>> Have you ever thought that if you wanted something to be improved, then maybe you should just speak up and offer a solution instead of quietly or publicly venting without offering any input?
OK.
1) Dear Microsoft,
Please fix Vista so it doesn't use 11GB of disk space and 750MB of ram with no apps running. You can do this by removing all the redundant apps and other bloat from the default install that you've added since XP, which didn't take anything like all those resources yet still contains nearly all the fucntionality that Vista does.
Please add a "I'm not a beginner" mode to windows, so Windows stops bugging me everytime I do anything, and so I can put my files anywhere I like and not where Vista tells me.
Also Marketing were wrong. please put the drive choices and graphical progress indication back in Disk Defrgamenter gui.
Love, Niz.
2) Now according to you, I just need to wait for the fix because Microsoft pays attention to its users, right?
>> Exchange Server did more to make email a reality for corporates than any other product.
Not at all.
Many companies had unix-based email WAAY before Exchange even came out. Then when it did, some non-technical higher-up usually decides the company should 'upgrade' to Microsoft exchange.
I've been at several companies where exactly this happened and exactly the same result too: Before the upgrade, we had an email system that just worked, and never needed any maintenance. After we switched, we needed to hire a whole office of support staff to deal with the day-to-day issues of ongoing Exchange problems.
I'm always surprised how long its taken them to come round to moving back to Unix/Linux solutions, but they all did in the end.
Microsoft have a webpage where you can anonymously report licencing violations. Just do that then you can sit at your desk at work one day and watch Microsoft stormtroopers break your office door down and butt-rape your controller, safe in the knowledge that he'll never find out who squealed.
The US Government have accused Home Depot and Lowes of supplying terrorist activities on a nationwide scale, and have invoked emergency "Home Security" legislation ensuring US citizens can only buy tools made of jello. The same legislation gives the police authority to shoot anyone selling non-jello tools (garage sales etc) on sight.
>> even the ATI linux driver works quite nicely on my laptop after I tweaked with it a bit
Not what I've experienced at all. ATI Linux driver performance is massively below the performance of same HW under windows. This isn't true of nVidia's linux drivers, which occasionally even outperform same under windows. Also as you said, ATI's linux drivers require lots of tweaking to even work, nVidia's are plug-n-play.
UAC is the biggest pain in the butt to users of any software I've ever come across. Its the first thing I disable in Vista because its continuous stream of "are you sure" dialog boxes everytime you just open a file is so freaking annoying.
Jeez I REALLY hope other OS-developers are laughing hard at this and not taking Microsoft's suggestion to implement this everywhere seriously.
Doesn't this make adding copy protection to the disks in the first place illegal? My thinking is that this is obstructing a legal activity (i.e. making legal backups of DVDs) and must therefore be illegal in itself.
is it that they only did the study on women? Judging by how much attention is focussed on health issues only relating to women it seems society today thinks men are clearly less important.
I don't think that is true at all. Vista hides a lot of expert stuff and has much more incredibly annoying "repeatedly assume user is stupid" dialog boxes. I've gone back to XP because I'm far more productive with the XP interface than Vista.
Arresting someone for writing a non-threatening but anti-establishment essay is ludicrous.
There seems to be a whole new and dangerous Orwellian trend in the US of severely punishing anyone that doesn't act totally conformist (i.e hold strictly middle-class and strongly christian views) because they must be imminently about to launch a terrorist attack.
Replace the word 'communist' with 'terrorist' and its the McCarthy era all over again. Its funny that most Americans still truly think the US is the land of the free. How bad does it actually have to get before the majority start to realize something's wrong?
>> Dan Glickman announced that the MPAA was fine with consumers ripping DVDs for portable video players and home media servers.
Yeah of course because they already see DVD as a dead format. The reason DVD is a dead format is that they were obliged to kill it on purpose because the protection was broken by us consumers in order to rip DVDs.
Now ask Dan Glickman how the MPAA feel about consumers ripping HD-DVD or Blu-Ray at the full HD res. that we already paid for. I can guarantee he won't give the same reply.
If there's one thing that history has shown us is that banning something from the mainstream doesn't make it go away, in fact it makes it more cool and alternative.
Anyway one mans hate speech is another's fight for freedom.
Much as I REALLY hope the ALKY project (DX10 for XP) actually implements DX10, my personal theory is that it just provides DX10 API which the DX9 API, meaning DX10 games on XP will run with poorer performance and degraded (DX9) graphics, rather than just not run at all.
I think requiring news stations to report positive items 50% of the time is a good thing. Good things happen in the world too, and I'd like our media to reflect that. I'm fed up only hearing all the bad news in the world when I turn on the TV or radio. Its enough to make you depressed all day, and I'd also like to learn more about the good things that happen.
Its because women have more of a chance to marry a partner that will pay for them to live without them having to work. That seems to be what most American women spend their time looking for, anyway.
>> I'm male, and I'm all for women's rights and the advancement of the sex and gender -
Me too and I agree, except for the advancement of women's rights (only). I think this is also about men's rights but that never seems to get discussed.
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Ahh OK I do that too :-)
Ahh so you're one of those annoying people that think they're being a good driver by driving slowly and causing a massive tailback.
Lol,
Millions of lines of code just for a glorified email server.
No wonder Microsoft are screwed.
>> Have you ever thought that if you wanted something to be improved, then maybe you should just speak up and offer a solution instead of quietly or publicly venting without offering any input?
OK.
1)
Dear Microsoft,
Please fix Vista so it doesn't use 11GB of disk space and 750MB of ram with no apps running. You can do this by removing all the redundant apps and other bloat from the default install that you've added since XP, which didn't take anything like all those resources yet still contains nearly all the fucntionality that Vista does.
Please add a "I'm not a beginner" mode to windows, so Windows stops bugging me everytime I do anything, and so I can put my files anywhere I like and not where Vista tells me.
Also Marketing were wrong. please put the drive choices and graphical progress indication back in Disk Defrgamenter gui.
Love,
Niz.
2)
Now according to you, I just need to wait for the fix because Microsoft pays attention to its users, right?
..and you should learn to stop being rude.
I just posted my actual experiences. I don't need to 'move on', but you need to move up from the gutter.
You mean by sending an email to someone you become subject to the jurisdiction of the state they are in?
That sounds like bullcrap to me.
>> but as soon as the guy sent cracked IP to the US,
so what he should claim is that he never actually sent it, just that he made it available and others who happened to be in the US downloaded it.
>> Exchange Server did more to make email a reality for corporates than any other product.
Not at all.
Many companies had unix-based email WAAY before Exchange even came out. Then when it did, some non-technical higher-up usually decides the company should 'upgrade' to Microsoft exchange.
I've been at several companies where exactly this happened and exactly the same result too: Before the upgrade, we had an email system that just worked, and never needed any maintenance. After we switched, we needed to hire a whole office of support staff to deal with the day-to-day issues of ongoing Exchange problems.
I'm always surprised how long its taken them to come round to moving back to Unix/Linux solutions, but they all did in the end.
a rude, annoying little dick with small-man syndrome.
...and here we are back in the McCarthy era again.
Has anyone called him a communist yet?
Microsoft have a webpage where you can anonymously report licencing violations.
Just do that then you can sit at your desk at work one day and watch Microsoft stormtroopers break your office door down and butt-rape your controller, safe in the knowledge that he'll never find out who squealed.
The US Government have accused Home Depot and Lowes of supplying terrorist activities on a nationwide scale, and have invoked emergency "Home Security" legislation ensuring US citizens can only buy tools made of jello.
The same legislation gives the police authority to shoot anyone selling non-jello tools (garage sales etc) on sight.
>> even the ATI linux driver works quite nicely on my laptop after I tweaked with it a bit
Not what I've experienced at all.
ATI Linux driver performance is massively below the performance of same HW under windows.
This isn't true of nVidia's linux drivers, which occasionally even outperform same under windows.
Also as you said, ATI's linux drivers require lots of tweaking to even work, nVidia's are plug-n-play.
for Apple to acquire Intel (or perhaps round the other way).
UAC is the biggest pain in the butt to users of any software I've ever come across. Its the first thing I disable in Vista because its continuous stream of "are you sure" dialog boxes everytime you just open a file is so freaking annoying.
Jeez I REALLY hope other OS-developers are laughing hard at this and not taking Microsoft's suggestion to implement this everywhere seriously.
Doesn't this make adding copy protection to the disks in the first place illegal?
My thinking is that this is obstructing a legal activity (i.e. making legal backups of DVDs) and must therefore be illegal in itself.
is it that they only did the study on women?
Judging by how much attention is focussed on health issues only relating to women it seems society today thinks men are clearly less important.
It took a small part of his his ashes up then brought them back down... I bet that wasn't what he was thinking.
I don't think that is true at all.
Vista hides a lot of expert stuff and has much more incredibly annoying "repeatedly assume user is stupid" dialog boxes.
I've gone back to XP because I'm far more productive with the XP interface than Vista.
Arresting someone for writing a non-threatening but anti-establishment essay is ludicrous.
There seems to be a whole new and dangerous Orwellian trend in the US of severely punishing anyone that doesn't act totally conformist (i.e hold strictly middle-class and strongly christian views) because they must be imminently about to launch a terrorist attack.
Replace the word 'communist' with 'terrorist' and its the McCarthy era all over again. Its funny that most Americans still truly think the US is the land of the free. How bad does it actually have to get before the majority start to realize something's wrong?
>> Dan Glickman announced that the MPAA was fine with consumers ripping DVDs for portable video players and home media servers.
Yeah of course because they already see DVD as a dead format. The reason DVD is a dead format is that they were obliged to kill it on purpose because the protection was broken by us consumers in order to rip DVDs.
Now ask Dan Glickman how the MPAA feel about consumers ripping HD-DVD or Blu-Ray at the full HD res. that we already paid for. I can guarantee he won't give the same reply.
If there's one thing that history has shown us is that banning something from the mainstream doesn't make it go away, in fact it makes it more cool and alternative.
Anyway one mans hate speech is another's fight for freedom.
Much as I REALLY hope the ALKY project (DX10 for XP) actually implements DX10, my personal theory is that it just provides DX10 API which the DX9 API, meaning DX10 games on XP will run with poorer performance and degraded (DX9) graphics, rather than just not run at all.
I think requiring news stations to report positive items 50% of the time is a good thing.
Good things happen in the world too, and I'd like our media to reflect that.
I'm fed up only hearing all the bad news in the world when I turn on the TV or radio. Its enough to make you depressed all day, and I'd also like to learn more about the good things that happen.
Its because women have more of a chance to marry a partner that will pay for them to live without them having to work.
That seems to be what most American women spend their time looking for, anyway.
>> I'm male, and I'm all for women's rights and the advancement of the sex and gender -
Me too and I agree, except for the advancement of women's rights (only). I think this is also about men's rights but that never seems to get discussed.