I tend to take a less generous view. I think any IT department that can't figure out a strategy to upgrade IE6 is either useless or fucking lazy. I simply don't believe in this mythical "mountain of HTML code" that has so many problems that couldn't be fixed in a relatively short space of time by a competent professional.
Here's what the business owner would say: "What we have works now, why should I pay a competent professional to REDO pages already done when I've got other things that actually will be worth my money." Its the same reason Win2k is still around; it's working fine, and there are other, better things to spend that money on than replacing something which isn't broken.
Locking up knowledge so that only specialists get access is a stupid, destructive, elitist practice that is self defeating (who do you think funds most work???) and detracts from the life we're all capable of leading. Those who Suggest that popular accounts can't be good are just making a poor excuse for their own inability to communicate. Over-simplification isn't the whole problem. Poor communication is.
Yes, it is a communication problem. The problem is that your average layperson has the attention span of a gnat, and won't listen to the correct argument, which may require quite a bit of setup that the bogus arguement doesn't. Did you read the artcle? oh, never mind..
Most people over the age of about 12 (well 16 in some places) understand that you won't get all the detail from a popular article. Popular articles are about giving us the flavour of what's being discussed. Without them a great deal of human knowledge is complete inaccessible to the masses. Hell, even the most intelligent of us doesn't have time to specialise in every field.
You're giving people way too much credit. They read the article, and think that's that. I hate the news for just this reason; they never go into enough detail or even explain what the relevence is... they're' too busy interviewing the dumb farmer hick who had a tree (and NOTHING of value to say) land on his barn in the last wind storm.
Asshat. Most people ARE running as Administrators on their Windows boxes, and thus can uninstall.
More to the point, why are plugins being installed into program files to begin with? There's the All Users folder for shared data, or the users profile path for user specific data.
It seems to me this is poor coding on Mozillas part, as if their program ONLY looked for plugins in those locations, this becomes a non issue.
Show me an application that can stop the administrator of the computer from changing any of it's settings while not even running and I'll accept that you're right.
Show me why FF doesn't force every extension to allow to be uninstalled. Installing the add-in in one thing, but FF itself won't let the user uninstall the extension?
It DOES tell you when a new extension has been installed when you first run it, and then you're able to disable it, Microsoft seem to have made it un-uninstallable though, which is the problem, and one you probably can't blame on Firefox.
Firefox provides a way to install extensions which cannot be uninstalled, and that's MS' fault for using it? Interesting.
There's also a reason that Sony failed miserably this gen, and it closely follows...
It depends on what market you're talking about. If your talking about 12 yr old girls and casual games, the DS wins. But I can think of exactly zero games on the DS that interest me. For my wife its fine, but she's glad she got me a psp... and I am too.
Again, do you have evidence it was a licensing issue, and not another reason MS didn't include it? XPMC came out a year after the initial release of XP. There are other reasons MS may not have included it initially, and you've not shown it wasn't something else.
If you have properly been doing all the services, you'll have records. If the part is faulty from the manufacturer, there's likely many others with the same problem, and also likely a recall for said problem.
Yes, and remove html and something else would have filled the gap. Nothing else changed though, so yes it's fair to say America built the internet, and the inventory of the web wasn't as important as people claim.
There's A LOT more to the internet than just looking at web pages, I hope you know. And as far as HTTP goes, there already was a similar protocol gopher which preceded it. Had html + http not come along, it seems likely gopher would be expanded to fill the gaps the web later did.
"We don't see any problem without our accountant writing and signing all the checks because we've never had a problem with it before. They're perfectly trustworthy, and so much better than -unknown entity- probably is!"
Um, yes, that's pretty much how things work. Trust is built upon history. The CEO doesn't personally sign every check that needs to be signed... someone else in a high, trustworthy, position does it.
And the article raises a good point: What specific problem has come up that the US handling has caused?
You misunderstand. With XP you can do an in-place upgrade of XP. With Vista you cannot do an in-place upgrade of Vista again.
The term "upgrade" is a bit misleading, since you are installing the same OS (even if it can be a newer or even an old service pack level).
Hmm... I don't think I've ever tried that, only the repair options.
An upgrade from XP to Vista is actually a bit of a cop-out. Rather than try to migrate all your apps and settings, it just renames your old Program Files and Windows folders, copies your data files (My Documents etc) to the new Vista personal folders and the does a fairly clean install of Vista. Older versions did try to keep your apps and registry stored settings, but perhaps wisely MS didn't try to do that with Vista.
Again, what are you talking about? I didn't have to re-install anything, Program Files was still Program Files, with everything I installed from XP. The Documents and Settings was renamed Users, and some profile directory stuff was resuffled... but it still contained all the stuff it did before.
Well, then apparently everyone else making MP3 players long before Apple produced anything "missed the boat" too.
Ironically, this makes the iPod like Windows and the Zune like Linux in the handheld music player market.
Hmm... I don't think so. Apple is popular because they are the fad thing to have. Eventually (hopefully) the fad will die out. Any other product with as many failures are iPods would have been abandoned long ago, but my wife knows many people who are on their 3rd or 4th iPod, not because they wanted a new one, but because the previous one broke.
Hmm... I'd go as far as to say, why the hell is any modern developer having to worry about = or:= in makefiles anyway? Christ, there's a reason modern IDEs handle all this for you... its tedioius, error prone, and saps your time from the REAL issue, which is building the application.
To the Ask poster, use VS Express, and ignore the retards complaining about "handholding." I assume you want to program to get something done, not spend time on tasks barely related to programming and which modern tools have solved nicely.
Huh... if missing the boat is making something that works really well, and has more features, I guess they did. My zune works flawlessly, has a better screen, wireless sync, and the ability to tune radio stations. Contrast with my wifes 2g ipod nano, which locks up randomly, repeats the same song endlessly, skips the the next song randomly, and lets not forget that abomination of software call iTunes, and the recommended fix from the apple store? "Buy a new 3G ipod!!" Which was the same answer they gave to EVERYONE that came in with a problem with apple hardware. Bleack.
We'd probably still have our crazies (e.g. Hitler) but would we have had the Mother Theresas?
No, some of the crazies would be gone as well. Eg, the Inqusition. There have been Mother Theresa-like people in history before, without the "benefit" of being Christian.
One would expect that Brazil's poorest and most exploited people - agricultural workers and sugar cane cutters - would be among the first to benefit from the new wealth sugar cane production has brought to Brazil
Um, why would anyone expect that? It's not that there is no demand for workers to cut cane... it's that any idiot can cut sugar cane all day. THAT'S why they still make dirt money... because they have no skill whatsoever and are easily replaced.
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How exactly is it in the way? I don't think I've ever hit it by accident.
And again, why would a business spend that much money if they feel the system they already have in place works?
I tend to take a less generous view. I think any IT department that can't figure out a strategy to upgrade IE6 is either useless or fucking lazy. I simply don't believe in this mythical "mountain of HTML code" that has so many problems that couldn't be fixed in a relatively short space of time by a competent professional.
Here's what the business owner would say: "What we have works now, why should I pay a competent professional to REDO pages already done when I've got other things that actually will be worth my money." Its the same reason Win2k is still around; it's working fine, and there are other, better things to spend that money on than replacing something which isn't broken.
Locking up knowledge so that only specialists get access is a stupid, destructive, elitist practice that is self defeating (who do you think funds most work???) and detracts from the life we're all capable of leading. Those who Suggest that popular accounts can't be good are just making a poor excuse for their own inability to communicate. Over-simplification isn't the whole problem. Poor communication is.
Yes, it is a communication problem. The problem is that your average layperson has the attention span of a gnat, and won't listen to the correct argument, which may require quite a bit of setup that the bogus arguement doesn't. Did you read the artcle? oh, never mind..
Most people over the age of about 12 (well 16 in some places) understand that you won't get all the detail from a popular article. Popular articles are about giving us the flavour of what's being discussed. Without them a great deal of human knowledge is complete inaccessible to the masses. Hell, even the most intelligent of us doesn't have time to specialise in every field.
You're giving people way too much credit. They read the article, and think that's that. I hate the news for just this reason; they never go into enough detail or even explain what the relevence is... they're' too busy interviewing the dumb farmer hick who had a tree (and NOTHING of value to say) land on his barn in the last wind storm.
Asshat. Most people ARE running as Administrators on their Windows boxes, and thus can uninstall.
More to the point, why are plugins being installed into program files to begin with? There's the All Users folder for shared data, or the users profile path for user specific data.
It seems to me this is poor coding on Mozillas part, as if their program ONLY looked for plugins in those locations, this becomes a non issue.
Show me an application that can stop the administrator of the computer from changing any of it's settings while not even running and I'll accept that you're right.
Show me why FF doesn't force every extension to allow to be uninstalled. Installing the add-in in one thing, but FF itself won't let the user uninstall the extension?
It DOES tell you when a new extension has been installed when you first run it, and then you're able to disable it, Microsoft seem to have made it un-uninstallable though, which is the problem, and one you probably can't blame on Firefox.
Firefox provides a way to install extensions which cannot be uninstalled, and that's MS' fault for using it? Interesting.
There's also a reason that Sony failed miserably this gen, and it closely follows...
It depends on what market you're talking about. If your talking about 12 yr old girls and casual games, the DS wins. But I can think of exactly zero games on the DS that interest me. For my wife its fine, but she's glad she got me a psp... and I am too.
Again, do you have evidence it was a licensing issue, and not another reason MS didn't include it? XPMC came out a year after the initial release of XP. There are other reasons MS may not have included it initially, and you've not shown it wasn't something else.
If you have properly been doing all the services, you'll have records. If the part is faulty from the manufacturer, there's likely many others with the same problem, and also likely a recall for said problem.
Your fault; you didn't maintain your car properly.
Do you have any evidence for this? Because it's included in Vista, so I don't see why licensing would be an issue for xp.
Even NASA fell in the DRM trap.
No, NASA was foiled by a missing codec, not by drm.
Yes, and remove html and something else would have filled the gap. Nothing else changed though, so yes it's fair to say America built the internet, and the inventory of the web wasn't as important as people claim.
No, but it illustrates the point that international control likely is not a good idea.
There's A LOT more to the internet than just looking at web pages, I hope you know. And as far as HTTP goes, there already was a similar protocol gopher which preceded it. Had html + http not come along, it seems likely gopher would be expanded to fill the gaps the web later did.
"We don't see any problem without our accountant writing and signing all the checks because we've never had a problem with it before. They're perfectly trustworthy, and so much better than -unknown entity- probably is!"
Um, yes, that's pretty much how things work. Trust is built upon history. The CEO doesn't personally sign every check that needs to be signed... someone else in a high, trustworthy, position does it.
And the article raises a good point: What specific problem has come up that the US handling has caused?
You misunderstand. With XP you can do an in-place upgrade of XP. With Vista you cannot do an in-place upgrade of Vista again.
The term "upgrade" is a bit misleading, since you are installing the same OS (even if it can be a newer or even an old service pack level).
Hmm... I don't think I've ever tried that, only the repair options.
An upgrade from XP to Vista is actually a bit of a cop-out. Rather than try to migrate all your apps and settings, it just renames your old Program Files and Windows folders, copies your data files (My Documents etc) to the new Vista personal folders and the does a fairly clean install of Vista. Older versions did try to keep your apps and registry stored settings, but perhaps wisely MS didn't try to do that with Vista.
Again, what are you talking about? I didn't have to re-install anything, Program Files was still Program Files, with everything I installed from XP. The Documents and Settings was renamed Users, and some profile directory stuff was resuffled... but it still contained all the stuff it did before.
Well, then apparently everyone else making MP3 players long before Apple produced anything "missed the boat" too.
Ironically, this makes the iPod like Windows and the Zune like Linux in the handheld music player market.
Hmm... I don't think so. Apple is popular because they are the fad thing to have. Eventually (hopefully) the fad will die out. Any other product with as many failures are iPods would have been abandoned long ago, but my wife knows many people who are on their 3rd or 4th iPod, not because they wanted a new one, but because the previous one broke.
Hmm... I'd go as far as to say, why the hell is any modern developer having to worry about = or := in makefiles anyway? Christ, there's a reason modern IDEs handle all this for you... its tedioius, error prone, and saps your time from the REAL issue, which is building the application.
To the Ask poster, use VS Express, and ignore the retards complaining about "handholding." I assume you want to program to get something done, not spend time on tasks barely related to programming and which modern tools have solved nicely.
Unfortunately they took it out of Vista, so now your only option is to do a fresh install.
Huh? I did an inplace upgrade of Vista from XP just fine when I first purchased Vista.
Sirius and Xm sound better, and those are horrid.
Sorry, is it still 2000? Did I imagine the last 9 years?
Huh... if missing the boat is making something that works really well, and has more features, I guess they did. My zune works flawlessly, has a better screen, wireless sync, and the ability to tune radio stations. Contrast with my wifes 2g ipod nano, which locks up randomly, repeats the same song endlessly, skips the the next song randomly, and lets not forget that abomination of software call iTunes, and the recommended fix from the apple store? "Buy a new 3G ipod!!" Which was the same answer they gave to EVERYONE that came in with a problem with apple hardware. Bleack.
We'd probably still have our crazies (e.g. Hitler) but would we have had the Mother Theresas?
No, some of the crazies would be gone as well. Eg, the Inqusition. There have been Mother Theresa-like people in history before, without the "benefit" of being Christian.
One would expect that Brazil's poorest and most exploited people - agricultural workers and sugar cane cutters - would be among the first to benefit from the new wealth sugar cane production has brought to Brazil
Um, why would anyone expect that? It's not that there is no demand for workers to cut cane... it's that any idiot can cut sugar cane all day. THAT'S why they still make dirt money... because they have no skill whatsoever and are easily replaced.