Why the hell do people yell "OMG it's been done before..." everytime someone comes out with something. More competition is always good. If Microsoft screws it up, well that's too bad, but if it doesn't, hey, we will have another nice service to choose between.
if you just buy a mac and install XP and play games? I personally love building PCs. Each time is just as much fun as the previous. Apple hardware IS pretty but I feel a lot of the people who build their own PCs will just stick with building...
To be honest I have never heard of this guy, but that's alright, I am a sophomore in college... don't really know everyone who made programs on punch cards.
Either way, the guy seems to have such a big problem with MS products but never really mentions user error. I don't care what kind of OS you use, the problem is, most of the time, between the keyboard and the chair. He is also obviously some sort of mac fanatic, if you read the third page. He is fine with Apple controlling what people can use with a mac, because no one else has a problem with it. I don't see grandma complaining about MS's monopoly. Every time he mentions Apple, its always "superb design" or something fo that sort, but when it comes to MS, its "they suck because of this or that". I personally like XP. I also like Visual Studio. Hell, I even like Office. I don't see where this person feels its less productive to use Windows. He is making some sort of generalization based on HIS experience.
"Seriously, the easiest step, though costly, is to switch to a Mac. In one step you can be free not only of Windows but also of hardware that relies on Windows yet is not supported by Microsoft. You have one source for support -- Apple -- and less finger-pointing when something goes wrong." -- If someone thinks thats a good thing... you are indeed beyond help... Having a choice of parts or support is a good thing. I can go to my local store and talk to the guy I have bought stuff from for years and he can maybe give me a refund even if my warranty is void or whatever. I did like to see that from an Apple store.
It's amazing that people are not bashing this already. I was thinking maybe people wouldn't like how you can't be a "l33t haxx0r" and spend an hour writing a simple socket connection, because that's the general impression I get when there are reviews about C# or PHP.
Before people rant on how much Flash and pdf's suck, please step back and think.
Go back to about 5-6 years ago, when CSS and "design" weren't really associated with websites. They mainly consisted of lots of tables and a lot of annoying animated gifs with the occasional embedded music. But there were also the "good" sites that were easy to read, helpful and good on the eyes. If you don't get my point yet.. Flash and the PDF format have a bad name mainly because of their abuse. PDF is really not very bad. If you don't like the firefox plugin, DONT INSTALL IT. Let firefox download the pdf and voila, you have a nice, relatively small and fairly cross platform file. Then we have flash. I have seen Flash being used for a lot of very stupid things, like the ads... but I have also seen it used for some very cool things, like educational games, kiosk presentations and such. They are also being used for things like statistics with things like Flex. And with the new versions, its much easier to make Flash a lot more accessible, including language strings.
So before you start a large flame... please think of how GOOD these pieces of software are. I am personally very excited about the merger. Maybe they will soon have a Addobe + Macromedia Studio where they will just have Dreamweaver + Flash + Photoshop instead of two incomplete studios (CS and Macromedia Studio)
Its not like the librarian would have his job if he DID keep an eye on what the users did.. He would just get fired for invading the user's privacy or sued at the least.
I am not a fanboy. I love the detail apple puts into their looks but Microsoft is not the devil either.
I find it quite depressing to see people, some of whom have no idea what microsoft does besides windows and IE, bashing them because it's what everyone does. People still bashing windows because 95 was very buggy.
I admit. Windows is still not as secure as say linux. It will probably never be at this rate. But it's gotten a lot better. And honestly, just read a simple tutorial and set up a firewall. Windows even comes with one now. IE is a load of horseshit. So use firefox. No one is stopping you.
Then there is the deal with bundling software. When did getting more for your money become bad?
Apple puts in a media player, a lot of games and "200 new widgets!" that might have replaced tons of commercial apps. But that's innovative and kind. Same with linux. When MS included the media player (a very decent one at that), its heresy.
I am saying people should screw apple and linux (I run linux on dual boot and use it quite often now) and worship MS. No. That would be stupid. These are tools. You USE them. You don't need to form life long alliances. I am just asking people to make judgements for themselves as apposed to jumping on the bandwagon and just bashing winbl0ws cause its l33t.
According to a couple of my profs, Microsoft has one of the best R&D labs. They do some very cool stuff. It's not bad that they are trying to have other companies do some of the work and letting them have a share in the end result. This is how science is SUPPOSED to work. Revolutionary things don't come out of a single person or a company most of the time. They come out of several groups acting together. This is what science is all about. I think this is a good move on their part.
Those who are pro-OSS (like me), should understand the need for collaboration.
I thought we were talking about our friend the sun in the sky. I would have lost all hope of the survival of humanity with these privatizations and patent laws.. oh wait..
They should do this with those AI driven cars carnegie mellon raced a year or two ago (hope they do that again) or stick one of these on Lance Armstrong.
I know AOL doesn't have a record of doing smart things, but if they actually make the client non-shitty, it can only help. People won't generally switch to Gaim and Trillian, because they don't know the company. People want a name brand. We see this with Linux vs. Windows and such.
So if they actually make a better client, maybe one that instantly kills noob fuxx0rs, the world will be a better place.
If you have a 64-bit processor, here is your OS. I know people are going to get on here and talk about Linux supporting 64-bit a while ago and such, but this is Windows. They have moved to 64-bit. That means, us designers who like to use Photoshop or just play games (that don't run on linux that is) can finally put our 64-bit processor to some good use.
There is still going to be the lack of 64-bit programs for a while, but it's a start.
And in my opinion, the $12 trade sounds like a nice deal.
Cheers P.S. No, I am not a Linux hater or w/e. I like linux, I like windows. I just use them for what each does best.
There are way too many people who get on a road even when traffic alerts suggest they take other routes. People who are already stuck in traffic have no real choice. But it doesn't end there. There is always people flooding out of the exits onto the highway even when it's jammed even when another route would have made things easy for everyone.
Then again, there is the problem of people just not paying attention to these traffic alerts. In which case, this study is totally pointless.
I am getting a bachelors in CE. A lot of my friends are too. These days, just restricting yourself to one degree usually won't cut it. Sure, Business is a nice complement major to CS but with CE people will know that you actually know how to build stuff as apposed to just programming for it.
It may not be terribly obvious, but when you are programming for stuff other than software, its nice to know how materials in the real world actually work before simulating them (or something of that sort).
The ISS is going to be a smelly, scary place with the regular complement and two shuttle crews onboard and no way home but a Russian Soyuz capsule that isn't slated to launch again until September and has seats for just three...
Maybe a friendly battle to the death can decide who gets into those 3 seats?:P
I know it's very hard for some of you people to get over your silly fanboy-ish attitude, but when MS does something good, why not praise them. Yes, they have bad business practices. Doesn't mean you have have crap on their image every single time.
This is somewhat like P2P. They might not be able to get whomever is joining these spamming companies for work, but it would certainly discourage people from getting jobs in these places. I think just that would prove a significant blow to these places.
Leave it to people to find new ways to waste electricity in pointless ways. People in the world will eventually have no resources and di...wait... that might not be so bad. Go nerds in basements!
They are not going to give these away for free. You will have to pay to get these products for XP. Either way. I think Longhorn will be much better in the sense that you will finally have an OS that is both awesome looking yet more functional. The whole deal with using CSS type files to control interfaces for example is the most attractive thing for me from longhorn, besides the fact that I can finally shut up some mac fanatics who take about the mac being "prettier" (although XP came quite a way in making things look better).
I am all of these online casino bastards to die...
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but how the hell does this help? The online casino people are still going to spam your blog. Just because one link out of the 31 million pages wont deter a user. There are paid ads anyways. This is a waste of time if you ask me. A better way to combat this would be to come together to maybe come up with a plugin or hack to have a 100% system against spam. So the online casinos would be forced to stop auto spamming people.
Of course this trouble will never end if these companies have like little gnomes manually spamming blog/blog rings.
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Why the hell do people yell "OMG it's been done before..." everytime someone comes out with something. More competition is always good. If Microsoft screws it up, well that's too bad, but if it doesn't, hey, we will have another nice service to choose between.
if you just buy a mac and install XP and play games? I personally love building PCs. Each time is just as much fun as the previous. Apple hardware IS pretty but I feel a lot of the people who build their own PCs will just stick with building...
"Oh, oops, I forgot to cite my usage of these third party pieces of code. It's just poor citation. It's not stealing or anything right?"
Yeah, people need to stop making up euphemisms for things.
Let's help their site get back to speed by posting a link on slashdot...
To be honest I have never heard of this guy, but that's alright, I am a sophomore in college... don't really know everyone who made programs on punch cards.
Either way, the guy seems to have such a big problem with MS products but never really mentions user error. I don't care what kind of OS you use, the problem is, most of the time, between the keyboard and the chair. He is also obviously some sort of mac fanatic, if you read the third page. He is fine with Apple controlling what people can use with a mac, because no one else has a problem with it. I don't see grandma complaining about MS's monopoly. Every time he mentions Apple, its always "superb design" or something fo that sort, but when it comes to MS, its "they suck because of this or that". I personally like XP. I also like Visual Studio. Hell, I even like Office. I don't see where this person feels its less productive to use Windows. He is making some sort of generalization based on HIS experience.
"Seriously, the easiest step, though costly, is to switch to a Mac. In one step you can be free not only of Windows but also of hardware that relies on Windows yet is not supported by Microsoft. You have one source for support -- Apple -- and less finger-pointing when something goes wrong." -- If someone thinks thats a good thing... you are indeed beyond help... Having a choice of parts or support is a good thing. I can go to my local store and talk to the guy I have bought stuff from for years and he can maybe give me a refund even if my warranty is void or whatever. I did like to see that from an Apple store.
My two cents.
It's amazing that people are not bashing this already. I was thinking maybe people wouldn't like how you can't be a "l33t haxx0r" and spend an hour writing a simple socket connection, because that's the general impression I get when there are reviews about C# or PHP.
Then again, I guess this is slashdot.
empty space... We will get to the larger amount of empty space in a tick...
Now we just wait for the naked guys to drop outta the sky...
Before people rant on how much Flash and pdf's suck, please step back and think.
Go back to about 5-6 years ago, when CSS and "design" weren't really associated with websites. They mainly consisted of lots of tables and a lot of annoying animated gifs with the occasional embedded music. But there were also the "good" sites that were easy to read, helpful and good on the eyes. If you don't get my point yet.. Flash and the PDF format have a bad name mainly because of their abuse. PDF is really not very bad. If you don't like the firefox plugin, DONT INSTALL IT. Let firefox download the pdf and voila, you have a nice, relatively small and fairly cross platform file. Then we have flash. I have seen Flash being used for a lot of very stupid things, like the ads... but I have also seen it used for some very cool things, like educational games, kiosk presentations and such. They are also being used for things like statistics with things like Flex. And with the new versions, its much easier to make Flash a lot more accessible, including language strings.
So before you start a large flame... please think of how GOOD these pieces of software are. I am personally very excited about the merger. Maybe they will soon have a Addobe + Macromedia Studio where they will just have Dreamweaver + Flash + Photoshop instead of two incomplete studios (CS and Macromedia Studio)
Cheers
Its not like the librarian would have his job if he DID keep an eye on what the users did.. He would just get fired for invading the user's privacy or sued at the least.
I am not a fanboy. I love the detail apple puts into their looks but Microsoft is not the devil either.
I find it quite depressing to see people, some of whom have no idea what microsoft does besides windows and IE, bashing them because it's what everyone does. People still bashing windows because 95 was very buggy.
I admit. Windows is still not as secure as say linux. It will probably never be at this rate. But it's gotten a lot better. And honestly, just read a simple tutorial and set up a firewall. Windows even comes with one now. IE is a load of horseshit. So use firefox. No one is stopping you.
Then there is the deal with bundling software. When did getting more for your money become bad?
Apple puts in a media player, a lot of games and "200 new widgets!" that might have replaced tons of commercial apps. But that's innovative and kind. Same with linux. When MS included the media player (a very decent one at that), its heresy.
I am saying people should screw apple and linux (I run linux on dual boot and use it quite often now) and worship MS. No. That would be stupid. These are tools. You USE them. You don't need to form life long alliances. I am just asking people to make judgements for themselves as apposed to jumping on the bandwagon and just bashing winbl0ws cause its l33t.
My two cents.
According to a couple of my profs, Microsoft has one of the best R&D labs. They do some very cool stuff. It's not bad that they are trying to have other companies do some of the work and letting them have a share in the end result. This is how science is SUPPOSED to work. Revolutionary things don't come out of a single person or a company most of the time. They come out of several groups acting together. This is what science is all about. I think this is a good move on their part.
Those who are pro-OSS (like me), should understand the need for collaboration.
My two cents.
I thought we were talking about our friend the sun in the sky. I would have lost all hope of the survival of humanity with these privatizations and patent laws.. oh wait..
They should do this with those AI driven cars carnegie mellon raced a year or two ago (hope they do that again) or stick one of these on Lance Armstrong.
Slashdotters making non-microsoft hating comments in a post about Longhorn.
Enough said.
I know AOL doesn't have a record of doing smart things, but if they actually make the client non-shitty, it can only help. People won't generally switch to Gaim and Trillian, because they don't know the company. People want a name brand. We see this with Linux vs. Windows and such.
So if they actually make a better client, maybe one that instantly kills noob fuxx0rs, the world will be a better place.
If you have a 64-bit processor, here is your OS. I know people are going to get on here and talk about Linux supporting 64-bit a while ago and such, but this is Windows. They have moved to 64-bit. That means, us designers who like to use Photoshop or just play games (that don't run on linux that is) can finally put our 64-bit processor to some good use.
There is still going to be the lack of 64-bit programs for a while, but it's a start.
And in my opinion, the $12 trade sounds like a nice deal.
Cheers
P.S. No, I am not a Linux hater or w/e. I like linux, I like windows. I just use them for what each does best.
There are way too many people who get on a road even when traffic alerts suggest they take other routes. People who are already stuck in traffic have no real choice. But it doesn't end there. There is always people flooding out of the exits onto the highway even when it's jammed even when another route would have made things easy for everyone.
Then again, there is the problem of people just not paying attention to these traffic alerts. In which case, this study is totally pointless.
My two cents.
I am getting a bachelors in CE. A lot of my friends are too. These days, just restricting yourself to one degree usually won't cut it. Sure, Business is a nice complement major to CS but with CE people will know that you actually know how to build stuff as apposed to just programming for it.
It may not be terribly obvious, but when you are programming for stuff other than software, its nice to know how materials in the real world actually work before simulating them (or something of that sort).
My 2 cents.
Maybe a friendly battle to the death can decide who gets into those 3 seats? :P
I know it's very hard for some of you people to get over your silly fanboy-ish attitude, but when MS does something good, why not praise them. Yes, they have bad business practices. Doesn't mean you have have crap on their image every single time.
This is somewhat like P2P. They might not be able to get whomever is joining these spamming companies for work, but it would certainly discourage people from getting jobs in these places. I think just that would prove a significant blow to these places.
My two cents.
Leave it to people to find new ways to waste electricity in pointless ways. People in the world will eventually have no resources and di...wait... that might not be so bad. Go nerds in basements!
Pioneering nerds may not have had Starbucks tables to occupy with their PowerBooks for hours on end
Nerds? Starbucks and powerbooks don't remind me of nerds. They remind me of metrosexuals.
They are not going to give these away for free. You will have to pay to get these products for XP. Either way. I think Longhorn will be much better in the sense that you will finally have an OS that is both awesome looking yet more functional. The whole deal with using CSS type files to control interfaces for example is the most attractive thing for me from longhorn, besides the fact that I can finally shut up some mac fanatics who take about the mac being "prettier" (although XP came quite a way in making things look better).
but how the hell does this help? The online casino people are still going to spam your blog. Just because one link out of the 31 million pages wont deter a user. There are paid ads anyways. This is a waste of time if you ask me. A better way to combat this would be to come together to maybe come up with a plugin or hack to have a 100% system against spam.
So the online casinos would be forced to stop auto spamming people.
Of course this trouble will never end if these companies have like little gnomes manually spamming blog/blog rings.