I suppose they realized that it would be just a matter of time before someone outside of Microsoft discovers a way to use the kill switch. And then every Internet-connected computer running Vista will die instantly. Hmm... Doesn't sound like such a bad idea after all... Why is it OK for thousands of people to have their computers be rendered inoperable just because they run an operating system that you don't like? Oh, right, because Vista is the worst operating system in all of history and everyone that uses it somehow deserves their computer to be unusable.
I'd be careful with all the elitism you're spewing, you might choke on it.
And the funny thing is people get very irritated when you call them out on this sort of behavior; they claim it is a 'conviction.' Yeah, its about as much of a conviction as not eating green beans because you dislike the taste.
If I have kids, I will break them of their materialistic instincts as soon I possibly can. They will learn to value things that actually matter instead of being force-fed ridiculously shallow value systems that are built on advertising dollars.
And what a nasty site we congregate at where we'd fully support and encourage such a temper tantrum instead of stepping back and seeing it how much it really doesn't matter.
I can just as easily say that people's Vista problems are specific to their machines, because I use Vista, and it runs like a dream. But that can't be right, as it clashes with the groupthink about Vista!
It is logically inconsistent to argue that "anecdotes are worthless," only to immediately say, "my experiences with X have been good overall and I oversee N nodes." Wait, I thought you just said anecdotes didn't mean anything? If they do mean something, then your first statement is false. If they don't, then your second statement doesn't mean anything. In effect, you are refuting yourself, which doesn't convince anyone.
Anyway, article strikes me as flamebait, even if he makes some decent points. Both OSes were released too early and didn't heed the cries of their beta testers. Both of them have gimmicky new features and insist on form over function. I just wish I could use the Vista internal enhancements such as I/O improvements (sans ridiculous NIC conflicts) in XP. Explorer's apperance is horrid in Vista, especially when you're not using Aero. And I can't wait for the gaudy-cool-colored-gradients-on-every-UI-element trend to be over. Unfortunately, nearly every single software vendor out there is now going to copy that for the next 8 years simply because Microsoft did it.
It's never been that way with any other endeavor, but I found when learning the guitar that when I hit a wall, putting the instrumment down for a while was the best thing to do. The conventional wisdom states that this works because the brain needs time to process the muscle memories, so to speak.
I try to take one day off a week, but perhaps I should try two days. It is hard to put down, though.
I am learning electric guitar. I see the aforementioned "nature v. nurture" debate all the time. When discussing technique, some people progress a bit faster on the instrument than others and attribute it to natural talent. But everyone hits a wall eventually and then it boils down to perseverance and dedicated practice. Neither of those things is fun, especially when you just want to rock out. Luckily there are few things I like more than a challenge, so my slow rate of progress does not always deter me.
But I think kids have an advantage here, not because of their more malleable brains (although that helps) but because they often have fewer preconceptions that they should be immediately successful in what they do. I tend to stick to doing what I'm good at for most of the day and try to avoid being bad at things. I think our culture reinforces this point quite a bit with talent search shows and whatnot. But that is another discussion.
I defend corporations because I like plenty of food in my belly, my desk job that pays better than being a hunter-gatherer and the ability to engage in many leisure activities in the evening rather than cowering in a cave, stoking my fire and fearing wild animals.
Hooray progress! Strawman argument. Corporations serve a useful purpose to us, and we as individuals serve them to some extent. But we don't need to afford them respect to continue living a civilized life. We need only view them in a pragmatic sense, rather than an emotional one.
Not to be too pedantic, but the actual informal motto is "Don't be evil". It has more to do with how they are, not what they do. Oh, well that changes *everything*! Hey everyone, retain your Google halo, but don't hold them accountable anymore!
Seriously, since when do people feel the need to stick up for a corporation? They don't care about you at all. Why should you defend them?
It'd look different on each platform, and apparently that's a bad thing in Sun's eyes, as they would prefer that Java be a platform that runs on top of the native OS.
Yes, it is ass-backwards. This is Sun we're talking about, so it is difficult to be surprised.
Now is it "completely overblown"? Or would you in fact be trashing Microsoft for the next 6 months over this? "But Apple isn't a convicted monopolist! The rules change when you are one!"
Actually, I'm not sure how that changes anything, but I thought I'd pull out the typical Slashbot response ahead of time. It is one of those cute catchphrases that people say to feel like they're a part of a group consensus, so they can't possibly be wrong.
In particular, when the beta software also involves your boot sector and the Windows bootloader, you should consider yourself lucky to have anything recoverable. (Of course, it doesn't sound like Windows was at fault here, but nobody should be surprised when something like this breaks.) Don't be ridiculous, this is Slashdot for crying out loud! Of course it is somehow Microsoft's fault! I have figured out how yet, but it is their fault. I just know it. And why would you just throw their beautiful mod points away on a statement like that? In the name of logic?! We shall have none of that here!
How else can we be obsessed with Microsoft if we don't scrutinize every little thing they do? (You obviously have never had a restraining order issued against you.) With every move they make we can lean back in our cheap OfficeMax chairs and scoff at them. "Fools!" we'd say. "This is yet another sign of their impending failure! My year of experience reading articles on Slashdot qualifies me to make this seemingly absurd statement!" Meanwhile we can whisk away petty things like 'reality' and 'logic' so we can make more tired in-jokes that will earn us beloved moderator points so we can feel validated.
What makes Mac OS X special is not the glitz and glamour on the surface, it's what's underneath. The Cocoa framework for Objective C is head and shoulders above the MFC/Win32 programming approach. it's built on BSD and Mach and is now officially a Unix certified OS. Wow, after all this time, I never realized that my Aunt Jemima preferred Macs because of their elegant architecture and Unix underpinnings! I shall now defer to her superior taste in matters of operating systems AND choice of maple syrup!
I'm waiting for someone to respond with an eight page analysis of why this isn't really a big deal, complete with immaculate formatting and excellent grammar. Then everyone simply looks at the length of the post and says, "aha! see, it ISN'T a problem! Not that I read it all, but I'm with *this* guy!"
Between the JIT times of desktop applications, and the general look and feel of Swing, the most widely used UI toolkit, Java deserves its "slow" perception when used for desktop applications. Even 'good' applications like Eclipse need to garbage collect occasionally, which stops all editor activity. This is completely unacceptable.
You should write for RoughlyDrafted. With that sort of response time (1 minute between the front page and your thesis of a comment), combined with Daniel Eran's fabulous pie charts and hilarious Photoshop montages, you could convert everyone in the world within a few weeks!
I guess it's better to poke fun at Apple for actually fixing security vulnerabilities...:-/ No company deserves to be taken seriously. They exist solely to make money off of you. This nonsense about aligning yourself with a particular brand and defending it to the death is naive, because the products that we consume are not our identities. Nothing personal, but it is pretty hilarious to see someone expound for paragraphs on a slight security change while not on their payroll.
Look, the way in which people think and how they act when it comes to trivial matters reflects very well how they tend to react to important ones. Hmm, that sexy Level 70 Night Elf Priestess gave me some extra apples, so I bet she'd be more than happy to oblige some of my more "important" needs, if you will.
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I'd be careful with all the elitism you're spewing, you might choke on it.
"Drops tomorrow"? Give me a break.
You can tell gaming is now mainstream because it has so much bullshit...I mean, marketing buzzwords surrounding it.
And the funny thing is people get very irritated when you call them out on this sort of behavior; they claim it is a 'conviction.' Yeah, its about as much of a conviction as not eating green beans because you dislike the taste.
If I have kids, I will break them of their materialistic instincts as soon I possibly can. They will learn to value things that actually matter instead of being force-fed ridiculously shallow value systems that are built on advertising dollars.
And what a nasty site we congregate at where we'd fully support and encourage such a temper tantrum instead of stepping back and seeing it how much it really doesn't matter.
It is logically inconsistent to argue that "anecdotes are worthless," only to immediately say, "my experiences with X have been good overall and I oversee N nodes." Wait, I thought you just said anecdotes didn't mean anything? If they do mean something, then your first statement is false. If they don't, then your second statement doesn't mean anything. In effect, you are refuting yourself, which doesn't convince anyone.
Anyway, article strikes me as flamebait, even if he makes some decent points. Both OSes were released too early and didn't heed the cries of their beta testers. Both of them have gimmicky new features and insist on form over function. I just wish I could use the Vista internal enhancements such as I/O improvements (sans ridiculous NIC conflicts) in XP. Explorer's apperance is horrid in Vista, especially when you're not using Aero. And I can't wait for the gaudy-cool-colored-gradients-on-every-UI-element trend to be over. Unfortunately, nearly every single software vendor out there is now going to copy that for the next 8 years simply because Microsoft did it.
Damn, I sound like such a curmudgeon.
I try to take one day off a week, but perhaps I should try two days. It is hard to put down, though.
I am learning electric guitar. I see the aforementioned "nature v. nurture" debate all the time. When discussing technique, some people progress a bit faster on the instrument than others and attribute it to natural talent. But everyone hits a wall eventually and then it boils down to perseverance and dedicated practice. Neither of those things is fun, especially when you just want to rock out. Luckily there are few things I like more than a challenge, so my slow rate of progress does not always deter me.
But I think kids have an advantage here, not because of their more malleable brains (although that helps) but because they often have fewer preconceptions that they should be immediately successful in what they do. I tend to stick to doing what I'm good at for most of the day and try to avoid being bad at things. I think our culture reinforces this point quite a bit with talent search shows and whatnot. But that is another discussion.
Hooray progress! Strawman argument. Corporations serve a useful purpose to us, and we as individuals serve them to some extent. But we don't need to afford them respect to continue living a civilized life. We need only view them in a pragmatic sense, rather than an emotional one.
Seriously, since when do people feel the need to stick up for a corporation? They don't care about you at all. Why should you defend them?
"It is good if Google does it, but very bad if MS does, for reasons that do not have any basis in logic."
There, now everyone doesn't have to write all their replies out.
It'd look different on each platform, and apparently that's a bad thing in Sun's eyes, as they would prefer that Java be a platform that runs on top of the native OS.
Yes, it is ass-backwards. This is Sun we're talking about, so it is difficult to be surprised.
Careful, or you might choke on the amount of elitism you're spewing there.
Actually, I'm not sure how that changes anything, but I thought I'd pull out the typical Slashbot response ahead of time. It is one of those cute catchphrases that people say to feel like they're a part of a group consensus, so they can't possibly be wrong.
Begone, heretic!
How else can we be obsessed with Microsoft if we don't scrutinize every little thing they do? (You obviously have never had a restraining order issued against you.) With every move they make we can lean back in our cheap OfficeMax chairs and scoff at them. "Fools!" we'd say. "This is yet another sign of their impending failure! My year of experience reading articles on Slashdot qualifies me to make this seemingly absurd statement!" Meanwhile we can whisk away petty things like 'reality' and 'logic' so we can make more tired in-jokes that will earn us beloved moderator points so we can feel validated.
Process Explorer works fine on Vista; I use it all the time.
You, sir, win, by not only failing to bite at my semi-troll, but actually having a laugh yourself.
Well-played.
Sort of a "user-agent" field, if you will?
Ahem.
I'm waiting for someone to respond with an eight page analysis of why this isn't really a big deal, complete with immaculate formatting and excellent grammar. Then everyone simply looks at the length of the post and says, "aha! see, it ISN'T a problem! Not that I read it all, but I'm with *this* guy!"
Don't let me down.
Between the JIT times of desktop applications, and the general look and feel of Swing, the most widely used UI toolkit, Java deserves its "slow" perception when used for desktop applications. Even 'good' applications like Eclipse need to garbage collect occasionally, which stops all editor activity. This is completely unacceptable.