eh? Who pushes apply before ok unless they want to see the applied settings in place without closing the dialog. OK does an apply then closes. Apply just does an apply.
YEESH. ALL MICROSOFT SOFWARE DOES THIS. Most windows applications (all i used) do this....those that don't prolly have old unix programmers
what's wrong with 3000 registry entries? I'm sure OS2 has many settings stored all over the place (just like linux). The more entries, the more you can change for customisation.
That's like saying oooo Linux has DOS and Windows code from the early 80s. Wine and DosEmu! And some of those gnu tools go way back to the 70s, Linux is CRUD!!!
Lamer.
Windows NT was designed from scratch - the kernel ISN'T tied to the GUI, it's tied to the GDI - there is a big difference.
Another thing is that I have heard that they have their own API into Windows. So even if you program for Windows, you are already at a disadvantage because you are given an inferior set of rules to play by. This also is wrong.
ROFL that's the single stupidified thing I've read this weak. They write Win32, then they write InternalWin32?? Don't think so, it's so improbably in so many ways. There are some scarcly documented API calls. Microsoft knows Windows survives because of Applications and Developers - You think Windows would survive with just MS software alone?
Lastly, have you noticed that the evil Bill Gates just gave one billion
I never notice him giving anything before his PR committee told him that his public popularity was one step below the devil
You're very isolated - The Gates foundation is worth like 17billion, which means he's managed to give away 16 other billions. Infact, Gates has been giving away his money steadily - it's been increasing tho - like he's promised.
You've been upgrading word _just_ to share documents with friends? Why not just convert the documents? Hell, Word even lets you save in old word formats. After using Unix applications for a few years now, I've found Microsoft Office and similar products to be more reliable stable and defintely efficient (meaning faster). As long as you run on a well setup windows....and especially if you use NT.
Oh, and if all you need is Word2, use WordPad - it's free with windows - the native format is RTF which never changes cause new features don't need to be added - and it has more features than Word2.
WELL DUH. Since you'll probably never believe me, I'll lay aside the fact that Word has improved remarkably - especially for Office Developers (yes - you can extend and prorgam/script office to the limit unlike others eg. staroffice). But ofcourse the basic functionality of Word hasn't changed - it lets you type things.
Those examples of "If microsoft was *****" are so stupid. We all know software works differently - why do you think OSS can exist in software? Earlier on, MS brought software to the masses by not charging an arm and a leg for it - but they had to protect their technologies - they couldn't just pour hotglue over it.
Loook at the zealots and evangelists here - ready to burn bill gates at the stake. I bet they make annual pilgramiges to Transmeta everyear to worship Linus at his place of work.
It's fast and multithreaded....quicktime uses up 100% of my processing time playing an MPG file - and when scaling - it doesn't cope at ALL. MediaPlayer can scale and basically do anything I want without any frame loss...and uses less than 5% processing time.
Come to think of it same thing with Office...StarOffice is SLOOOOOOOOOOOW. First time I installed it, the setup went fine - except at 0:00 time (when it should be finished) it threadlocked for 3 minutes before finishing...nice. Then the first time i ran it, it froze totally when I went "File -> Open". Not to mention that it took 20seconds to load - unlike the 2 seconds (and that's not exagerated) it takes Word/Excel etc to load.
When I think about it - Microsoft products are the fastest products I've ever used. Sure, Windows isn't faster than other OSs for specific things - but generally for what I do (programming & wp) it's much faster.
actually, in one of the recent interviews with young (or was it some other higher up guy at RH?) he was saying that other linux distributions aren't RH's competition - and that Microsoft was their competition.
Just cause most of us (and i'd say all of us that are intelligent) find the existance of extrasolartary planets realistic - doesn't mean we shouldn't be looking for them. Finding them is just like finding more evidence for evolution - it's obvious - but it's nice to be reminded how right we are:)
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because it cost them shitloads to research and discover them in the first place.
they need to protect their costs until they make the money back.
you realise samba has never outperformed NT except in imaginary tests.
If they owned the source, they would give it away. They and activision are on the line by doing this. Give them credit.
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Everyone here attacks for the sake of attacking (including myself)...but there should be limits
you can always run palm apps using the palm emulator for CE....could even run the emulator with like 10mb of ram or something for fun.
do i count?
at least we don't have to "Apply" before we "OK".
eh? Who pushes apply before ok unless they want to see the applied settings in place without closing the dialog.
OK does an apply then closes. Apply just does an apply.
YEESH.
ALL MICROSOFT SOFWARE DOES THIS.
Most windows applications (all i used) do this....those that don't prolly have old unix programmers
what's wrong with 3000 registry entries?
I'm sure OS2 has many settings stored all over the place (just like linux).
The more entries, the more you can change for customisation.
Wrong, it's actually Microsoft's JVM, as a java programmer, I can vouch for that too.
MS also won the award for best VM at JavaOne.
What's next?
The Palm VIIIXIVXX?
That's like saying
oooo Linux has DOS and Windows code from the early 80s. Wine and DosEmu!
And some of those gnu tools go way back to the 70s, Linux is CRUD!!!
Lamer.
Windows NT was designed from scratch - the kernel ISN'T tied to the GUI, it's tied to the GDI - there is a big difference.
It is easier to code two sets of HTML, one for IE and one for everyone elses browser.
Write any handwritten perfect W3C HTML or XML that will work on any browser and I bet you it will look better in IE.
Netscape is the biggest piece of shit i've ever used.
Everything that *manages* to work in netscape works perfectly (and 10X sometimes 100X faster) in IE. Unfortunately - this doesn't work in reverse.
Another thing is that I have heard that they have their own API into Windows. So even if you program for Windows, you are already at a disadvantage because you are given an inferior set of rules to play by. This also is wrong.
ROFL that's the single stupidified thing I've read this weak. They write Win32, then they write InternalWin32??
Don't think so, it's so improbably in so many ways. There are some scarcly documented API calls. Microsoft knows Windows survives because of Applications and Developers - You think Windows would survive with just MS software alone?
Lastly, have you noticed that the evil Bill Gates just gave one billion
I never notice him giving anything before his PR committee told him that his public popularity was one step below the devil
You're very isolated - The Gates foundation is worth like 17billion, which means he's managed to give away 16 other billions. Infact, Gates has been giving away his money steadily - it's been increasing tho - like he's promised.
You've been upgrading word _just_ to share documents with friends?
Why not just convert the documents? Hell, Word even lets you save in old word formats.
After using Unix applications for a few years now, I've found Microsoft Office and similar products to be more reliable stable and defintely efficient (meaning faster). As long as you run on a well setup windows....and especially if you use NT.
Oh, and if all you need is Word2, use WordPad - it's free with windows - the native format is RTF which never changes cause new features don't need to be added - and it has more features than Word2.
"The basic functionality of Word never changes?"
WELL DUH.
Since you'll probably never believe me, I'll lay aside the fact that Word has improved remarkably - especially for Office Developers (yes - you can extend and prorgam/script office to the limit unlike others eg. staroffice).
But ofcourse the basic functionality of Word hasn't changed - it lets you type things.
Those examples of "If microsoft was *****" are so stupid.
We all know software works differently - why do you think OSS can exist in software? Earlier on, MS brought software to the masses by not charging an arm and a leg for it - but they had to protect their technologies - they couldn't just pour hotglue over it.
Although I support Microsoft, that's the funniest thing I've read today.
Loook at the zealots and evangelists here - ready to burn bill gates at the stake.
I bet they make annual pilgramiges to Transmeta everyear to worship Linus at his place of work.
Sorry, but MediaPlayer kicks QuickTime ass.
It's fast and multithreaded....quicktime uses up 100% of my processing time playing an MPG file - and when scaling - it doesn't cope at ALL.
MediaPlayer can scale and basically do anything I want without any frame loss...and uses less than 5% processing time.
Come to think of it same thing with Office...StarOffice is SLOOOOOOOOOOOW. First time I installed it, the setup went fine - except at 0:00 time (when it should be finished) it threadlocked for 3 minutes before finishing...nice.
Then the first time i ran it, it froze totally when I went "File -> Open".
Not to mention that it took 20seconds to load - unlike the 2 seconds (and that's not exagerated) it takes Word/Excel etc to load.
When I think about it - Microsoft products are the fastest products I've ever used. Sure, Windows isn't faster than other OSs for specific things - but generally for what I do (programming & wp) it's much faster.
Ahh, silly me :)
actually, in one of the recent interviews with young (or was it some other higher up guy at RH?) he was saying that other linux distributions aren't RH's competition - and that Microsoft was their competition.
Are you trying to be an idiot?
for not mentioning bill gates or microsoft in relation to this article.
I guess it was too much to hope for.
Some people here have one tracked minds.
Just cause most of us (and i'd say all of us that are intelligent) find the existance of extrasolartary planets realistic - doesn't mean we shouldn't be looking for them. :)
Finding them is just like finding more evidence for evolution - it's obvious - but it's nice to be reminded how right we are
Althought that would be cool toy - really - how useful would that be?
:P
:PPP
Just use your fingers
or buy a palmpc
arguments
You can say you don't believe in something - but that doesn't mean you don't understand what that something is.
"I don't believe in angels"
That doesn't mean I can't imagine an "angel" existing and say something about it like "for an angel to exist, he would have to have really big wings"
You're stupid.
You'd better not plug your computer in then - it'd be hooked up to the mains which is a "very bad idea"