They both accept text, can format said text, spellcheck, and print...i really have no use for the other 90% of crap they throw into word processors these days.
So anything with the beta tag is magically allowed to do anything it wants? Lets say i type my credit card to someone on Gmail or type my ssn in the web accelerator and google accidently starts returning them as search results? "Oh its just beta dummy!" you can say, but Google is giving these things wide release, sometimes with press releases...the beta tag only seems to exempt them from liability. That sounds at least semi-evil to me. Maybe all companies can start calling all their products beta.
Don't use it! Google is a public corporation, everything they make is designed to somehow make a profit (which i see nothing wrong with, btw)...even if it doesn't cache your personal information like the article claims, there is some angle to it that will make money for them, maybe they will look at your web surfing habits and target ads to you. If you're one of those people who blindly trusts google because of their "don't be evil" mission statement, then use it and trust that Google is taking care of you. I personally don't trust them, so I won't use it. There is no free lunch.
All the things you mention are good points, that IIS can be dangerous in the wrong hands... but dont make the system "impossible" to secure....and IIS6 specifically only has 3 known vulernabilities according to Secunia, which is pretty damn good.
I can hardly think of anything that google has done lately that was completely original....Mapping program? Satellite pictures? News Search? Photo Organizer? Blogging? All were done by other people first, some many years ago. Yes Google does a better job of it, but Microsoft would argue they are doing a better job of what they copyied as well.
No, its not that difficult...but it could be easier, which I think is all he was saying. With my monitor or power plugs I don't even have to play the flip around game, I always know without even looking which way the plug will go in.
Well i havn't been able to sucessfully plug one in upside down, but i think what they are saying is that its too hard to determine which way is the right way up, like with a scsi cable or firewire its not symetrical, so you can easily tell at first glance which way is up or down.
Holy crap!!! You're right!!! How could anyone possibly legitimately like Microsoft products?!?!! Why with almost 900,000 registered users here, I find it impossible that there would be any people not paid by Microsoft that would actually support their products!!! Nevermind that most people who read this use IE and run Windows...undoubtably Microsoft is paying them to do so.
I loved the first Katamary Darmacy...but I just don't see what the point of this sequel is....it looks exactly the same....if you showed me one of these screenshots out of context I wouldn't even assume there was a sequel. I was curious what new ground they would break for this game...and maybe its a little premature but it doesn't seem any different to me, besides the hope of more wacked out cut scenes.
Man one of the moderaters today must be a new parent who hasn't gotten any sleep lately...all the baby jokes are being modded troll, have a sense of humor folks, or at least mod offtopic!
I've found most endings of RPGs (and other games) these days to be quite a let down...my fav endings are still FF2 (USA), and Secret of Mana, because they go back and visit all the random people you met along the way afterwards, and the ending lasts a few minutes, unlike most new games which just give a slightly extended computer rendered cut scene with explosions and what not
I used to have something to watch on TV (TechTV), now there is nothing....I dont agree with his opinions of the personalities: Adam Sessler is the fucking man. Who the hell likes Adam Sessler? He is the most annoying person ever to be on TV, ever. Kevin Rose and Sarah are alright, I'd grant him that they can be cheesy and may not be the most techy people, but I can take them compared to Leo and Patrick, with Leo being annoying, old, and plugging books non-stop and Patrick knowing more about fixing old hotrods then the latest in computer trends. I feel like at least the ages of Kevin, Sarah etc are more suitable for the content and viewers of the show.
Sure it's easy to say something like that when your Google fresh off an IPO and loaded with more cash then you know what to do with, but say your Sun Microsystems or even Yahoo, you've been offering free lunch to your employees to have productivity gains and now your quarterly profits have fallen....management and investors look at the $500,000 a month you spend on your cafeteria, so its either axe that benefit or lay some people off. Either way, now as an employee I feel ripped off that I can no longer get free lunch. So morale and productivity plummet to rediculously low levels. It's also been disputed whether these offer real productivity gains. I think read that Mark Jen (the google blogger who was fired) or someone else said that most people at google just stay for the free lunch and dinner and head home.
Like I said to the other responders who said similar things, the original poster was talking about THE CURRENT STATE of windows being buggy. It sounds like you are at least agreeing that the current state of windows is stable. If you were to install the original Firefox 1.0 or the original Apache 2.0, or the original PHP 4.0 etc right now, all would be open to serious bugs and security holes, so your point is not taken.
Thanks for the reasonable answer, however I would point out two things, the original poster that I responded to made it sound like the current patched version of Windows is buggy, so buggy in fact that we need to have a focus group get together, test it and fix all these bugs that are in windows. Its a GOOD thing that we get patches from Microsoft every month, the bad times were when they didn't offer this service. If you take any given operating system there are tons of patches released all the time. There are constantly updates and bug fixes for Firefox, Linux, Apache, etc... Bugs happen, patches are good. My only point is that people make Windows sound "buggy", and this reminds me of when I was a hard core mac user in the late 90s and everyone kept telling me how crappy and buggy macs were based on their occasional use of them at school or in the 80s. Yes windows was real buggy in the late 90s to early 00's, but they have done a decent amount of effort to fix these problems, and XP is just as usable and secure as Linux or Macintosh these days, it just happens to get alot more attention because of its user base. As I mentioned before, I just let automatic update do its thing, don't open unsecure attachments, and have no problems with my computer. With XP, unlike Win98, I havn't had to reinstall windows once, and i havn't had my PC lock up once.
Why does not Microsoft not release their OS, but hold it for a few months, have a large beta group of testers. Fix the bugs
Not to be a troll, but can someone tell me specifically what bugs everyone is always talking about? Currently running Windows XP sp2 at home and work, my computers have not crashed once this year...not frozen, not blue screened, nothing. I know occasionally (maybe once a month) you'll get windows explorer crashing (where the desktop looks like its refreshing), but otherwise I don't experience any bugs? (My fedora box is performing as well btw) Please don't respond with "spyware and viruses!!!" cuz a) I havn't ever gotten any b) they are mostly user initiated.
Tivo and Netflix have agreed to somehow produce movies on demand...I don't understand why you think that idea is rediculous, not only does it save Netflix expenses (they dont have to ship or store physical media), but the consumer gets an instant product. The only technical hurtles I see are the copyright issues and the bandwidth. Since Concast started offering OnDemand, I use it at least once a week, they are a decent selection of free stuff.
I know your a troll but just in case anyone buys into your logic:
Why do you think we are at war in the middle east? Not because Bin Laden hates our freedom. He said if we drop Israel, he'll leave us alone.
First of all, Bin Laden has said he attacked us because of our army bases in the holy land of Saudi Arabia. Those bases were put there in the first gulf war. Sure you could argue the first gulf war had something to do with defending Israel, but it didn't really. We would have a presence in Saudi Arabia that would piss off fundamentalists even if Israel didn't exist because we are dependant on their oil.
And it would have been far better that the UNited States had eithe stayed out of the war, or sided with our German brothers
The US did try to stay out of the war, they did not join to fight Germany, because there was some support in our country for Germany. We joined because Germany's ally Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, maybe you don't remember that little portion of history that has nothing to do with the rest of your rant.
So do not dare to criticise National Socialism, because while not perfect it is the only economic system in which the people are not exploited. it's the only system where jobs stay in the country and cheep workers arent brought in to fill them at the expense of the people.
Even if socialism worked perfect, the issues you are describing are inevitable in anything but a closed perfect system. Because the birth rates are declining so fast in Europe, foreign workers MUST be brought in to maintain the systems that have been set up, since most social programs are structured so that worker base is growing.
Maybe it could work like Google AdWords.... You talk to your doctor on the phone, and next thing you know your hearing ads for "Herpes medication at discount prices!"
ah you are right, though if you go back to january 03, it was at low 14's, and right before the split it was almost at 80, so you still could have made around 600% profit!
Currently APPL is trading at $36.35 +0.40 (1.11%) a share and the stock has gone up consistenty since 2003 when it was around $10 a share.
It should be mentioned that these prices are not comparable directly since Apple split their stock. The current pre-split price is over $70, so its a 7 times gain, not just a 3 times.
I do agree with the article that Mac's updates are a little pricey. What are essentially small enhancements and bug fixes get sold as an all new operating system. If you started with just OS X 10.0, you've had to spend almost $500 just to get to this point. I would rather Apple wait for an OS upgrade every 2 years or so with major differences, and roll the small stuff like a new desktop search to us free.
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They both accept text, can format said text, spellcheck, and print...i really have no use for the other 90% of crap they throw into word processors these days.
So anything with the beta tag is magically allowed to do anything it wants? Lets say i type my credit card to someone on Gmail or type my ssn in the web accelerator and google accidently starts returning them as search results? "Oh its just beta dummy!" you can say, but Google is giving these things wide release, sometimes with press releases...the beta tag only seems to exempt them from liability. That sounds at least semi-evil to me. Maybe all companies can start calling all their products beta.
Don't use it! Google is a public corporation, everything they make is designed to somehow make a profit (which i see nothing wrong with, btw)...even if it doesn't cache your personal information like the article claims, there is some angle to it that will make money for them, maybe they will look at your web surfing habits and target ads to you. If you're one of those people who blindly trusts google because of their "don't be evil" mission statement, then use it and trust that Google is taking care of you. I personally don't trust them, so I won't use it. There is no free lunch.
All the things you mention are good points, that IIS can be dangerous in the wrong hands... but dont make the system "impossible" to secure....and IIS6 specifically only has 3 known vulernabilities according to Secunia, which is pretty damn good.
>>It's not impossible to secure a system like IIS, but it's much more difficult to make it secure permanently
What makes IIS inherently more difficult to secure then Apache or any other web server? Besides the generic "ITS TEH MICRO$OFT!!!!"
I can hardly think of anything that google has done lately that was completely original....Mapping program? Satellite pictures? News Search? Photo Organizer? Blogging? All were done by other people first, some many years ago. Yes Google does a better job of it, but Microsoft would argue they are doing a better job of what they copyied as well.
No, its not that difficult...but it could be easier, which I think is all he was saying. With my monitor or power plugs I don't even have to play the flip around game, I always know without even looking which way the plug will go in.
Well i havn't been able to sucessfully plug one in upside down, but i think what they are saying is that its too hard to determine which way is the right way up, like with a scsi cable or firewire its not symetrical, so you can easily tell at first glance which way is up or down.
Holy crap!!! You're right!!! How could anyone possibly legitimately like Microsoft products?!?!! Why with almost 900,000 registered users here, I find it impossible that there would be any people not paid by Microsoft that would actually support their products!!! Nevermind that most people who read this use IE and run Windows...undoubtably Microsoft is paying them to do so.
I loved the first Katamary Darmacy...but I just don't see what the point of this sequel is....it looks exactly the same....if you showed me one of these screenshots out of context I wouldn't even assume there was a sequel. I was curious what new ground they would break for this game...and maybe its a little premature but it doesn't seem any different to me, besides the hope of more wacked out cut scenes.
Man one of the moderaters today must be a new parent who hasn't gotten any sleep lately...all the baby jokes are being modded troll, have a sense of humor folks, or at least mod offtopic!
I've found most endings of RPGs (and other games) these days to be quite a let down...my fav endings are still FF2 (USA), and Secret of Mana, because they go back and visit all the random people you met along the way afterwards, and the ending lasts a few minutes, unlike most new games which just give a slightly extended computer rendered cut scene with explosions and what not
I used to have something to watch on TV (TechTV), now there is nothing....I dont agree with his opinions of the personalities: Adam Sessler is the fucking man. Who the hell likes Adam Sessler? He is the most annoying person ever to be on TV, ever. Kevin Rose and Sarah are alright, I'd grant him that they can be cheesy and may not be the most techy people, but I can take them compared to Leo and Patrick, with Leo being annoying, old, and plugging books non-stop and Patrick knowing more about fixing old hotrods then the latest in computer trends. I feel like at least the ages of Kevin, Sarah etc are more suitable for the content and viewers of the show.
Sure it's easy to say something like that when your Google fresh off an IPO and loaded with more cash then you know what to do with, but say your Sun Microsystems or even Yahoo, you've been offering free lunch to your employees to have productivity gains and now your quarterly profits have fallen....management and investors look at the $500,000 a month you spend on your cafeteria, so its either axe that benefit or lay some people off. Either way, now as an employee I feel ripped off that I can no longer get free lunch. So morale and productivity plummet to rediculously low levels. It's also been disputed whether these offer real productivity gains. I think read that Mark Jen (the google blogger who was fired) or someone else said that most people at google just stay for the free lunch and dinner and head home.
Like I said to the other responders who said similar things, the original poster was talking about THE CURRENT STATE of windows being buggy. It sounds like you are at least agreeing that the current state of windows is stable. If you were to install the original Firefox 1.0 or the original Apache 2.0, or the original PHP 4.0 etc right now, all would be open to serious bugs and security holes, so your point is not taken.
Thanks for the reasonable answer, however I would point out two things, the original poster that I responded to made it sound like the current patched version of Windows is buggy, so buggy in fact that we need to have a focus group get together, test it and fix all these bugs that are in windows. Its a GOOD thing that we get patches from Microsoft every month, the bad times were when they didn't offer this service. If you take any given operating system there are tons of patches released all the time. There are constantly updates and bug fixes for Firefox, Linux, Apache, etc... Bugs happen, patches are good. My only point is that people make Windows sound "buggy", and this reminds me of when I was a hard core mac user in the late 90s and everyone kept telling me how crappy and buggy macs were based on their occasional use of them at school or in the 80s. Yes windows was real buggy in the late 90s to early 00's, but they have done a decent amount of effort to fix these problems, and XP is just as usable and secure as Linux or Macintosh these days, it just happens to get alot more attention because of its user base. As I mentioned before, I just let automatic update do its thing, don't open unsecure attachments, and have no problems with my computer. With XP, unlike Win98, I havn't had to reinstall windows once, and i havn't had my PC lock up once.
Why does not Microsoft not release their OS, but hold it for a few months, have a large beta group of testers. Fix the bugs
Not to be a troll, but can someone tell me specifically what bugs everyone is always talking about? Currently running Windows XP sp2 at home and work, my computers have not crashed once this year...not frozen, not blue screened, nothing. I know occasionally (maybe once a month) you'll get windows explorer crashing (where the desktop looks like its refreshing), but otherwise I don't experience any bugs? (My fedora box is performing as well btw) Please don't respond with "spyware and viruses!!!" cuz a) I havn't ever gotten any b) they are mostly user initiated.
Tivo and Netflix have agreed to somehow produce movies on demand...I don't understand why you think that idea is rediculous, not only does it save Netflix expenses (they dont have to ship or store physical media), but the consumer gets an instant product. The only technical hurtles I see are the copyright issues and the bandwidth. Since Concast started offering OnDemand, I use it at least once a week, they are a decent selection of free stuff.
Thats alot different then most computers which are powered by a PoS (Windows)
I know your a troll but just in case anyone buys into your logic:
Why do you think we are at war in the middle east? Not because Bin Laden hates our freedom. He said if we drop Israel, he'll leave us alone.
First of all, Bin Laden has said he attacked us because of our army bases in the holy land of Saudi Arabia. Those bases were put there in the first gulf war. Sure you could argue the first gulf war had something to do with defending Israel, but it didn't really. We would have a presence in Saudi Arabia that would piss off fundamentalists even if Israel didn't exist because we are dependant on their oil.
And it would have been far better that the UNited States had eithe stayed out of the war, or sided with our German brothers
The US did try to stay out of the war, they did not join to fight Germany, because there was some support in our country for Germany. We joined because Germany's ally Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, maybe you don't remember that little portion of history that has nothing to do with the rest of your rant.
So do not dare to criticise National Socialism, because while not perfect it is the only economic system in which the people are not exploited. it's the only system where jobs stay in the country and cheep workers arent brought in to fill them at the expense of the people.
Even if socialism worked perfect, the issues you are describing are inevitable in anything but a closed perfect system. Because the birth rates are declining so fast in Europe, foreign workers MUST be brought in to maintain the systems that have been set up, since most social programs are structured so that worker base is growing.
Maybe it could work like Google AdWords.... You talk to your doctor on the phone, and next thing you know your hearing ads for "Herpes medication at discount prices!"
no... look here. The price in Jan 03 was 14.36, the split adjusted price is 7.18 .
ah you are right, though if you go back to january 03, it was at low 14's, and right before the split it was almost at 80, so you still could have made around 600% profit!
Currently APPL is trading at $36.35 +0.40 (1.11%) a share and the stock has gone up consistenty since 2003 when it was around $10 a share.
It should be mentioned that these prices are not comparable directly since Apple split their stock. The current pre-split price is over $70, so its a 7 times gain, not just a 3 times.
I do agree with the article that Mac's updates are a little pricey. What are essentially small enhancements and bug fixes get sold as an all new operating system. If you started with just OS X 10.0, you've had to spend almost $500 just to get to this point. I would rather Apple wait for an OS upgrade every 2 years or so with major differences, and roll the small stuff like a new desktop search to us free.