Riiiiiight. I'll just be heading down the gun range now, right after I decline to support PBS and have improperly obtained evidence excluded from my criminal trial. I may even stop and publish harsh truths about another person with complete impunity.
you seem quite happy for the US government to maintain the internet in it's interests, which is a little odd for someone railing against governing bodies attempting to regulate global communications.
How is this odd at all? It seems to make perfect sense to me, if one prefers U.S. control to global control. Parochial? Perhaps. But not inconsistent.
I'm not so sure about this. It depends on how you define the scope. Is the scope all personal computers? Or computers of a certain architecture? Clearly, MS dominates the x86 market. It does not clearly dominate across all personal computers. But if MS is bad for dominating x86 market, then Apple clearly dominates the PPC market - why are they then not equally bad? Linux dominates nothing in particular.
Yeah, but realistically, the OEM's are just going to make an (even more) irritating and bloated, possibly ad-infested, OEM-branded front-end of WMP and package that as "the media player." Wewt, what a win for consumers.
That's like saying, "The really good thing about selling this car without a radio is that the consumer can get a better radio than the factory model!" This is a misstatement, because the consumer always could replace the radio, but now they must replace the radio.
Speaking as a consumer, there was nothing at all stopping me from getting a better media player in any other version of Windows - if I wanted it.
It is not just the grammar checker that is a problem but when I am at a new machine and I start a sentence with eBay or any other company name that uses a lower case first character, Word insists on changing it for me. These are my main reason for not liking Word. Let me get this straight. Rather than check/uncheck a few simple preference options, you condemn the whole software package and abandon it.
"OO.org doesn't default to my desired preferences! It is obviously inferior! Back to MS-Word for me!" See how silly that sounds?
My great worry is that people CHOOSE to remain ignorant.
Well, that's well and good, but I already noticed that your perception of ignorance is not, how to put it, "viewpoint neutral." Be sure not to mistake disagreement with your conclusions as ignorance. For example, it is quite possible for a thoughtful person to think about what they see and hear, and conclude that people who blow up buildings full of innocents are bad, people who build democracy from tyranny are good, and that some pizza sounds pretty good right about now.
The search for truth is noble. But in adjudging others of ignorance, do not assume omniscience upon yourself.
he fact that you can do this AND they do not show you the file extension used means that your Jpg can suddenly become a very nasty executable. And that's not good.
You can't do this actually. If you have the option enabled to hide extensions for known file types, adding a ".foo" extension doesn't change the extension at all, because the ".foo" is added to the end of the filename, but the old extension still remains hidden at the end.
I'm assuming you're talking about *IE*, and it is prejudiced against ANY software that attempts to download itself, propietary or not, even their very own software. It's there to protect users.
But what am I saying, you just want to gripe; there's no reason facts should get in your way.
Go ahead, try to remame a jpeg to.txt, and double-click on it, with or without showing file extensions. It will try to load in Notepad.
Maybe I'm strange, but I consider that a feature, not a bug. I like being able to change the perceived file type without having to edit the file contents or metadata or whatever. AND I can ascertain the perceived filetype in a simple console dir listing.
Have you used an NT version of Windows? All the "My $STUFF" files are stored in user home directories, located in a folder called "Documents and Settings".
I can't find the specific reference point right now, but I have heard repeatedly that the Aero UI will have several "levels," ranging from plain-jain classic windows to full-blown cinematic eye candy, the default of which will be determined by your hardware capabilities.
Personally, I think this is a silly gripe. If you have the hardware, you get the eye candy (if you want it). If you don't, you don't.
Yes. Business planning is supposed to be realistic, not idealistic. Ideally, should there be nothing to fix/update/add to Longhorn? Maybe. Realistically, is that a plausible scenario? Obviously not. In any case, even if there are no necessary security upgrades/bug fixes/kernel patches, there is almost certainly going to be new hardware to support.
I doubt Longhorn will be satisfactory - they'll want to sell everyone an upgrade 2-3 years after.
Are you saying that the mark of a satisfactory product is to declare perfection, shutter the doors and windows, and discontinue any further development?
It looks to me like the control buttons actually protrude from the top of the window, but the tops were cut off by whatever app they used to grab the screen-shot, which went by the window frame size.
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Riiiiiight. I'll just be heading down the gun range now, right after I decline to support PBS and have improperly obtained evidence excluded from my criminal trial. I may even stop and publish harsh truths about another person with complete impunity.
Pr0n tax, just like minitel
How is this odd at all? It seems to make perfect sense to me, if one prefers U.S. control to global control. Parochial? Perhaps. But not inconsistent.
If you go trading jpegs of Chariman Zhao, You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow...
I'm not sure how exactly, but it will in some way involve black helicopters.
I'm not so sure about this. It depends on how you define the scope. Is the scope all personal computers? Or computers of a certain architecture? Clearly, MS dominates the x86 market. It does not clearly dominate across all personal computers. But if MS is bad for dominating x86 market, then Apple clearly dominates the PPC market - why are they then not equally bad? Linux dominates nothing in particular.
Yeah, but realistically, the OEM's are just going to make an (even more) irritating and bloated, possibly ad-infested, OEM-branded front-end of WMP and package that as "the media player." Wewt, what a win for consumers.
Because there's definitely not enough of people telling other people what to do in this world. Too much freedom is bad for the proletariat.
Other media players can only play WMA/WMV files if you have the WMA/WMV codecs installed. Does the "N" version include these codecs?
Speaking as a consumer, there was nothing at all stopping me from getting a better media player in any other version of Windows - if I wanted it.
Keep the government's hands off my chassis.
"OO.org doesn't default to my desired preferences! It is obviously inferior! Back to MS-Word for me!" See how silly that sounds?
That is simply something up with which I will not put!
Well, that's well and good, but I already noticed that your perception of ignorance is not, how to put it, "viewpoint neutral." Be sure not to mistake disagreement with your conclusions as ignorance. For example, it is quite possible for a thoughtful person to think about what they see and hear, and conclude that people who blow up buildings full of innocents are bad, people who build democracy from tyranny are good, and that some pizza sounds pretty good right about now.
The search for truth is noble. But in adjudging others of ignorance, do not assume omniscience upon yourself.
You can't do this actually. If you have the option enabled to hide extensions for known file types, adding a ".foo" extension doesn't change the extension at all, because the ".foo" is added to the end of the filename, but the old extension still remains hidden at the end.
But what am I saying, you just want to gripe; there's no reason facts should get in your way.
They'll probably say that jpeg is a lossy format.
Maybe I'm strange, but I consider that a feature, not a bug. I like being able to change the perceived file type without having to edit the file contents or metadata or whatever. AND I can ascertain the perceived filetype in a simple console dir listing.
Have you used an NT version of Windows? All the "My $STUFF" files are stored in user home directories, located in a folder called "Documents and Settings".
Do you have a source for this (1 GB RAM limit) at all? I couldn't find anything on Google except specs that said it would handle 4GB.
Personally, I think this is a silly gripe. If you have the hardware, you get the eye candy (if you want it). If you don't, you don't.
Yes. Business planning is supposed to be realistic, not idealistic. Ideally, should there be nothing to fix/update/add to Longhorn? Maybe. Realistically, is that a plausible scenario? Obviously not. In any case, even if there are no necessary security upgrades/bug fixes/kernel patches, there is almost certainly going to be new hardware to support.
Unless my eyes deceived me, I personally witnessed a CAD machine at work running Win2000 with 4GB of RAM.
Are you saying that the mark of a satisfactory product is to declare perfection, shutter the doors and windows, and discontinue any further development?
I could be wrong, though.