It's not all that complicated for Microsoft to take a tiny step forward in this area, the current "Run As" sucks (it's clunky and often just flat doesn't work), not to mention that by default on a stand alone (workgroup) system the installation account gets Administrator group membership by default (i.e. the user is going to run in the context of an Admin).
IMHO what they need to do is come up with a decent Windows "version" of sudo that's intiutive for the user and then set the "default" user account to a user (not admin) context, similar to what Red Hat does with it's default install.
And for those rare occasions when I'm logged in as root (or an Administrator account), I want be logged in as root, I don't need the OS to bug me with prompts asking me if I'm really sure I want to do something, people that are so incompetent that they need prompts like these shouldn't be allowed root privledges in the first place.;)
Performance Options
"Let Windows Do Whatever the hell it wants"
"Adjust for appearance that looks like OS X (only slower)"
"Adjust for something approaching acceptable performance"
What's going to motivate someone to switch from Windows XP into some kinda of Basic feature stripped Vista?
Ummm...how 'bout....
The system requirements for Doom 4 are Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition or higher, please contact your Operating System Vendor to obtain an upgrade and retry your installation.:)
I first thought windows was so freaken awesome until I realized for the first time, my machine is getting slow.
Don't worry, the next version of Windows will be slow right out of the box... no more of that annoying "my machine gets slower the longer I use Windows crap"...we promise.
Uh-Oh... I just heard Microsoft ponied up 6 Thousand Dollars for Linus's ticket to "A Weekend Hunting Trip with the Vice President" fundraiser... this is definitely NOT good.
All editions except Vista Ulitmate come with annoying pop-up ballons...
"The Windows User Analysis engine has determined that based on your usage habits you bought the wrong Vista Edition, click here to upgrade to Ultimate Edition (and have your credit card handy)"....
Good point....
Joe user to Help Desk Tech: "I hear Microsoft came out with a new version of Windows and I'm just wondering which edition you think I should upgrade my home PC to?" Help Desk Tech:"I dunno what do you use your PC for?" Joe user:"What difference does that make?" Help Desk Tech:"It makes all the difference in the world, tell you what, go write up a detailed functional requirements document and email it to me, I'll get together with the project management office and we should have an answer for you in say...3 months..."
# Windows Vista "Cheapskate" Edition
# Windows Vista "Reasonably Priced" Edition
# Windows Vista "Expensive but worth it" Edition
# Windows Vista "Expensive to the point of Insanity" Edition
# Windows Vista "If you have to ask you can't afford it" Edition
With windows, it's nice and clear. Either they are in 2000. Or XP (Home or
Business). Or Vista. That is Vista home. Or home premium. Or business.
Or richer business edition.
ROFLMAO ! or web server edition, or standard server edition, or advanced server edition, or data center edition or 64 bit super duper really big honkin server edition.....
Sorry, you'll have to wait for Feature Pack 4 for that....should be available 6 months after the ship date for a nominal charge of $20 (CD, shipping & handling not included)....however OneCare Live subscribers get it for free.;)
So, what's the problem with the request, really? The government finds out what people are searching for, but not who searches for what.
Because giving inches to the gubment eventually ends up turning into miles, since there's a none to small probability that the next time they ask for "cooperation" it will be with the idenitifying information attached.
In a nutshell the gubment has no right to or justification for this information, and if they want to run a tax payer funded "study" of how effective "Internet filters" are they can damn well do it on their own, and not strong arm private business into giving them anything they feel like asking for.
And why Google, and not the other search engines? Have they already asked the other search engines and received a list of queries? If so, why are they still going after Google? If not, why haven't they?
If I'm not mistaken the other "major" search engines (AOL, MSN and Yahoo) all were asked and complied with the request to one degree or another. Google was the only one that basically said "Hell No". I think the DoJ and the Bush Administration is trying to make a point with this whole Google thing. Which appears to be "When we demand uncompensated cooperation from an American Private Business for any damn reason we please, they damn sure better cooperate with us....and not give us any lip about it"....
Of course I could be wrong, maybe the Bush Administration is just auditioning for a part in George Orwells next novel.
The department believes the information will help revive an online child protection law that has been blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court. By showing the wide variety of Web sites that people find through search engines,
Wow and all this time I thought that's what Internet Search Engines were for.
the government hopes to prove Internet filters are not strong enough to prevent children from viewing pornography and other inappropriate material online.
Dear Department of Justice, let me be the first to provide you with a clue, there is indeed a highly effective filter to prevent children from viewing "pornography and other inappropriate material online", it's called a RESPONSIBLE PARENT (which occasionally actually come in SETS)..... last time I read the Constitution I missed any references to where it was the Federal Governments job to play the role of pseudo parent to American Children.
Please stick to doing what I pay you to do for a change, namely protect me & my fellow countrymen from other people that are attempting to violate our rights and not wasting our tax dollars trying to protect us from ourselves.
it means having to care about the user experience, it means having to appeal to the masses, it means working for the lowest common denominator.
Which if I'm not mistaken is pretty "innovative" in this day and age.... sort of like a VCR that your grandma can program (which apparently was something that was beyond the aggragate engineering talent available to the VCR "industry").
Or... do something crazy like push the envelope a little, like perhaps..
a device with the library (i.e. iTunes) and the store (iTMS) software on the device itself, then throw in a wireless interface and a swappable battery pack. Oh yeah will your at it, it would be nice if it could run FreeBSD and double as a cappuccino maker too:)
Competition is always a good thing for the consumer, although given Apple's dominate position and the excellent iPod/iTMS combo it's going to be a real challenge to even come close to unseating them from the top dog position (especially given that Apple could always just start licensing Fair Play if anyone looks to be getting close).
It does however appear that the Samsung device is missing a few things...
podcasts?
video? (yeah I know who watches video on their little iPod screen anyways? well until you get on a plane or sit in the back seat on a long car ride).
Audio Books?
I for one won't be trading in my 60GB iPod anytime soon for a less capable "clone" of one, however I'm sure there's a market for this thing out there....Somewhere.... that Steve Jobs hasn't looked yet:)
Maybe it's just me, but in a perfect world MS would just dump IE altogether, donate a bunch of money to the Mozilla Project and just work cooperatively with the folks that put together the excellent Mozilla and FireFox browsers to do something completely unexpected.... the right thing for the customer (i.e. putting out the best of breed Browser).
Seems to me that web developers lives would be a lot easier as well.
Of course the temptation to wrest control of the Mozilla project might be a little too much for the Suits at Microsoft to resist.
How on earth could anyone in their right mind classify running Microsoft Internet Explorer on Linux a "success", sorta like transplanting a cat's brain into Albert Einstein:P
EXACTLY, this is more wishful thinking than a valid "prediction". It's as likely that we'll find alien radio signals tomorrow as it is that we'll never find them.
This prediction is in part based on the Drake equation which is LARGELY based on suppositions. Even today we have no real hard data on terrestrial (earth like) planet formation, how likely life is to occur and alien civilization technological development cycles. Besides the equation only takes into account the number of stars in the Milky Way which, based on the number of stars outside of our galaxy that we can see sorta makes this too small of a subset for anywhere near an accurate calculation (IMHO).
You'd have a higher probability of predicting when you're going to win the Lottery than when we'll have "first contact" with an Alien species (I am firmly convinced that they ARE out there, however the sheer vastness of the Universe makes finding them a VERY low probability exercise).
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It's not all that complicated for Microsoft to take a tiny step forward in this area, the current "Run As" sucks (it's clunky and often just flat doesn't work), not to mention that by default on a stand alone (workgroup) system the installation account gets Administrator group membership by default (i.e. the user is going to run in the context of an Admin).
;)
IMHO what they need to do is come up with a decent Windows "version" of sudo that's intiutive for the user and then set the "default" user account to a user (not admin) context, similar to what Red Hat does with it's default install.
And for those rare occasions when I'm logged in as root (or an Administrator account), I want be logged in as root, I don't need the OS to bug me with prompts asking me if I'm really sure I want to do something, people that are so incompetent that they need prompts like these shouldn't be allowed root privledges in the first place.
Uh-Huh...
Performance Options
"Let Windows Do Whatever the hell it wants"
"Adjust for appearance that looks like OS X (only slower)"
"Adjust for something approaching acceptable performance"
What's going to motivate someone to switch from Windows XP into some kinda of Basic feature stripped Vista?
....
:)
Ummm...how 'bout
The system requirements for Doom 4 are Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition or higher, please contact your Operating System Vendor to obtain an upgrade and retry your installation.
Welcome to Bush World, try not get fingerprints all over the bars.
I first thought windows was so freaken awesome until I realized for the first time, my machine is getting slow.
...we promise.
Don't worry, the next version of Windows will be slow right out of the box... no more of that annoying "my machine gets slower the longer I use Windows crap"
Uh-Oh... I just heard Microsoft ponied up 6 Thousand Dollars for Linus's ticket to "A Weekend Hunting Trip with the Vice President" fundraiser... this is definitely NOT good.
All editions except Vista Ulitmate come with annoying pop-up ballons ...
"The Windows User Analysis engine has determined that based on your usage habits you bought the wrong Vista Edition, click here to upgrade to Ultimate Edition (and have your credit card handy)"....
Good point ....
Joe user to Help Desk Tech: "I hear Microsoft came out with a new version of Windows and I'm just wondering which edition you think I should upgrade my home PC to?"
Help Desk Tech:"I dunno what do you use your PC for?"
Joe user:"What difference does that make?"
Help Desk Tech:"It makes all the difference in the world, tell you what, go write up a detailed functional requirements document and email it to me, I'll get together with the project management office and we should have an answer for you in say...3 months..."
How about ...
# Windows Vista "Cheapskate" Edition
# Windows Vista "Reasonably Priced" Edition
# Windows Vista "Expensive but worth it" Edition
# Windows Vista "Expensive to the point of Insanity" Edition
# Windows Vista "If you have to ask you can't afford it" Edition
With windows, it's nice and clear. Either they are in 2000. Or XP (Home or Business). Or Vista. That is Vista home. Or home premium. Or business. Or richer business edition.
;)
ROFLMAO ! or web server edition, or standard server edition, or advanced server edition, or data center edition or 64 bit super duper really big honkin server edition.....
Oh great now I have a headache... thanks phil
Yeah if Steve ever stops laughing I'm sure he'll get right on that. :)
and each and every one of them looks JUST LIKE OS X (only with less features, stability and security).... damn those Microsoft guys are smart.
Sorry, you'll have to wait for Feature Pack 4 for that....should be available 6 months after the ship date for a nominal charge of $20 (CD, shipping & handling not included)....however OneCare Live subscribers get it for free. ;)
confirming that there will be 6 versions of Vista.
I'll take the Windows Vista "Half Way Decent Security Out of the Box" Edition please....
So, what's the problem with the request, really? The government finds out what people are searching for, but not who searches for what.
Because giving inches to the gubment eventually ends up turning into miles, since there's a none to small probability that the next time they ask for "cooperation" it will be with the idenitifying information attached.
In a nutshell the gubment has no right to or justification for this information, and if they want to run a tax payer funded "study" of how effective "Internet filters" are they can damn well do it on their own, and not strong arm private business into giving them anything they feel like asking for.
And why Google, and not the other search engines? Have they already asked the other search engines and received a list of queries? If so, why are they still going after Google? If not, why haven't they?
If I'm not mistaken the other "major" search engines (AOL, MSN and Yahoo) all were asked and complied with the request to one degree or another. Google was the only one that basically said "Hell No". I think the DoJ and the Bush Administration is trying to make a point with this whole Google thing. Which appears to be "When we demand uncompensated cooperation from an American Private Business for any damn reason we please, they damn sure better cooperate with us....and not give us any lip about it"....
Of course I could be wrong, maybe the Bush Administration is just auditioning for a part in George Orwells next novel.
The department believes the information will help revive an online child protection law that has been blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court. By showing the wide variety of Web sites that people find through search engines ,
Wow and all this time I thought that's what Internet Search Engines were for.
the government hopes to prove Internet filters are not strong enough to prevent children from viewing pornography and other inappropriate material online.
Dear Department of Justice, let me be the first to provide you with a clue, there is indeed a highly effective filter to prevent children from viewing "pornography and other inappropriate material online", it's called a RESPONSIBLE PARENT (which occasionally actually come in SETS)..... last time I read the Constitution I missed any references to where it was the Federal Governments job to play the role of pseudo parent to American Children.
Please stick to doing what I pay you to do for a change, namely protect me & my fellow countrymen from other people that are attempting to violate our rights and not wasting our tax dollars trying to protect us from ourselves.
it means having to care about the user experience, it means having to appeal to the masses, it means working for the lowest common denominator.
Which if I'm not mistaken is pretty "innovative" in this day and age.... sort of like a VCR that your grandma can program (which apparently was something that was beyond the aggragate engineering talent available to the VCR "industry").
Come on, guys! Give me a decent iPod competitor at 60GB (because my Rio Karma is getting long in the tooth).
Gee, how about er..um a 60GB IPOD ! I hear it's got nearly as many features and is quite close in quality and price to a 60GB IPOD:)
Or... do something crazy like push the envelope a little, like perhaps..
:)
a device with the library (i.e. iTunes) and the store (iTMS) software on the device itself, then throw in a wireless interface and a swappable battery pack. Oh yeah will your at it, it would be nice if it could run FreeBSD and double as a cappuccino maker too
Yep....although more and more it seems independent sites are "getting in" on the iPod content act .... i.e. (with things like Podcasts and Video).
:)
Not to mention is just such a damn nifty little device to begin with...
Competition is always a good thing for the consumer, although given Apple's dominate position and the excellent iPod/iTMS combo it's going to be a real challenge to even come close to unseating them from the top dog position (especially given that Apple could always just start licensing Fair Play if anyone looks to be getting close). It does however appear that the Samsung device is missing a few things ...
podcasts?
video? (yeah I know who watches video on their little iPod screen anyways? well until you get on a plane or sit in the back seat on a long car ride).
Audio Books?
I for one won't be trading in my 60GB iPod anytime soon for a less capable "clone" of one, however I'm sure there's a market for this thing out there ....Somewhere.... that Steve Jobs hasn't looked yet :)
Maybe it's just me, but in a perfect world MS would just dump IE altogether, donate a bunch of money to the Mozilla Project and just work cooperatively with the folks that put together the excellent Mozilla and FireFox browsers to do something completely unexpected .... the right thing for the customer (i.e. putting out the best of breed Browser).
Seems to me that web developers lives would be a lot easier as well.
Of course the temptation to wrest control of the Mozilla project might be a little too much for the Suits at Microsoft to resist.
How on earth could anyone in their right mind classify running Microsoft Internet Explorer on Linux a "success", sorta like transplanting a cat's brain into Albert Einstein :P
They don't really "predict" anything.
EXACTLY, this is more wishful thinking than a valid "prediction". It's as likely that we'll find alien radio signals tomorrow as it is that we'll never find them.
This prediction is in part based on the Drake equation which is LARGELY based on suppositions. Even today we have no real hard data on terrestrial (earth like) planet formation, how likely life is to occur and alien civilization technological development cycles. Besides the equation only takes into account the number of stars in the Milky Way which, based on the number of stars outside of our galaxy that we can see sorta makes this too small of a subset for anywhere near an accurate calculation (IMHO).
You'd have a higher probability of predicting when you're going to win the Lottery than when we'll have "first contact" with an Alien species (I am firmly convinced that they ARE out there, however the sheer vastness of the Universe makes finding them a VERY low probability exercise).