It is said that Erik the Red called it that because they wanted people to go there, though on early maps it's name was written "Ground-land".
How is the US right on this? We can see the pollution all around us. Or is the smog in LA some sort of pretty natural cloud? Or, when flights were stopped after 9/11, the air didn't get cleaner?
We can see the US is patently wrong on this, and the only reason they're not doing it is that it costs money. That's such a weak and selfish argument considering it's not even us today who will have to put up with the mess, but our kids.
So America only does what's profitable, and not what's right? What happened to that justice/freedom/democracy/we're-the-good-guys mentality? Has it made way for straight-up cash worshipping?
The world would be a dire place if people only acted for financial gains. Those tsunami victims wouldn't have received one cent.
Um, if you look, China is rapidly opening itself up to the rest of the world, which is following the example of the western world. Clearly they DO follow people's examples.
China and every other struggling nation can't afford to make cuts in pollution. America and the rest of the developed world can, and so it's our duty to. We're all in this together, acting like a spoiled primadonna helps no-one.
Those "attacks" were clearly justified if you're going to run your mouth with something you later retract. You're the only one who hurt their credibility. I stand by EVERYTHING I said about you. I don't have to prove anything - you let your ignorance spew across the net all on your own - I didn't even have to raise a finger. Retracting your statement is a silly, pointless gesture, akin to telling the policeman "sorry" after he catches you beating a granny to death with her own cat.
I was never saying that majority=morality in every case, but if the company is homogenous as everyone here seems to think so, then it clearly is. And considering this ass was the cause of hundreds of complaints to the HR department, either he or the hundreds of complainers had to go.
When another software developer has such a fully-featured media player and multimedia platform such as WMP, that will never happen. You can't just say "I'll code for RealMedia, too!" when RealMedia doesn't offer the basic interoperability that WMP does. RealMedia and QuickTime solutions are awful. Horrific players, poor codec support, fiddly setup. I've yet to see anything from the open source world that cuts it, either. WMP is the only solution on offer that lets you customise which filters are used in which order to play media, where different codecs/filters can figure out their own place in the chain, and which can be 100%-used from a third-party app.
So, what we're left with is developers saying "this software requires WMP installed", which is what we have now.
I have a funny feeling if WMP was made by someone else, more people would be all over it.
You're assuming people won't always pull together. If selfish people live under a communist system, they ruin it for everyone else. The idea of communism is for the people to look after themselves, a sort of societal altruism.
I can see you think "communism" is a dirty word, so continuing this is a waste of time. I feel sorry for you.
The information IS free, as you can find it anywhere else you want. You miss the point of wikipedia - they add value to the information by having it in one place and allowing people to edit/add/update it, not to mention provide you with a search engine and a way to link between the articles. THAT's what they would charge for, not the actual information itself.
First of all, they're not "cut from the same cloth". They're clearly seperate. I take it you've not read anything about communism.
If you think a democracy can't be totalitarian, then you have to ask yourself this - what is a democracy? The act of voting doesn't make a democracy. Something that appears a democracy might be the furthest from it.
I'm just saying, you clearly don't know what you're on about here. I'm sorry if I sound rude, but there's no way I can discuss this with you if you are assuming all these ridiculous things:)
No, it's about judging ANYTHING. If your car is shitty and you tell someone that their car is shitty, you can see how it applies. Same with your favourite cup of coffee, your favourite soap star or country. It's about the act of judging, not that which is judged:)
I'm not talking about the specific design, but the actual tightness of the output. In every Linux gui I've used, there have been glitches. Fonts not rendering properly or bunched too close together, controls being all skewy, or some such distraction
I'm a web developer, so I guess I have an eye for that. However, it's too damned much for me to use the GUIs for any length of time. My linux experience these days is via SSH - the design in that is perfect;)
Great, so we end up with a linux-esque situation in Windows, where you have to specify which modules you have installed, and pray your software is aware of them, and can work with them.
Windows has a mechanism for selecting which core apps are used for browsing/email/media/IM/java/etc. It's just hard to include those apps in your app, as there is no common framework for embedding them, yet. It's all sorted for the user, though.
How is it "good for the user long term"? Please, explain to me how crippling their operating system by removing components most people are just going to get themselves at their own expense is good?
Competition is not stifled by including WMP. If WMP doesn't do what people want, it's very, VERY easy to download and install another one. Bundled software isn't a barrier to user choice.
Maybe they don't bundle those pieces of software as Office is many CDs, and so is Visual Studio. They would also add about $1,000 to the price of a windows license, which is ridiculous.
You have a pop at IE, but I don't see the problem with it. It's the fastest browser I've yet to see, with page loading times faster than firefox. It's also the best for use with a keyboard, that I've seen. I don't like using a mouse with Windows, as a keyboard is much faster.
I maintain an objective approach to all software I use. I'm no-one's fanboy bitch. If software doesn't do what I want it to, I move on. Windows has a built-in option for setting your preferences, be it Microsoft or Non-microsoft, and will tailor your applications suitably. I really can't see how removing anything from Windows is good for anyone, including the OSS community. If someone doesn't want to use WMP, they won't use it. They won't sit there at their machine, crying, because WMP is installed and they don't want to uninstall it or simply leave it be and install a second player. I've yet to be convinced.
Maybe it's because the only "Communist" states we see are also totalitarian regimes? I think if you look at ALL totalitarian regimes throughout history, you'll see censorship being the most common trait. It even extends to the current US administration (they use censorship quite often, the most high-profile use in recent years was the "no coffins" rule from the Pentagon).
So, I think censorship is more of a totalitarian trait than a communist one.
I think it's more to do with human nature. Communism, to survive, needs people acting together for the common good. When one person in a communist group acts with their own interests first, communism stops working so well. I imagine they need to control these people to ensure the true communist behaviour, or at least as they see it.
Communism, when practiced properly, can be pretty cool. I'm more of a socialist, though;)
I know about the electoral college. It's not rocket science! Bringing an un-democratic practice to everyone's attention when you're supposed to be defending America is pretty stupid, in my opinion.
Remember? Democracy? One person, one vote? That's not how it us under the electoral college.
I'm just saying that all these Americans so hasty to bash China should look in the mirror first. As the bible says, "Let he without sin cast the first stone", and "Judge not lest ye be judged". Not that I'm a Christian or anything:)
Of COURSE China has done some shitty things in the past. No-one is going to disagree with that. I'm just showing that the US isn't all that great, either. Call it levelling the playing field, if you will:)
You have missed a massive, massive part of your example. When you install the DVD decoder in Windows, you can decode DVDs in ANY application that supports DirectShow. You can even link together your own filters in GraphEdit to process the DVD through ANY first/third-party filters installed on your machine.
A DVD decoder in Windows isn't a stand-alone application, but an addition to the DirectShow architecture, which still is the most powerful and easy to use multimedia rendering solution available on the desktop.
Windows OS is better than any I have yet to see on Linux. Only OSX is better.
It's not just how good screenshots work, but how fast windows move around the screen. How much of the GUI is hardware-accelerated. How tight the design is (as in how many flaws/glitches there are).
I'm not trying to upset anyone here, but I've yet to see a non-windows/apple UI that doesn't scream "amateur".
Windows and OSX have dedicated teams of professional designers, all working under ONE design manager. That ONE person calls the shots. No-one tells them they're wrong. They steer the entire design in one coherent direction. And, these guys have years and years and years of experience.
This Lindows looks better, but the review showed some graphical glitches in the UI that are just unforgivable. That reason alone means I won't use it, as I don't want programming bugs distracting me from using my PC. I simply won't tolerate it.
Not necessarily. If you remember in 2000, Bush didn't have the popular vote. That means most Americans didn't want him in power.
And, even so, you have to wait years for your chance to vote to happen again. And when it does, Diebold and ES&S vote for you anyway, so it doesn't matter.
Please, please, please don't think the US is a beacon of democracy. It's the least democratic "western" state.
You're confusing the Chinese government with Communism here. What's happening in China isn't due to Communism, but the powers that be in China, and their specific doctrine.
No, Windows itself uses mshtml rendering engine, for things like help files, explorer windows, etc. It's integral to the OS, not just a few "key" apps. Those apps you're talking about check to see if the "IE" app is installed, not if the engine is installed. Those apps require the fully-blown IE as opposed to just its HTML-rendering powers.
Well, good for you that you don't want WMP and IE installed. Most people do, however. I do, and I don't even use WMP as my media player, but zoom player. WMP's media supporting infrastructure is the best I've seen on any OS. Removing it will mean most people will just have to download it after install.
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How is the US right on this? We can see the pollution all around us. Or is the smog in LA some sort of pretty natural cloud? Or, when flights were stopped after 9/11, the air didn't get cleaner?
We can see the US is patently wrong on this, and the only reason they're not doing it is that it costs money. That's such a weak and selfish argument considering it's not even us today who will have to put up with the mess, but our kids.
The world would be a dire place if people only acted for financial gains. Those tsunami victims wouldn't have received one cent.
China and every other struggling nation can't afford to make cuts in pollution. America and the rest of the developed world can, and so it's our duty to. We're all in this together, acting like a spoiled primadonna helps no-one.
Grow up, dude. Not every problem is best solved with violence. This isn't recess.
The irony is astounding. Why don't people realise?
I was never saying that majority=morality in every case, but if the company is homogenous as everyone here seems to think so, then it clearly is. And considering this ass was the cause of hundreds of complaints to the HR department, either he or the hundreds of complainers had to go.
So, what we're left with is developers saying "this software requires WMP installed", which is what we have now.
I have a funny feeling if WMP was made by someone else, more people would be all over it.
I can see you think "communism" is a dirty word, so continuing this is a waste of time. I feel sorry for you.
The information IS free, as you can find it anywhere else you want. You miss the point of wikipedia - they add value to the information by having it in one place and allowing people to edit/add/update it, not to mention provide you with a search engine and a way to link between the articles. THAT's what they would charge for, not the actual information itself.
So then Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly on desktop OSes, as I can easily use others... I'm confused :-P
Doesn't anyone know what that means any more? If I didn't know better, I'd say the journalism on this site is shit.
hmm...
Not to mention the fact that this is an article about a brief, 1-page article about the actual story. pathetic.
First of all, they're not "cut from the same cloth". They're clearly seperate. I take it you've not read anything about communism.
If you think a democracy can't be totalitarian, then you have to ask yourself this - what is a democracy? The act of voting doesn't make a democracy. Something that appears a democracy might be the furthest from it.
I'm just saying, you clearly don't know what you're on about here. I'm sorry if I sound rude, but there's no way I can discuss this with you if you are assuming all these ridiculous things :)
No, it's about judging ANYTHING. If your car is shitty and you tell someone that their car is shitty, you can see how it applies. Same with your favourite cup of coffee, your favourite soap star or country. It's about the act of judging, not that which is judged :)
I'm a web developer, so I guess I have an eye for that. However, it's too damned much for me to use the GUIs for any length of time. My linux experience these days is via SSH - the design in that is perfect ;)
Windows has a mechanism for selecting which core apps are used for browsing/email/media/IM/java/etc. It's just hard to include those apps in your app, as there is no common framework for embedding them, yet. It's all sorted for the user, though.
Competition is not stifled by including WMP. If WMP doesn't do what people want, it's very, VERY easy to download and install another one. Bundled software isn't a barrier to user choice.
Maybe they don't bundle those pieces of software as Office is many CDs, and so is Visual Studio. They would also add about $1,000 to the price of a windows license, which is ridiculous.
You have a pop at IE, but I don't see the problem with it. It's the fastest browser I've yet to see, with page loading times faster than firefox. It's also the best for use with a keyboard, that I've seen. I don't like using a mouse with Windows, as a keyboard is much faster.
I maintain an objective approach to all software I use. I'm no-one's fanboy bitch. If software doesn't do what I want it to, I move on. Windows has a built-in option for setting your preferences, be it Microsoft or Non-microsoft, and will tailor your applications suitably. I really can't see how removing anything from Windows is good for anyone, including the OSS community. If someone doesn't want to use WMP, they won't use it. They won't sit there at their machine, crying, because WMP is installed and they don't want to uninstall it or simply leave it be and install a second player. I've yet to be convinced.
Maybe it's because the only "Communist" states we see are also totalitarian regimes? I think if you look at ALL totalitarian regimes throughout history, you'll see censorship being the most common trait. It even extends to the current US administration (they use censorship quite often, the most high-profile use in recent years was the "no coffins" rule from the Pentagon).
So, I think censorship is more of a totalitarian trait than a communist one.
Communism, when practiced properly, can be pretty cool. I'm more of a socialist, though ;)
Remember? Democracy? One person, one vote? That's not how it us under the electoral college.
Of COURSE China has done some shitty things in the past. No-one is going to disagree with that. I'm just showing that the US isn't all that great, either. Call it levelling the playing field, if you will :)
A DVD decoder in Windows isn't a stand-alone application, but an addition to the DirectShow architecture, which still is the most powerful and easy to use multimedia rendering solution available on the desktop.
It's not just how good screenshots work, but how fast windows move around the screen. How much of the GUI is hardware-accelerated. How tight the design is (as in how many flaws/glitches there are).
I'm not trying to upset anyone here, but I've yet to see a non-windows/apple UI that doesn't scream "amateur".
Windows and OSX have dedicated teams of professional designers, all working under ONE design manager. That ONE person calls the shots. No-one tells them they're wrong. They steer the entire design in one coherent direction. And, these guys have years and years and years of experience.
This Lindows looks better, but the review showed some graphical glitches in the UI that are just unforgivable. That reason alone means I won't use it, as I don't want programming bugs distracting me from using my PC. I simply won't tolerate it.
And, even so, you have to wait years for your chance to vote to happen again. And when it does, Diebold and ES&S vote for you anyway, so it doesn't matter.
Please, please, please don't think the US is a beacon of democracy. It's the least democratic "western" state.
You're confusing the Chinese government with Communism here. What's happening in China isn't due to Communism, but the powers that be in China, and their specific doctrine.
Well, good for you that you don't want WMP and IE installed. Most people do, however. I do, and I don't even use WMP as my media player, but zoom player. WMP's media supporting infrastructure is the best I've seen on any OS. Removing it will mean most people will just have to download it after install.