Now nobody will ever switch to Office 2007, even though it's a better product, because they'll have to get used to something new and a new way of working - isn't this one of the most used justifications for not switching to Linux?;)
Exactly. Add to that some ignorance from those people who say it's difficult to write portable code (perhaps because they have only ever been exposed to that confusion of code generated by MS tools) and you get a mass of people who are willing to sacrifice the minorities for... well, for nothing, really, because they won't get anything more than they already do - but they don't know this. They think that dropping support for other platforms will allow the developer to focus more on the functionality or stability of the software.
And these people are not necessarily your average fresh-out-of-school programmer. Sometimes even people with several years of experience fall into this category and refuse to work on cross-platform code because they say "it consumes more resources". An example I have dealt with recently is Garage Games and their Torque line of products.
Garage Games makes game engines and they used to announce on their website that their game engines run on Windows, OS X and Linux. Long story short, the Linux version is far from the quality of the Windows and OS X counterparts (when it runs at all) and the company dropped Linux as a supported platform, "because it consumes too many of their resources". Instead, the Linux version is now supported by the community - but it bears the same price tag, nonetheless...
I don't understand why you say I have narrow expectations. I did mention "nightmares", didn't I? I know that Linux isn't always the best solution and that sometimes Windows is the best solution.
I welcome any stories that can show something of interest. If yours is one, go ahead and share it.
This seems pretty obvious but I constantly see people leaving stuff turned on when they're not using it.
Leaving the TV set on when you're not watching, leaving the light on when you're not in the room, leaving the water running while you brush your teeth, you name it, wate of energy and natural resources seems to flow in some people's bloodstream!
And those poor bastards who use that lame-excuse-for-an-instant-messaging-program called MSN Messenger have a special way of wasting energy: leaving their computers on all the time so they can have their nicknames online. Why? Want to receive messages that are sent to you while you're not logged in? Use ICQ. I know the new version of MSN Messenger (or Windows Live Messenger, or whatever) stores messages for you while you're away but ICQ has always done it. Or even better, why not use e-mail, which serves exactly that purpose - sending messages that can be read at a later time?
Unless I misunderstood the question, besides the ones already pointed by some other folks, there's also http://vil.nai.com/vil/default.asp
It even has a section dedicated to hoaxes, which I regularly use to educate my friends and family about those "Microsoft warned about this virus yesterday, anti-virus vendors don't know about it yet, pass this to all your contacts" e-mails.
I mean, everybody knows that... it's not even a matter of people "seeing it as inevitable", people don't even "see" it as anything. It's considered something perfectly normal, something that people don't even think about.
An interesting article would be why we came to this point. IMO, because of the reasons some other people already stated here. First of all, because it's so easy. Second, because people don't like to be ripped off. Third... well, we could carry on from here but you get the point.
So I still have to go through all that stupid instalation procedure? And I still have to cope with that horrible XF86config file the instalation program generates? Then what's the difference from the previous release??? No doubt about it, I'm selling my notebook and buying a new one with an nVidia card...
Microsoft is working to forensically analyze the malicious code in Phel and will work with law enforcement agencies to identify and bring to justice those responsible for the malicious activity, he said.
They always want to catch the bad guys but Microsoft itself is never held responsible fot the damages their crippled software causes.
As a software developer myself, I know it's almost impossible to make a big software product 100% bug free but come on... Microsoft's software is becoming ridiculous!
A little bird told me that "windows_2000_source_code.zip" on FastTrack (Kazaa) is a good possibility...;)
He also told me the file is about 203.8 MB in size.
The strange thing is that I've read somewhere that one of MS's people said the file was around 660 MB, which is odd, since the little bird didn't see any file of that size. The only similar size he has seen is a "Windows.Source.Code.exe" weghing around 733.1 MB but it's an.exe... the little bird doesn't like.exe's and something told him that it wasn't it.
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Now nobody will ever switch to Office 2007, even though it's a better product, because they'll have to get used to something new and a new way of working - isn't this one of the most used justifications for not switching to Linux? ;)
Exactly. Add to that some ignorance from those people who say it's difficult to write portable code (perhaps because they have only ever been exposed to that confusion of code generated by MS tools) and you get a mass of people who are willing to sacrifice the minorities for... well, for nothing, really, because they won't get anything more than they already do - but they don't know this. They think that dropping support for other platforms will allow the developer to focus more on the functionality or stability of the software.
And these people are not necessarily your average fresh-out-of-school programmer. Sometimes even people with several years of experience fall into this category and refuse to work on cross-platform code because they say "it consumes more resources". An example I have dealt with recently is Garage Games and their Torque line of products.
Garage Games makes game engines and they used to announce on their website that their game engines run on Windows, OS X and Linux. Long story short, the Linux version is far from the quality of the Windows and OS X counterparts (when it runs at all) and the company dropped Linux as a supported platform, "because it consumes too many of their resources". Instead, the Linux version is now supported by the community - but it bears the same price tag, nonetheless...
Thanks! Nice article! I'll have to go through it slowly and digest everything :)
I don't understand why you say I have narrow expectations. I did mention "nightmares", didn't I? I know that Linux isn't always the best solution and that sometimes Windows is the best solution.
I welcome any stories that can show something of interest. If yours is one, go ahead and share it.
This seems pretty obvious but I constantly see people leaving stuff turned on when they're not using it.
Leaving the TV set on when you're not watching, leaving the light on when you're not in the room, leaving the water running while you brush your teeth, you name it, wate of energy and natural resources seems to flow in some people's bloodstream!
And those poor bastards who use that lame-excuse-for-an-instant-messaging-program called MSN Messenger have a special way of wasting energy: leaving their computers on all the time so they can have their nicknames online. Why? Want to receive messages that are sent to you while you're not logged in? Use ICQ. I know the new version of MSN Messenger (or Windows Live Messenger, or whatever) stores messages for you while you're away but ICQ has always done it. Or even better, why not use e-mail, which serves exactly that purpose - sending messages that can be read at a later time?
Unless I misunderstood the question, besides the ones already pointed by some other folks, there's also http://vil.nai.com/vil/default.asp It even has a section dedicated to hoaxes, which I regularly use to educate my friends and family about those "Microsoft warned about this virus yesterday, anti-virus vendors don't know about it yet, pass this to all your contacts" e-mails.
I mean, everybody knows that... it's not even a matter of people "seeing it as inevitable", people don't even "see" it as anything. It's considered something perfectly normal, something that people don't even think about. An interesting article would be why we came to this point. IMO, because of the reasons some other people already stated here. First of all, because it's so easy. Second, because people don't like to be ripped off. Third... well, we could carry on from here but you get the point.
Well, after seing both this video and The Funny Steve Ballmer Video Thing">the ones on this page, I now understand why Microsoft products are... well... you know :P
So I still have to go through all that stupid instalation procedure? And I still have to cope with that horrible XF86config file the instalation program generates? Then what's the difference from the previous release??? No doubt about it, I'm selling my notebook and buying a new one with an nVidia card...
Sure, if you're lucky...
Microsoft is working to forensically analyze the malicious code in Phel and will work with law enforcement agencies to identify and bring to justice those responsible for the malicious activity, he said.
They always want to catch the bad guys but Microsoft itself is never held responsible fot the damages their crippled software causes.
As a software developer myself, I know it's almost impossible to make a big software product 100% bug free but come on... Microsoft's software is becoming ridiculous!
A little bird told me that "windows_2000_source_code.zip" on FastTrack (Kazaa) is a good possibility... ;)
.exe ... the little bird doesn't like .exe's and something told him that it wasn't it.
He also told me the file is about 203.8 MB in size.
The strange thing is that I've read somewhere that one of MS's people said the file was around 660 MB, which is odd, since the little bird didn't see any file of that size. The only similar size he has seen is a "Windows.Source.Code.exe" weghing around 733.1 MB but it's an