Actually it is more like a "Windows and all other Microsoft products have sucked in all previous versions why should this one be different" mindset that some people get when they have lots of this little thing called "experience".
and the general public doesn't want to change configuration files manually because the HAL got the wrong device drivers for the monitor.
Actually I would say the general public doesn't want to change configurations using GUI tools either, so what is easier? Making them copy the config file from someone who knows what he is doing or making them follow a 25-step-program to set the configuration the GUI settings dialog every time they install new hardware (and yes, they do install new hardware occasionally)
Who burns audio CDs? Are there even standalone players for those anymore? I would have thought they would soon start to phase them out in favor of file-based compressed music.
I guess you don't know that the ability to use programs when programming other programs or even just on one command line with the input of one piped into the other is the main advantage of a CLI (as you call it "the old DOS way"). GUIs are totally different from that way to use a computer as using one program from another is usually only possible when the programmer of that program intended it the be used in exactly that way. In addition to that you seem to suffer from "OO is the best and greatest and usable for everything and inherently good"-Syndrom. Are you by any chance a Java programmer?
Actually I never understood why they absolutely had to use the absolutely irrelevant concept of albums in ID3 tags. I want exactly one version (remixes or live versions are usually marked in the file name or ID3 title tag) per song per artist, not all the copies that are just there because the band was too cheap to produce anough songs for another CD.
...and the number of patents granted should be distributed amongst those applying for one, so if you already have one new patent that year your chances to get a second one are lower. That would greatly reduce the "patent everything under the sun" scheme of some companies.
If you had that idea and did nothing about it (other than patenting it) you should lose your patent a year or so later. It is not in the public interest to grant individuals the right to block inventions.
Actually if you try it you will notice there are practically no (non-java-developer) apps out there that need Java and don't have a non-java equivalent that is at least as good (yeah, I just know someone will now bring up Azureus, but I have yet to see someone get work done with that).
I installed a Windows Software today on 18 PCs. Even though it was able to install from a network drive (big help) I had to manually:
1) go to each PC
2) log in as admin
3) map a network drive (wouldn't run otherwise, why can't you mount things in windows btw)
4) type in the CD-Key
5) click "Next" approx. 10 times
6,7,8) do the same for the second and third CD a few minutes later (yeah, extra installer, how "nice") and the service pack (less "next" but more time between individual install steps due to unpacking)
(insert additional step "get the login box to display the correct Domain for the dumb users" here if your users are really dumb and the admin is in a different domain or a local user)
9) log out the admin
Contrast this with Linux where I can just login via ssh on each PC and execute exactly one command (something like "emerge xilinx-ise" probably if that software were available for Linux in a usable version), log out again (with the use of screen even before the command is finished), not to mention the fact that I could script the whole "do the same on 18 machines" part.
When the GP mentions complexity of the update process he probably means the problem of bundled libraries that don't get updated when you (the user) update something but only when the developer of the thing using the lib updates it. And by size RAM size is probably closer to the core of the problem than disk size.
Do you get technical support for getting a free os? I think not.
I got approx. infinity times more support from the Linux community than I got from Windows and that is mainly because Microsoft does not support Windows in any way.
So how exactly do you run Azureus on a headless Server? It is a shitty GUI app and it depends on Java in addition to that. It is in no way usable for large scale seeding OR downloading 24/7 if you don't want to run your desktop PC 24/7 due to much higher energy use (3D graphics card,...)
The easiest example are password reminders. You don't want to change all your password when losing your USB stick (or even worse have them changed for you by the finder).
And even if office work is more stressful now it is more likely related to misuse of technology ("print letter, send letter by snail mail, open letter, type content of letter into computer" instead of "direct internet communication in a format suitable for automatic parsing" or "calculating values by hand and putting it into a database form on your screen" instead of "letting the computer calculate everything"). To make office work more effective we would need people with a knowledge about computers comparable to that of programmers in every single job (especially the ones making the big decisions).
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...and it would be totally useless as Java programs only start to work long after the basic system install part where you first need your text editor. Text editor dependencies should be kept to a minimum (at least the non-optional ones) so it runs even on the most basic system.
Perhaps then I (in Germany) would never again have to see all that spam from the US to the US (can be identified by US cultural assumptions like "everyone has a credit card",...)
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Since you are still able to post here you link to /. doesn't seem to be affected, so what makes you think you can get more work done than usual?
Actually it is more like a "Windows and all other Microsoft products have sucked in all previous versions why should this one be different" mindset that some people get when they have lots of this little thing called "experience".
Who burns audio CDs? Are there even standalone players for those anymore? I would have thought they would soon start to phase them out in favor of file-based compressed music.
I guess you don't know that the ability to use programs when programming other programs or even just on one command line with the input of one piped into the other is the main advantage of a CLI (as you call it "the old DOS way"). GUIs are totally different from that way to use a computer as using one program from another is usually only possible when the programmer of that program intended it the be used in exactly that way. In addition to that you seem to suffer from "OO is the best and greatest and usable for everything and inherently good"-Syndrom. Are you by any chance a Java programmer?
Actually I never understood why they absolutely had to use the absolutely irrelevant concept of albums in ID3 tags. I want exactly one version (remixes or live versions are usually marked in the file name or ID3 title tag) per song per artist, not all the copies that are just there because the band was too cheap to produce anough songs for another CD.
...and the number of patents granted should be distributed amongst those applying for one, so if you already have one new patent that year your chances to get a second one are lower. That would greatly reduce the "patent everything under the sun" scheme of some companies.
If you had that idea and did nothing about it (other than patenting it) you should lose your patent a year or so later. It is not in the public interest to grant individuals the right to block inventions.
Actually if you try it you will notice there are practically no (non-java-developer) apps out there that need Java and don't have a non-java equivalent that is at least as good (yeah, I just know someone will now bring up Azureus, but I have yet to see someone get work done with that).
I installed a Windows Software today on 18 PCs. Even though it was able to install from a network drive (big help) I had to manually:
1) go to each PC
2) log in as admin
3) map a network drive (wouldn't run otherwise, why can't you mount things in windows btw)
4) type in the CD-Key
5) click "Next" approx. 10 times
6,7,8) do the same for the second and third CD a few minutes later (yeah, extra installer, how "nice") and the service pack (less "next" but more time between individual install steps due to unpacking)
(insert additional step "get the login box to display the correct Domain for the dumb users" here if your users are really dumb and the admin is in a different domain or a local user)
9) log out the admin
Contrast this with Linux where I can just login via ssh on each PC and execute exactly one command (something like "emerge xilinx-ise" probably if that software were available for Linux in a usable version), log out again (with the use of screen even before the command is finished), not to mention the fact that I could script the whole "do the same on 18 machines" part.
When the GP mentions complexity of the update process he probably means the problem of bundled libraries that don't get updated when you (the user) update something but only when the developer of the thing using the lib updates it. And by size RAM size is probably closer to the core of the problem than disk size.
I think Ruby or Python would win if speed isn't an issue with any of them because of the pita that is Java the language.
You mean VMS. Windows 9X/ME was CP/M
So how exactly do you run Azureus on a headless Server? It is a shitty GUI app and it depends on Java in addition to that. It is in no way usable for large scale seeding OR downloading 24/7 if you don't want to run your desktop PC 24/7 due to much higher energy use (3D graphics card, ...)
The easiest example are password reminders. You don't want to change all your password when losing your USB stick (or even worse have them changed for you by the finder).
And even if office work is more stressful now it is more likely related to misuse of technology ("print letter, send letter by snail mail, open letter, type content of letter into computer" instead of "direct internet communication in a format suitable for automatic parsing" or "calculating values by hand and putting it into a database form on your screen" instead of "letting the computer calculate everything"). To make office work more effective we would need people with a knowledge about computers comparable to that of programmers in every single job (especially the ones making the big decisions).
...and it would be totally useless as Java programs only start to work long after the basic system install part where you first need your text editor. Text editor dependencies should be kept to a minimum (at least the non-optional ones) so it runs even on the most basic system.
Yeah, because we all play these games to be in a world that is exactly like RL.
They are also less likely to remember it.
In Soviet Russia the companies are owned by the people so naturally it must be the other way around in the US.
Perhaps then I (in Germany) would never again have to see all that spam from the US to the US (can be identified by US cultural assumptions like "everyone has a credit card",...)
The right don't do this because the would not sound very convincing when describing the current administration as "tree-huggers"