Now, we all know that there are two kinds of companies: those that afford buying quality custom software and those (a lot!) that can't and use Excel and Word scripts. With the power of sharing, multiple simultaneous editors, chat, publishing, safe backups, etc. could Google Docs be considered a more powerful Office suite? They still have some limitations like the number of rows in Google Docs Spreadsheet is a lot lower than the number of rows limit in Microsoft Office Excel. What will happen when they'll overcome those limitations?
I have to. I use Mac + a few virtual machines running Windows (all licensed, of course). I have to use Windows, because that is one of the targets of the applications I'm working on.
It's sad when you find out that your customer _wants_ to export 1,000,000 rows in Excel and later you find out that they just won't pay for the latest version that supports more than 65,535 rows. The customer just _wants_ to have 1,000,000 rows in the Excel he has already paid for.
That's besides the point. The point is that they're using old crap, putting it in a new package and pushing it to everyone as something completely new.
I am hating this, because that is what it really deserves. I choose to share my hate with everyone else, so they'll know they shouldn't love something like that, otherwise they'll be impressed by announcements like "it's brand new, faster, better, etc" and won't know the truth about the product. I choose not only to love what I like but to also hate what I dislike and let others know of my feelings and the reasons behind them, so they won't make the mistakes I almost made.
Microsoft has declared war on many moral issues (eg, they simply LIE and keep Windows closed-source so if you manage to prove they're lying, you'll go to jail for reverse-engineering it) and we can't just go to the battlefield and fight with daisies. Peace is a beautiful thing that deserves all our respect, but you can't just turn the other cheek. We need to fight for the truth, we can't let anyone who wants to lie however they want. We want to reveal the truth, so everybody would know what's really going on and how Microsoft charges shitloads just for repackaging some of their products.
They made.NET and that's really cool. They actually gave their interest and worked very hard on it and it came out as a great framework for developing all kinds of applications. All's fine and dandy, but, they will start forcing you to use (read: "buy") a new version of Windows so that you can run (read: "buy") the latest version of Visual Studio so that you can take advantage of.NET. Same goes with Office. They break things on purpose, so you'll have to use a new version of Windows to use the latest version of Office and you have to do that, because they gave it away for free to some government organization that spreads documents in the latest Office format and forces you to read them in order for you to know your rights and obligations when dealing with that government agency - and this happens in a lot of countries and you simply can't avoid it (example: my girlfriend is an accountant, she has to send documents to a government agency every month and read documents sent to her by them; they use the latest version of Office to write those documents, because they got it for free; now she has to buy the latest version of Microsoft Office to work with them).
This is what Microsoft does. They deserve to be hated, because that should at least cast some doubt in ignorant minds. If we express our hate hard enough, then maybe those government agencies will understand what's going on and refuse the free Microsoft Office in favor of the free Open Office.
Of course Windows 7 will seem like a completely different OS if you look at it in a "new light" as MS says. OTOH, if you look at it the same way, admitting that Microsoft hasn't changed its customs and see the same bullshit as in 95 - Vista, you can't argue with them, because they can just reply "but it's different this time, just look at it with new eyes." Of course you can't compare it to anything if you try to forget what you've saw before.
I've seen bugs that have been around since Windows 95 in Internet Explorer (since 4.4 until 8.1, there's a limit of 32 <style> tags per page and MS still insists that its only a 4.4 - 6 without saying anything about 7 and that the limit is 31) and in Windows Explorer (when you try to minimize and focus applications, in certain conditions they won't listen. They have changed the way the UI looks, the kernel and added some drivers. Otherwise, I see absolutely no point in trying to analyze Windows 7's performance or compare it to previous versions of Windows. If you look at the bugs, you'll see that there have been bugs around in Windows sincefor 15 years and nobody touched them. I have given them the benefit of the doubt and installed Windows 7 RC1, hoping for a change in attitude from MS, but now I don't want to see anything about Windows again because the only change MS ever made was in the UI.
Please stop "analyzing" what Windows 7 can do and go after what's more important: what Windows 7 really is.
Why don't we try to get USPTO's attention over to Slashdot? Then, if they think they don't understand what's going on with a patent, they can find other peoples' interpretation of it over here. They're bound to understand at least one of a hundred different wordings of that patent in Slashdot's comments.
I recently read on/. that they found traces of cocaine in Madrid if I'm not mistaking. It was later revealed that cocaine is found almost everywhere, because there's always a very very small amount in the air.
On the adsweep page it says "please select a random time of the day when users are unlikely to download at the same time, just to spread out the server load over the day" about updating... If people were to try and choose the least busiest time of the day, they'd all choose the same time and make that the busiest time of the day, so I'm going to choose the busiest time of the day by default, because that will be likely the least busiest time of the day. Right?
Here's something that might go wrong: you and your pregnant wife go for a visit in a remote village, 200 miles away from the nearest hospital... figure out the rest.
But... wait a moment! What if a company can sue you for providing them with false information? They want to check your account on another provider that tells you your password instead of changing it when you go to "Forgot my password". They check the details of your account with them, see they're bogus and try them. If they work, it's the company's lucky day. If they don't, they can try to sue you to obtain the information from you or to make you change your question and answer. Then, they can scare you by telling you that you should do the same with all your accounts. Bam! They now have confidential information that you trust them with and allows them to login using your account on their competitor's website. The answer may be confidential, but the TOSes usually specify that you must provide accurate, truthful information and they reserve the right to peek into the answer of your secret question, for your own protection.
I know it's a stretch, but, considering the lawsuits we've seen on Slashdot lately, I'm still wondering why nobody tried this yet!
Come to think of it, I own a website that requires your email address as username... brb, checking "my" email accounts.
Well, when they'll ALL work on Wine, we'll have a great article for the Slashdot front page! And hopefully, others will pick it up... just imagine "The most popular and recent games work on Linux better than they do on Windows!" When that day will come, many DRM-butchered systems will switch to Linux. Half of the games on that list isn't good enough and I hope the Linux community will be able to keep up with the accelerating gaming industry. Otherwise, it will die a slow and painful death and we'll see articles on/. about how cool it is because you can play those decades-old games from the 2000's. Good luck, guys!
Linux mentality: give the users whatever they need, for free. Windows mentality: give the users whatever they want, for a price.
It has the usual list of ignorant complaints (oh no, there is a choice of distributions, boo hoo! oh no, there is a choice of GUI toolkits, boo hoo!), but some points stand out in their sheer stupidity.
If that's what all the articles say, there could be a bit of truth in it...
Who admits these articles to the front page anyway?
They made it to the front page and that's what matters! There's tons of crap on the Slashdot front page, because that is what people say and vote for. It may be crap, but it's what the people want. Come to think of it, this might explain why Windows is so popular - people don't want an uber-stable kernel 45.2481-5948 system, they want something shiny. If they see some crap on the sidewalk and it was glittery and shiny, I'm sure at least 90% of them will stop, look at it, stick their finger in it and smell it. It's shiny!
Solitaire doesn't count:) Your argument for the fact that "there ARE games for Linux" is that there ARE games for linux. Are there cool games for Linux? I doubt it. Look at the most pirated games... how many of them run on Linux? Why the hell would I install Linux if I can't play my favorite games? The coolest things about PCs is that you can use them to play games!
I like your shiny bullet list. Here's mine (I hope you haven't patented it already):
If they made a marketing campaign that specifically targeted men, the feminists would have simply murdered them. So now they openly say they target women and men shouldn't complain about it, because they use computers anyway. Smart.
Who wants to lower spending? The more you spend, the more fun you have! You don't like what the people are doing? Tax it... This way, you can lead them wherever you want and get to have more fun!
Slashdot Mirror
Now, we all know that there are two kinds of companies: those that afford buying quality custom software and those (a lot!) that can't and use Excel and Word scripts. With the power of sharing, multiple simultaneous editors, chat, publishing, safe backups, etc. could Google Docs be considered a more powerful Office suite? They still have some limitations like the number of rows in Google Docs Spreadsheet is a lot lower than the number of rows limit in Microsoft Office Excel. What will happen when they'll overcome those limitations?
I have to. I use Mac + a few virtual machines running Windows (all licensed, of course). I have to use Windows, because that is one of the targets of the applications I'm working on.
It's sad when you find out that your customer _wants_ to export 1,000,000 rows in Excel and later you find out that they just won't pay for the latest version that supports more than 65,535 rows. The customer just _wants_ to have 1,000,000 rows in the Excel he has already paid for.
That's besides the point. The point is that they're using old crap, putting it in a new package and pushing it to everyone as something completely new.
I am hating this, because that is what it really deserves. I choose to share my hate with everyone else, so they'll know they shouldn't love something like that, otherwise they'll be impressed by announcements like "it's brand new, faster, better, etc" and won't know the truth about the product. I choose not only to love what I like but to also hate what I dislike and let others know of my feelings and the reasons behind them, so they won't make the mistakes I almost made.
Microsoft has declared war on many moral issues (eg, they simply LIE and keep Windows closed-source so if you manage to prove they're lying, you'll go to jail for reverse-engineering it) and we can't just go to the battlefield and fight with daisies. Peace is a beautiful thing that deserves all our respect, but you can't just turn the other cheek. We need to fight for the truth, we can't let anyone who wants to lie however they want. We want to reveal the truth, so everybody would know what's really going on and how Microsoft charges shitloads just for repackaging some of their products.
They made .NET and that's really cool. They actually gave their interest and worked very hard on it and it came out as a great framework for developing all kinds of applications. All's fine and dandy, but, they will start forcing you to use (read: "buy") a new version of Windows so that you can run (read: "buy") the latest version of Visual Studio so that you can take advantage of .NET. Same goes with Office. They break things on purpose, so you'll have to use a new version of Windows to use the latest version of Office and you have to do that, because they gave it away for free to some government organization that spreads documents in the latest Office format and forces you to read them in order for you to know your rights and obligations when dealing with that government agency - and this happens in a lot of countries and you simply can't avoid it (example: my girlfriend is an accountant, she has to send documents to a government agency every month and read documents sent to her by them; they use the latest version of Office to write those documents, because they got it for free; now she has to buy the latest version of Microsoft Office to work with them).
This is what Microsoft does. They deserve to be hated, because that should at least cast some doubt in ignorant minds. If we express our hate hard enough, then maybe those government agencies will understand what's going on and refuse the free Microsoft Office in favor of the free Open Office.
We should do the same and ban them from Slashdot, forcing them to post under the shameful name "Anonymous Coward". That'll teach them!
Of course Windows 7 will seem like a completely different OS if you look at it in a "new light" as MS says. OTOH, if you look at it the same way, admitting that Microsoft hasn't changed its customs and see the same bullshit as in 95 - Vista, you can't argue with them, because they can just reply "but it's different this time, just look at it with new eyes." Of course you can't compare it to anything if you try to forget what you've saw before.
I've seen bugs that have been around since Windows 95 in Internet Explorer (since 4.4 until 8.1, there's a limit of 32 <style> tags per page and MS still insists that its only a 4.4 - 6 without saying anything about 7 and that the limit is 31) and in Windows Explorer (when you try to minimize and focus applications, in certain conditions they won't listen. They have changed the way the UI looks, the kernel and added some drivers. Otherwise, I see absolutely no point in trying to analyze Windows 7's performance or compare it to previous versions of Windows. If you look at the bugs, you'll see that there have been bugs around in Windows sincefor 15 years and nobody touched them. I have given them the benefit of the doubt and installed Windows 7 RC1, hoping for a change in attitude from MS, but now I don't want to see anything about Windows again because the only change MS ever made was in the UI.
Please stop "analyzing" what Windows 7 can do and go after what's more important: what Windows 7 really is.
Let's see how Duke Nukem Forever does first...
Why don't we try to get USPTO's attention over to Slashdot? Then, if they think they don't understand what's going on with a patent, they can find other peoples' interpretation of it over here. They're bound to understand at least one of a hundred different wordings of that patent in Slashdot's comments.
Any ideas?
Exactly my point.
I recently read on /. that they found traces of cocaine in Madrid if I'm not mistaking. It was later revealed that cocaine is found almost everywhere, because there's always a very very small amount in the air.
Please tune your sarcasm detector.
On the adsweep page it says "please select a random time of the day when users are unlikely to download at the same time, just to spread out the server load over the day" about updating... If people were to try and choose the least busiest time of the day, they'd all choose the same time and make that the busiest time of the day, so I'm going to choose the busiest time of the day by default, because that will be likely the least busiest time of the day. Right?
You do know they are slowly backing off and Mozilla is looking strangely at Google?
Here's something that might go wrong: you and your pregnant wife go for a visit in a remote village, 200 miles away from the nearest hospital... figure out the rest.
I reckon Rosco P. Coltrane knows what he's doin'.
But... wait a moment! What if a company can sue you for providing them with false information? They want to check your account on another provider that tells you your password instead of changing it when you go to "Forgot my password". They check the details of your account with them, see they're bogus and try them. If they work, it's the company's lucky day. If they don't, they can try to sue you to obtain the information from you or to make you change your question and answer. Then, they can scare you by telling you that you should do the same with all your accounts. Bam! They now have confidential information that you trust them with and allows them to login using your account on their competitor's website. The answer may be confidential, but the TOSes usually specify that you must provide accurate, truthful information and they reserve the right to peek into the answer of your secret question, for your own protection.
I know it's a stretch, but, considering the lawsuits we've seen on Slashdot lately, I'm still wondering why nobody tried this yet!
Come to think of it, I own a website that requires your email address as username... brb, checking "my" email accounts.
Even better: check out the definition of paranoid I just found on Slashdot!
I use the same answer to "Secret Questions" all over the place... now I realize, that's just as bad as using the same password!
You can't stop identity theft, but you can narrow it down...
Well, when they'll ALL work on Wine, we'll have a great article for the Slashdot front page! And hopefully, others will pick it up... just imagine "The most popular and recent games work on Linux better than they do on Windows!" When that day will come, many DRM-butchered systems will switch to Linux. Half of the games on that list isn't good enough and I hope the Linux community will be able to keep up with the accelerating gaming industry. Otherwise, it will die a slow and painful death and we'll see articles on /. about how cool it is because you can play those decades-old games from the 2000's. Good luck, guys!
Linux mentality: give the users whatever they need, for free.
Windows mentality: give the users whatever they want, for a price.
It has the usual list of ignorant complaints (oh no, there is a choice of distributions, boo hoo! oh no, there is a choice of GUI toolkits, boo hoo!), but some points stand out in their sheer stupidity.
If that's what all the articles say, there could be a bit of truth in it...
Who admits these articles to the front page anyway?
They made it to the front page and that's what matters! There's tons of crap on the Slashdot front page, because that is what people say and vote for. It may be crap, but it's what the people want. Come to think of it, this might explain why Windows is so popular - people don't want an uber-stable kernel 45.2481-5948 system, they want something shiny. If they see some crap on the sidewalk and it was glittery and shiny, I'm sure at least 90% of them will stop, look at it, stick their finger in it and smell it. It's shiny!
Solitaire doesn't count :)
Your argument for the fact that "there ARE games for Linux" is that there ARE games for linux. Are there cool games for Linux? I doubt it. Look at the most pirated games... how many of them run on Linux? Why the hell would I install Linux if I can't play my favorite games? The coolest things about PCs is that you can use them to play games!
I like your shiny bullet list. Here's mine (I hope you haven't patented it already):
If they made a marketing campaign that specifically targeted men, the feminists would have simply murdered them. So now they openly say they target women and men shouldn't complain about it, because they use computers anyway. Smart.
Who wants to lower spending? The more you spend, the more fun you have! You don't like what the people are doing? Tax it... This way, you can lead them wherever you want and get to have more fun!
What about the Asgards?