LiteStep and File Managers (was Re:Next to go)
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LiteStep is not a file manager, but Directory Opus is, and it's job is to replace Internet Explorer as your file manager. LiteStep's job is to replace Internet Explorer as your desktop/shell.
Re:Why should windows media player be removed?
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Can the media player in WinXP be uninstalled if you decide you don't even want it on your PC anymore? Win30's media player could very easily be removed, even back in the day when big-name applications couldn't be removed at all without a format/reinstall. I haven't used a WinXP system in months so I don't even know anymore, but the answer to this question is the point: Can WinXP's integrated Windows Media Player be removed as easily as Win30's?
Let's just say that the massive layoffs in the US and EU combined with the plans to do mass-hiring in India lead me to doubt that these jobs are to serve the Indian market, or indeed any market in South Asia. As with just about every IT job moving to India, I suspect (as most do) that these jobs are to serve the American and European markets, markets in which IBM already maintains presences domestically.
To send jobs overseas to serve overseas customers, no it's not immoral at all. But to send jobs overseas to serve domestic customers, now that's wrong. Jobs should stay within the countries of the markets they serve: Indian jobs for Indian customers, American jobs for American customers.
Does IBM now stand for "Indian Business Machines"? If they're scaling back so much on the two most developed continents, they don't seem so "international" anymore... what dinosaurs.
Take a friggin' hike, troll. I disagree with many of TMM's posts, but he presents arguments that make me at least think. What have you contributed to improve slashdot, troll? Name one thing. Just one.
Oh, right, so all the iframe-injected spyware I remove day in and day out from my clients' computers don't come from ads that ad blockers block. Right? Ri-i-i-i-i-ight.
Online advertizing has failed, the reasons why are widespread and well documented, and DoubleClick itself helped to ensure its failure.
Hey, DoubleClick! Welcome to irrelevancy! If you had actually stopped to listen to your critics, your ad network might not have become the bane of Internet users everywhere.
As an Opera user myself (along with my preferred browser and six others besides), I can attest from personal experience that even Opera 8 comes out-of-box configured to report itself as MSIE, not Opera, even on Linux.
This from the maker of a Web browser that by default inflates IE's figures, by coming "out of the box" pre-configured to report itself--not as Opera-- but as Microsoft Internet Explorer!
Remove the plank from your own eye, Opera, before saying Firefox has a speck in its eye. Need help?
...it's a movie..it'll keep...it's not like it'll go bad like milk or something if you don't view it within a given time period.
Unless you happen to be in line to watch historical event-based movies like The Alamo, Titanic, and Apollo 13... then you get the idiots who fall for story spoilers: "The ship hits an iceberg and sinks? Like, oh my gawd, why'd you have to ruin the ending for me! Let's go home, I don't want to watch it now!"
First, the earliest release of Windows 95 came bundled with the even more handicapped Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0, which was comparable to Netscape Navigator 2.x, to compete with Netscape's Navigator 3.x series of Internet suites. Among its other faults, IE2 couldn't even do frames. I speak from personal experience, having bought and installed "Microsoft Windows 95 Upgrade for Users of MS-DOS, bundled with New Microsoft Internet Explorer 2," a box with 17 floppy disks, in 1997.
Second, the only reason that Firefox exploits are cropping up at a seemingly greater pace is because Firefox is being covered in the press more than before. Statistically speaking, the rate of Firefox exploit discoveries hasn't increased since it was last called Phoenix.
About your prediction that we'll see very secure stuff coming from Microsoft, please don't hold your breath. Microsoft has entrenched in just about every new computer sold today features and technologies that by design undermine that computer's security (ActiveX for one). These features can't be secured against exploits and remain able to perform as advertized. The only way for your prediction to come true is for those designed-to-be-insecure features to be completely abandoned (and for everything else to be fixed, of course). And if that happens, that'll be a very happy day indeed. But I honestly can't see Microsoft abandoning the bad until MS ceases to be a relevant OS producer.
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LiteStep is not a file manager, but Directory Opus is, and it's job is to replace Internet Explorer as your file manager. LiteStep's job is to replace Internet Explorer as your desktop/shell.
Can the media player in WinXP be uninstalled if you decide you don't even want it on your PC anymore? Win30's media player could very easily be removed, even back in the day when big-name applications couldn't be removed at all without a format/reinstall. I haven't used a WinXP system in months so I don't even know anymore, but the answer to this question is the point: Can WinXP's integrated Windows Media Player be removed as easily as Win30's?
Now you're just being silly. No one even mentioned relocation, let alone immigration.
Let me know if the lander encounters any Leather Goddesses of Phobos. (Great '80s game, btw.)
Well, it seems their litigation purse is getting a little light, so of course they'd have to sell something to refill it. :)
Let's just say that the massive layoffs in the US and EU combined with the plans to do mass-hiring in India lead me to doubt that these jobs are to serve the Indian market, or indeed any market in South Asia. As with just about every IT job moving to India, I suspect (as most do) that these jobs are to serve the American and European markets, markets in which IBM already maintains presences domestically.
To send jobs overseas to serve overseas customers, no it's not immoral at all. But to send jobs overseas to serve domestic customers, now that's wrong. Jobs should stay within the countries of the markets they serve: Indian jobs for Indian customers, American jobs for American customers.
Does IBM now stand for "Indian Business Machines"? If they're scaling back so much on the two most developed continents, they don't seem so "international" anymore... what dinosaurs.
I keep clicking the "OK" in your message, yet no virus scan has started. Do you have an .exe I can run instead?
Sure, just turn on your TV and wait for the stopsign spyware commercial.Whoops, he got modded troll, making my post appear misplaced. This is who it was directed to. Sorry 'bout that.
Take a friggin' hike, troll. I disagree with many of TMM's posts, but he presents arguments that make me at least think. What have you contributed to improve slashdot, troll? Name one thing. Just one.
I thought so.
Judging from the responses, it seems PayPal really does need a hole in the head.
Oh, right, so all the iframe-injected spyware I remove day in and day out from my clients' computers don't come from ads that ad blockers block. Right? Ri-i-i-i-i-ight.
Online advertizing has failed, the reasons why are widespread and well documented, and DoubleClick itself helped to ensure its failure.
Hey, DoubleClick! Welcome to irrelevancy! If you had actually stopped to listen to your critics, your ad network might not have become the bane of Internet users everywhere.
If I used Google's payment system, would I be able to google for my missing micropayments? And how long would it stay in Google's cash -- er, cache?
As an Opera user myself (along with my preferred browser and six others besides), I can attest from personal experience that even Opera 8 comes out-of-box configured to report itself as MSIE, not Opera, even on Linux.
Wouldn't that be an improvement? (Sorry, couldn't resist :)
This from the maker of a Web browser that by default inflates IE's figures, by coming "out of the box" pre-configured to report itself--not as Opera-- but as Microsoft Internet Explorer!
Remove the plank from your own eye, Opera, before saying Firefox has a speck in its eye. Need help?
Unless you happen to be in line to watch historical event-based movies like The Alamo, Titanic, and Apollo 13... then you get the idiots who fall for story spoilers: "The ship hits an iceberg and sinks? Like, oh my gawd, why'd you have to ruin the ending for me! Let's go home, I don't want to watch it now!"
Caldera? ^^
When is the last time you met a Knowledgeable Clerk in any retail store?
Such things don't exist at Fry's... You'd frankly be lucky to find a clerk who knows even his own assigned department, let alone anything else. Sad.
Yes, but how much support will they provide if I want to install an alternative, non-mainstream operating system such as the almost ready for prime time Microsoft Windows XP?
Seriously, though, this will certainly be a test of Linspire's slogan of being "the world's easiest desktop Linux."
Two minor points first.
First, the earliest release of Windows 95 came bundled with the even more handicapped Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0, which was comparable to Netscape Navigator 2.x, to compete with Netscape's Navigator 3.x series of Internet suites. Among its other faults, IE2 couldn't even do frames. I speak from personal experience, having bought and installed "Microsoft Windows 95 Upgrade for Users of MS-DOS, bundled with New Microsoft Internet Explorer 2," a box with 17 floppy disks, in 1997.
Second, the only reason that Firefox exploits are cropping up at a seemingly greater pace is because Firefox is being covered in the press more than before. Statistically speaking, the rate of Firefox exploit discoveries hasn't increased since it was last called Phoenix.
About your prediction that we'll see very secure stuff coming from Microsoft, please don't hold your breath. Microsoft has entrenched in just about every new computer sold today features and technologies that by design undermine that computer's security (ActiveX for one). These features can't be secured against exploits and remain able to perform as advertized. The only way for your prediction to come true is for those designed-to-be-insecure features to be completely abandoned (and for everything else to be fixed, of course). And if that happens, that'll be a very happy day indeed. But I honestly can't see Microsoft abandoning the bad until MS ceases to be a relevant OS producer.
Kind of like certain versions of the formmail.pl cgi script? (Addressed to both parent and grandparent post.)
About your sig: Wondering why i am doing so strange posts? I am trying to get a "+5,Flamebait" or "-1,Insightful" rating.
How about (Score: 1, Troll)?
I share your rant; you're right on the mark.
The only problem is, the average computer task requires at least half a brain, while the average user has at most half a brain.