A long time ago--I mean, like two and a half years ago--I was secreted into a room on the Microsoft campus for my first Longhorn demo. At that time, Longhorn was still the Kitchen Sink (tm) of computing, promising to deliver every single bit of technology you could imagine, all wrapped around a Flash-like UI that was based on Anark technology. It all looked really impressive.
I have yet to see anything like that materialize in an actual Longhorn/Vista build.
...while the early Aero Glass demos I saw seemed to raise the OS at least to Mac OS X levels visually, they didn't really go much beyond that. I was told to wait and see, wait and see, and promised that things would get better.
Instead, things got much worse.
The bad news is that a lot of the super futuristic stuff appears to be gone, and may be gone forever.
We were promised a revolution, dammit, and I want a revolution.
The negative reviews are so overwhelming, even from the toughest Microsoft-fans, my guess is that massive amount of blood will float in Redmond.
Microsoft is now in the same position as the Board of Directors at Apple 1996, fucked up beyond all recognition, with a useless beta OS as a dead end street. No one, absolutely no one believes in Microsoft Vista. Customers don't even want to upgrade from Windows 2000 to 2003.
But unlike Apple, Microsoft won't get salvaged by a Steve Jobs.
Ladies and gentlemen of the Slashdot forae, I really think we are witnessing the exakt spot - the mistake that in the end brought down Microsoft. Our grandchildren will read about "the Vista mistake" in Economics 101.
Sorry to have to be realistic - even Bill Gates own towelboy Paul Thurrott is disappointed with Vista. Previously he called Longhorn "a trainwreck".
Now he writes:
What the heck am I looking at here?
A long time ago--I mean, like two and a half years ago--I was secreted into a room on the Microsoft campus for my first Longhorn demo. At that time, Longhorn was still the Kitchen Sink (tm) of computing, promising to deliver every single bit of technology you could imagine, all wrapped around a Flash-like UI that was based on Anark technology. It all looked really impressive.
I have yet to see anything like that materialize in an actual Longhorn/Vista build.
...while the early Aero Glass demos I saw seemed to raise the OS at least to Mac OS X levels visually, they didn't really go much beyond that. I was told to wait and see, wait and see, and promised that things would get better.
Instead, things got much worse.
The bad news is that a lot of the super futuristic stuff appears to be gone, and may be gone forever.
We were promised a revolution, dammit, and I want a revolution.
The negative reviews are so overwhelming, even from the toughest Microsoft-fan, my guess is that massive amount of blood will float in Redmond.
Bill Gates is now in the same position as the Board of Directors at Apple 1996, fucked up beyond all recognition, with a useless beta OS as a dead end street.
But unlike Apple, Bill won't get salvaged by Steve Jobs.
Ladies and gentlemen of the Slashdot forae, I really think we are witnessing the exakt spot - the mistake that in the end brought down Microsoft. Our grandchildren will read about "the Vista mistake" in Economics 101.
"Vista? As in "Hasta la Vista, baby?" That name might be appropriate as a symbolic goodbye since it might be the end of the line for Microsoft's dominance in the OS business."
"The new OS is getting zero buzz. Zero. now the name Vista, along with the new Microsoft Vista logo, has made it worse. Could anything be less exciting?"
"THE FUTURE OF DESKTOP COMPUTING: Apple. Vista will open the door to what I believe will be a radical change in the computing landscape. The trends are clear. Once the new Mac OS appears next year it will gravitate toward the existing x86 community much more rapidly than anticipated..."
"Right now, and as much as x86 users do not want to admit it, the Mac OS is already better than Windows in its modern look and feel as well as its functionality. I see too many smart people with Mac laptops nowadays."
"...it is always possible that Apple doesn't understand the power play position it's in and might actually believe that it's better off somehow keeping its OS in a small niche rather than the big market. If the world changed tomorrow to 85 percent Mac "OS x86" its laptop sales alone would triple overnight. Apple didn't put together what many consider the finest in-house industrial design teams in the world to fool around with piddly sales and more redesigns of the iPod."
"That said, how much more of Steve Jobs can we handle? Do we really want to hear him say "I told you so?" If it gets some excitement back into desktop computing, yes, we do. I think we can take it."
Believe it or not, but Apple Sweden lost its chance to be a supplier to the Swedish government a few years ago because Macs did not contain a floppy disk unit.
The brain dead bureaucrat did not even grasp that even portable Macs back then had Superdrives, letting its user store some 5.000 times more data on a DVD-disk, than a stupid floppy.
Sadly, Sweden is one of the most Microsoft friendly countries in the world.
1. Shouldn't anyone punish the company responsible for the crappy software that could so easily be hacked? Read the following and translate into your favorite software corporation.
George Carlin: Most people in this country want to expand the death penalty to include drug dealers. Drug dealers aren't afraid to die. They're already killing each other by the hundreds on the streets every day, in gang wars, turf wars - they're not afraid to die. It means very little to kill a person who's not afraid to die. If you want to stop the drug trade, you'd kill these bankers who are laundering the drug money. Let's execute some of these white, middle-class Republican bankers. And I'm not talking about any of this soft stuff like lethal injection, I mean crucifixion!
2. If decided to use the death penalty for hacking, please make it watchable using some of Mr Carlins best ideas...
George Carlin: Certainly Jews and Christians can both enjoy crucifixion from a certain standpoint. I could take it a step further, I would crucify them upside-down, and I would let them be naked. Naked and upside-down once a week during halftime of the Monday Night Football game! This is a marketing country, this is a country of popular culture - let's play into it. Wouldn't you like to hear Dennis Miller explain why the nails have to go in at a certain angle?
If we start nailing one of these white bankers a week, and the drug trade is going to start going down. And we could go further, because I think there are some creative possibilities here.
Some are a little more sophisticated. You dip a guy in brown gravy, and you lock him in a small room with a wolverine who's high on angel dust! Or you could just shoot a guy. You could get a high-speed catapult, and you just shoot him into a brick wall! Perhaps you line 'em up and you do fifteen of 'em; when one of them is fired off, then the next one - rapid fire capital punishment. Course, then you have to stop everything to clean off the wall, since cleanliness is right next to Godliness. That's one of my - I won't call it a solution - but it's one of my suggestions. To get this culture to warm to what it professes. If we're going to kill people, let's be imaginative; raise a little money to pay down Social Security. The debt seems to be in fine shape, let's pay down Social Security, and sell these spots to Budweiser, someone like that. Something you could gamble on.
There are some fine forms of execution that perhaps deserve a second look. Beheading hasn't been used in a long time. You could have the head roll down a little hill, where it could land in one of five numbered holes. Also a favorite is burning people in oil. Maybe we could French-fry a few.
I dont want to bang on the "the guy had it coming" drum, but Dinon admitted he KNEW how to secure his wifi but declined because most of the people in his neighborhood are "older".
In most countries it is illegal to leave the keys in your car. Partly to not give kids and others an opportunity to hurt themselves or others.
N3P is a new two-year college level training, financed and accredited by the Swedish Department of Education, in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source.
Maybe I'm just really stupid, but I still don't get why 'Mactel' is a threat to Linux in any way.
I'm a 20 year Mac user and a 10 year Linux server user and I can perfectly see how MacOS X on Intel will be a threat to Linux.
1. User interface. MacOS X is the best, no competition.
2. Linux suxxors hard. I'm sorry, but I do have 10 years experience with Linux and BSD, yet still barely capable of getting a fricking built-in Intel wifi card to work with an expensive "professional" Linux distro like SuSE 9.3, which even claims that it do support that Intel wifi card. Nor any hibernation. Nor pirnting to a standard Canon IP90 printer. Nor playing a CD.
3. Linux "professional" distros like SuSE, Linspire, Mandriva etc costs $50-$80 excluding shipping costs, subscription fees etc, which makes MacOS X 10.4 Tiger or - heck - even Windows XP OEM - seem like a bargain.
My predictions are:
a) Several big vendors like HP, Sony and Dell, will be able to buy and licence Apple MacTel computers, like the HP iPod. They will sell incredibly well.
b) Apple will 2008 be the largest PC maker and have a market share of 25% of new computers sold.
c) Microsoft will be the new Sun. No innovation. No new products. Nobody know why they are still around.
d) Steve Ballmer will, much like Samuel Insull, escape to Europe to avoid beeing broken financially by the exhausting securities fraud trials.
e) A supermerge between Apple, Sony and Samsung will take place, forming the major hardware player 2010.
However, there are so many types out there it's just overwhelming for someone who's never had to go through the job-hunting process before. So, what should I do?
Learn how to make a fortune.
N3P is a two year, government financed (free as in beer) college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source.
Always, always, always select SonyEricsson phones. They are by far the best phones available with an excellent user interface. And they are always 100 per cent Mac compatible. A lot of their developers in Lund, Sweden, uses Macs and iPods.
If you are living in the "free" mobile world (outside USA) the by far best phone is the SonyEricsson K750i. It is small but packs everything you need; excellent color screen, superfast Java, an useful camera (2 mpix), bluetooth, ir, usb (cable included), mp3/aac-player (no wma allowed) with external buttons for play, pause, next, prev and sound, playlists, video, memory card (64 MB included, mine is 1 GB, stereo phones (included) and fantastic sound quality, almost a week standby time, animated backgrounds and tons of other features...
Listen up! Motorola is crap, Nokia has lost it and the Asian companies don't understand quality.
SonyEricsson rocks and the K750i is a masterpiece.
Your music is stored on your computer. The iPod syncs and you get an exact copy on your device. It works perfect each and every time and I have yet to meet anyone that didn't succeed syncing their iPod. Including grandparents and kids. This is a brilliant way to do it and iTunes is an excellent way to handle this and other tasks.
You can do what ever you want with your iPod. Even buy a new one. The next time you sync, your music will be there. You can never, ever lose your music by making a mistake with your iPod.
We are tens of millions of users that love this.
However. There are some idiots that don't get it. They want to do all the work by themselves, they want to make mistakes, and they want to steal music from friends.
That's the ONLY reason that they want to use their own folder structure, they don't want to use iTunes and they want shitty software like this. And even if millions already know this, they still think they have found the secret way of how files are stored on an iPod.
"it's lame to be proud of being lame." - Bart Simpson, 3F07
Grow the fuck up. What is it with not beeing able to grok cell phones? Is it a gene defect responsible for not understanding? Why are there amoebas on Saturn that understands cell phones better than you?
N3P is a new college for open source entrepreneurs starting this fall in Stockholm, Sweden. The school is financed by the department of education (read "free"), two year (90 weeks) long and contains a mix of business economics and open source possibillities.
No info available yet on their web site but according to a friend, the management are long time open source users, mostly BSD-people. Students will even get their own Apple Powerbook 12" for free.
"...music on my Iriver, but sometimes I just don't want to listen to any of it..."
Excuse me, but doesn't that give you a hint that you have an MP3-player that sucks? iTunes fills my iPod Shuffle automagically with my preferred songs. It must be a pain to refill your Iriver since you don't want to listen to it.
"...rather than spend half my journey hopelessly flicking from one album to the next, I simply just stick on the radio...
So your Iriver is so crappy you rather listen to FM Radio than to your own songs? You sound like a live advertisment for iPod Shuffle.
Even worse - clueless cellphone operators will now suck Microsoft ass worse than big company IT managers.
I can't believe Nokia is doing this. What a bunch of fucking loosers. Their business is down the drain and new models are made by their new and clueless Dilbertian middle-management MBA-wannabees.
My next phone will be a Sony Ericsson K600 just to protest.
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For the first time I agree with Paul Thurrot.
Previously he called Longhorn "a trainwreck".
Now he writes:
Windows Vista Beta 1 Review
What the heck am I looking at here?
A long time ago--I mean, like two and a half years ago--I was secreted into a room on the Microsoft campus for my first Longhorn demo. At that time, Longhorn was still the Kitchen Sink (tm) of computing, promising to deliver every single bit of technology you could imagine, all wrapped around a Flash-like UI that was based on Anark technology. It all looked really impressive.
I have yet to see anything like that materialize in an actual Longhorn/Vista build.
Instead, things got much worse.
The bad news is that a lot of the super futuristic stuff appears to be gone, and may be gone forever.
We were promised a revolution, dammit, and I want a revolution.
The negative reviews are so overwhelming, even from the toughest Microsoft-fans, my guess is that massive amount of blood will float in Redmond.
Microsoft is now in the same position as the Board of Directors at Apple 1996, fucked up beyond all recognition, with a useless beta OS as a dead end street. No one, absolutely no one believes in Microsoft Vista. Customers don't even want to upgrade from Windows 2000 to 2003.
But unlike Apple, Microsoft won't get salvaged by a Steve Jobs.
Ladies and gentlemen of the Slashdot forae, I really think we are witnessing the exakt spot - the mistake that in the end brought down Microsoft. Our grandchildren will read about "the Vista mistake" in Economics 101.
That question is sooo right. Thank you for asking.
To the editors; please ask that question.
Apples excellent Safari web browser passed the Acid 2 test in April 2005.
There is now a released version of the open source WebKit that drives Safari for everyone to use.
Apple rocks. But you already knew that, didn't you?
Sorry to have to be realistic - even Bill Gates own towelboy Paul Thurrott is disappointed with Vista. Previously he called Longhorn "a trainwreck".
Now he writes:
What the heck am I looking at here?
A long time ago--I mean, like two and a half years ago--I was secreted into a room on the Microsoft campus for my first Longhorn demo. At that time, Longhorn was still the Kitchen Sink (tm) of computing, promising to deliver every single bit of technology you could imagine, all wrapped around a Flash-like UI that was based on Anark technology. It all looked really impressive.
I have yet to see anything like that materialize in an actual Longhorn/Vista build.
Instead, things got much worse.
The bad news is that a lot of the super futuristic stuff appears to be gone, and may be gone forever.
We were promised a revolution, dammit, and I want a revolution.
The negative reviews are so overwhelming, even from the toughest Microsoft-fan, my guess is that massive amount of blood will float in Redmond.
Bill Gates is now in the same position as the Board of Directors at Apple 1996, fucked up beyond all recognition, with a useless beta OS as a dead end street.
But unlike Apple, Bill won't get salvaged by Steve Jobs.
Ladies and gentlemen of the Slashdot forae, I really think we are witnessing the exakt spot - the mistake that in the end brought down Microsoft. Our grandchildren will read about "the Vista mistake" in Economics 101.
For the first time I agree with John C Dvorak.
pcmag
"Vista? As in "Hasta la Vista, baby?" That name might be appropriate as a symbolic goodbye since it might be the end of the line for Microsoft's dominance in the OS business."
"The new OS is getting zero buzz. Zero. now the name Vista, along with the new Microsoft Vista logo, has made it worse. Could anything be less exciting?"
"THE FUTURE OF DESKTOP COMPUTING: Apple. Vista will open the door to what I believe will be a radical change in the computing landscape. The trends are clear. Once the new Mac OS appears next year it will gravitate toward the existing x86 community much more rapidly than anticipated..."
"Right now, and as much as x86 users do not want to admit it, the Mac OS is already better than Windows in its modern look and feel as well as its functionality. I see too many smart people with Mac laptops nowadays."
"...it is always possible that Apple doesn't understand the power play position it's in and might actually believe that it's better off somehow keeping its OS in a small niche rather than the big market. If the world changed tomorrow to 85 percent Mac "OS x86" its laptop sales alone would triple overnight. Apple didn't put together what many consider the finest in-house industrial design teams in the world to fool around with piddly sales and more redesigns of the iPod."
"That said, how much more of Steve Jobs can we handle? Do we really want to hear him say "I told you so?" If it gets some excitement back into desktop computing, yes, we do. I think we can take it."
No Wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
Believe it or not, but Apple Sweden lost its chance to be a supplier to the Swedish government a few years ago because Macs did not contain a floppy disk unit.
The brain dead bureaucrat did not even grasp that even portable Macs back then had Superdrives, letting its user store some 5.000 times more data on a DVD-disk, than a stupid floppy.
Sadly, Sweden is one of the most Microsoft friendly countries in the world.
We should learn from George Carlin...
1. Shouldn't anyone punish the company responsible for the crappy software that could so easily be hacked? Read the following and translate into your favorite software corporation.
George Carlin: Most people in this country want to expand the death penalty to include drug dealers. Drug dealers aren't afraid to die. They're already killing each other by the hundreds on the streets every day, in gang wars, turf wars - they're not afraid to die. It means very little to kill a person who's not afraid to die. If you want to stop the drug trade, you'd kill these bankers who are laundering the drug money. Let's execute some of these white, middle-class Republican bankers. And I'm not talking about any of this soft stuff like lethal injection, I mean crucifixion!
2. If decided to use the death penalty for hacking, please make it watchable using some of Mr Carlins best ideas...
George Carlin: Certainly Jews and Christians can both enjoy crucifixion from a certain standpoint. I could take it a step further, I would crucify them upside-down, and I would let them be naked. Naked and upside-down once a week during halftime of the Monday Night Football game! This is a marketing country, this is a country of popular culture - let's play into it. Wouldn't you like to hear Dennis Miller explain why the nails have to go in at a certain angle?
If we start nailing one of these white bankers a week, and the drug trade is going to start going down. And we could go further, because I think there are some creative possibilities here.
Some are a little more sophisticated. You dip a guy in brown gravy, and you lock him in a small room with a wolverine who's high on angel dust! Or you could just shoot a guy. You could get a high-speed catapult, and you just shoot him into a brick wall! Perhaps you line 'em up and you do fifteen of 'em; when one of them is fired off, then the next one - rapid fire capital punishment. Course, then you have to stop everything to clean off the wall, since cleanliness is right next to Godliness. That's one of my - I won't call it a solution - but it's one of my suggestions. To get this culture to warm to what it professes. If we're going to kill people, let's be imaginative; raise a little money to pay down Social Security. The debt seems to be in fine shape, let's pay down Social Security, and sell these spots to Budweiser, someone like that. Something you could gamble on.
There are some fine forms of execution that perhaps deserve a second look. Beheading hasn't been used in a long time. You could have the head roll down a little hill, where it could land in one of five numbered holes. Also a favorite is burning people in oil. Maybe we could French-fry a few.
Midair Passenger Exchange
Grim air-traffic-controller-speak for a head-on collision. Midair passenger exchanges are quickly followed by aluminum rain.
I dont want to bang on the "the guy had it coming" drum, but Dinon admitted he KNEW how to secure his wifi but declined because most of the people in his neighborhood are "older".
In most countries it is illegal to leave the keys in your car. Partly to not give kids and others an opportunity to hurt themselves or others.
There's a fucking good reason for that you fucking idiot.
Sweden IS doing a lot.
N3P is a new two-year college level training, financed and accredited by the Swedish Department of Education, in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source.
N3P
Maybe I'm just really stupid, but I still don't get why 'Mactel' is a threat to Linux in any way.
I'm a 20 year Mac user and a 10 year Linux server user and I can perfectly see how MacOS X on Intel will be a threat to Linux.
1. User interface. MacOS X is the best, no competition.
2. Linux suxxors hard. I'm sorry, but I do have 10 years experience with Linux and BSD, yet still barely capable of getting a fricking built-in Intel wifi card to work with an expensive "professional" Linux distro like SuSE 9.3, which even claims that it do support that Intel wifi card. Nor any hibernation. Nor pirnting to a standard Canon IP90 printer. Nor playing a CD.
3. Linux "professional" distros like SuSE, Linspire, Mandriva etc costs $50-$80 excluding shipping costs, subscription fees etc, which makes MacOS X 10.4 Tiger or - heck - even Windows XP OEM - seem like a bargain.
My predictions are:
a) Several big vendors like HP, Sony and Dell, will be able to buy and licence Apple MacTel computers, like the HP iPod. They will sell incredibly well.
b) Apple will 2008 be the largest PC maker and have a market share of 25% of new computers sold.
c) Microsoft will be the new Sun. No innovation. No new products. Nobody know why they are still around.
d) Steve Ballmer will, much like Samuel Insull, escape to Europe to avoid beeing broken financially by the exhausting securities fraud trials.
e) A supermerge between Apple, Sony and Samsung will take place, forming the major hardware player 2010.
However, there are so many types out there it's just overwhelming for someone who's never had to go through the job-hunting process before. So, what should I do?
Learn how to make a fortune.
N3P is a two year, government financed (free as in beer) college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source.
N3P
If you are living in the "free" mobile world (outside USA) the by far best phone is the SonyEricsson K750i. It is small but packs everything you need; excellent color screen, superfast Java, an useful camera (2 mpix), bluetooth, ir, usb (cable included), mp3/aac-player (no wma allowed) with external buttons for play, pause, next, prev and sound, playlists, video, memory card (64 MB included, mine is 1 GB, stereo phones (included) and fantastic sound quality, almost a week standby time, animated backgrounds and tons of other features...
Listen up! Motorola is crap, Nokia has lost it and the Asian companies don't understand quality.
SonyEricsson rocks and the K750i is a masterpiece.
http://www.sonyericsson.com/k750/
Anyway, let's be thankful that Hitler had no nukes or there would have been no Slashdot today
Schrägstrich Punkt?
"Imagine if you will that someone buys all of their CDs..."
I guess there's always the "imagine" when you don't have any real arguments...
This is bollocks.
Your music is stored on your computer. The iPod syncs and you get an exact copy on your device. It works perfect each and every time and I have yet to meet anyone that didn't succeed syncing their iPod. Including grandparents and kids. This is a brilliant way to do it and iTunes is an excellent way to handle this and other tasks.
You can do what ever you want with your iPod. Even buy a new one. The next time you sync, your music will be there. You can never, ever lose your music by making a mistake with your iPod.
We are tens of millions of users that love this.
However. There are some idiots that don't get it. They want to do all the work by themselves, they want to make mistakes, and they want to steal music from friends.
That's the ONLY reason that they want to use their own folder structure, they don't want to use iTunes and they want shitty software like this. And even if millions already know this, they still think they have found the secret way of how files are stored on an iPod.
Puke.
"it's lame to be proud of being lame." - Bart Simpson, 3F07
Grow the fuck up. What is it with not beeing able to grok cell phones? Is it a gene defect responsible for not understanding? Why are there amoebas on Saturn that understands cell phones better than you?
N3P is a new college for open source entrepreneurs starting this fall in Stockholm, Sweden. The school is financed by the department of education (read "free"), two year (90 weeks) long and contains a mix of business economics and open source possibillities.
No info available yet on their web site but according to a friend, the management are long time open source users, mostly BSD-people. Students will even get their own Apple Powerbook 12" for free.
Excuse me, but doesn't that give you a hint that you have an MP3-player that sucks? iTunes fills my iPod Shuffle automagically with my preferred songs. It must be a pain to refill your Iriver since you don't want to listen to it.
"...rather than spend half my journey hopelessly flicking from one album to the next, I simply just stick on the radio...
So your Iriver is so crappy you rather listen to FM Radio than to your own songs? You sound like a live advertisment for iPod Shuffle.
Nobody cares about Ogg, but iPods can play Apple Lossless Audio which is as good as FLAC.
Apple has, as always, excellent quality hi-res trailers on their web site, all distributed by Akamai.
I can't understand why you are punishing yourselves with low-res flash and wmv crap distributed by low-speed slashdotted servers?
Apple Movie Trailers
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Trailer
Even worse - clueless cellphone operators will now suck Microsoft ass worse than big company IT managers.
I can't believe Nokia is doing this. What a bunch of fucking loosers. Their business is down the drain and new models are made by their new and clueless Dilbertian middle-management MBA-wannabees.
My next phone will be a Sony Ericsson K600 just to protest.
Hooray. Less spam.
Reading my mailserver logs, it seems the only thing the Chinese use the Internet for is spam, spam, spam.