As with some changes in 10.1 to 10.2 and even today there is some broken compatibility but there isn't a case (or rarely) where a user is SOL. If there is something broken in 10.2.3 to 10.2.4, the vendor will supply a fix (usually and I don't know when this hasn't been done). In the corporate world where it matters, it's just a matter of upgrades. On the Mac side, I know graphic houses that bought 10.2 and Quark 5 and left it at that version for a while. They recently upgraded all their software packages with a new system, normal for an upgrade budget.
Emulation sucks because someone smart enough hasn't streamlined the code. Look how much better games are written for the SNES years after it's release. And it's always been that way for tight gaming consoles where the games are written better years after initial release. Developers for the computer market aren't motivated enough to code cleanly or lack the backing to make it work. It's all about adding layers instead of cutting off the fat.
Writing a program is writing a program whether it's for your HP calculator, Roomba, or PC. Microsoft know the power of software, they aren't willing to use it.
They could release Vista Professional Edition that includes a VM which is certainly more than enough to handle any corporate app on today's hardware. Any hardware intensive app would obviously keep with the older software/hardware version until it became feasible enough to port over.
For the home market, they could release a basic Home Edition cheap with no legacy support unless purchased and release a Premium Home Edition with a VM so that whoever that runs that funky resume writer or that genealogy software will still work. Anyone with a serious 3D app would purchase a newer version anyway that would be ported as those higer end apps are the first to get ported.
They don't have to backward compatible anymore. They are a frickin software company for one, #2, they own a fricking VM company (VirtualPC) that is responsible for Windows on the Mac.
They're claiming this 'backward compatible' mantra so that they don't lose the current corral of developers, from Tier 1, 3rd party, and fan boys. If they change their OS so that backward compatibility no longer works, they feel they risk losing everyone to the competition, whatever it is. Mac did it in 2000 and kept backward compatibility through whatever method it is that kept Mac Classic on all OSX's through the Intel changeover.
I was actually looking forward for the originally planned Longhorn with WinFS and such but not this Vista crap. I stopped being a MS fanboy with the announcement of XP activation but I realize them for the juggernaut they are and I respect that.
I don't see why they can't come up with a new OS and include legacy support in VM mode. Today's hardware can handle it. Vista is just smelly trash.
Part of the problem is that they don't innovate. We've heard this all before and it is a tired horse but as a successful company, they copy what works from other innovative ideas that the public takes to. Their GUI in Vista is nothing innovative and has been copied from OSX and the Sun 3D project Looking Glass. Monad is the answer to the Bash shell and it isn't even going to be included last I checked. Any security touted as new is a "Well Duh!" and should've been there from the start. It would be nice to install a Microsoft OS without the need for 3rd party software to make it secure. Defragging is still a requirement as WinFS has been delayed and I'm not sure if defragging will be required on it as well.
When they do innovate, it's something like Microsoft Bob.
Fry's Electronics does it. They have a 4 foot section on one of their aisles with a GQ computer (their brand) with a Linux Distro pre-installed and a Linspire set pre-installed as well.
Target can be a small shack with a single 2 foot wide door and a huge warehouse that delivers to just about anybody via website. They don't have to cater to 2 foot wide people on invite only. Instead they have big boxy stores with double entrances so skinny people, fat people, and people with disabilities can come in and shop their wares. It's their choice.
Are you saying that all of their print flyers have to be in braille too? Target only has to do to do what it wants to do to generate income. If not catering to the blind is one of thost things, than it's their call and it shouldn't be forced upon by my tax dollars.
Blind people should shop elsewhere. It's that simple.
Target is a private entity, if they don't want to cater to blind people, blind people shouldn't shop there. It's that simple. If it were a government website, the I'd say it needs to be 508 compliant.
If Target's shareholders say "Make our site 508 compliant" then Target has to listen, not the whinings from a group of blind people who really are just the puppet for the lawyer who has it out for anybody with money. It's the same lawyer that sues mom and pop stores for not having door wide enough for wheelchairs even though they are grandfathered in.
Don't they usually come to a nearby town and do screenings? Wheel of Fortune came to my town for the same reason and some friends actually got on the show.
I'm not sure where your moral compass is pointing being that you seem to have it in your mind that millions of 'sweatshop' employees would be better off starving and homeless.
I fail to see how Nike is the cause and not any other shoe or textile manufacturer. Do you wear shoes and if so, where are they made? How is buying a wooden pair of clogs from the Netherlands from a kid who carved them any better?
Nike is not the cause for sweatshops or child labor. It exists as a resource just like local water/coal supplies are nearby for power companies. Because that resource exists, Nike can use it to manufacture their product and have a competitive product.
I don't think that Rockport, Keds, Reebok, Converse, BK, and cheepie no-name brand manufacture their shoes in an uptown skyscraper in Manhattan on the 53rd floor. Their shops are probably right down the street from the Nike factory or maybe even the 3rd shift in the Nike building since all the shoe making materials are right there. Probably close to a port somewhere so that shipping doesn't have to rely on bicycles breaking down to get the product to ship.
Nike doesn't have any special materials in their shoe that any other shoe manufacturer has.
I'm not in favor of slavery and those workers aren't slaves anymore than they are children of ambitious/needy parents that need money. They are paid employees.
It is not Nike's fault those people are in the situation they are in. If they really feel oppressed, they should stand up to their oppressor and take over but they're not.
There are sweatshop all over Asia and it's not Nike's fault. Nike is just like all other global corporations utilizing those resources that are available. At least those people have jobs and can feed their families (although with the population problem over there, breeding is debatable).
I'm a little older and not really in the gaming community anymore (yet) but I don't see how the xbox is a status symbol. Maybe it is but I don't see it. In my day, Intellivision was a status symbol just because it was more expensive, new, and had better graphics but the controller and games sucked. At the end of the day, if you had an Intellivision, everyone opted to play Atari instead and your console collected dust.
What Palm vs WinCE proved is that people want simple and the iPod gives them that as well. Personally I liked WinCE over Palm but Palm was a better mass market PDA.
XBOX is just a 'me too' console. Sure there are some exclusive titles but most 3rd party titles are written for all consoles. I could be wrong on this but from what I see, if you want Halo, get Xbox; if you want Mario, get Nintendo; I don't know what Sony has exclusive but apparently it's still #1 maybe because of number of titles and cost?
BTW, the first Microsoft digital speakers (manufactured by Phillips) are still the best pair of speakers I've used (and still use - albeit in analog mode via Linux)
Thats no the market they're going after. They are already in that market. They want have have wanted the AS400 type which will never happen. Those boxes just work and Microsoft does not have that kind of track record.
On a side note, I've supported Notes and Exchange and during the Nimda through Spyware years, Notes server was much easier to maintain.
Nobody is going to care even if they are aware unless that 'feature' phones home and will send for a knock on the door by the copyright police.
Your average person doesn't care if the content they are watching is a legitimate copyright holder version or an 'illegal' copy.
The SNL short 'Lazy Sunday' comes to mind. I can't seem to get it to play from NBC's site since they yanked it from the high traffic sites but I still can see it from other sites that host it and I'm sure that NBC hasn't given them a release to host it.
I had a friend that went on a trip to New York when the movie Elf was out and bought a copy off the street so he could watch it since he didn't have time to go to the theatre to see it. He didn't care if he was feeding the piracy ring providing him with content, the content was available and he bit.
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As with some changes in 10.1 to 10.2 and even today there is some broken compatibility but there isn't a case (or rarely) where a user is SOL. If there is something broken in 10.2.3 to 10.2.4, the vendor will supply a fix (usually and I don't know when this hasn't been done).
In the corporate world where it matters, it's just a matter of upgrades. On the Mac side, I know graphic houses that bought 10.2 and Quark 5 and left it at that version for a while. They recently upgraded all their software packages with a new system, normal for an upgrade budget.
Emulation sucks because someone smart enough hasn't streamlined the code.
Look how much better games are written for the SNES years after it's release.
And it's always been that way for tight gaming consoles where the games are written better years after initial release.
Developers for the computer market aren't motivated enough to code cleanly or lack the backing to make it work. It's all about adding layers instead of cutting off the fat.
Writing a program is writing a program whether it's for your HP calculator, Roomba, or PC.
Microsoft know the power of software, they aren't willing to use it.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from what I hear is a pretty successful translation to the stage. Being a musical helps I'm sure.
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When Spider-man first came out (2002), someone put together a stage version that was US only.
http://www.techtite.com/Reviews/Parks/2003/Spider
http://www.eagletribune.com/news/stories/20021031
Say Vista would break old code;
They could release Vista Professional Edition that includes a VM which is certainly more than enough to handle any corporate app on today's hardware. Any hardware intensive app would obviously keep with the older software/hardware version until it became feasible enough to port over.
For the home market, they could release a basic Home Edition cheap with no legacy support unless purchased and release a Premium Home Edition with a VM so that whoever that runs that funky resume writer or that genealogy software will still work.
Anyone with a serious 3D app would purchase a newer version anyway that would be ported as those higer end apps are the first to get ported.
They don't have to backward compatible anymore. They are a frickin software company for one, #2, they own a fricking VM company (VirtualPC) that is responsible for Windows on the Mac.
They're claiming this 'backward compatible' mantra so that they don't lose the current corral of developers, from Tier 1, 3rd party, and fan boys.
If they change their OS so that backward compatibility no longer works, they feel they risk losing everyone to the competition, whatever it is.
Mac did it in 2000 and kept backward compatibility through whatever method it is that kept Mac Classic on all OSX's through the Intel changeover.
I was actually looking forward for the originally planned Longhorn with WinFS and such but not this Vista crap.
I stopped being a MS fanboy with the announcement of XP activation but I realize them for the juggernaut they are and I respect that.
I don't see why they can't come up with a new OS and include legacy support in VM mode. Today's hardware can handle it. Vista is just smelly trash.
Part of the problem is that they don't innovate. We've heard this all before and it is a tired horse but as a successful company, they copy what works from other innovative ideas that the public takes to.
Their GUI in Vista is nothing innovative and has been copied from OSX and the Sun 3D project Looking Glass.
Monad is the answer to the Bash shell and it isn't even going to be included last I checked.
Any security touted as new is a "Well Duh!" and should've been there from the start.
It would be nice to install a Microsoft OS without the need for 3rd party software to make it secure.
Defragging is still a requirement as WinFS has been delayed and I'm not sure if defragging will be required on it as well.
When they do innovate, it's something like Microsoft Bob.
Fry's Electronics does it. They have a 4 foot section on one of their aisles with a GQ computer (their brand) with a Linux Distro pre-installed and a Linspire set pre-installed as well.
I've done the same thing and it is so true, double true.
Buy them a mac, Mac mini or iMac.
What are you talking about?
Target can be a small shack with a single 2 foot wide door and a huge warehouse that delivers to just about anybody via website.
They don't have to cater to 2 foot wide people on invite only.
Instead they have big boxy stores with double entrances so skinny people, fat people, and people with disabilities can come in and shop their wares. It's their choice.
Are you saying that all of their print flyers have to be in braille too?
Target only has to do to do what it wants to do to generate income.
If not catering to the blind is one of thost things, than it's their call and it shouldn't be forced upon by my tax dollars.
Blind people should shop elsewhere. It's that simple.
I think it's a type of clock that doesn't need a crystal for the oscillation.
Target is a private entity, if they don't want to cater to blind people, blind people shouldn't shop there. It's that simple.
If it were a government website, the I'd say it needs to be 508 compliant.
If Target's shareholders say "Make our site 508 compliant" then Target has to listen, not the whinings from a group of blind people who really are just the puppet for the lawyer who has it out for anybody with money. It's the same lawyer that sues mom and pop stores for not having door wide enough for wheelchairs even though they are grandfathered in.
Don't they usually come to a nearby town and do screenings?
Wheel of Fortune came to my town for the same reason and some friends actually got on the show.
It's more #1 and #2 as I see it. The rest can be done with Virtual PC.
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Can't wait for the episode where he blasts wamp rats with his T-16.
And don't forget all the pop music that ruins the show and makes it a commercial.
Nothing beats Aviation acronyms.
I forgot about GT, thanks.
I'm not sure where your moral compass is pointing being that you seem to have it in your mind that millions of 'sweatshop' employees would be better off starving and homeless.
I fail to see how Nike is the cause and not any other shoe or textile manufacturer. Do you wear shoes and if so, where are they made?
How is buying a wooden pair of clogs from the Netherlands from a kid who carved them any better?
Nike is not the cause for sweatshops or child labor.
It exists as a resource just like local water/coal supplies are nearby for power companies.
Because that resource exists, Nike can use it to manufacture their product and have a competitive product.
I don't think that Rockport, Keds, Reebok, Converse, BK, and cheepie no-name brand manufacture their shoes in an uptown skyscraper in Manhattan on the 53rd floor. Their shops are probably right down the street from the Nike factory or maybe even the 3rd shift in the Nike building since all the shoe making materials are right there. Probably close to a port somewhere so that shipping doesn't have to rely on bicycles breaking down to get the product to ship.
Nike doesn't have any special materials in their shoe that any other shoe manufacturer has.
I'm not in favor of slavery and those workers aren't slaves anymore than they are children of ambitious/needy parents that need money.
They are paid employees.
It is not Nike's fault those people are in the situation they are in. If they really feel oppressed, they should stand up to their oppressor and take over but they're not.
There are sweatshop all over Asia and it's not Nike's fault. Nike is just like all other global corporations utilizing those resources that are available.
At least those people have jobs and can feed their families (although with the population problem over there, breeding is debatable).
Their stuff is too expensive and complicated.
I'm a little older and not really in the gaming community anymore (yet) but I don't see how the xbox is a status symbol. Maybe it is but I don't see it.
In my day, Intellivision was a status symbol just because it was more expensive, new, and had better graphics but the controller and games sucked. At the end of the day, if you had an Intellivision, everyone opted to play Atari instead and your console collected dust.
What Palm vs WinCE proved is that people want simple and the iPod gives them that as well.
Personally I liked WinCE over Palm but Palm was a better mass market PDA.
XBOX is just a 'me too' console. Sure there are some exclusive titles but most 3rd party titles are written for all consoles.
I could be wrong on this but from what I see,
if you want Halo, get Xbox;
if you want Mario, get Nintendo;
I don't know what Sony has exclusive but apparently it's still #1 maybe because of number of titles and cost?
BTW, the first Microsoft digital speakers (manufactured by Phillips) are still the best pair of speakers I've used (and still use - albeit in analog mode via Linux)
Thats no the market they're going after. They are already in that market.
They want have have wanted the AS400 type which will never happen.
Those boxes just work and Microsoft does not have that kind of track record.
On a side note, I've supported Notes and Exchange and during the Nimda through Spyware years, Notes server was much easier to maintain.
Nobody is going to care even if they are aware unless that 'feature' phones home and will send for a knock on the door by the copyright police.
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Your average person doesn't care if the content they are watching is a legitimate copyright holder version or an 'illegal' copy.
The SNL short 'Lazy Sunday' comes to mind. I can't seem to get it to play from NBC's site since they yanked it from the high traffic sites but I still can see it from other sites that host it and I'm sure that NBC hasn't given them a release to host it.
How about South Park Episodes. You can download them night after they air and always have been able to.
With Tom Cruise pulling his shenanigans, it doesn't look like we'll be able to see "Trapped in the Closet" broadcasted anymore:
http://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com/cblog/index.p
I had a friend that went on a trip to New York when the movie Elf was out and bought a copy off the street so he could watch it since he didn't have time to go to the theatre to see it. He didn't care if he was feeding the piracy ring providing him with content, the content was available and he bit.
I think signing only applies if you're getting cash back, not for depositing.
I can deposit any money into any account as long as I have an account number. They won't care but if I want cash back, they require a signature.
I rarely to never use ATM and always get cash back for deposits.