I agree. My niece and nephews where fidgeting halfway through the film (in contrast to the Narnia film, which glued them to their seats) and wanted to leave.
I sat there and told them to shut up, because I was enjoying it so much, instructions from their mom be damned.
I think that this is one of the first movies where Pixar has failed to balance the "important message that only adults understand" and the eye candy and cute things for the kids. The Incredibles, Nemo and Toy Story did that very well.
That doesn't detract from the quality of WALL-E, but it's a hard sell if you're producing what is basically a cartoon feature and your name is not Hayao Miyazaki.
Assuming WGA doesn't get in the way, you're wrong.
There will probably be a point where WGA does become an issue. After so many years of using Windows, I might even consider moving away from it.
So far though, that's not the case. I'm happy to pay $50 or whatever the going OEM cost of a Vista license is to get it with any new PC I buy, because it's still worth it. All my software runs on it. It does what I need my OS to do.
If you don't like Windows, more power to you. This article is testament to the fact that you have choices. Just don't insult people's intelligence because you want to feel 1337.
Oh. Whomever modded me offtopic probably can't see the post I'm replying to? Here it is. "deadzero" is one of twitter's accounts, and it was created for the same purpose as all the other name trolls he maintains.
Please be so kind as to reply with the account you originally posted the comment with, not the name troll you created for me, or any of your other 12 accounts.
Also, ad hominems are not particularly useful, they merely tell everyone that your argument was invalid to begin with.
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the continued failure of M$ to protect their customers
You linked to the usual "time to pwn" stories, but the reality is that botnets grow nowadays by means of email attachments. Very few (that I know of) trojan attacks are over remotely-exploited vulnerabilities, with patches or not. You are implying that botnets are created when unsuspecting Windows users install nine-year old copies of an unpatched operating system. That's not true, is it?
The previous wave of trojan attacks (with those "admirer has send you a message" subjects) grew botnets dramatically, I think. How do you account for that? Sobig is the fastest spreading trojan ever, and it requires user interaction to infect a machines. It's a proven fact that infections are spread thanks to vulnerabilities with available patches. How do you account for that?
How is that a "continued failure" of "M$" to protected their customers again?
If your Windows machine is in a botnet herd, you probably did something you shouldn't have, or failed to patch your machine. Even the actual remotely-exploitable vulnerabilities like Blaster have had patches available a month before the exploits were seen in wild.
Basically, you're saying that Linux is at least as easy and fast to install as Windows.
I never claimed anything about Linux, nor was it my intention to even comment on how it works. Or not. But here you are devolving into need for proof that your operating system of choice (or your religion, judging from your zeal) can do something better than the one I use. And you want me to give it to you?
Tell you what, why don't you join a debating team at school or something, and come back when you can organize your train of thought with something approaching competence.
If you administer systems, you're a system administrator. Are you saying that you aren't administering systems? Then you have nothing to say about system administration.
Oh. Well, I guess that's correct then. Do you drive a car? Then surely you must be a F1 driver, right?
I have given specific examples. Just something as simple as installing OpenOffice: "apt-get install openoffice.org" is a lot faster than downloading the thing and going through a wizard.
You mean sudo apt-get install openoffice.org, and in any case everyone uses Synaptic nowadays. You haven't heard?
As for your "download and wizard" quippy, most well-design install packages have an unattended mode. You've never had a job at a company where they do that sort of thing when they push updates to thousands of machines?
Another demonstration of your ignorance, since there are GUIs for maintaining/etc/httpd.conf
Turn this around for a second and you'd be praising the Obama campaign to high heaven, justifying anything they do in the name of unmasking the evil tricksies of the evil republikans. Oh wait, you just did.
That's even if your claim of McCain's flip-flopping are correct, which is probably the case. His shuffling on positions hardly exonerates Obama from having done the same thing.
Politicians sick to the message that will win them elections.
I think this is a good idea, but justification might turn into a lamefest anyway. Even just showing the name of the person who downmodded you would go a long way.
Also, Taco should do something about people who expend all their mod points on a single account across multiple articles. That would cut down on the retribution "I don't like how you sound" modbombs.
They're not a monopoly because they don't have majority share in the desktop market. The MP3 player one might be another thing, but there's enough competition there that it doesn't look like a monopoly either.
I think Apple will always avoid having a monopoly of any kind just based on their prices. It's hard to monopolize a market when you're selling basically the same hardware as your competitors, but in a prettier case and at a 30% markup.
Maybe the iPhone will give them a monopoly in the smartphone market, but even that would be just a tiny sliver of the overall cell phone market.
Well, it's hardly a surprise that a Windows system manager would claim that Windows is easier to maintain.
Too bad I'm a developer and not a sysadmin.
Almost every major system management operation in Linux takes less time and less user interaction than the equivalent operation on Windows
No, it does not. Repeating that over and over again doesn't magically turn it into truth. There are things that are marginally easier on either OS, but aside from having to reboot servers when patching user things like the browser (which I will admit is ridiculous but fixed in Server 2008 thank god), there's nothing in Linux that I find to be super-duper easy to do compared to Windows. In any case, I'd much rather have an application like the IIS management console and give something up for it (not that I have since all of that is now text-based and scriptable anyway) than have to deal with/etc/httpd.conf. That however is still a personal preference.
If you want to claim that Windows maintenance takes less time, at least try to come up with a plausible story and plausible examples
You're the one who claimed you had "quantified" all that, I merely offered my opinion. My opinion is just that, and I haven't tried to pas it as fact at any point. But so far I haven't seen you cough up any evidence of your alleged absolute measurements.
Windows systems take a lot of time and manpower to install and maintain... I've measured and quantified this
Since I use Windows every day, and I work with companies that deploy thousands of desktops and servers with the OS, I disagree. I'm not sure how you "quantified" this at all. I don't spend more time maintaining my Windows desktop than my Linux one. If you do, you must be doing something wrong.
Why would I want to "discuss" anything with you?
It's generally accepted fact that when you post to a public forum, you should expect people to reply to you. That is why you post here, is it not? Or do you enjoy taking into the wind by yourself?
You're either deliberately lying or simply making things up.
Your "quantification" seems a lot more made up than my personal opinion that Windows is not the existential nightmare people like you claim it to be.
Either way, you shouldn't get away with it.
How am I "getting away" with "it", please explain.
I'm sorry, are you implying that because I say something positive (or even non-negative), or have a different opinion than you, that I must work for Microsoft or have some sort of financial stake in the company?
Do you actually expect people to discuss topics like these with you with that sort of attitude?
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Did you blame Microsoft for this? It's usually indicated.
Unfortunately for you, no.
Oh god that's so clever. You are 15 years old, there's no other explanation.
I agree. My niece and nephews where fidgeting halfway through the film (in contrast to the Narnia film, which glued them to their seats) and wanted to leave.
I sat there and told them to shut up, because I was enjoying it so much, instructions from their mom be damned.
I think that this is one of the first movies where Pixar has failed to balance the "important message that only adults understand" and the eye candy and cute things for the kids. The Incredibles, Nemo and Toy Story did that very well.
That doesn't detract from the quality of WALL-E, but it's a hard sell if you're producing what is basically a cartoon feature and your name is not Hayao Miyazaki.
Assuming WGA doesn't get in the way, you're wrong.
There will probably be a point where WGA does become an issue. After so many years of using Windows, I might even consider moving away from it.
So far though, that's not the case. I'm happy to pay $50 or whatever the going OEM cost of a Vista license is to get it with any new PC I buy, because it's still worth it. All my software runs on it. It does what I need my OS to do.
If you don't like Windows, more power to you. This article is testament to the fact that you have choices. Just don't insult people's intelligence because you want to feel 1337.
Oh. Whomever modded me offtopic probably can't see the post I'm replying to? Here it is. "deadzero" is one of twitter's accounts, and it was created for the same purpose as all the other name trolls he maintains.
Please be so kind as to reply with the account you originally posted the comment with, not the name troll you created for me, or any of your other 12 accounts.
Also, ad hominems are not particularly useful, they merely tell everyone that your argument was invalid to begin with.
You linked to the usual "time to pwn" stories, but the reality is that botnets grow nowadays by means of email attachments. Very few (that I know of) trojan attacks are over remotely-exploited vulnerabilities, with patches or not. You are implying that botnets are created when unsuspecting Windows users install nine-year old copies of an unpatched operating system. That's not true, is it?
The previous wave of trojan attacks (with those "admirer has send you a message" subjects) grew botnets dramatically, I think. How do you account for that? Sobig is the fastest spreading trojan ever, and it requires user interaction to infect a machines. It's a proven fact that infections are spread thanks to vulnerabilities with available patches. How do you account for that?
How is that a "continued failure" of "M$" to protected their customers again?
If your Windows machine is in a botnet herd, you probably did something you shouldn't have, or failed to patch your machine. Even the actual remotely-exploitable vulnerabilities like Blaster have had patches available a month before the exploits were seen in wild.
So only those hiding something have anything to fear.
Hmmm, where have I heard that before...
I never claimed anything about Linux, nor was it my intention to even comment on how it works. Or not. But here you are devolving into need for proof that your operating system of choice (or your religion, judging from your zeal) can do something better than the one I use. And you want me to give it to you?
Tell you what, why don't you join a debating team at school or something, and come back when you can organize your train of thought with something approaching competence.
No, I expect not. May I suggest you drop the 'tude? It will help you a lot around here.
You only get one of these, BTW.
I love how your AC comment was modded down because it's more visible than all your 12 accounts. Ha ha indeed.
And billed out at $7,300, no doubt.
He's got one of those bizarre threads going on here already.
twitter, you're down to shilling your own posts with AC comments?
Don't you have any self-esteem left at all?
Oh. Well, I guess that's correct then. Do you drive a car? Then surely you must be a F1 driver, right?
You mean sudo apt-get install openoffice.org, and in any case everyone uses Synaptic nowadays. You haven't heard?
As for your "download and wizard" quippy, most well-design install packages have an unattended mode. You've never had a job at a company where they do that sort of thing when they push updates to thousands of machines?
Too bad they all suck.
Well.. that's certainly one way to spin it, isn't it?
Turn this around for a second and you'd be praising the Obama campaign to high heaven, justifying anything they do in the name of unmasking the evil tricksies of the evil republikans. Oh wait, you just did.
That's even if your claim of McCain's flip-flopping are correct, which is probably the case. His shuffling on positions hardly exonerates Obama from having done the same thing.
Politicians sick to the message that will win them elections.
Not even, not all the time. I'd like to see Job mistreat the people who actually design his hardware.
I think this is a good idea, but justification might turn into a lamefest anyway. Even just showing the name of the person who downmodded you would go a long way.
Also, Taco should do something about people who expend all their mod points on a single account across multiple articles. That would cut down on the retribution "I don't like how you sound" modbombs.
They're not a monopoly because they don't have majority share in the desktop market. The MP3 player one might be another thing, but there's enough competition there that it doesn't look like a monopoly either.
I think Apple will always avoid having a monopoly of any kind just based on their prices. It's hard to monopolize a market when you're selling basically the same hardware as your competitors, but in a prettier case and at a 30% markup.
Maybe the iPhone will give them a monopoly in the smartphone market, but even that would be just a tiny sliver of the overall cell phone market.
He posts at -1 by default, for trolling and shilling. See here and here for more information.
Too bad I'm a developer and not a sysadmin.
No, it does not. Repeating that over and over again doesn't magically turn it into truth. There are things that are marginally easier on either OS, but aside from having to reboot servers when patching user things like the browser (which I will admit is ridiculous but fixed in Server 2008 thank god), there's nothing in Linux that I find to be super-duper easy to do compared to Windows. In any case, I'd much rather have an application like the IIS management console and give something up for it (not that I have since all of that is now text-based and scriptable anyway) than have to deal with /etc/httpd.conf. That however is still a personal preference.
You're the one who claimed you had "quantified" all that, I merely offered my opinion. My opinion is just that, and I haven't tried to pas it as fact at any point. But so far I haven't seen you cough up any evidence of your alleged absolute measurements.
As opposed to yours?
Agreed. I like the original discussion system.
Since I use Windows every day, and I work with companies that deploy thousands of desktops and servers with the OS, I disagree. I'm not sure how you "quantified" this at all. I don't spend more time maintaining my Windows desktop than my Linux one. If you do, you must be doing something wrong.
It's generally accepted fact that when you post to a public forum, you should expect people to reply to you. That is why you post here, is it not? Or do you enjoy taking into the wind by yourself?
Your "quantification" seems a lot more made up than my personal opinion that Windows is not the existential nightmare people like you claim it to be.
How am I "getting away" with "it", please explain.
I'm sorry, are you implying that because I say something positive (or even non-negative), or have a different opinion than you, that I must work for Microsoft or have some sort of financial stake in the company?
Do you actually expect people to discuss topics like these with you with that sort of attitude?