Online applications clearly have many benefits, especially with the recent surge in broadband, but adoption and support has been slow in coming. Why is this?
Very easy to answer from my perspective. The total fear that most software developemnt organizations have that someone will see thier code and write something equal negating all of their hard work.
What few if any of the "experts" understand or are willing to believe is that have code "obscured" by compiling doesn't stop someone from writing code that does the same thing. In fact it actually makes it easier.
Of course the last statement is going to cause cut and paste coders everywhere to have a fit. But the reason I say it's easier is that if all you are trying to reverse is the action of the code and you can never see inside the black box. You never get "tainted" by the code. if you happen to write a piece of code that is nearly identical to theirs, the original company can never say they "stole" the code. Since they never had it to steal in the first place.
This btw is the same reason that Linux developers were warned away from the supposedly leaked Windows code. You cannot copy what you have never seen. The irony is that if the code is visible it can by easier to claim violation of copyright. As anyone knows sometimes there really is only one way to write code that does something. Also too as we all know it's a case of "don't think about pink elephants" problem. Once you are told not to think about it it's had not to. Similarly once you've seen how someone wrote a piece of code it's hard to do it a different way.
I can remember fishing with my dad as we listened to the Cardinals play by play on his. He won it in a national sales contest and I might add was quite the object of jealosy for having it.
If I remember right his had 9 transistors. At that time when you bought one it would tell you how many transistors it had. The more transistors the better the "quality" and the higher the price. 9 was pretty much top of the line for portables.
The Sony's where considered cheap and low quality. (and they fell apart so very easy.) If you wanted a good one there was only one way to go. RCA. Though the people from Phillips and GE had their contenders.
The RCA's had honestly better quality speakers etc so there was a difference in quality (over the cheap Japanese imports). His also took a single 9 volt battery and a small V/U meter to tell you signal strength. Even heard my first Beatles tune on it.
I don't see that happening quite that way. The why being the advantages the UI takes of the features of the MACH kernel. If you used Linux without the linux kernel it would be... well.... Unix, but not Linux (Remember Linux is a Kernel the rest is GNU) However on a variant. The concept of selling OSXI on x86 platform would rock. Now that could / should be done. But it would severly damage there sale of MAC's as a hardware platform. However there is always Darwin. Darwin plus Apple UI magic might have interesting effects.
I mean the free download only runs on Mac or Windows. This says to me that they aren't really serious about Linux. I know that if it were built on WinCE I wouldn't expect the free download to only run on Mac and Red Hat.
I'd also like to know if they have modded any of the Linux or GNU tools/apps on the box. If so where's the source. If the source comes with the device, fine. The source doesn't have to be seperately available, or available to just anyone. It does however have to go back to the original team and to anyone who purchases one of the systems. Somehow this sounds a lot like a company that doesn't know why they are running Linux. My fear would be that they are playing lip service to the product using Linux as a buzz word to make enough sales to get bought out. I'd have more respect for a company building on WinCE with a definite reason why they chose it, rather than a company that makes me feal uneasy about how they made their OS decisions.
When management sees IBM they don't see software. Nor do they care about software. What they really see is someone they can sue if things go really wrong. (Not that it will, nor will it do them any good if they do, but it satisfies pencil pushers.) This is #4 on my alltime Marketing Myths. Being, "It takes a large company to create properly tested software." Thank goodness Nasa (heavy user of Forth) and the millions of CPU's running Tron never new that this was true. I really thing it would be say that between 50 and 75% of all mission critical software is either locally produced by one individual or, is supported by a single software written by a single individual. Meaning that without software written by individuals, or small organizations, nothing would run.
A large company as we all know doesn't even garuantee the software will run (read your EULA) *cough bob cough* ME *wheez* However the Myth persists. So the real question is how to get what you want and make them think they are going to look good to investors. (Looking good is the primary here. Being good is a nice to have, but looking good gets you the big buck bonuses.)
You want Debian. No problem Take a look at Progeny (Ian Murdock is the founder) or Xandros. (Hot buzzword name. Makes Marketing types look smart.)
One thing very few understand (Even in the Linux community this is often forgotten.) Linux is a kernel. (Hence the correct term GNU/Linux) The difference between the distro's is tools and graphics. Leaning heavy on the graphics. Linux is Linux, cell phone to mainframe it's the same. (and yes I'm going to get hundreds of flames on that one... sorry, it's truer than most of us would admit.)
Having lived in South Korea, and having lived here in the US. (Yeah I'm home again Yippee!) The reason for the difference is this. Attitude. I worked for a company for a long time that sold real time video feeds (Not p0rn ok!) for simulcasting events. When we had to deal with Korean bandwidth sellers they saw it and said "OOO this uses lot's of badwidth... we can sell more!" When we talked with US Bandwidth sellers they would say. "No this uses too much bandwidth we'll have to buy more." Canada which is a lot more spread out than the US (in terms of population) has better bandwidth penetration than the US. I live in the Silly Con valley and let me tell you it is one of the worst places in the world to ensure having good bandwidth. I've a friend who lives literally across the street from his DCO, yet can't get DSL because "The lines on his street are too old" and SBC refuses to upgrade. He'd get cable... as soon as his neighborhood is wired (Funny thing is he can get cable TV but the local provider doesn't do the net.) The solution turns out to be connecting to the house behind him which can get DSL and sharing the line via a really long wire. (BTW they are trying to figure out a secure, and reliable, wireless connection. The word secure being the key word.)
It really comes down to attitude. In the US they want to sell you bandwidth but don't want you to use it. If you use it they will send out a tech to cap your line. In Korea they want to sell you bandwidth and if you use it, they will send out a salesman to sell you a bigger pipe.
With Longhorn (or maybe since it's had it's most valuable assets removed we should call it Steerhorn) due out in 2006 and Security not reached until 2011, does that means that Windows isn't expecting a secure product until Steerhorns replacement?!?
Oh well maybe by the time my 4 year old graduates from college Windows will be a viable OS. They've always had potential as a desktop OS but keep falling short.
It looks like the Mac users are one step ahead of the PC folks again. Check out this site. Mac Aquariums Yes folks why settle for XFish when you can have a real live world behind your screen. (Imagine putting a Keyboard in front of one and watching people trying to shutdown your "screensaver".
Well DUH! Do what I've been doing Since Star Office 5.2 came out. Save the *%&^A% file as a.rtf (Rich Text Format) I did this for ages... sent it to my PHB, then he would open it... save as a.doc and send it off. Then one day it dawned on him. If I can open/edit/whatever the.rtf document... why am I bothering saving it as a.doc? Just send it on as is and every recipient can read it. In fact the.rtf format in OOo is substantially smaller than Wurds rtf format and.doc so it saves folder space too.
IMHO the best Word Processor on Windows was and Is Write. Why, it's a word processor not a desktop publishing tool. The only "feature" missing is of course a spell checker (They took that out IIRC after Windows 3.1 when they found it competed with MS Office.)
Man he missed those. I mean every time I've read this article (Since the early 60's for me but My Mom tells me that she's seen this since the 40's) I mean come on. This isn't even good Sci Fi. Frankly I'd get a better prediction from a Republican Intelligence Agent than from this guy *grin* In 2014 We will still have.
1. Politicians telling us how they have a plan to get back the Jobs that left the US for India. 2. Americans drooling over the latest Micro whatever that is only available in Japan and Korea. 3. The RIAA whining about why no one is buying the newest DRM protected 40 dollar CD's 4. Biometric Technology that doesn't work, is easy to defeat and Senators from California and Utah trying to create laws making having the wrong BioMetrics Illegal. 5. The latest preview of Longhorn being traded on the P2P networks. 6. People talking about how telecommuting is the business model of the future. 7. The decendents of Thomas Jefferson banding together to sue souvenier stands all over Washington DC and Philidelphia for selling "illegal" copies of the Constitution, thereby denying them their inherited rights under the latest copyright act. (Betsy Ross's decendents will be waiting in the wings to sue the flag manufacturers.) 8. Talk about how this is the year of the Linux desktop. 9./.r's bleating about the latest M$ patent on code that allows a graphical display of computer generated images. 10. The McDonalds law in full affect (they own the patents on fast food, but the China Town contingent is claiming prior art.) 11. The latest trend in business will be Micro Hotels so that airplane travelers have someplace to sleep at the airport due to the now manditory 48 hour, prior to flight, checkin rule at airports. 11. While the rest of the world is beginning to enjoy the benifits of wireless broadband the US will still be in a quagmire caused by the requirement to have a home phone and a cable connection to use it. Broadband usage in US homes will hit an all time high of 22% (But still not be available in most areas of the Silicon Valley or New York City.) 12. Ted Kennedy will finally be able to get on an airplane without a hassle.
These are just a few of the things I think we have to look forward to... how about you?
Nope... now that the DMCA is in force along with the Sonny Bono Patents to Infinity clause that Disney paid him for, The aren't.. GM, Ford, Dailmer-Chrysler and other automakers are now ammassing Legal Armies, as the families and decendants of the patent holder on the internal combustion engine are claiming that their royalties have been unpaid for over 100 years.
Last heard the legal armies where seen invading the luggage district in NYC. Sales of briefcases on the Black Market have been heard going as high as 15,000 dollars US for black leather briefcases with monograms. Cheap Gucci Knock-offs from China are spurring a new round of litigation that is believed will further increase the demand for breifcases.
Microsoft has rolled out there latest in a line of ever increasing patents to add to the fray. Certain officials at M$ have been heard mumbling that they have patents on using stylus shaped dipensors of permanent material onto pressed and shaped tree pulp (Writing on paper) Claims from the SCO are that they are the owners by default of the Internal Combustion Engine intelectual property (They bought a car last year and the rights on the patents where transfered with the car) and that they intend to sue everyone as their patent even includes Bidpedal locomotion by an Organic entity (walking).
Sentors Hatch and Boxer Say that this only goes to prove that the INDUCE act is needed and that by adding even more clauses eventually things will be come so choked that total lawsuit parity can be reached.
On the home front Bush claimed Victory in the war against the economy, by citing the increased need for lawyers in the US. --We need more high paying jobs like this and I'm just the one to create the environment to give it to us.-- He was quoted as saying.
I'm reffering of course to the Bibster project Bibster Partners and Participants Which is aimed at the shareing of scientific and research documents. All of which are by the fact that they are published, copyrighted works under the Berlin Treaty. Amazing how the world looks when you suffer from cerebral anal insertion syndrome(CAIS). Guess you can't trust those dadgum anti-American fools in them there Unerversilties. They might growed up and learned hows to think fer dem selbes.
Ok I hit the wrong button (dumb dumb dumb) Myr reasons for avoiding windows. 1. Poor quality of UI. 2. Inconsistant UI 3. Age of the technology 4. Number of security holes 5. Lack of applications (Ok the big names are here but the range of applications and things I can do are really small.) 6. Spend more time getting things to work, vs time working to get things done. 7. Two words, Memory Hog 8. Slow as molasses. 9. Poor interoperability with other OS's 10. Poor interoperablility with Windows OS's 11. Poor networking ability. 12. Too many things done autmagically that I can't control or turn off. 13. Too many decisions made by Bill as to what I want. 14. Controls and commands that do what they want despite what is claimed or I want. 15. Preponderance of ancient technology. (IE and Outlook for example) 16. Lack of knowledgeable support (it costs more to get to your problem, than it does to solve your problem. (Yes my monitor is turned on, how does this make Outlook crash?)) 17. High cost of hardware. (I have to replace to keep running, not replace when EOL is reached.) 18. I don't like renting software. (or cars, or clothing, or or or.) 19. Lack of configurability. 20. I don't like communism and I don't like M$ for the same reasons. 21. Poor inter application communication. 22. Did I mention that it is butt ugly? 23. I'm sick and tired of Blue and Grey. 24. Poor language support. (If it ain't MFC or C# they don't want it to work.) 25. Forced upgrades. 26. Gates and Balmer support the shrub 27. Lack of control of what my computer is doing. 28. Poor Quality control 29. One size does not fit all (are you listening RH?) 30. Because applications install and run like leaches hanging on a hikers leg memory control is lacking. 31. No true multi-user environment. 32. Poor multi-tasking support. 33. Poor or no documentation of commands available. 34. Poor Double Byte and Unicode support 35. Poor Memory management. 36. And on and on and on and on and on.
Adds generally pay per view. If it doesn't get seen the obligation is not met. Sooooooooo
Edit your/etc/hosts or c:\windows\hosts.sam file (changing the name to hosts to make it work) and put in the needed line to block adds like:
127.0.0.1 ads.spammaven.com
Then use Mozilla or firefox and turn off popups.
voila. Page after page loads at lightning speed and they don't make any money off of the add. Of course then eventually the site loses it's advertising pull and is offline. But heh....
Slashdot Mirror
Already have it. It's called ssh keys. etc. It's not missing from OSS it's just not applied.
Very easy to answer from my perspective. The total fear that most software developemnt organizations have that someone will see thier code and write something equal negating all of their hard work.
What few if any of the "experts" understand or are willing to believe is that have code "obscured" by compiling doesn't stop someone from writing code that does the same thing. In fact it actually makes it easier.
Of course the last statement is going to cause cut and paste coders everywhere to have a fit. But the reason I say it's easier is that if all you are trying to reverse is the action of the code and you can never see inside the black box. You never get "tainted" by the code. if you happen to write a piece of code that is nearly identical to theirs, the original company can never say they "stole" the code. Since they never had it to steal in the first place.
This btw is the same reason that Linux developers were warned away from the supposedly leaked Windows code. You cannot copy what you have never seen. The irony is that if the code is visible it can by easier to claim violation of copyright. As anyone knows sometimes there really is only one way to write code that does something. Also too as we all know it's a case of "don't think about pink elephants" problem. Once you are told not to think about it it's had not to. Similarly once you've seen how someone wrote a piece of code it's hard to do it a different way.
I can remember fishing with my dad as we listened to the Cardinals play by play on his. He won it in a national sales contest and I might add was quite the object of jealosy for having it.
If I remember right his had 9 transistors. At that time when you bought one it would tell you how many transistors it had. The more transistors the better the "quality" and the higher the price. 9 was pretty much top of the line for portables.
The Sony's where considered cheap and low quality. (and they fell apart so very easy.) If you wanted a good one there was only one way to go. RCA. Though the people from Phillips and GE had their contenders.
The RCA's had honestly better quality speakers etc so there was a difference in quality (over the cheap Japanese imports). His also took a single 9 volt battery and a small V/U meter to tell you signal strength. Even heard my first Beatles tune on it.
locate .... grep -ir .... these should be available for your Mac as well.
Doesn't matter the 3rd website is offline.
I don't see that happening quite that way. The why being the advantages the UI takes of the features of the MACH kernel. If you used Linux without the linux kernel it would be... well.... Unix, but not Linux (Remember Linux is a Kernel the rest is GNU) However on a variant. The concept of selling OSXI on x86 platform would rock. Now that could / should be done. But it would severly damage there sale of MAC's as a hardware platform. However there is always Darwin. Darwin plus Apple UI magic might have interesting effects.
I mean the free download only runs on Mac or Windows. This says to me that they aren't really serious about Linux. I know that if it were built on WinCE I wouldn't expect the free download to only run on Mac and Red Hat.
I'd also like to know if they have modded any of the Linux or GNU tools/apps on the box. If so where's the source. If the source comes with the device, fine. The source doesn't have to be seperately available, or available to just anyone. It does however have to go back to the original team and to anyone who purchases one of the systems. Somehow this sounds a lot like a company that doesn't know why they are running Linux. My fear would be that they are playing lip service to the product using Linux as a buzz word to make enough sales to get bought out. I'd have more respect for a company building on WinCE with a definite reason why they chose it, rather than a company that makes me feal uneasy about how they made their OS decisions.
When management sees IBM they don't see software. Nor do they care about software. What they really see is someone they can sue if things go really wrong. (Not that it will, nor will it do them any good if they do, but it satisfies pencil pushers.) This is #4 on my alltime Marketing Myths. Being, "It takes a large company to create properly tested software." Thank goodness Nasa (heavy user of Forth) and the millions of CPU's running Tron never new that this was true. I really thing it would be say that between 50 and 75% of all mission critical software is either locally produced by one individual or, is supported by a single software written by a single individual. Meaning that without software written by individuals, or small organizations, nothing would run.
A large company as we all know doesn't even garuantee the software will run (read your EULA) *cough bob cough* ME *wheez* However the Myth persists. So the real question is how to get what you want and make them think they are going to look good to investors. (Looking good is the primary here. Being good is a nice to have, but looking good gets you the big buck bonuses.)
You want Debian. No problem Take a look at Progeny (Ian Murdock is the founder) or Xandros. (Hot buzzword name. Makes Marketing types look smart.)
One thing very few understand (Even in the Linux community this is often forgotten.) Linux is a kernel. (Hence the correct term GNU/Linux) The difference between the distro's is tools and graphics. Leaning heavy on the graphics. Linux is Linux, cell phone to mainframe it's the same. (and yes I'm going to get hundreds of flames on that one... sorry, it's truer than most of us would admit.)
Having lived in South Korea, and having lived here in the US. (Yeah I'm home again Yippee!) The reason for the difference is this. Attitude. I worked for a company for a long time that sold real time video feeds (Not p0rn ok!) for simulcasting events. When we had to deal with Korean bandwidth sellers they saw it and said "OOO this uses lot's of badwidth... we can sell more!" When we talked with US Bandwidth sellers they would say. "No this uses too much bandwidth we'll have to buy more." Canada which is a lot more spread out than the US (in terms of population) has better bandwidth penetration than the US. I live in the Silly Con valley and let me tell you it is one of the worst places in the world to ensure having good bandwidth. I've a friend who lives literally across the street from his DCO, yet can't get DSL because "The lines on his street are too old" and SBC refuses to upgrade. He'd get cable... as soon as his neighborhood is wired (Funny thing is he can get cable TV but the local provider doesn't do the net.) The solution turns out to be connecting to the house behind him which can get DSL and sharing the line via a really long wire. (BTW they are trying to figure out a secure, and reliable, wireless connection. The word secure being the key word.)
It really comes down to attitude. In the US they want to sell you bandwidth but don't want you to use it. If you use it they will send out a tech to cap your line. In Korea they want to sell you bandwidth and if you use it, they will send out a salesman to sell you a bigger pipe.
With Longhorn (or maybe since it's had it's most valuable assets removed we should call it Steerhorn) due out in 2006 and Security not reached until 2011, does that means that Windows isn't expecting a secure product until Steerhorns replacement?!?
Oh well maybe by the time my 4 year old graduates from college Windows will be a viable OS. They've always had potential as a desktop OS but keep falling short.
It looks like the Mac users are one step ahead of the PC folks again. Check out this site. Mac Aquariums Yes folks why settle for XFish when you can have a real live world behind your screen. (Imagine putting a Keyboard in front of one and watching people trying to shutdown your "screensaver".
Yes it is an animation. 173 frames to be exact.
Well DUH! Do what I've been doing Since Star Office 5.2 came out. Save the *%&^A% file as a .rtf (Rich Text Format) I did this for ages ... sent it to my PHB, then he would open it ... save as a .doc and send it off. Then one day it dawned on him. If I can open/edit/whatever the .rtf document... why am I bothering saving it as a .doc? Just send it on as is and every recipient can read it. In fact the .rtf format in OOo is substantially smaller than Wurds rtf format and .doc so it saves folder space too.
IMHO the best Word Processor on Windows was and Is Write. Why, it's a word processor not a desktop publishing tool. The only "feature" missing is of course a spell checker (They took that out IIRC after Windows 3.1 when they found it competed with MS Office.)
The first thing you need to know before using a grammar checker, is of course grammar.
refrence this page
The best Grammar checkers I've found are still (pardon my spelling if wrong) Turabian and the UPI style books.
Man he missed those. I mean every time I've read this article (Since the early 60's for me but My Mom tells me that she's seen this since the 40's) I mean come on. This isn't even good Sci Fi. Frankly I'd get a better prediction from a Republican Intelligence Agent than from this guy *grin* In 2014 We will still have.
/.r's bleating about the latest M$ patent on code that allows a graphical display of computer generated images.
1. Politicians telling us how they have a plan to get back the Jobs that left the US for India.
2. Americans drooling over the latest Micro whatever that is only available in Japan and Korea.
3. The RIAA whining about why no one is buying the newest DRM protected 40 dollar CD's
4. Biometric Technology that doesn't work, is easy to defeat and Senators from California and Utah trying to create laws making having the wrong BioMetrics Illegal.
5. The latest preview of Longhorn being traded on the P2P networks.
6. People talking about how telecommuting is the business model of the future.
7. The decendents of Thomas Jefferson banding together to sue souvenier stands all over Washington DC and Philidelphia for selling "illegal" copies of the Constitution, thereby denying them their inherited rights under the latest copyright act. (Betsy Ross's decendents will be waiting in the wings to sue the flag manufacturers.)
8. Talk about how this is the year of the Linux desktop.
9.
10. The McDonalds law in full affect (they own the patents on fast food, but the China Town contingent is claiming prior art.)
11. The latest trend in business will be Micro Hotels so that airplane travelers have someplace to sleep at the airport due to the now manditory 48 hour, prior to flight, checkin rule at airports.
11. While the rest of the world is beginning to enjoy the benifits of wireless broadband the US will still be in a quagmire caused by the requirement to have a home phone and a cable connection to use it. Broadband usage in US homes will hit an all time high of 22% (But still not be available in most areas of the Silicon Valley or New York City.)
12. Ted Kennedy will finally be able to get on an airplane without a hassle.
These are just a few of the things I think we have to look forward to... how about you?
A working model.... hmmmm that would really bring software patents to a screaching halt now wouldn't it?
Nope... now that the DMCA is in force along with the Sonny Bono Patents to Infinity clause that Disney paid him for, The aren't.. GM, Ford, Dailmer-Chrysler and other automakers are now ammassing Legal Armies, as the families and decendants of the patent holder on the internal combustion engine are claiming that their royalties have been unpaid for over 100 years.
Last heard the legal armies where seen invading the luggage district in NYC. Sales of briefcases on the Black Market have been heard going as high as 15,000 dollars US for black leather briefcases with monograms. Cheap Gucci Knock-offs from China are spurring a new round of litigation that is believed will further increase the demand for breifcases.
Microsoft has rolled out there latest in a line of ever increasing patents to add to the fray. Certain officials at M$ have been heard mumbling that they have patents on using stylus shaped dipensors of permanent material onto pressed and shaped tree pulp (Writing on paper) Claims from the SCO are that they are the owners by default of the Internal Combustion Engine intelectual property (They bought a car last year and the rights on the patents where transfered with the car) and that they intend to sue everyone as their patent even includes Bidpedal locomotion by an Organic entity (walking).
Sentors Hatch and Boxer Say that this only goes to prove that the INDUCE act is needed and that by adding even more clauses eventually things will be come so choked that total lawsuit parity can be reached.
On the home front Bush claimed Victory in the war against the economy, by citing the increased need for lawyers in the US. --We need more high paying jobs like this and I'm just the one to create the environment to give it to us.-- He was quoted as saying.
Dick Cheney was at an undisclosed location.
I'm reffering of course to the Bibster project
Bibster Partners and Participants Which is aimed at the shareing of scientific and research documents. All of which are by the fact that they are published, copyrighted works under the Berlin Treaty. Amazing how the world looks when you suffer from cerebral anal insertion syndrome(CAIS). Guess you can't trust those dadgum anti-American fools in them there Unerversilties. They might growed up and learned hows to think fer dem selbes.
Talk about Prior Art? The first ATM actually was invented and deployed in 1939 ... problem was no one liked it.
World's first ATM
But don't worry Microsoft or Haliburton will be patenting it next week, and the RIAA will make it illegal immediately after that.
Ok I hit the wrong button (dumb dumb dumb)
Myr reasons for avoiding windows.
1. Poor quality of UI.
2. Inconsistant UI
3. Age of the technology
4. Number of security holes
5. Lack of applications (Ok the big names are here but the range of applications and things I can do are really small.)
6. Spend more time getting things to work, vs time working to get things done.
7. Two words, Memory Hog
8. Slow as molasses.
9. Poor interoperability with other OS's
10. Poor interoperablility with Windows OS's
11. Poor networking ability.
12. Too many things done autmagically that I can't control or turn off.
13. Too many decisions made by Bill as to what I want.
14. Controls and commands that do what they want despite what is claimed or I want.
15. Preponderance of ancient technology. (IE and Outlook for example)
16. Lack of knowledgeable support (it costs more to get to your problem, than it does to solve your problem. (Yes my monitor is turned on, how does this make Outlook crash?))
17. High cost of hardware. (I have to replace to keep running, not replace when EOL is reached.)
18. I don't like renting software. (or cars, or clothing, or or or.)
19. Lack of configurability.
20. I don't like communism and I don't like M$ for the same reasons.
21. Poor inter application communication.
22. Did I mention that it is butt ugly?
23. I'm sick and tired of Blue and Grey.
24. Poor language support. (If it ain't MFC or C# they don't want it to work.)
25. Forced upgrades.
26. Gates and Balmer support the shrub
27. Lack of control of what my computer is doing.
28. Poor Quality control
29. One size does not fit all (are you listening RH?)
30. Because applications install and run like leaches hanging on a hikers leg memory control is lacking.
31. No true multi-user environment.
32. Poor multi-tasking support.
33. Poor or no documentation of commands available.
34. Poor Double Byte and Unicode support
35. Poor Memory management.
36. And on and on and on and on and on.
1. Poor quality of UI.
2. Insconsistant UI
Has anyone concidered this.
/etc/hosts or c:\windows\hosts.sam file (changing the name to hosts to make it work) and put in the needed line to block adds like:
Adds generally pay per view. If it doesn't get seen the obligation is not met. Sooooooooo
Edit your
127.0.0.1 ads.spammaven.com
Then use Mozilla or firefox and turn off popups.
voila. Page after page loads at lightning speed and they don't make any money off of the add. Of course then eventually the site loses it's advertising pull and is offline. But heh....
Yes but remember the first live gui CD ... Disk 2 of Slackware. First had it running in 1999.
Go try Mepis. It blows Knoppix away.... Tons faster.