Right, they have all been around for a while, but now all those features are becoming more important in the way Windows behaves. (Home directories and profiles on Windows 95 was a joke, but much has changed since then) Hopefully we'll be seeing more stress on only having admin access to important system files. This should be a part of a more general evolution of good ideas in computing.
And I do realize the command prompt has been around quite a while. I meant that its current purpose is to provide a way to do tasks at the command level (such as propagating tasks to the client machine from the domain controller upon logon), rather than a means of backwards compatibility.
But my question is... how many more forks will we have?
Think of it this way, Linux is like a fancy dinner, just remember that this fork is for the sala- NO, NOT THAT ONE!
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It could happen. With each new version of Windows, we see it start to behave more like Unix, to exclude its naughty behaviors like running as admin at all times, but that can only be attributed to old, bad development on the behalf of the third party. At this point, we have permissions at the file system level, home directories (with many preferences stored within them), and the command prompt, which serves a purpose as an administration tool for scripting and such, rather than its previous use, which was to maintain DOS compatibility.
There are other examples, I'm sure. Post them if you got 'em.
Looks like the original XFree86 project was going nowhere fast. The distros making the first move to X.org want to make some progress to making Linux (and other Unix-types) ready for the desktop. Hopefully, X.org is the first sign of progress to a backend which will eventually be able to do things a modern desktop will need to do.
You won't notice a quality difference in most situations.
Well, it's true, as long as you don't consider the background noise, insane amount of dynamic range compression, attenuation of frequencies above 12 kHz, occasional hissing at certain frequencies (clipped hissing "s" sounds during speech always bug me), and the obnoxious DJ talking over the song.
Our only hope now is that the system doesn't become disgruntled when it finds out about the new overtime rules that go in effect Monday. Odyssey's gotta eat, too...oh, wait...
Exactly, this is Slashdot, which is why we are more likely to pay attention to Weird Al Yankovic (whilst spelling his last name correctly) than a normal person would. Besides, wasn't that VH-1 special on every week for a couple of months?
Better yet, the heart surgeon tells the patient as he awakes, "Sir, we have some good news. No, the surgery didn't go through, but I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico."
Yeah, TV has brainwashed me, considering I haven't seen a U.S. commercial since I left to go overseas almost a year ago.
Well, 64kbps Ogg Vorbis sounding as good as 128kbps MP3 is a bit of an exaggeration, I think. I can hear the degradation in the UT2003 music even. Speaking of which, what format is the Doom 3 theme song in and at what bitrate? It sounds so artifacted.
Also, yeah, it does bug me that many DC hubs have share minimums that are even greater than the capacity of my hard drive (80 GB).
so, my little sis who used to nod her head up every time she made mario jump would be pro at this!
Anybody else reminded of that one clip off of America's Funniest Home Videos where a kid is playing Super Mario Bros. and sticks his tongue out every time Mario jumps?
Actually im surprised we even use tcp/ip, email, html and http! i guess those were the last things to slip through...
We probably wouldn't be using those if Microsoft weren't four years late to the party. Ahh, the old Win 3.1 days, where you needed a third party set of utilities, such as Trumpet Winsock, to even get the PPP connection started.
But this won't raise any big concern unless it shows up on CNN, Fox News, and otherwise beyond independent tech news sites. To many Americans, everything's all hunkydory until it shows up on the TV.
Of course, a tech company leaving the U.N. Standards Group wouldn't be their first choice of business strategy. With this and patent hoarding, it's getting easier to see that Microsoft is fighting just to remain at the top at all costs.
How many bored people, who are browsing Slashdot at night, would it piss off if one of the patents was this:
"This patent describes the process of placing the first comment on a Microsoft news story, and covers obfuscated spellings, such as 'frosty pist', etc."
Disclaimer: This was not an attempt, I realize I fail it.
I have few problems with Word as well. Word 2000, when compared to Corel WordPerfect, is slim at around 20 MB where WordPerfect was much more bloated.
I think my only gripes with Word, and Office in general, are the needless document format changes, the weird features nobody wants, and its desire to install things after it's too late (i.e. the CDs at home and you're 35,000 feet in the air). The last problem is pretty easy to avoid if you have the CD ready when you run Office for the first time so it can finalize setup, but for Enterprise environments, it can be a bitch when people installing software on new machines don't know that part of the magical Office install dance.
Surprise, Dvorak's article doesn't mention alternatives such as OpenOffice.org at all. This didn't catch me off guard, since mainstream news never seems to mention the cause of spyware, but rather how to fix the problems temporarily. I guess nobody wants to upset their corporate masters.
Yeah, Monkey B turned up nothing but organic virii (it is spelled "virii" for the actual thing, right?) on Google, but I had a couple people mention the virus on different occasions. The first was some guy in high school trying to say that the disks I gave him that had a NES emulator and roms had the Monkey B virus on it (although the files were clean before writing to the disks). The second time was about a month ago when I was talking to a guy at work who said, "It's all about the old computer viruses that actually messed stuff up, like Monkey B."
Speaking of which, what was the lowest common denominator architecture for the old-school Michelangelo and Monkey B viruses? My guess would be the 286, but I have to imagine that there were still some even older 8-bit PCs in use around in the early 90s.
Homer preparing breakfast for Mr. Burns while Smithers is away:
Cooks something on stove, catches fire, says "Hmmmm..." Smashes glass on microwave door and holds shish-kebab through it, catches fire, says "Hmmm" again... Pours milk on cereal, catches fire, Homer says "Hmmmm" once again.
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Right, they have all been around for a while, but now all those features are becoming more important in the way Windows behaves. (Home directories and profiles on Windows 95 was a joke, but much has changed since then) Hopefully we'll be seeing more stress on only having admin access to important system files. This should be a part of a more general evolution of good ideas in computing.
And I do realize the command prompt has been around quite a while. I meant that its current purpose is to provide a way to do tasks at the command level (such as propagating tasks to the client machine from the domain controller upon logon), rather than a means of backwards compatibility.
But my question is... how many more forks will we have?
Think of it this way, Linux is like a fancy dinner, just remember that this fork is for the sala- NO, NOT THAT ONE!
It could happen. With each new version of Windows, we see it start to behave more like Unix, to exclude its naughty behaviors like running as admin at all times, but that can only be attributed to old, bad development on the behalf of the third party. At this point, we have permissions at the file system level, home directories (with many preferences stored within them), and the command prompt, which serves a purpose as an administration tool for scripting and such, rather than its previous use, which was to maintain DOS compatibility.
There are other examples, I'm sure. Post them if you got 'em.
Looks like the original XFree86 project was going nowhere fast. The distros making the first move to X.org want to make some progress to making Linux (and other Unix-types) ready for the desktop. Hopefully, X.org is the first sign of progress to a backend which will eventually be able to do things a modern desktop will need to do.
There you have it, this thread has reached critical mass.
Well, I'll give the obvious response to this:
Not buying music -> Lower RIAA sales -> RIAA blames reduction of sales on P2P, instead of being objective about the problem.
"Voting with your wallet" has been covered many, many times.
You won't notice a quality difference in most situations.
Well, it's true, as long as you don't consider the background noise, insane amount of dynamic range compression, attenuation of frequencies above 12 kHz, occasional hissing at certain frequencies (clipped hissing "s" sounds during speech always bug me), and the obnoxious DJ talking over the song.
Our only hope now is that the system doesn't become disgruntled when it finds out about the new overtime rules that go in effect Monday. Odyssey's gotta eat, too...oh, wait...
Exactly, this is Slashdot, which is why we are more likely to pay attention to Weird Al Yankovic (whilst spelling his last name correctly) than a normal person would. Besides, wasn't that VH-1 special on every week for a couple of months?
Better yet, the heart surgeon tells the patient as he awakes, "Sir, we have some good news. No, the surgery didn't go through, but I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico."
Yeah, TV has brainwashed me, considering I haven't seen a U.S. commercial since I left to go overseas almost a year ago.
I think what he was getting at is that 320kbps is a negligible increase over 256kbps, which is also nearly indistinguishable from the original.
That's an eye opener. Next time I visit the post office, I'll check and see if Stratovarius is posted on the wall.
Well, 64kbps Ogg Vorbis sounding as good as 128kbps MP3 is a bit of an exaggeration, I think. I can hear the degradation in the UT2003 music even. Speaking of which, what format is the Doom 3 theme song in and at what bitrate? It sounds so artifacted.
Also, yeah, it does bug me that many DC hubs have share minimums that are even greater than the capacity of my hard drive (80 GB).
so, my little sis who used to nod her head up every time she made mario jump would be pro at this!
Anybody else reminded of that one clip off of America's Funniest Home Videos where a kid is playing Super Mario Bros. and sticks his tongue out every time Mario jumps?
Actually im surprised we even use tcp/ip, email, html and http! i guess those were the last things to slip through...
We probably wouldn't be using those if Microsoft weren't four years late to the party. Ahh, the old Win 3.1 days, where you needed a third party set of utilities, such as Trumpet Winsock, to even get the PPP connection started.
But this won't raise any big concern unless it shows up on CNN, Fox News, and otherwise beyond independent tech news sites. To many Americans, everything's all hunkydory until it shows up on the TV.
Of course, a tech company leaving the U.N. Standards Group wouldn't be their first choice of business strategy. With this and patent hoarding, it's getting easier to see that Microsoft is fighting just to remain at the top at all costs.
How many bored people, who are browsing Slashdot at night, would it piss off if one of the patents was this:
"This patent describes the process of placing the first comment on a Microsoft news story, and covers obfuscated spellings, such as 'frosty pist', etc."
Disclaimer: This was not an attempt, I realize I fail it.
I have few problems with Word as well. Word 2000, when compared to Corel WordPerfect, is slim at around 20 MB where WordPerfect was much more bloated.
I think my only gripes with Word, and Office in general, are the needless document format changes, the weird features nobody wants, and its desire to install things after it's too late (i.e. the CDs at home and you're 35,000 feet in the air). The last problem is pretty easy to avoid if you have the CD ready when you run Office for the first time so it can finalize setup, but for Enterprise environments, it can be a bitch when people installing software on new machines don't know that part of the magical Office install dance.
Wasn't there a C64 game called "Little Computer People" in which you controlled people through a cross-section of a house? Perhaps it had a PC port.
Surprise, Dvorak's article doesn't mention alternatives such as OpenOffice.org at all. This didn't catch me off guard, since mainstream news never seems to mention the cause of spyware, but rather how to fix the problems temporarily. I guess nobody wants to upset their corporate masters.
How about going with DVD-R9 discs, or is it DVD+R9 discs that I'm thinking of?
Never mind..
Yeah, Monkey B turned up nothing but organic virii (it is spelled "virii" for the actual thing, right?) on Google, but I had a couple people mention the virus on different occasions. The first was some guy in high school trying to say that the disks I gave him that had a NES emulator and roms had the Monkey B virus on it (although the files were clean before writing to the disks). The second time was about a month ago when I was talking to a guy at work who said, "It's all about the old computer viruses that actually messed stuff up, like Monkey B."
Speaking of which, what was the lowest common denominator architecture for the old-school Michelangelo and Monkey B viruses? My guess would be the 286, but I have to imagine that there were still some even older 8-bit PCs in use around in the early 90s.
Homer preparing breakfast for Mr. Burns while Smithers is away:
Cooks something on stove, catches fire, says "Hmmmm..."
Smashes glass on microwave door and holds shish-kebab through it, catches fire, says "Hmmm" again...
Pours milk on cereal, catches fire, Homer says "Hmmmm" once again.