Why do we need the '360 anyway? The other consoles are just fine. Personally I'd buy a Wii.
Why does anyone need the Zune? The iPod is perfect for what it is. My gf's iPod touch (now upgraded to 2.2) kicks ass. YouTube, Google Maps, full Safari web browser (all-protocol chat with Meebo!), wireless connectivity, integrated email, games, all the organiser features you could want... on an inexpensive music player.
Microsoft is less relevant than ever. Good riddance.
would Linux, BSD or OS X disappear? Vista's complete failure has only strengthened them, and in a poor economy, open source is even more obviously the best choice.
Microsoft will fail eventually. The sooner the better.
Microsoft is a convicted criminal enterprise. It beats the hell out of the rest of us why Americans remain so unconcerned about the vast scale of their theft, not to mention the tax evasion - and continue to let them get away with it and even defend them... No wonder your house of cards is collapsing...
Embedded Linux sure is. I can't understand HOW Windows ever ended up on a device like this. The license cost alone must seriously affect the profit margin, even discounting the annoyance of pre-installed malware. What are they going to do? Recall them?
Look at history: COINTELPRO, agents provocateurs, enemies lists, McCarthyism.
And those obscure characters, Nixon and Kissinger...
Imagine. 5 years of secret bombings in Indochina that short circuited the chain of command and without public knowledge or oversight. How soon we forget (even when reminded by Bush and Cheney how low the US government can go).
Because this is not just a product of just Bush. It's a product of the totalitarian, authoritarian ideology which grips those who voted for Bush-Cheney and would have voted (shudder) for McCain-Palin - at least half of the USA.
That poison which infects your nation, and the military-industrial complex which feeds on it, won't be diluted for decades, if ever.
I can't speak about PS CS3, and I couldn't give a damn about Office, but I know first hand that you can get IE6 and earlier versions of Photoshop running with relatively little difficulty.
For IE6, try this script. Worked for me, and I donated. Obrigado, Senhor Lopes! Just start IE6 as ~bin/ie6
Photoshop (I've tried 3, 5, 7) runs out of the box.
Other things that have worked well for me are Microship MPLAB, Altera FPGA toolset, Paint Shop Pro (various versions), the Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition toolchain (including 64 bit, and even Itanium cross compiler - all work perfectly) and various other things including Crayon Physics!
That said, I have a rule of thumb with WINE - if you can't get something running after 2 hours of futzing, it's time to give up.;-)
If it runs, it runs; if not, life's too short for Windows-only software. We should be pressuring our vendors to support a real operating system.
There is simply no way to recover objective facts. The best human systems we have ever devised are frighteningly fallible, and a machine must be far worse.
Only the most extreme rationalist could even dream of it.
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Does anyone care?
Why do we need the '360 anyway? The other consoles are just fine. Personally I'd buy a Wii.
Why does anyone need the Zune? The iPod is perfect for what it is. My gf's iPod touch (now upgraded to 2.2) kicks ass. YouTube, Google Maps, full Safari web browser (all-protocol chat with Meebo!), wireless connectivity, integrated email, games, all the organiser features you could want... on an inexpensive music player.
Microsoft is less relevant than ever. Good riddance.
But that was Ford. Oh well.
would Linux, BSD or OS X disappear? Vista's complete failure has only strengthened them, and in a poor economy, open source is even more obviously the best choice.
Microsoft will fail eventually. The sooner the better.
But I don't see how they have much choice. As Mini says, the cash ain't pouring in like it used to.
On the upside: A dead Microsoft, or at least a much smaller one, is good for civilisation. :-)))
Simple.
In other news, *foreign* governments are 'stepping up' hacking of UK submarines and warships installed with Windows :P
Is that how you want things to be? With public authorities abusing that authority without legal basis?
Dissent *is* still an option, this side of another Revolution.
Yes, but there is still Canada. :-)
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Microsoft is a convicted criminal enterprise. It beats the hell out of the rest of us why Americans remain so unconcerned about the vast scale of their theft, not to mention the tax evasion - and continue to let them get away with it and even defend them... No wonder your house of cards is collapsing...
Buying a Microsoft product from Microsoft "negatively impacts local economic growth."
Buying from a pirate directly contributes to local economic growth - in the short term, at least.
It seems likely that any Microsoft product is a long term liability, though.
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All they care about is money. And they don't care much about how they get their hands on it.
Why pretend otherwise?
"Is Windows ready for the Picture Frame??"
Embedded Linux sure is. I can't understand HOW Windows ever ended up on a device like this. The license cost alone must seriously affect the profit margin, even discounting the annoyance of pre-installed malware. What are they going to do? Recall them?
Choosing Windows = pure dumbassery.
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To Kernighan & Plauger's The Elements of Programming Style.
Not universally endorsed
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Numbered among the Dutch are many of the greatest living (and dead) type designers in history.
This idea is pretty dumb though, and seems to be born of typographic ignorance.
These people don't seem aware that typefaces are usually available in many weights.
You can save much more than this by simply changing to a lighter weight.
(I am a typographer. But it shouldn't take one to figure this out.)
Look at history: COINTELPRO, agents provocateurs, enemies lists, McCarthyism.
And those obscure characters, Nixon and Kissinger...
Imagine. 5 years of secret bombings in Indochina that short circuited the chain of command and without public knowledge or oversight. How soon we forget (even when reminded by Bush and Cheney how low the US government can go).
Ever. Period.
Because this is not just a product of just Bush. It's a product of the totalitarian, authoritarian ideology which grips those who voted for Bush-Cheney and would have voted (shudder) for McCain-Palin - at least half of the USA.
That poison which infects your nation, and the military-industrial complex which feeds on it, won't be diluted for decades, if ever.
Which supports all of the above for a small cost.
Any dollar NOT spent on Microsoft makes the world a better place.
I can't speak about PS CS3, and I couldn't give a damn about Office, but I know first hand that you can get IE6 and earlier versions of Photoshop running with relatively little difficulty.
For IE6, try this script. Worked for me, and I donated. Obrigado, Senhor Lopes! Just start IE6 as ~bin/ie6
Photoshop (I've tried 3, 5, 7) runs out of the box.
Other things that have worked well for me are Microship MPLAB, Altera FPGA toolset, Paint Shop Pro (various versions), the Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition toolchain (including 64 bit, and even Itanium cross compiler - all work perfectly) and various other things including Crayon Physics!
That said, I have a rule of thumb with WINE - if you can't get something running after 2 hours of futzing, it's time to give up. ;-)
If it runs, it runs; if not, life's too short for Windows-only software. We should be pressuring our vendors to support a real operating system.
There is simply no way to recover objective facts. The best human systems we have ever devised are frighteningly fallible, and a machine must be far worse.
Only the most extreme rationalist could even dream of it.