>> If you've implemented a system that is only understandable by your own good self, perhaps you're in the wrong profession.
Normally you'd be right but dont forget how crappy/badly designed/confusing & just retarded Microsoft products are.
I remember when we migrated our (400 worksatation) office from exclusively Solaris stations to having some windows boxes (exchange etc) too, our IT dept went from 2 part-timers hardly needing to touch a flawless network to 10 full-time Microsoft "experts" struggling to keep it alive.
For some retarded reason all the TV companies are drving full-bore at so-called reality TV. Now everything has to follow the same stupid trend. Take for example the new Knight Rider, and every successive Star Trek tv series since the original, and nearly all other recent sci-fi remakes. They are killing the whole thing by removing all the toughness, action, technology and imaginative plots and replacing them with emotional touchy-feelyness and endlessly droning on about terminally dull details of the characters interpersonal relationships. Maybe if the writers of Sarah Connor had a clue and realised that what people actually liked about Terminator movies was the big bad chrome robots, car chases, scary landscapes and big explosions they might have been able to produce something good.
Especially stupid and annoying are the questions that assumes everyone on the internet is an American, or at least follows American culture. ("What state was your high school in?", "who is your favorite baseball team?" etc)
>> the browser is more of an operating system than a data display application;
Its this kind of stupid thinking that leads to the whole problem in the first place. Why do some developers always see their product encompassing every other component in a system regardless of how unrelated and inappropriate it is? Look at Vista for the perfect bad example of where that approach leads to.
>> neither cedega nor crossover games will run the games
Cedega is a joke. You might want to try wine... more recent versions usually have much better games comapatability than cedega. Apart from the fact that a (much) older version of Wine was the basis of Cedega, Wine is free.
Microsoft yet again demonstrating they believe everyone in the world except them only deserves plastic scissors.
I hope that in the name of safety, Microsoft continue to remove all remaining potentially useful functionality so that eventually even developers wont be able to do anything productive with their products at all.
Then finally, even consumers and upper managers will have to understand how shitty Microsoft products are, so will stop buying and enforcing the use of Microsoft products on the rest of us.
I hate this view that there is everyone, then there are women. Its like we're moving back to the dark ages, as it is completely undermining the whole movement of equality and making gender a non-issue. I mean honestly, are women so different that they really need gender-specific computers?
So when are Dell going to make male-specific laptops and have special websites just for men? Without that, I now feel seriously discriminated against by Dell just because of my male genderness.
And if it is now morally acceptable to create alienating products and insulting sterotypes for maketing purposes, where does it stop? what about blacks-only and whites-only laptops? How about laptops only for native Indians or Aborigines, or one for Europeans only, or Baptists only, and what about people with green eyes, or are gay, or all the other factors that have no ACTUAL affect on computer usage or functionality?
I just want a simple e-ink display e-book reader with no whispernet, no wifi, no vendor lock-in, no drm, absolutely no advertising or marketing, especially where it is not disableable or disguised as extra "features". It should at least be able to open pdf and plain text files. It should act like a generic usb flash drive, so no need for extra drivers or to install software on the PC. You just plug iit in the USB, copy the file to the reader from a PC and you're done. It should take normal batteries, so you can buy new batteries at airports etc. and/or use nicads rather than rely on some built-in battery that you have to send it back to the manufacturer to replace. It shouyld automatically sense if nicads are being used, and give you the option to recharge from the USB, os that you don't need to also carry a seperate charger. On style/appearance, the device should ultra minimal and nearly all screen. No ugly fat plastic frame or ugly arrays of buttons. At least 8GB storage, or even better, an SD slot. why in these days when you can buy 16gb thumb drives for $30 are even new devices like the kindle 2 limited to such a stupidly small 2GB?
You went ahead and accepted even though you knew it was wrong. Its people like you that make employers think that this sort of shit is even a possibility. Good luck with whatever even more restrictive crap they now put you through just because you caved like a pussy the first time.
Wrong attitude. You have a business agreement of equals with your employer, you're not their slave. You give them time, they give you money. At no point do you have to or should you ever be subservient to them or give up any of your human rights, or anything else they haven't already agree to pay you for. Yet for some reason especially in the USA employees let their employers walk all over them, which sends the message that we're all a bunch of pussies that will put up with anything, so the employer does it even more. Basically its the fault of every employee with an attitude like yours that it can happen in the first place.
I'd be concerned about having backups on just bare internal drives rattling around in a storage box.
Apart from the environmental (static/moisture etc) issues, I've found out the hard way how fragile SATA connectors really are. In 2 years of owning a system with SATA I've accidentally broke 2 connectors on drives. In decades of messing with PC's before that I never once broke an IDE connector.
Consequently I have a theory that drive manufacturers make SATA connectors so feeble on purpose just to sell more drives. I now use these things:
The only annoying thing about these is the need to keep a key around to swap the drives in and out as they get mechanically locked in the bay. If you dont like that maybe you can 'modify' it (like I did) or find similar product that doesnt use a key.
Dude. Are you really such a cheapskate as to go to the bother of mooching a phony sample and waiting days for it to turn up just to save like 50 cents on a bag? Frys Electronics sell packs of 10 big antistatic bags for around 5 bucks.
>> Axum does not have capabilities to define classes, but as it runs on the.NET platform, Axum can use classes made with C#.
Why is it that Microsoft persist in vomiting up quick/crappy/hacky workarounds rather than solid solutions? and how is it that the people with the biggest blind-spot about technology and how bad Microsoft products are, are always in senior management of tech companies?
They should make the maximum penalty be that if you have a problem with the software, you are legally allowed a full refund of the purchase price, and the right to full access of the source code.
Imagine what that would do to Microsoft and the Open Source communities respectively.
Just the existence of a viable free competitor will cause Microsoft to go into embrace-and-extend mode so they will have to do stuff like cheapen WM9 licencing, make it more open, or try and take ownership of HTML5.
The sad thing is that we already know that regardless of how good the ogg codec is, consumer hardware manufacturers won't bother to use or even include support for it in their current and near-future consumer products. Mostly because all the relevant standards (around blu-ray and HDTV) are already defined and there's already compliant equipment out there so interoperability is the driving issue now, not technically better quality or performance.
Its still worth having a good open HD codec around though,If only because it puts Microsoft on the back foot. Who knows, maybe the next fad (UV-ray?? SuperHD??) will include suppport for it in whatever the new standard will be.
Its not as bad as it sounds as it cant be more than a couple of years before blu-ray and current HD is superceded as they have to keep coming up with new and incompatable formats just to sell us ever more tvs, players and the same tired old movies on multiple different formats over and over again.
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Uhh I call bullshit. There's no such thing as a hypervisor that has absolutely no performance penalty over running native.
You describe why you run OS/2 in a vm, but the real question your comment poses is why you or even anyone would want to run OS/2 at all these days.
>> If you've implemented a system that is only understandable by your own good self, perhaps you're in the wrong profession.
Normally you'd be right but dont forget how crappy/badly designed/confusing & just retarded Microsoft products are.
I remember when we migrated our (400 worksatation) office from exclusively Solaris stations to having some windows boxes (exchange etc) too, our IT dept went from 2 part-timers hardly needing to touch a flawless network to 10 full-time Microsoft "experts" struggling to keep it alive.
Its a no-brainer why it failed.
For some retarded reason all the TV companies are drving full-bore at so-called reality TV.
Now everything has to follow the same stupid trend.
Take for example the new Knight Rider, and every successive Star Trek tv series since the original, and nearly all other recent sci-fi remakes.
They are killing the whole thing by removing all the toughness, action, technology and imaginative plots and replacing them with emotional touchy-feelyness and endlessly droning on about terminally dull details of the characters interpersonal relationships.
Maybe if the writers of Sarah Connor had a clue and realised that what people actually liked about Terminator movies was the big bad chrome robots, car chases, scary landscapes and big explosions they might have been able to produce something good.
yes. Finally. good isn't it?
Especially stupid and annoying are the questions that assumes everyone on the internet is an American, or at least follows American culture.
("What state was your high school in?", "who is your favorite baseball team?" etc)
>> For years analysts have been insisting that Apple must introduce a cheaper iPhone...
Seems an excessive statment given iPhone first went on sale less than a year and a half ago.
Just nail your kid's foot to the ground.
..or was this some divisive way of furthering some other objective? Like, maybe getting a better bunker built somewhere else. I.e. Now they have to.
>> the browser is more of an operating system than a data display application;
Its this kind of stupid thinking that leads to the whole problem in the first place.
Why do some developers always see their product encompassing every other component in a system regardless of how unrelated and inappropriate it is? Look at Vista for the perfect bad example of where that approach leads to.
Yes and yes. I've been a developer for over 30 years now(nearly all C or C++). How about you?
>> neither cedega nor crossover games will run the games
Cedega is a joke. You might want to try wine... more recent versions usually have much better games comapatability than cedega. Apart from the fact that a (much) older version of Wine was the basis of Cedega, Wine is free.
Dont get ATI graphics if there's even a chance of ever wanting to run Linux on it.
Microsoft yet again demonstrating they believe everyone in the world except them only deserves plastic scissors.
I hope that in the name of safety, Microsoft continue to remove all remaining potentially useful functionality so that eventually even developers wont be able to do anything productive with their products at all.
Then finally, even consumers and upper managers will have to understand how shitty Microsoft products are, so will stop buying and enforcing the use of Microsoft products on the rest of us.
I hate this view that there is everyone, then there are women. Its like we're moving back to the dark ages, as it is completely undermining the whole movement of equality and making gender a non-issue.
I mean honestly, are women so different that they really need gender-specific computers?
So when are Dell going to make male-specific laptops and have special websites just for men? Without that, I now feel seriously discriminated against by Dell just because of my male genderness.
And if it is now morally acceptable to create alienating products and insulting sterotypes for maketing purposes, where does it stop? what about blacks-only and whites-only laptops? How about laptops only for native Indians or Aborigines, or one for Europeans only, or Baptists only, and what about people with green eyes, or are gay, or all the other factors that have no ACTUAL affect on computer usage or functionality?
I just want a simple e-ink display e-book reader with no whispernet, no wifi, no vendor lock-in, no drm, absolutely no advertising or marketing, especially where it is not disableable or disguised as extra "features".
It should at least be able to open pdf and plain text files. It should act like a generic usb flash drive, so no need for extra drivers or to install software on the PC. You just plug iit in the USB, copy the file to the reader from a PC and you're done.
It should take normal batteries, so you can buy new batteries at airports etc. and/or use nicads rather than rely on some built-in battery that you have to send it back to the manufacturer to replace.
It shouyld automatically sense if nicads are being used, and give you the option to recharge from the USB, os that you don't need to also carry a seperate charger.
On style/appearance, the device should ultra minimal and nearly all screen. No ugly fat plastic frame or ugly arrays of buttons.
At least 8GB storage, or even better, an SD slot. why in these days when you can buy 16gb thumb drives for $30 are even new devices like the kindle 2 limited to such a stupidly small 2GB?
Absolutely not.
The rights and life of a single person are way more important than the extra profits of any business entity.
You went ahead and accepted even though you knew it was wrong.
Its people like you that make employers think that this sort of shit is even a possibility.
Good luck with whatever even more restrictive crap they now put you through just because you caved like a pussy the first time.
Wrong attitude.
You have a business agreement of equals with your employer, you're not their slave.
You give them time, they give you money. At no point do you have to or should you ever be subservient to them or give up any of your human rights, or anything else they haven't already agree to pay you for.
Yet for some reason especially in the USA employees let their employers walk all over them, which sends the message that we're all a bunch of pussies that will put up with anything, so the employer does it even more. Basically its the fault of every employee with an attitude like yours that it can happen in the first place.
I'd be concerned about having backups on just bare internal drives rattling around in a storage box.
Apart from the environmental (static/moisture etc) issues, I've found out the hard way how fragile SATA connectors really are. In 2 years of owning a system with SATA I've accidentally broke 2 connectors on drives. In decades of messing with PC's before that I never once broke an IDE connector.
Consequently I have a theory that drive manufacturers make SATA connectors so feeble on purpose just to sell more drives. I now use these things:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/search.asp?keywords=MRK-200ST-BK
The only annoying thing about these is the need to keep a key around to swap the drives in and out as they get mechanically locked in the bay. If you dont like that maybe you can 'modify' it (like I did) or find similar product that doesnt use a key.
Dude. Are you really such a cheapskate as to go to the bother of mooching a phony sample and waiting days for it to turn up just to save like 50 cents on a bag?
Frys Electronics sell packs of 10 big antistatic bags for around 5 bucks.
>> Axum does not have capabilities to define classes, but as it runs on the .NET platform, Axum can use classes made with C#.
Why is it that Microsoft persist in vomiting up quick/crappy/hacky workarounds rather than solid solutions? and how is it that the people with the biggest blind-spot about technology and how bad Microsoft products are, are always in senior management of tech companies?
They should make the maximum penalty be that if you have a problem with the software, you are legally allowed a full refund of the purchase price, and the right to full access of the source code.
Imagine what that would do to Microsoft and the Open Source communities respectively.
Just the existence of a viable free competitor will cause Microsoft to go into embrace-and-extend mode so they will have to do stuff like cheapen WM9 licencing, make it more open, or try and take ownership of HTML5.
The sad thing is that we already know that regardless of how good the ogg codec is, consumer hardware manufacturers won't bother to use or even include support for it in their current and near-future consumer products. Mostly because all the relevant standards (around blu-ray and HDTV) are already defined and there's already compliant equipment out there so interoperability is the driving issue now, not technically better quality or performance.
Its still worth having a good open HD codec around though,If only because it puts Microsoft on the back foot. Who knows, maybe the next fad (UV-ray?? SuperHD??) will include suppport for it in whatever the new standard will be.
Its not as bad as it sounds as it cant be more than a couple of years before blu-ray and current HD is superceded as they have to keep coming up with new and incompatable formats just to sell us ever more tvs, players and the same tired old movies on multiple different formats over and over again.
You have no exceuse. Everyone knows that for professional journalism you should read The Sun.