility.
Its not difficult to see unless you're just being a curmudgeon. If you can't understand why the choice and consistency is useful than I don't really understand how you cope with life in general, must be hard.
Okay, so in other words, Light Peak is designed for people too stupid to be able to work out what cable plugs into what socket on the computer
No, they didn't design it for people like you.
They designed it for people like me.
My laptop has 2 USB ports, an MDP, a firewire port, and ethernet port. So I can only plug in 2 usb devices, 1 mdp device/monitor, 1 fireware device and 1 network connection. So when I have my wireless mouse dongle and the usb power cable for my lap cooler, I can't plugin my phone, but I can plugin a monitor or video camera... which I don't need.
On the contrary, if I had 5 LightPeak/Thunderbolt ports, all of which are capable of being ANY of the above ports, then I can plugin any 5 things I want, to any one of the ports I want, rather than being limited to 2 of one type of device, 1 of all the others, I can now mix and match however I want because we've gotten rid of the retarded restrictions based on connector type.
Again, just because you're too stupid to figure out the clear advantages it offers doesn't mean its a stupid idea, it just means your too ignorant, arrogant and self absorbed to think for a couple seconds that you may in fact, not have thought of everything.
Yep, some GPL software sucks, just like some commercial software - thanks for pointing out that one to me because in 15 years of using Open Source and Linux, I hadn't worked that one out for myself.
He wasn't pointing the obvious fact, he was pointing out the ratio of good to suck... and the difference is clear to anyone without blinders.
Not really, that stunt and their little stunt fucking with displays at a tradeshow were the two things that resulted in me no longer ever visiting Gizmodo. I have no need for websites run by people who are clearly douche bags that still act like 15 year olds. I'm not 15 anymore, that shit isn't cool anymore either.
So... if by successful you mean lost a 'unique visitor'/ad revenue, then yes it was successful, but by my definition it was not in anyway. I don't like hoodlums, which is all they are.
Having run a hackintosh before I bought a real one, I can safely say that you do not have what I have. Every hackintosh I've ever seen has had a bunch of shit that didn't work. Its either sound, or graphics issues or not going to sleep, or ports not working all kinds of shit depending on the hardware you're trying to stuff it on.
After playing with it, reading forums till I turned blue, borrowing laptops on the 'known good' lists, I finally got sick of it and just bought a MBP.
What I learned is... I wasted more money (in the form of my time) trying to get a hackintosh working properly and dealing with the bullshit when it didn't than I spent on my MBP.
You might think you're getting the same experience, but I assure you that you aren't. Trip over the cord and pull your laptop off the coffee table once or twice... and then get a real mac and and not worry about it any more... subtle thing that you'd never think about when buying a laptop... and I will never own another laptop without a magsafe connector, even if it means I have to pay Apple $2,000 to get the EXACT same machine spec machine that dell sells for $450.
You simply don't know what you're missing, and you won't until you go from a real MBP to trying to use something else again.
It doesn't define what that data is like USB or FireWire is.
So you don't understand how technology works I see.
USB and Firewire are just data channels. USB devices respond in well defined ways that allow generic support for them. So does firewire... and so does Lightpeak.
You're confusing the USB protocol stack with the Lightpeak wire transfer protocol. You're comparing Apples to the ground the tree grows in.
The only reason Apple gets away with those prices is because idiots keep paying that price for them.These idiots are the ones sold on Apple as some kind of elite club or status symbol.
Funny thing is, you really only hear this from people who have never owned one. I'm not sure that its because you're too ignorant to bother to realize that your statement is not always true and look or if its that people who have owned one change their minds afterwords. I don't really know, but when I bought my laptop it was the cheapest one available with the hardware it has. Of course, I buy directly after a refresh and not two days before a refresh, so maybe its just your level of intelligence thats the issue and not that people who use apple products that are blowing money.
You can get the same user experience and clean design out of an HP with an aluminum chassis with Ubuntu installed.
No you can't. The fact that you made that statement shows your entire post is pointless. You simply don't have any idea what you're talking about.
Oh, and if the Apple branding on your devices isn't important, then how about scratching off the little Apple logos on each one then?
Seriously?
Why don't you modify your bios logo? Why don't you change all the kernel text to remove Linux from it so is unrecognized able? Did you remove the manufacture logo and identifying marks from your car?
You don't 'scratch off the little Apple logos' because theres no reason too, and the idea that you would bother doing such a thing shows that you're really the one concerned with logos.
Your sig gives a clear warning that your posts are from an irrational Apple hater. I realize you probably think you're being witty and showing us how smart you are, but it doesn't. It just shows your more concerned with raging against the machine than doing anything practical. Basically it lets us know your opinion doesn't really matter unless you're trying to compare your differing levels of douchebaggery.
Ever try to explain the lettered drive system to someone who's 50+ and hasn't used computers before? It's just (if not more) bizarre - skipping A and B (except for computers that still have floppy drives and unless a USB drive pretends to be a floppy drive)
Okay, so its a little confusing to people who have never used a computer, but for the other 99.99999% of the population they already understand drive letters and its not really a big deal. My 82 year old father picked it up in one sitting, its not difficult. Its certainly far less difficult than explaining something like a devfs.
the difference in drive naming on systems that ship with recovery partitions, the semi-random drive letter assignment to different flash drives (or even the same one mounted at a different time)...
Most recovery partitions are done in such a way that the only time the user ever sees them is when they've triggered the recovery key sequence at boot, otherwise they remain hidden on every machine I've dealt with. They remain hidden so things can fuck them up, like the user who doesn't understand what its for. Have you actaully used a PC with these 'issues' you're making up or are you truly just inventing random crap that was solved 10 years ago as if it still happens?
Or try explaining the registry to a newbie.
Why the hell are you explaining the registry to a newbie? You've already done it wrong. Whats next, you'll say that Linux isn't any worse because car mechanics also have a difficult time explaining the CAN bus to grandma? Newbies don't need to know about the registry. If you need to explain the registry to newbies then you need to stop subjecting them to software written by 12 year olds. There is no reason a normal user should ever be messing with the registry, the only reason they are is because of a bad application... and lets be realistic... its still easier to open regedit and navigate a tree of keys than it is to scramble around and search for a setting in a config file using grep to figure out which file its in. This 'complaint' has absolutely no merit and just indicates you're making things up to support your position when you really don't have a reason to maintain that position.
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as slashdot loves news for nerds.
10 years ago, The Sci-Fi channel presented sci-fi and slashdot presented news for nerds.
Hell, that was true even 5 years ago.
Today, SyFy cares about whatever everyone else is doing to gain viewers and slashdot cares about posting slashvertisments and trolls in order to rank up the page views and cares not how true anything it posts may or may not be.
In short, both have fallen to their corporate overlords and are no longer useful for their original purposes. They are both, basically like every other channel/website respectively that they originally differentiated themselves from and go their initial view/user base.
Both have forgotten why they were created.
I know, diehard SG fans, that you can't handle a show based on non-campy enemy-of-the-week plots ala Buffy the Gate Slayer, get over it
Right, because which pussy on the SGU cast is going to cry this week is a better basis for a plot line.
Could they blow up Destiny in the process? Or at least figure out an excruciating way to kill off Carlyle and his arrogant 'I'm only going to do this if its not like the other shows!' bad acting? I truly despise his acting, and that very stupid 'I know how to make this better' when he clearly doesn't know how to make it better, or even as good as what he's comparing against.
Bring all the SGU people back in one piece, just not Carlyle. I want to see him die in the bridge of Destiny ... by getting hit in the face with a drone like Anubis.
Yes, and the obscure show that no one has heard of that you're referencing without telling anyone is far better than Stargate. Its better because its obscure and makes your dick bigger. You don't get to define 'great science fiction'.
Should I just be grateful that there is no SciFi "reality" show yet?
There is, its called Faceoff. Its a reality show about the makeup artists that do scifi/fantasy makeup work. If they weren't trying so hard to turn it into Jersey Shore drama fest, it wouldn't be that bad.
Thats next week. The week after that its 'The White Sanford and Son' followed by 'Dyke Road Truckers' the following week ... and maybe some Alaskans mixed in to call them names.
Your argument is broken.
Instead of being locked into 10k workstation installs of a certain software package you are locked into a server install that is used by 10k clients. Either way, you aren't just switching it out at the flip of a switch.
ActiveX really doesn't change anything, your central website manages what versions the client uses, so its not like you can't force/require specific client side installation rules ... and it can all be controlled by group policy.
ActiveX's problem was that old versions of IE either never asked the user by default and/or had bugs that allowed drive by installs even if the user was supposed to be prompted. If you think ActiveX is bad, you must also think every web browser plugin is bad as well, including Mozilla plugins as today they all work pretty much the same. Do you support Flash?
AND WHY THE FUCK DOES THIS NEW SLASHDOT BULLSHIT DOUBLE SPACE EVERY GOD DAMN POST I MAKE?
What the fuck is wrong with you guys these days, you fucking suck now. And yes, the use of the word fuck and caps were required to get my point across.
One of the complaints I've heard about Firefox is that there is no way to do an installation similar to how msi files are setup. I don't know if Chrome suffers from the same issue.
You hear this from wanna be admins that don't know what they are doing.
An MSI file easily falls into the ActiveDirectory software rollout system without little effort.
What they don't realize is so does any half way decent installer, as the ActiveDirectory system will be happy to use a standard EXE and some command line switches to get the done. They could also, of course, take the 3 or for seconds to write an MSI wrapper if its that important too them, though it would offer no benefit.
The downside is, by using MSI, you're stuck dealing with all the bullshit bugs in the 'Windows Installer Service' and which ever version my be installed, upgrading it if need be, dealing with absolutely retarded bugs like deadlocking due to calling an EXE setup for a MSI from within an MSI.
Any admin with half a clue (or anyone who can use Google competently) can find the information on MSDN (public, no account or fee required) on how to make Firefox work. Its just one of those things where those of us who KNOW how to do it aren't really saying anything because its clear the people complaining about it haven't put any effort into the issue, they're just whining that someone else isn't doing their job.
But ... the MSI issue isn't Firefox's problem, the complete lack of Group Policy support OR ANY ALTERNATIVE is what kills it in a large business environment.
Mozilla formed the base of 6, not 5. 5 was abandon very early on in favor of starting over as Mozilla.
Eitherway, Netscape died with version 4, anything after that was a joke at best. Not that most of what came before it wasn't as well, but it was most certainly dead the day Mozilla was announced.
They reopened it you know ... Jay and Bob fronted Daunte and Randell the money.
Wow, that's just sad. I guess everyone is keeping their kids at home today (or they're staying in voluntarily). There is so much paranoia about molesters lurking around every corner and so much out-of-control protectionism (kids on bikes today wear more pads than I used to when I played football). I guess kid's gathering places like Chuck E. Cheese's have just went to hell as a result.
The funny part to all this is, the statistics recorded by the FBI show absolutely no increase in crimes like abduction, molestation, or the like since they came into existence.
The difference is now you hear about every thing that happens because we live in a world where EVERYONE is connected to EVERYONE else. Which creates two problems:
1) idiotic people freak out and think the world is getting scarier when everything is the exact same, you're simply more aware of the horrible things that happen because sensationalism raises your viewing rate.
2) More idiotic kids do bad things like shoot up schools because it will get them world wide coverage.
The only real change is instead of postal workers getting fed up and shooting up a Luby's, its not angsty teenagers that shoot up schools because someone called them names.
We've turned into a bunch of pussies where 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' turned into 'words will scare me for live and ruin my entire future!@$!@$!@'
Right, what he said was a lie, but the collateral murder video was all truthful and not misrepresentative at all ...
fucking idiot.
If you visited the store, you should know already you have absolutely no need for contraceptives anyway, they don't really do anything but maybe allow for easy cleanup when all you do is jerk off. Whats next, you'll wonder why live action Lord of the Rings players don't carry condoms? Its kind of self explanatory.
Plus with X-Windows and/or VNC you can do it on a couple of cheap PCs with a network cable anyway.
And this is an acceptable substitute for a locally attached display? Do you like lag for no reason what so ever? Seriously ... VNC? You could not have picked a more shitty example of how to do multiple monitors. I'm pretty sure what you've described is in a text book somewhere as how NOT to do it.
I have 2 USB ports, means I can plugin my mouse dongle and my laptop cooler power supply cable ... and not my phone to charge or sync ... but I've still got an unused firewire, ethernet and MDP port ... instead, with lightpeak/thunderbolt I can have all 3 devices I want plugged in today, and tomorrow I can unplug my phone and put a fast external drive in it if I want ... Or I can plugin my phone, ethernet, external disk and my mouse and cooler, or I can drop ANY one of those in favor of an extra ANY ONE OF THOSE.
5 ports that all use the same connections/protocols and are all sufficiently capable of replacing any of the 4 different ports on my laptop means I have far more flexibility.
Its not difficult to see unless you're just being a curmudgeon. If you can't understand why the choice and consistency is useful than I don't really understand how you cope with life in general, must be hard.
Okay, so in other words, Light Peak is designed for people too stupid to be able to work out what cable plugs into what socket on the computer
No, they didn't design it for people like you.
They designed it for people like me.
My laptop has 2 USB ports, an MDP, a firewire port, and ethernet port. So I can only plug in 2 usb devices, 1 mdp device/monitor, 1 fireware device and 1 network connection. So when I have my wireless mouse dongle and the usb power cable for my lap cooler, I can't plugin my phone, but I can plugin a monitor or video camera ... which I don't need.
On the contrary, if I had 5 LightPeak/Thunderbolt ports, all of which are capable of being ANY of the above ports, then I can plugin any 5 things I want, to any one of the ports I want, rather than being limited to 2 of one type of device, 1 of all the others, I can now mix and match however I want because we've gotten rid of the retarded restrictions based on connector type.
Again, just because you're too stupid to figure out the clear advantages it offers doesn't mean its a stupid idea, it just means your too ignorant, arrogant and self absorbed to think for a couple seconds that you may in fact, not have thought of everything.
Yep, some GPL software sucks, just like some commercial software - thanks for pointing out that one to me because in 15 years of using Open Source and Linux, I hadn't worked that one out for myself.
He wasn't pointing the obvious fact, he was pointing out the ratio of good to suck ... and the difference is clear to anyone without blinders.
Not really, that stunt and their little stunt fucking with displays at a tradeshow were the two things that resulted in me no longer ever visiting Gizmodo. I have no need for websites run by people who are clearly douche bags that still act like 15 year olds. I'm not 15 anymore, that shit isn't cool anymore either.
So ... if by successful you mean lost a 'unique visitor'/ad revenue, then yes it was successful, but by my definition it was not in anyway. I don't like hoodlums, which is all they are.
Having run a hackintosh before I bought a real one, I can safely say that you do not have what I have. Every hackintosh I've ever seen has had a bunch of shit that didn't work. Its either sound, or graphics issues or not going to sleep, or ports not working all kinds of shit depending on the hardware you're trying to stuff it on.
After playing with it, reading forums till I turned blue, borrowing laptops on the 'known good' lists, I finally got sick of it and just bought a MBP.
What I learned is ... I wasted more money (in the form of my time) trying to get a hackintosh working properly and dealing with the bullshit when it didn't than I spent on my MBP.
You might think you're getting the same experience, but I assure you that you aren't. Trip over the cord and pull your laptop off the coffee table once or twice ... and then get a real mac and and not worry about it any more ... subtle thing that you'd never think about when buying a laptop ... and I will never own another laptop without a magsafe connector, even if it means I have to pay Apple $2,000 to get the EXACT same machine spec machine that dell sells for $450.
You simply don't know what you're missing, and you won't until you go from a real MBP to trying to use something else again.
I can't believe it's not unix
I'm not sure if I just missed the joke but uhm, you do realize that OS X was certified as an official UNIX ... RIGHT?
It doesn't define what that data is like USB or FireWire is.
So you don't understand how technology works I see.
USB and Firewire are just data channels. USB devices respond in well defined ways that allow generic support for them. So does firewire ... and so does Lightpeak.
You're confusing the USB protocol stack with the Lightpeak wire transfer protocol. You're comparing Apples to the ground the tree grows in.
On the other hand, I can still plug in the same USB devices I did from 1998.
The irony is that Apple is the reason your using those USB devices in the first place.
Funny thing is, you really only hear this from people who have never owned one. I'm not sure that its because you're too ignorant to bother to realize that your statement is not always true and look or if its that people who have owned one change their minds afterwords. I don't really know, but when I bought my laptop it was the cheapest one available with the hardware it has. Of course, I buy directly after a refresh and not two days before a refresh, so maybe its just your level of intelligence thats the issue and not that people who use apple products that are blowing money.
You can get the same user experience and clean design out of an HP with an aluminum chassis with Ubuntu installed.
No you can't. The fact that you made that statement shows your entire post is pointless. You simply don't have any idea what you're talking about.
Oh, and if the Apple branding on your devices isn't important, then how about scratching off the little Apple logos on each one then?
Seriously?
Why don't you modify your bios logo? Why don't you change all the kernel text to remove Linux from it so is unrecognized able? Did you remove the manufacture logo and identifying marks from your car?
You don't 'scratch off the little Apple logos' because theres no reason too, and the idea that you would bother doing such a thing shows that you're really the one concerned with logos.
Your sig gives a clear warning that your posts are from an irrational Apple hater. I realize you probably think you're being witty and showing us how smart you are, but it doesn't. It just shows your more concerned with raging against the machine than doing anything practical. Basically it lets us know your opinion doesn't really matter unless you're trying to compare your differing levels of douchebaggery.
Ever try to explain the lettered drive system to someone who's 50+ and hasn't used computers before? It's just (if not more) bizarre - skipping A and B (except for computers that still have floppy drives and unless a USB drive pretends to be a floppy drive)
Okay, so its a little confusing to people who have never used a computer, but for the other 99.99999% of the population they already understand drive letters and its not really a big deal. My 82 year old father picked it up in one sitting, its not difficult. Its certainly far less difficult than explaining something like a devfs.
the difference in drive naming on systems that ship with recovery partitions, the semi-random drive letter assignment to different flash drives (or even the same one mounted at a different time)...
Most recovery partitions are done in such a way that the only time the user ever sees them is when they've triggered the recovery key sequence at boot, otherwise they remain hidden on every machine I've dealt with. They remain hidden so things can fuck them up, like the user who doesn't understand what its for. Have you actaully used a PC with these 'issues' you're making up or are you truly just inventing random crap that was solved 10 years ago as if it still happens?
Or try explaining the registry to a newbie.
Why the hell are you explaining the registry to a newbie? You've already done it wrong. Whats next, you'll say that Linux isn't any worse because car mechanics also have a difficult time explaining the CAN bus to grandma? Newbies don't need to know about the registry. If you need to explain the registry to newbies then you need to stop subjecting them to software written by 12 year olds. There is no reason a normal user should ever be messing with the registry, the only reason they are is because of a bad application ... and lets be realistic ... its still easier to open regedit and navigate a tree of keys than it is to scramble around and search for a setting in a config file using grep to figure out which file its in. This 'complaint' has absolutely no merit and just indicates you're making things up to support your position when you really don't have a reason to maintain that position.